Took me way too long to figure out what you meant by "bakeries." 🤣 I appreciate the indepth feedback, now I feel slightly embarrassed having left a joke comment on yours. Thanks for noticing the details, the sound design ended up being quite important for gamefeel and entertainment value. With the animations I wanted to get a good level of expressiveness in a limited amount of time, so I instructed my brother to add in these exaggerated mouths and eyebrows and drove the motions using fairly simple vertex shader techniques. Only thing I wish I'd had time for was particle effects!
If I ever expand on this I'll be sure to add push-to-cut :)