| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #11 | 4.611 | 4.611 |
| Polish | #34 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Overall | #42 | 3.704 | 3.704 |
| Audio | #43 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Theme | #69 | 4.028 | 4.028 |
| Limitation | #120 | 2.944 | 2.944 |
| Gameplay | #123 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
This game is wonderful! The art is gorgeous and the music is beautiful, it feels very atmospheric! The opening cutscene is really charming too!
I enjoyed the cooking gameplay, although I didn't figure out how to make the customers completely happy, so I must be missing something.
It's a really enjoyable game, well done!
Helloo! You're absolutely too kind, thank you for trying out our fish-tastic game. We hope you enjoyed our salty seafolk and thank you for your feedback, the mechanics are still in the works with our 'grammers as we plan to iron things about prior to release!
If you ever make it to the end of the game, there's a reason why the customers are usually not happy.....hehe.
Regardless, thank you for taking the time and stopping by! Please feel free to visit Shrimpy and the gang again in the future.
All the best,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
This is great! Amazing job! :) What software did you use for the art? Its really well made :)
Oh such a cute shrimp!! I love the visuals and the story-telling. You did such a marvelous job in such a short time. I do agree with the others that the game is sometimes clunky. I had to click on a specific part of the recipe book to open it and the food gets served to a different customer if I am not careful enough even when I drag the food to the speech bubble. But aside from this minor stuff, I believe you created such a lovely and whimsical game, I'd love to play a full version of it someday!
Hello!
Thank you so much for your detailed feedback, it's actually really helpful. We're hoping to fully flesh out the game and it's so important that we mark down what needs fine tuning and tweaking so that the experience is more polished. Our 'grammers have made a note and will work on it!
Regardless, thank you so much for stopping by and trying out our strange and incredibly salty cuisine. Come visit us again some time at the Shrimp Shack!
With our heartfelt thanks,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
Hello and thank you for checking out our shrimpylicious game! We're so glad you found it to be polished, because this game was calm on the surface, duck legs kicking chaotically under the water lmao.
We hope you enjoyed all our fishy friends, and come visit us again at the Shrimp Shack!
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
The game is great! Super dope art, amazing music and a complete game loop that is very engaging! One of the best entry for sure. Only downside for me was the amount of reading to do, I'm not the targeted demographic I guess. Other than that, amazing work!
Thank you so much for playing! Our team is amazed that people are truly enjoying it, haha.
Your feedback about the reading is very useful. It is a narrative driven game which is typically word heavy, but as our writer, I'm definitely looking to polish up the writing and sentence structure so it's more engaging. This is something to work on before proper release for sure, and it's really good to hear what players actually think.
Regardless, thank you for spending time with Shrimpy and his sea folk , and do visit us again some time at the Shrimp Shack in the future!
With all our thanks,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
I love the art, music, sound and writing in this game! I found the gameplay a little too punishing and a bit janky in some parts but I did like the variety of food orders. One thing I will say is that I found the customers' comments on the food to be more related to the quality of the food rather than the wait time, the latter being their actual problem with it and that was a little confusing for me at first before I realised what was going on. Good work otherwise :)
Hello and thank you for taking the time to provide us with feedback!
It's really useful to know what works and what doesn't with real people to play it, and our 'grammers will work on the gameplay aspect so it's less confusing to understand how to properly earn sand dollars and please customers. A tutorial is also in order.
Regardless, thank you so much for joining us at the Shrimp Shack and come visit our salty cast some time again in the future!
All the best,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
This is so cute and the characters have so much personality :) I liked the art especially in the cut scenes.
When I played I thought the rice wasn't brown enough yet so I kept it in the pan and it burned. maybe changing the star from gold to red or have it pulse or sweat or something on the second timer countdown as a warning. No big deal I just made some more. Awesome work team!!
Hello!
Thank you so much for trying out our game and giving us feedback, it's incredibly useful for our 'grammers. They're working hard on bug fixes, and have made a note of this so that the gameplay can be smoother. Changing the star colour is such a great idea!
Regardless, we hope you had a cozy time with Shrimpy and his friends, and come visit us again some time at the Shrimp Shack for more weirdly tasty cuisine.
With all our gratitude,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
Definitely one of the best submissions I've rated so far! The only major issue I ran into was the "boss battle" I'll just call it for now. I think I did everything right, and when I serve him, I just get a white rectangle at the bottom of the screen and can't do much from there. I know there are some ways to make orders half-correctly, so it might be tied to that.
