A travelling kitchen, a humble respite for travellers. · By
Yeah, this is exactly what I thought after I played the game. Maybe as you play you gain the ability to use different utensils, how you cook the food, and different foods you can use. The idea of you serving food on the train, and thus meeting many different types of people is great! Loved the atmosphere, and would love to see the background out the train windows change as you travel.
loved it. loved the clean mechanics and smooth gameplay. I would have added some ambient background music. Nothing to loud or mood changing but something that seems like it would be playing. Like on a radio for background music in the train but quietly. maybe jazz or something instrumental like that. I understand if it be too hard to implement this far into the development a new mechanic and how every thing is so perfectly spaced out it might mess it up. but you could have a small radio that the player can switch between a few "stations" that all play the music described or have the option to leave it off so that the original background noise is not lost. One other thing I think could be improved and I don't know if you were already planning to improve them or not was the character models. Just because the whole the feels so alive and warm and the model feels flat and cold to me. I'm not saying you need to make a 3D model but there are some thing to better integrate it into the environment. Firstly color can make a huge difference and by that I mean shadows and highlights, since everything else has nice highlights and lowlights adding that would make the character come to life and make it feel more like it belongs in the environment its in. Next, and this ones just an opinion, adding a little bit of subtle movement can really make it seem as if its really living or not. Because everyone moves, even when standing still, you move your chest, shoulders and lungs to breath. Its subtle yes, but every animated tv show or film adds that to their characters because it adds life to them. Sorry for rambling and sorry for making this sound like a intro to an augmentative essay. I really did love the game. I am also a creator, just not of games, I make art of varying types and I have felt the frustration of working on something and there was a peace missing and how brave you are to share something you made because that can be scary. 4/5 stars as I think you can do better.(p.s. I never really give 5 star much)
Dude ! Imagine playing a game like that in VR ! I would love it !! You definitely nailed the design and the cozy ambiance part, here is my thoughts :
Maybe too much direct dialogues and not enough cooking ? I think the fact that a random stranger talk straight to you is a bit distracting from the relaxing gameplay. I think it would be beneficial to also have random characters arriving at the table and talking with each others (voice acted would be best), and sometimes they would also interact with you but not all the time. Your actions (serving them something) could trigger an interaction with you. I think this would mitigate the kind of "social pressure of talking", it would be a lot more relaxing (at least for me) to just be there in the background, ready to help passengers with their needs without being the center of attention.
Great job tho, I hope you continue this project !
I fell in love with the game, in all honesty. It's absolutely amazing how the graphics stick out, and the little trivial things that the bird says. When I received the postcard, the picture warmed my heart. I loved the art all throughout the game, it's absolutely breathtaking. Definitely going to play it again.
I must say, I love the game, I've played at least 10 times now, not exageration, and enjoyed it each time. I do want ot say though, elliot still comes to the ktchen saying she smelled something good, even if the only thing you've been cooking is glob-fish, but that is a very nit-pwicky detail amidst the sea of good things about this game. You've done a good job establishing the charechter, so much so that I felt guilty feeding her mushrooms when she asked for something.
