I love the use of sound effects to tell a story.
It is difficult for me to make suggestions for improvements if I'm unfamiliar with the genre of the music or the game, the only things I can come up with are two points that are purely based on taste and not on the quality of your work:
- the accordion sounds a little out of place. Being a part of the challenge though, I can't hold that against you (and maybe there is a little capucian in the corner of the screen, playing a concertina or something)
- some of the sound effects in the music sound like they could or should come from the game itself. It makes sense to have them in a demo or on an OST album, but in an actual game, where those sounds might mean something, they could be confusing players because a perceived audio cue is playing without the respective in-game effect, so I'd simply like to point that out in case it comes up in a future project of yours.
And that is basically also my final take here - your work is definitely of a quality that any game dev should be happy to work with you. Very nice!
Play Game Jam Loop
Banana Cake Al Fresco's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Match to the brief | #13 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Memorability | #15 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Overall | #21 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
| Production quality | #21 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Composition quality | #25 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall enjoyment | #29 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Main game:
Our story starts with a young monkey with a big problem! Though he has always known the good life on the coast of the Mediterranean, well he is a monkey you see, so is the rest of his family and wouldn’t you know it but they all love bananas! There is the problem, can you believe it mom is allergic to bananas! All his life our young monkey watched his mom, watch them as they enjoyed bananas. When the time came for our young monkey to grow up and go to Monkey University, he knew what he had to do!
Years later, our young monkey, now a bit older has done it. Done what? Well he’s made the perfect banana! In his monkey science lab, of course! Older young monkey, having solved his mom’s issue and now having a lot of bananas lying around getting more and more brown… He and his mom decide to open a bakery!
WORLD OF CAKES
They make them all but of course they specialize in Banana Cake Al Fresco.
Mini-game:
Banana Mash
You have up to 2:20s to peel, chop, and mash 5 bananas.
Bananas will be tossed at you and you will need to catch the 5 required bananas for the cake, peel them completely, chop them into 5 pieces and toss them into a bowl and mash them with a masher til smooth.
The Loop:
I don’t play to many of these chaotic cooking type games, so I did research the basic structure of one.
I wanted the loop to increase in its speed and intensity as the time clock would be getting closer and closer to ending. Starting with the drums using the step sequencer, I looked for kits that might have anything that sounded like it could come from the kitchen, literally found one called In The Kitchen right away! I didn’t want the drums to be too similar or too different but here is where I wanted some of the chaotic feel to come from in the changing of the drum kits. The free reed instrument was the most challenging part to really implement but I was able to get the legacy instruments in LogicPro and found an accordion and that completely changed the course I was taking but for the best! I had some foley sound packs and was able to get to use them in a way that hopefully added to the idea of this being found in a video game mini-game. The end drums and bass are my favorite aspect and I think I really executed the speed well with the drums. Festival Drop drum kit paired with the Megalodon bass plugin, what a match!
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Bonus Challenges
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