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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #12 | 3.906 | 3.906 |
| Graphics | #20 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Accessibility | #29 | 3.219 | 3.219 |
| Controls | #29 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Fun | #34 | 3.594 | 3.594 |
| Originality | #36 | 3.781 | 3.781 |
| Theme | #62 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2.1
Wildcards Used
All 3 - See Page Description!
Game Description
A misadventure in the kitchen causes unspeakable Lovecraftian mayhem! Turn to your trusty oven to forge weapons and gadgets to salvage the situation! Kill enemies, collect resources, and forge more weapons!
How does your game tie into the theme?
"Cook" weapons and gadgets from food materials to restore order in your kitchen!
Source(s)
No
Discord Username(s)
passivistefforts, solonnnka, noitcani
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
2
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Nice game! The premise was really cool and you executed it really well!
The art was really impressive, especially as it was all hand drawn. I loved all the sounds/music and it was really cool that when you are low on health it makes the kettle whistling noise (though that did get a bit repetitive for me).
Really impressive project for the game jam, nice job!
Thanks for playing Jelly! Good call on the low health SFX! Breaking it up instead of a constant loop would be better too, I agree :D
Glad you like the art and music! They're the hard work of our artist (solonka) and musician (passivistefforts)!
Amazing game :D I love the game over song that was really funny! 10/10 for that wildcard.
I really loved the unique character designs and enemy animations. The one that would bite out of the floor was sick!! This game is really polished with lots of depth, I really loved all the combinations of recipes you could explore and customize. My only downside with the experience was some performance issues — i couldn't figure out if it was enemy spawning, or whenever enemies died, but I had frequent lag spikes playing in browser which made it tricky to aim sometimes while compensating for the lag. But I had a great time! Music, sound, graphics all are so well done. Excellent work on this!
Thanks for playing ecaroh! The icecream enemy is my favourite too! The concept of the movement came from the Art by solonka!
Apologies on the lag! It was bad optimization of the spawn code on my end :D Thank you for your kind words, and glad you enjoyed it!
I feel like the pineapple kingdom has been maligned :sob:
But other than that this is great! I enjoyed the super playful take on the theme and tower defense. A little levity goes a long way. The gameplay loop was solid and the tension of needing to be at the oven to craft new towers / in the fray to collect items vs the super powerful removed observer magically collecting and dropping goods was a great move. Added a ton of tension to the waves.
Extremely solid submission.
Thanks for playing envy! No pineapples were harmed in the making of this game. In fact, our musician passivistefforts love pineapples :D
Glad you liked the gameplay loop! I'm gonna let you in on a secret, the turrets were not planned in the original design doc XD. I ran into difficulty thinking of how to make the game more interactive, and the team came up with it midjam :D But glad it turned out well!
The game is very fun and the art goes perfectly with the vibe of the game, the only thing is that the game keep having small lags repeatedly, maybe it's because i played on browser, other than that very fun game, i loved discovering new weapons
Thanks for playing Edmondada! Agreed with the lag on browser, sorry for that! It was likely due to suboptimal code optimization on my part XD. Glad you liked the game assets :D
I liked your silly song at the end when i died i heard about 5 times, bc i kept dying again and again and again dsklfhsdlkjfsdlkfjsd, i need to get good. D: The art was pretty, the sound was nice and i really like rogue like games glad to see one! :D
Thank you very much for playing, and sticking with it even if it was difficult! If you were playing on the web version, the downloadables are a little smoother if you ever want to give it another go. Very happy you enjoyed the artstyle, I was just playing your game a moment ago and it's gorgeous! Thanks again!
Thanks for playing awwknee! And thanks for sticking with our game, trying it 5 times even :D
Super cool game, I liked the gameplay of shooting food and placing towers to vanquish this evil pineapple ! The graphics are amazing, I wasn't expecting such an introduction at a game jam. And the music is super cool and goes well with the game. Super good job !
Thank you very much for playing! Noitcani made an awesome gameplay loop for sure, and Solonka knocked it out of the park with the art style! The pineapple only became central to the story at a very late stage, but I'm very happy it did. Really glad you enjoyed the music too, thanks again!
Thanks for playing Stormring! Glad you liked the game assets, I too was blownaway when solonka showed us the comic strip he drew, and when passivistefforts provided the tracks :D
Oooo the audio for this game has a lot charisma~! Felt super immersive! Will say, even with the tutorial, it took me a minute to figure out the controls and also how to build turrets and weapons. I kept defaulting to thinking that the game had hotkeys I could switch to for turret placement and firing my weapon (I'm too MMO brained). I think the forge system confused me the most on my first playthrough (I kept trying to use hotkeys and kind of wished some sort of prompt popped up to let me know "I'm dumb").
Eitherway, once I figured out what to do I had fun. Good stuff!
Thanks a lot!! And I can definitely see where you're coming from, hotkeys would've been a good idea, and probably more intuitive than clicking around unfamiliar buttons. Appreciate you pushing through though, very happy you enjoyed it!
Thanks again for the feedback and kind words!
Thanks for playing Hangover!
This is a really great, actionable feedback!
Didn't even occur to me to include hotkeys, and its silly because I grew up playing tab-targetting MMORPGs and MOBAs. Going to keep this one in mind, and implement it in future submissions where relevant! Thank you!!
LOL t his game is hilarious. it has pizza tower vibes! very creative mix of genres, love the "losing" music
Thanks very much Dave! We had a lot of fun making it, very happy you enjoyed :D
Thanks Dave for playing!! Glad you like passivistefforts' song! Hope you caught the lyrics :D
A fun and charming game with lots of laughs from start to dead!
