The Chef That Couldn't Cook
You really are the worst chef in the world. Do you even know how to hold an egg?
Arrow keys to move, Z to hold an ingredient. Spare ingredients can be stored in the ingredients bar.
Get 100 on your time left, or bake a chocolate cake to win.
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I failed on the chocolate ice cream recipe, as mixing Cocoa and Sugar only gives a Cocoa/Sugar mix… is it really useful? Probably since the mix exists, but the description is really telling me it’s not really chocolate and it’s too late to cook…
I eventually found I had to cook the Cocoa first, without any Sugar.
Game design
The game has a bit of Automachef with machines but since it’s not automated, I’d say it’s more a try-and-guess combination game in the end. Unlike point-and-clicks where only 2 or 3 combinations will work just to solve the puzzle at hand, many things work and you can keep them aside for later if not exactly what you want, so it encourages experimenting!
UI
I suggest you enable debug mouse control, it makes things easier when playing on PC (standalone or browser). You can easily find doc on this, or refer to this example of mine: function
toggle_mouseat https://github.com/hsandt/GGJ2018-Transmission/blob/master/reordered.p8#L416 (check REORDERED on my profile to see what it looks like in the browser)Audio
The BGM lacks coherence. If you’re beginning with composing and don’t want to go full throttle with music theory, I’d recommend you start with a background beat, then add a few melodic elements with a strong leitmotiv. Then make another phase B, then another phase C, and with the PICO-8 editor insert phases like A-B-A-B-C->repeat. This way you can get consistency and a bit of variety at small cost (in the long term you still get repetition, but it helps).
As everyone who posts, and probably everyone else too, is having trouble with the french toast recipe, I'll put it at the bottom of this comment.
First, though, I'd like to say that The Chef That Couldn't Cook II is currently in development, which will add a few new things to the game, such as chocolate milk, brownies, and a more intuitive recipe for french toast! Also, some of the existing recipes will be changed, normally so that they make more sense. The difficulty system will also be improved.
And now, as promised, here is the current recipe for french toast:
Aha, I live in France and had no idea what it was, so I tried to make a Croque-Madame without ham, which just gave a Toasted Egg Sandwich. We actually call a French Toast “Pain Perdu”, but we mix the eggs and bread first to make it golden, as frying the egg first would result in a Toasted Egg Bread with Sugar…
I like the concept a lot, and I enjoyed the things you could discover just by experimentation - it made for a fun little puzzle.
How do you do french toast? I got stuck on that one and it seems like there was either a combination I was missing or something else I neglected to do. I got stuck at that point unfortunately but I did really enjoy everything up to that!
This was really interesting, really liked the crafting system you had going on. Doing it on just easy difficulty was pretty hard though, didn't manage to beat it.
The music got super repetitive, eventually had to toggle it off. I think if the loop was longer it'd be alright.
When it came to doing the "chocolate milkshake" I got stuck for a while because I had a "milkshake" and I was trying to combine it with the chocolate. Took me a while to realize that you had to make chocolate ice cream first.
Couldn't figure out the french toast. Tried a bunch of stuff involving egg milk and bread.