Posted April 24, 2021 by Stef Pinto
Cookies has been out for roughly 18 hours now, and I'm truly flattered by the response it has gotten by users both here and on Twitter, and appreciate all the support it has received.
Unfortunately, like any proper game launch, Cookies had its fair share of first-day quirks and bugs, ranging from trivial to downright game-breaking. Over the course of the past day or so I have uploaded numerous builds overwriting bugs that had been quelled, only to discover new ones further down the line that nevertheless hindered the player's progress. It was...messy, to say the least, but after the umpteenth reupload of the game's build I think I can safely say that the game is in a playable state from start to finish, just as I originally intended. Below are a list of bugs that have now been fixed:
- The door that Randy directs you to is now interactable
- The oven only requires CBD after speaking to Swamp Hound to bake Cosmic Brownies. Prior to this if you tried baking brownies with CBD and Brownie Mix it wouldn't work, so simply placing CBD into the pan and closing the oven will do just fine.
- The cursor doesn't stay locked to the screen when you pause.
- Random laughing from a particular boss no longer plays throughout the apartment.
- The player is now teleported to the sewer after entering the dark corridor in the water room.
- The lighting has been improved in the stairwell and clown maze.
- Miscellaneous typo-fixes (though I'm sure there's a few still lying around).
- The inventory no longer freaks out when you reach 10 items carried.
I do truly apologize for any frustration or confusion these bugs caused, and if you ran into any of these and had your playthrough abruptly stopped, I encourage you to redownload the game and give the current build a shot, as your save file will still be intact assuming you didn't scrub it.
I thank you for your patience in what has become an unexpectedly rocky game launch. I look forward to hearing how your experiences trekking through the Orange Grove Houses pan out.
- Stef