Thanks for playing Robert!! Glad we made you laugh :D
Fun little tower defence game with a great use of the theme.
Thanks Dani for playing!! I really liked your interpretation of forging cards!!
I FORGOT TO SAY code is awesome too please praise noitcani hes cool
Lies! You can't see the code! (kidding, thanks Solonka's friend :D)
But if you did see the code, you would realise that it is also FOOD themed. Specifically, Spaghetti HAHA
Thanks for playing
GAME IS PERFECT//// soundtracks are amazing and artwork is like a delicious food............ my computer is very old and game was lagging but thats wasnt bothering me anyways. i mean it doesnt affected on the game. i win!!!! proudly/very proudly
Haha, appreciate it!! Very happy you enjoyed it, and thanks for persevering :D
I like the artwork and it's a very fun game. I would like to have similar food combinations for the turrets though since I have too many of one type of food while always lacking in other types.
Thanks for playing Panda! Yes I agree, if we had one more food (4 types) or some form of triple food combi, that would allow for better management of resource! Thanks for your suggestion!!
Nice one!! All three of you guys totally knocked it out of the park with your roles! The fluid animations, rich sound design, and super-smooth gameplay structure that holds it all together... it's just... *chef's kiss.* It's definitely not easy to accomplish something this professional in a week, but you guys nailed it!
Congrats on your first teamup and fantastic submission!!
P.S. The way the deep voice says "You have died" in the Game Over song will never not make me chortle uncontrollably xD
Thank you so much!! It was definitely a new experience for all of us but it was so cool seeing it come together in the end. Solonka's art was very evocative and easy to write music to. I'm very glad you enjoyed the death tune too, I was a little worried I went overboard there ;D
I was also frankly amazed with how far Noitcani managed to push this game, they're a coding and team-management powerhouse.
Thanks again for your lovely words MysteryLad! Very curious to see what you've come up with this time, I'll be sure to check out your game asap!
Very good looking, and the music and sounds are amazing! I really like the game over song hahaha. It did not run very well on the web version for me, but it worked just fine on the executable. Congratulations for the great work!
Oh wow Geminimax thanks so much for playing, sorry about the web lag. And not just that, but for going the extra mile to download the executable! Glad you liked the game over song!! PassivistEfforts wrote lyrics for it even HAHA
Thanks a lot for playing and your kind words! I wasn't sure of the death song at first, so very happy you enjoyed it!
THE COMBINATIONS AND TURRETS!!! You really did an amazing job tying the game world together!!
Thanks for playing Celery!! Really glad you liked it! We had fun brainstorming for possible food combinations! We actually have names for them, but they didnt make it to the players eyes.
IceSlice (Pizza + Icecream)
Deepdish (Pizza + Soup)
SprayTray (Icecream + Soup)
Haha
Gives a ton of room for different playstyles, super easy to pick up, amazing job!
Thanks Vindictivity for playing!! Glad you enjoyed the flexibility :
The art and music are amazing!.
The game feels great, and I love how the "turrets" start to clean up the waves
There is some lag when enemies spawn, perhaps it's just my computer or the web port. I guess that's the only thing that could be improved.
Great submission guys!
Hey Franco thanks for playing!! I think it was a bad decision on my part to run a "While Loop" iteration to dynamically select spawn positions instead of selecting a select set of spawn points. I also could have optimized the instancing of new enemies better! Hope the lag did not prevent you from reaching the end of the game, as our artist and musician put in a lot of effort for the ending sequence. The executables for the various OS should perform better.
I'm glad you liked the hard work of our artist and musician, they are incredibly talented!
Thanks a lot for playing Franco! We're aware of the lag issue, and the executable versions do perform better. Very happy you enjoyed it nonetheless, thanks again for your kind words!
Heyy! Don't be ashamed of the "lag issue", suff like that happens all the time, especially when we try to deliver software in a short period of time. I guess that my game also has troubles with the web version in some browsers. It's not a big deal, and I completed the game successfully!
Cool game. Was fun to try out different towers and weapons :) Was sadly struggling a bit with lag. The comic at the start is really cool!
Hi JP thanks for playing!! I think it was a bad decision on my part to run a "While Loop" iteration to dynamically select spawn positions instead of selecting a select set of spawn points. I also could have optimized the instancing of new enemies better! Hope the lag did not prevent you from reaching the end of the game, as our artist and musician put in a lot of effort for the ending sequence. The executables for the various OS should perform better.
Thanks for liking the comic! I loved it too. Full credits to our artist solonka!
I really loved the art and audio on this one (fantastic song btw). Well done to all of you, I feel like this one is gonna be a hit.
One aside, there seems to be some hitching in the Web version when enemies spawn, not sure if that's just me.
Thank you very much for playing! It's the first time teaming up for all of us and it was a lot of fun seeing our work come together, very happy you enjoyed it! And I don't think it's just you, it does the same thing for me sometimes and the downloadable version is smoother in this regard.
Thanks again for your kind words and feedback!
Thanks Syldarion for playing!! I think it was a bad decision on my part to run a "While Loop" iteration to dynamically select spawn positions instead of selecting a select set of spawn points. I also could have optimized the instancing of new enemies better! Hope the lag did not prevent you from reaching the end of the game, as our artist and musician put in a lot of effort for the ending sequence. The executables for the various OS should perform better.