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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #2 | 4.350 | 4.350 |
| Overall | #4 | 4.270 | 4.270 |
| Theme | #5 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Fun | #6 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Audio | #7 | 4.050 | 4.050 |
| Visuals | #18 | 4.300 | 4.300 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme explanation
The main mechanic in the game is to make cakes by stacking any cake layer combination you want, and then sell them to hungry customers! The layer arrangement can generate bonuses or debuffs depending on how you choose to place them.
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Wow! The game is super cute and polished, the game loop is fun and the fact that it was made in 9 days is genuently crazy. Good job!
this is one of the top 3 most fun experiences i had this jam! Amazing gameplay loop, a story mode would absolutely kill! I would loove to play it. Also, really really cool that it had portuguese translation and i loved the art, its so cute
Wow ! This game is so polished and reminded me so much of girly flash games in the 2000's. Amazing job, loved the audio, loved the graphism, i did the full week and had lot of fun. I kept doing cakes I would like to eat though, that was a bit of a bad business decision on my part. Absolutely loved it !
Oh no, I got stuck with the Guava Paste dialogue popping up as I needed to click on the first tip! Really fun idea, there's a lot going on pretty quickly though, it could be handy to have the first few days be a bit shorter, limit the ingredients even shown in the menus and introduce more flavor profiles, customer types, and ingredients over the course of a few more days. It'd also be nice if extra money beyond the quota carried over for ingredients the next day to be able to create some fancier starter cakes, as well as the cakes visually getting slices out of them for an indicator of their remains. Impressive how much is here, great job!
AMAZING!!!! the cake mechanic is soo fun, I loved having reasons to choose the ingredients and create different ones!!! also the art, music and sound really fit the game, I had an amazing experience playing it.
(E MDS não esperava achar um jogo em português, fiquei muito felizzzz, um detalhe muito fofo e carinhoso terem se preocupado com tradução mesmo com tempo limitado da jam)
This is incredible!! I love it!!! At first it reminded me a bit of cookie tycoon and cake mania, like kind of a mix of both, but then it became so stressful with all the needs of the customers, and they want so much!! I want a continuation!!! I really enjoyed it and its so polished too!!! Great game, Great balanced gameplay!! Kudos!!
p.s. I just realized this is all made by one dev?!? The art, the code, the game design????
Thank you so much! We're really glad to hear you played to the end! We're hoping to make a full game from this concept this year, so we're really glad to see interest in it!
And no, we're a team of 5! Doing all this solo would be too crazy lol
Wait but I can see only one name? Do you all go by the name radworks? If not, I think it would be best to add the others as contributors or crediting them if they don't have itch.io accounts. I would love to follow you all on your journey! Good Luck!!
Very well developed game, lots of things to do and a great intro to boot! Very well done, congrats!
Thank you so much!
Very well developed game, lots of things to do and a great intro to boot! Very well done, congrats!
Thank you, so glad you liked the intro!
incredibly in-depth and polished game, daaaaang! love all the mechanics that come in play, fantastic job!
Thank you, we're so glad to hear it!
There's almost a ridiculous amount of stuff here, how did you manage to do this in 10 days??? Amazing job! The game almost feels like a full title, everything is polished, plays really well, I'm very impressed.
Thank you! Yeah, most of our team of 5 has been laid off recently, so we managed to squeeze a lot of time and effort for this one. We're hoping to make game dev an actual full time job sometime soon, so we're giving it our all!
Oh, sorry to hear that. Hopefully it works out for you, seems like the team works well together already!
Fantastic game! This is so well polished, the UI looks great and the sound effects satisfying, I like how there is even a sound when hovering over a button. So much content as well, how did you have the time to make all of this? Im so impressed!
Thank you so much! We're a team of 5 and most of us have been recently laid off, so we went all out and spent a lot of time every day for this one lol. Hopefully we can make game dev our full-time career soon!
Amazing job! I enjoyed playing a lot. it's super engaging, the rate of progression feels good and I'm so impressed with the amount of detail, variety and polish! I reeeally want cake now...
Thank you so much!
really enjoyed this game and all the little details that went into it, especially with how extensive the menu is
thank you so much, we really appreciate it!
cute, fun and really polished game, the ui is also really nice
Thank you!
Really fun! The UI and gameplay are pretty polished and I was thralled by the flavor management system. Great job!!
Thank you so much!
Great concept!
Had so much fun with this game. It was cute, fun, I love the music and the art. Good job!
Thank you!
This was really fun way more in depth than I thought it would be. It's crazy that this got done in 10 days well done I love how you have to cook the creams and jams etc and you can't just instantly buy everything you need very good. and all the diffrent looking cutomers was really good I liked the character designs
Thank you, we're really glad you liked it!
Had so much fun with this one! I messaged you in the discord forums about a problem I couldn't figure out with one customer - let me know what you recommend and I'll try again!
Thank you so much! And thanks as well for the feedback, I'd love to help you figure stuff out. I think that right now there's a bit too much information going on lol
THIS IS AWESOME! You nailed every part. Very cute, fun, cool music! Maybe too much information to read? It hooked me anyway!!
Thank you so much, glad you liked it! And yea, there might be a bit too much going on at the start right now. We're hoping to fix it soon!