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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #3 | 4.367 | 4.367 |
| Sound | #4 | 4.233 | 4.233 |
| Overall | #11 | 4.267 | 4.267 |
| Aesthetics | #28 | 4.433 | 4.433 |
| Mechanics | #34 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Theme | #43 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Music | #54 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Story | #56 | 3.733 | 3.733 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Font Credit: Nb Pixel Font Bundle 2 by Nimble Beasts Collective, Music created with loops by Ghosthack (license free to use), loops were combined together and edited to create the heard tracks.
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I like the game and the theme overall :D
Very fun, one of my favorites in this jam!
Really fun game, nice artwork very random but works well nice job.
The intro to your game was hysterically funny, thanks for the fun!
Really glad you liked it :)
This was incredibly fun! I definitely see myself coming back to this in the future. Do you plan to continue working on it? (Also, nice reference to Seagulls (Stop It Now))
No immediate plans to revisit this one, sadly, but I'm glad you had a good time! It's a genre hybrid I could see myself revisiting sometime :)
Lol you are the first person noticed this reference and comment it!
Does that mean I'm one of the cool kids? >:D
Really fun idea! I liked some of the small touches like the seagulls splatting against the screen and the dish names. The whole recipe and cooking system seemed well thought out and worked very well. I got a bit confused about how to satisfy what people wanted at times, since they always seemed happy no matter what, but it didn’t seem like an issue. Well done!
I had a lot of fun with this, I think having a spot to save your food so you could have a few items made at once would have been good, and it felt a bit chaotic at the beginning until I understood what food qualified as what. I had fun!
Great suggestion, thanks for the feedback!
This was really fun, I liked having to balance fighting the birds off and the customers! It has great polish, nicely done!
Great game! Really enjoyed this one. Very fun idea and I like the mechanics of cooking and feeding a lot, with different buffs and different people, it adds a nice level of strategy and hecticness. Just a suggestion, but I think it might be more fun if instead of just pressing a button to chop if you could click on the knife itself. In fact, there were a few times where I found myself trying to click the thing above the button instead of the button. Just a suggestion, love this one! Good job!
Thank you! Yeah we wanted to make the kitchenware directly interactable, but I didn't have time for the animations, sorry!
It's cool man, I had the feeling, that time limit though! But yeah, I really liked this one. If I get around to playing some more game jam games I may make a highlights video where I go over some of the games I found compelling in the jam, would it be okay if I include this one?
Absolutely, and drop a link if you do, I'd love to see the other submissions you enjoy!
Totally! This is my first game jam and I'm having a lot of fun trying these games out but there's so many of them and I've been doing other things and haven't been able to prioritize playing through as many as I'd like to have yet. I'll keep you updated!
I put your game in my second highlights video. Thanks again for making a chill experience, I really enjoyed it, looking forward to you all's future projects!
Great highlights video, thank you for sharing and for featuring us! :) Great to hear about someone's experience with the game!
Thanks for making the game and letting it be part of my first game jam experience, I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to all your future projects! Keep it up!
Everything about this game was just a massive massive hit for me. The visuals were charming and appealing yet also clearly communicated what I needed to do with all of the recipes. The crafting system was SATISFYING! Those juicy chopping sounds as I was preparing my veggies were a real auditory treat. The gameplay loop really gripped me, I kept wanting to unlock and discover new recipes.
For me this is a perfect game!
Excellent work!
Thank you so much, this is such high praise!! :)
Wow what an incredible game! All aspects were so polished including the animations of the pixel art, the intuitive UI and the gameplay mechanics that ramped up in difficulty as you got used to them. I will definitely come back to playing more of this one after the voting period.
Great work by the team behind this one!
Oh I forgot to mention that I really enjoyed all the clever humor that was injected throughout the game. From the descriptions of the recipes, the idea that your fed customers will now fend of the seagulls and the seagull "death" animation hahaha. I was laughing constantly while playing Engulfed.
Thanks so much for your comment, and I'm glad some of the humor landed! :) We tried to maximize the silliness haha
A very creative take on tower defense, I mean, Food Stand Defense. The use of cooking mechanics and upgrades make the game loop feel really fun and addictive. Congrats for the good work! Keep going!
Btw, sometimes I can spend more money than I have, giving a negative number, lol!
I think that with the customers you serve successfully chasing the seagulls away for some time is such a cool unique mechanic, I really liked that as well as many other things about your submission. Great job on your game, I enjoyed it very much!
Nice idea! Every sound here works well, it makes the game very fun to play. Good work!
Great work! Fun game and I like the idea that the customers fight of the seagulls! Also good tutorial, easy to follow and one understands the mechanics/gameplay immediately!
Good job! I felt the sound effects really fit well into the game. I especially liked the customers fighting off the birds haha. The names of the recipes were also hilarious, "streamlined sandwich," "salad i guess" hahhaa. One comment though, I think the controls could have been explained more/more intuitive. Maybe it's just me, but it took me a sec to see that the "cook" and "prep" were actual buttons to cook and prep, and not just labels.
that's a great suggestion, thank you—glad you enjoyed the game!
Very nice game, I love the art style and animations! Good job with the dialog pop-ups and screen transitions also, everything is very fluid.
One suggestion I might make is having people keep coming endlessly even if there is a limited number of birds remaining. As I got further on in the game I would manage to feed all the people, but since they tired out, there were one or two birds that could just take food, and I had no one to send to deal with them.
Great suggestion, thank you! Really appreciate the feedback :)
That was excellent! fund game, overall well put together
Wow! This looks fantastic, and is a really fun gameplay concept. I have a great time with it!
Fun game! I liked being able to experiment and find new recipes instead of it just being the usual tower defense. IT was also very satisfying when the seagulls hit the screen lol.
Enjoyed playing the game. Liked being able to make a meal combo for a certain boost and making the customer happy.