{"author_link":"\/author\/samoatesgames\/","author_name":"Sam Oates Games","author_uid":"25331","comments":[{"author_name":"Jacksendary","author_uid":"29674","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:08am","epoch":1398646980,"text":"Very hard if not impossible to control (on a PC keyboard) and for some reason it seemed like I couldn't get my hands close enough to grab some ingredients but I do kinda like the fun and frustration these "badly controlled" games gives you and you have managed to do that!"},{"author_name":"fserb","author_uid":"6308","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:14am","epoch":1398679740,"text":"Enjoyed playing. Btw, to get close enough you need to press "2" and move around."},{"author_name":"gabbsson","author_uid":"19472","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:31am","epoch":1398680760,"text":"Fun idea, controls were really difficult though. (Maybe thats the point!)\rNice graphics and humor!"},{"author_name":"tiffi_gaming","author_uid":"29484","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:44am","epoch":1398681540,"text":"Took ages to load. I thought it crashed. But really was fun afterwards! :)"},{"author_name":"Split82","author_uid":"15279","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:46am","epoch":1398681660,"text":"Haha nice gameplay and difficult controls :) I think you should increase friction of character movement."},{"author_name":"kbm","author_uid":"20498","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:04am","epoch":1398682740,"text":"Fun idea (Surgeon Simulator, anyone?) and graphics were nice, too. But I had a very hard time figuring out what to do. Good job! :)"},{"author_name":"Techblogogy","author_uid":"25556","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:17am","epoch":1398683520,"text":"This game was both fun and hard. Enjoyed it!"},{"author_name":"Snoother","author_uid":"33841","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1398703200,"text":"Wow, that was excruciatingly hard -- but in a good way!"},{"author_name":"DragonXVI","author_uid":"35553","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1398703800,"text":"13938 (Accidentally threw like 4 eggs in)! Crazy difficult and a bit clunky but managed it once I got the hang of it. Decent go at the whole awkward-simulation concept though! :D"},{"author_name":"Doubstract","author_uid":"29853","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1398705360,"text":"It's very hard to control myself. I'm just happy baking isn't that hard in real life :)\rBut anyway, this is really good job in 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"FyberOptic","author_uid":"36171","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1398707700,"text":"I like these kinds of games, but similar to others of its type, they can be hard to control. I think with some tuning you could make it play pretty well. There's definitely potential, especially since I don't believe there's a cooking game like this yet. I could see a lot of people making entertaining Let's Plays, much as they have with Surgeon Simulator and the like. Not on theme, but nice work nonetheless."},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:45pm","epoch":1398793200,"text":"Great concept, confusing controls :\/"},{"author_name":"mihaivdev","author_uid":"34175","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1398806760,"text":"Awesome! I made my cake perfect but extra sugary...about 470 grams ^^\rYou need to improve the controls a bit and I don't necessarily mean to make them easier, but have a play with different keys and see which ones make it somewhat easier. Maybe leave the movement part out. I had to use the controller as it was too weird on the keyboard. On the Xbox controller you have to invert the thumbsticks. I don't think i've ever seen a game in which you move with the left thumbstick and look around with the right one.\rOh and don't see the connection to the theme very much.\rLittle issues aside, this is a very strong submission and it goes as 3rd on my list of favourite ones so far :).\rKeep it up!"},{"author_name":"Nichii","author_uid":"29131","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1398865980,"text":"Hard to control (elevating hands are tedious and slow), but overall, pretty humorous game :D"},{"author_name":"Sam Oates Games","author_uid":"25331","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:30pm","epoch":1398871500,"text":"I'd like to thank everyone for there comments :) it's really useful to get some real world feedback.\r\rBest community ever!"},{"author_name":"LPGhatguy","author_uid":"14296","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1398872040,"text":"Difficult controls, fun concept."},{"author_name":"bakpakin","author_uid":"29055","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1398872220,"text":"Is this even possible? I had fun smashing eggs, but I could even pick up the flour."},{"author_name":"thinkster","author_uid":"30204","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:58pm","epoch":1398873180,"text":"Cool idea and well implemented! Hard to control but guess that is the point, though I never have played any of the "simulator" games. Impressive that you managed this considering your friend dropped out!"