Hello, and thank you for trying out Shrimp Shack!
We're really happy that you enjoyed the game, but it's such a shame you didn't manage to progress past Big Mac's showdown. Our 'grammers have made a note and will look into why this bug is happening. We're hoping to get everything fixed up in preparation for release, so your feedback is actually incredible useful.
Regardless, we hope you had a comfy time with our seafolk, and we hope to see you back in Shrimpy's restaurant for more delicious cuisine!
With all our thanks,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
"YOU'RE TELLING ME A SHRIMP FRIED THIS RICE!? " lollll
The cutscene is so cuteee and the illustrated style is so pretty!
The shop designs and cutscenes were also beautifully drawn and animated <3
The recipe book actually worked for me in browser. The first requests I actually failed them without understanding why, and later I realized there's a star timer! But the color is a bit similar to the sand in the background so I initially missed it. And I wasn't always sure even after realizing that plus finding the rice cooker, why my requests weren't being pleasing to customers at times xD I think I missed some detail?
Helloo!
Thank you for trying out our little game and for taking the time to give feedback. Our artists are so happy that you enjoyed!
Our 'grammers have made a note about the star timer and we'll try to make it more obvious throughout the gameplay. If you manage to make it to the end, you'll understand why the customers aren't so pleased! That darned recipe book...
Regardless, thank you so much for visiting Shrimp Shack and we hope to see you again sometime in the future!
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
OMG, the opening cut scene is so cute, great story and the art is awesome. Gameplay is great, almost shrimptastic one could say!
I love the children's book type of aesthetic, and I’m a sucker for cooking games. The sound design is also very well done; I adore the ocean music. I must say it’s kind of confusing that you can serve the first customer as last, but I think it’s a bug that’s only present in the first two days.
One tip I would like to give is to limit the number of clicks. It’s okay to have a little bit more text in the dialogue box, it spares the player from clicking through an unending amount of text.
Hello!
Thank you for playing our game and taking the time to let us know about bugs - we’ve added it to the bug fix list for our ‘grammers to work on after they’ve recovered from their post-jam hangover, lol!
We’re so glad you had a good experience though, and you’re right, we can work on balancing the dialogue boxes better to avoid click fatigue and help with engagement ✍️ Very valuable stuff!
We hope to see you again one day back at the Shrimp Shack, and thank you for stopping by.
With oodles of gratitude,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
This is one of the most endearing games that I have ever played (it was suggested to our dev team discord by 'it's kayl'!) Finding such a cohesive direction in just 2 weeks is astonishing and it is clear that every aspect had a lot of work and love poured into it. The human designs were a delight and the synced up writing and sound design had me smiling the entire time I played!
Shout out to it’s kayl, what a real one.
That’s brilliant to hear, the team can’t believe your feedback! It’ so nice to know that the painstaking effort and all nighters we put into Shrimpy’s adventure actually bared fruit. Thank you for joining Shrimpy on his leg-tastic journey and we hope to see you back at the Shrimp Shack one day!
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
This was so beautifully done! The art is gorgeous and the shop limitation was integrated very well. I usually get bored with cooking simulators but this was fresh and I loved the option to go explore the ocean floor and meet the ocean shop owners. Very well thought out and executed.
Hello! Thank you so much for trying out our shrimp-tastic game! Your feedback is great, and it's really nice to see what gameplay points stood out to players. The team will be thrilled, especially our 'grammers!
We're so glad you enjoyed Shrimpy and his well-read culinary delights - we hope to see you back at the Shrimp Shack in the future.
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
The art is PHENOMENAL in this game, just wow! It's so lovingly crafted. The shrimpy is the cutest lil guy and their story made me a little emotional. 🥺 The writing and sound design really drive home that sweetness. I am super impressed.
I really enjoyed the gameplay, especially visiting the ocean floor for new ingredients!
THANK YOU for playing our little game! Shrimpy would be positively preening, we can tell.
*Bashful shrimp noises*
Our artists really are incredibly talented, we're very lucky to have them - they'll be thrilled to hear this, waw! Please feel free to visit Shrimp Shack and its salty characters whenever the desire strikes, we would be glad to have you.
With all our loving craft,
- Shrimp Studio 🦐
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