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A jam submission

Cake By The OceanView project page

Sex, experimentation, and eating cake.
Submitted by Jacqueline Bryk (@rufflejax) — 17 days, 12 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Novelty#103.5784.800
Narrative#172.5343.400
Play#212.5343.400
Kink#232.2363.000
Harmony#242.5343.400
Horny#252.3853.200
Overall#292.2032.956
Sound#291.0431.400
Aesthetic#311.9382.600
Stealth#331.0431.400

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Interesting that cake is both a sex metaphor and timer-- i.e. you might implicitly create one of those "ah fuck, everybody ELSE has had sex, but now it's noon on Sunday and time is running out if I want to get in on this" kinda nervous spaces. Seems thematically appropriate! You could theoretically assign certain times or events to certain amounts of cake remaining, but I do also like that the actual gameplay section seems deliberately small and easy to remember over an entire weekend.

The fistbump is super elegant in how it lets the receiver refuse, how it implicitly forces them to think deeply about what the character IS feeling, and how it allows someone to pass the spotlight. Really good stuff, would probably work well in pretty much any roleplaying game.

The setup does seem a little bit awkward. You could have two people both refusing any rating other than Marry and jostling back and forth for it forever, and the shameful secret never really comes up anywhere (I'm assuming it's supposed to just kind of fall out as you talk?). These mechanics are okay, but they don't feel as elegant as the cake mechanics. On the other hand, I don't know how to infuse the act of setting the table with sexual tension, so...

Still a really cool game, and it's especially neat to see a roleplaying game in Strawberry Jam! I wish I had enough people to play it.

HostSubmitted(+1)

bug report: it says to play Fuck Marry Kill with the two people nearest to you, but how do you play FMK with only two choices?

also my compatriots would like to formally object that this game implies eating cake with someone is a metaphor for a sex act, which is, apparently, clear and total nonsense

it could perhaps use some advice for dealing with powergaming.  for example, my immediate thought is that i would attempt to win immediately by offering to the entire group that we share the whole cake, right here, right now

alternatively, since this game models sex as a finite resource, i could simply eat the entire cake and explain i am jacking off in my room alone for the entirety of spring break.  then no one else would be able to have sex, OR have cake

we also have a rules question: if, during the course of the game, two players sneak off to have actual sex, does that mean that in-character they shared a slice of cake?

...

this is fascinating and i regret that i don't have a huge clump of people to try it with.  although honestly, if you have 8+ people together, chances are some of them are generating real sex-drama anyway.

a+ on the careful handling of subject matter, though it's interesting that the metarules make so much mention of the handling of sexual assault, and then the rules don't mention it at all.  so i guess that happens if players propose "i am forcing you" and their partners agree??  (or maybe if they just throw cake at each other.)  damn, that's a lot darker out-of-game than a surface reading would suggest.

i'm dying to know how a game of this would play out in practice.  it seems easy to just not have any sex, avoiding both in-game drama and out-of-game embarrassingly candid conversations, but...  but then...  but then you don't get any cake.  fuck.  you've thought of everything!

Developer(+1)

This is the first time I've ever gotten a bug report, and I appreciate it!

Submitted

Ooh, I really like the premise. I'm really curious to see how a game would play out, but I don't really have anyone to play this with. Not being able to play makes it kind of hard to rate, but I've done the best I can.

I'm a bit ambivalent about the topic of sexual violence in the context of the game. I feel like I was expecting to see more guidance on engaging with that topic, but I'm not sure what that would look like. Given just how freeform the game is, I suppose the players' real life capacity to negotiate and set boundaries is going to be pretty important.

Submitted

Very interesting premise, unfortunately I don't think I could convince my friends to play something like this lol