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A jam submission

Cursed BakeryView game page

Follow the recipe. Or don't. There are bigger problems.
Submitted by Al3x-K, Cinnabaroque — 11 minutes, 21 seconds before the deadline
Rated by 16 people so far
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Theme explanation
The “Layers” theme is used in both the gameplay and the story. In the cake decorating minigame, the player builds each cake layer by layer, starting with the base and then adding the flavour, drip and toppings. The story works in a similar way, as the mystery is slowly revealed through conversations with the different customers. Each conversation gives the player another piece of information and helps them understand what is really going on.

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Submitted

Omg this was so fun!!! Ik it's only a demo so far, but I could really see myself playing all the way to the end. The art is lovely, esp the variation in character design and the overall goth-y aesthetic. I particularly liked the dialogue; I found myself wanting to know more about each of them, which is a really hard thing to achieve in such a short time frame! I did find that sometimes the icing showed up before the cake (specifically the yellow-ish icing and the clear icing), though there was nothing game-breaking. The theme of layers is clearly shown in both the gameplay and the story itself, which showed a lot of thought into theme implementation. Overall though, I think this was a really cool entry!

Submitted (3 edits)

The visuals are stunning and the dialog is more than "just fine" (unlike my cakes), you probably ran out of time to add the music so played a gothic ambient music playlist

Submitted

The art and dialogue are fantastic! I'd love to see where this goes when theres time to add sound

Submitted

the art assets are marvellous, i'm really in awe. very cool idea to encourage going against the customers wishes, i'm intrigued how the story continues. hope to see more of this in the future!

Submitted

This is so good! I hope it gets expanded after the jam because I will definitely play. The art is so cute and the concept of merging a decorating game with a dialogue rich story is very good, especially when the decorating actually effects the dialogue. 

With some music and more UI design this would feel super polished. I also agree that giving a button to fully load in text would be great (I also personally prefer to advance text with the spacebar vs clicking whenever possible)

Submitted

Great idea for a game and incredible sprite art! I really like how the cake customization game feeds back directly to the narrative (spoilers: it appears the better you make the cake the more the culprits reveal). It would've been nice to have a skip text button or adjust text speed especially with repeating dialogue when failing to make the correct cake. Solid game! 

Submitted

Really nice, super creative,I love the writing and the characters' personalities. Good stuff.

Submitted

I also felt like the game was missing some music, which is a shame because it’s such a cute game.

Submitted

I really loved the idea of the game, and the visuals are adorable! Only downside is the lack of sound /music, but otherwise? Very solid game, I love it! 

Submitted (1 edit)

The art is crazy good the cake customization is very complete. Too bad it lacks sounds and music :(

Submitted

the visuals are really pretty, just missed some sounds but everything looks cute