},{"author_name":"Gaspard_","author_uid":"25208","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1398894780,"text":"Tipped over the flour, opened the oven, tuck the butter, dropped it, rage quit.\rI guess I don't have the nerves... oh and, it's a nice hilarious game!"},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 1:46am","epoch":1398994860,"text":"Really like the idea, I had a very similar one a while ago :)"},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 1:46pm","epoch":1399038060,"text":"Pretty good but so hardddd"},{"author_name":"sfdnetwork","author_uid":"27919","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1399061220,"text":"Too many controls, I give up."},{"author_name":"tenpn","author_uid":"1921","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1399065300,"text":"I liked the idea, but the controls just seemed to not behave themselves unfortunately."},{"author_name":"MarsBar","author_uid":"21512","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 3:41am","epoch":1399088160,"text":"I like the concept, simulators are awesome XD this game is super challenging which makes it addictive for me, I had to stop playing otherwise I would be playing for hours instead of rating games XD \rOne thing I noticed that was strange was there was a squeaking sound in the bkg music, not sure what that was but found it a bit distracting, also I think the controls might be a bit too difficult for people starting out. Overall you did a pretty good job though :)"},{"author_name":"Kyatric","author_uid":"5250","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1399654320,"text":"Good job, I'm not baked, but I managed to bake a cake :)\rFeels a lot like the "hyper simulators" of the like of surgeon simulator, obviously. So it suffers from the same "drawbacks" which is, for example, a heavy control scheme, that is part of the challenge.\r\rNevertheless a fun experience, and a great prototype that would probably gain from providing other types of cakes to bake\/challenges like a time limit, a waiting customer, or something of the like.\r\rGood job doing this in 48 hours nonetheless !"},{"author_name":"Norse Games","author_uid":"35470","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 7:31am","epoch":1399965960,"text":"Very nice, I love the super awkward controls or super realistic controls games, good job! Took me ages to bake that cake"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1400453040,"text":"Impossible to control with a Logitech gamepad :-("}],"images":["ld29\/25331-0834dc781a38e156e794d38041bdd227.jpg","ld29\/25331-a04fc6ef04951692991a15080d64efa4.jpg","ld29\/25331-7fd4d2b5c6fcfa8f0bd0dc5915e0d867.jpg","ld29\/25331-0262132f123a5960a680958d281f872a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.samoatesgames.com\/ld\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.samoatesgames.com\/ld\/BakingSim.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mx9tnFlcuNA ","text":"Youtube Playthrough"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/samoatesgames\/Ludumdare-29","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18871","g_author":"25331","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18900","g_title":"Baking Simulator: 2014","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"745","g_commentcount":"27","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25331-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25331-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25331-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25331-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":" -- overview --\r\n\r\nThe aim of the game is to bake a cake. Four ingredients are given and a bowl. Combine the ingredients in the bowl, then place the bowl in the oven.\r\n\r\nYou can control player movement, the left hand and the right hand. As well as each finger\/thumb on each hand.\r\n\r\n-- software used --\r\n\r\n * Unity Pro\r\n * 3ds Max\r\n * Fireworks\r\n * Audacity\r\n * MapScape\r\n\r\n-- full controls [360 Controller] --\r\n\r\n - Right Thumbstick - Move\r\n - Left Thumbstick - Rotate\r\n\r\n - DPad Left - Left hand mode\r\n - DPad Up - Player move mode\r\n - DPad Right - Right hand mode\r\n\r\n - X - Lower hand\r\n - B - Raise hand\r\n\r\n - A - Grab with thumb\r\n - Shoulder buttons and triggers - Grab with fingers\r\n\r\n - Back - Restart Game\r\n\r\n-- full controls [Keyboard] --\r\n\r\n * Please note, the game was created using 360 controls, I have simply mapped them to keyboard so they may be a little clunky.\r\n\r\n - W,A,S,D - Move\r\n - Arrow Keys - Rotate\r\n\r\n - 1 - Left hand mode\r\n - 2 - Player move mode\r\n - 3 - Right hand mode\r\n\r\n - Q - Lower hand\r\n - E - Raise hand\r\n\r\n - Spacebar - Grab with thumb\r\n - Left Shift - Grab with all fingers\r\n\r\n - Escape - Restart game\r\n\r\n-- apologies --\r\n\r\nI realize that this isn't great on the theme, I was planning on doing the Jam with an artist friend. However, they had to pull out so I panicked and made this as my mind went blank and all I could think about was cake.\r\n\r\nbut beneath the surface of a good cake is a good sponge! and everyone likes sponge cake right?","title":"Baking Simulator: 2014"}