Joe Chef by Aumbra
Part of a powerful warrior race of chefs who are so successful they have eaten themselves to the brink of starvation, you set out on an interstellar journey to find a new source of food to save your people. Fortunately you soon find a planet teeming with food, but it looks like it might put up a fight.
Controls:
WASD or Left Stick to move.
I or (X) to Light Attack.
O or (Y) to Heavy Attack.
P or (B) to Ranged Attack.
Q or L/R Trigger to Counter Attack.
Escape to Pause and see Move List.
Credits:
Michael Abdoo
Luke Bermingham
Andrew Joy
Matthew Joy
Sayuri Nagata
Nicholas Pace
Aidan Possemiers
Adam Rehn
Sound effects were sourced online and not made by us.
Screenshots:

| Windows | https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/packaged-games/JoeChef_Windows.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/joe-chef |
Ratings
| Overall | 200th | 3.864⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 192th | 3.797⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 766th | 3.141⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 934th | 3.047⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 332th | 3.879⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 461th | 3.203⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 39th | 4.156⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 252th | 3.69⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 36🗳️ | 42🗨️ |
Also finally something where it makes sense to rate the humor! :smile:
I loved the graphics and the humor. Great job with the cutscenes. Not very many Ludum Dare games have 3d animated cutscenes!
I'm not quite sure I fully understood the fighting system. The later opponents were very good at dodging ranged attacks, and the heavy attacks didn't seem to do much damage. So I mostly just spammed light attack while trying to dodge their projectiles. It worked pretty well, and I was able to defeat Paprikaman! I had a lot of fun with it, and I especially liked all the particle and sound effects (even just for moving around).
The one thing that might have been cool to have is some kind of cooking mechanic. But I have no idea how you would manage to combine that with the fighting mechanics.
My only complaints were my range attacks never hit, and there wasn't much difference in the enemies' fighting styles. Small nitpicks.
Keep up the crazy!
pathos and gameplay is so great executed. Once you get parry mechanic it's not so hard to win figths. Good job!