Description
In the minigame “Câtisserie”, part of the larger “World of Cakes” game, the player controls a cartoon cat who is working as a pastry chef.

The task is to make as many cookies, croissants, and muffins as possible before the shop opens, but a horde of mice keeps stealing ingredients and finished sweets and is generally causing havoc in the kitchen. The gameplay is a chaotic race hunting for flour, butter and chocolate chips before the mice carry them to their nest, keeping an eye on the oven's temperatures and baking times, all while keeping the little furry thieves away from the cakes cooling on the racks.

The difficulty is slowly ramping up by increasing the complexity of the recipes (more ingredients, changing the oven temperature while baking) and the number of hungry mice. Ultimately, the player will run out of time and the final score is based on how close to instructions the sweets were made, and how many of them actually made it to the shop.

Creative decisions:
The core instrument is the fantastic amhonky from adammonroemusic, a honky tonk piano to fully lean into the ragtime sound. In several parts, this is accompanied by an accordion, doubled up with a digital piano for overtones and note attack.
Towards the end of the piece, the music moves from 133 bpm to 145 bpm to signal to the player that time is running out and at the same time, the music modulates from C major to F major. Again, to increase urgency, the key is changed to G major before the music fades out. As the music enters this final section, a whisk in a metal bowl is used to emulate the sound of a snare brush.

The cover art was made by the amazing Viscera - to see more of her work or commission a piece yourself, check out https://viscerart.carrd.co/

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Bonus Challenges

URL to Streaming Service
https://youtu.be/JN71E2B7PNM