Hello and welcome to Feedback Quest 9! My name is Hythrain, and I'm one of the hosts for this lovely event! I'm also one of the streamers, so both the game and this feedback are being done live! If you want to see the see the VOD, let me know and I'll link you to it when it's uploaded to YouTube! Though maybe you might not wanna watch it because oh my god, I don't know how to describe what happened.
Anyway, I love this game. This is such a fun little tool to have just to learn about how to decorate cakes. It took me a bit to realize that there were more tools than I thought, but once I learned of all the things I could do it began getting really fun! A lot of my feedback is going to be about how to give players more control over certain aspects to allow them to get really... accurate about what they make.
First and foremost, one thing I think would be useful is an alignment tool so that people can place things in precise locations. This came up when I was trying to put a candle in the direct middle of the cake, yet whenever I turned the cake to see from a different side it would always be off.
Next, I think it would be a good idea for players to be able to save colours that they want to often use in a design. The reason behind this will make more sense later on. I also think it would be nice if, when choosing colours, players could enter numbers to represent different things. I'm thinking RGB values or HSV values, or even a hexcode! This could even be a nice alternative to saving a colour as a player can then just keep a record of whatever values they put in.
Similarly, I think the ability to enter numbers for various other effects (like the size of things, the inset and the spacing) would be nice. That way, it's easier to get precisely what you want out of the design. In a similar vein, I'd also love the ability to create a duplicate decoration that I can place elsewhere. That way, I can maintain identical spacing and size when doing designs around the "wall" of a tier.
Last in terms of things I'd like to (seriously) see added, the ability to move the camera in other ways when taking a screenshot. When I was trying to take my screenshot, I wanted to get a more dynamic angle but couldn't. The game only lets you move the camera up and down as well as to zoom in, yet both of these are always based on the centre point of the cake, meaning if you're trying to get a bigger focus on, say, the top of the cake, you can't.
Next, I want to cover a few things that feel like they're either bugs or they just don't behave well. In this regard, I have two main things: first is that the game keeps resaving custom colours that are already saved in the recent colour bar, which means older colours can get pushed out quickly and the player can lose a colour they may have otherwise wanted to reuse later. Second is that if you set the piped ruffle cream spacing to be longer, it doesn't keep it as a consistent singular stream of cream but instead just spaces the pieces out. I feel like what it should affect is the spacing between the vertical parts of the ruffle instead, thus making them tighter or wider.
I also noticed there are some performance issues despite how little there seems to be in terms of graphical demand. The performance issues also spike when doing colour changes. I noticed this via my stream preview, which would tank massively in framerate when I was doing colour. It didn't affect the stream itself, but I can always tell via my stream preview when a game has a performance problem.
And the very last thing I want to ask is... can you add a candy corn decoration? I'm not going to explain why. You'll just have to be morbid enough to watch the VOD (including the game from before I played yours. Nothing that happens will make sense otherwise).
That's all from me! I hope this helps you out!
