Stealth Cooking by dayn9
In Stealth Cooking, you are a hungry teen sneaking downstairs for a midnight snack. Gather your ingredients, cook your food, and avoid making to much sound, lest you wake The Legal Guardian!
Controls: WASD or Arrow keys to move
E to interact with objects
-Place items on the cutting board to combine them
-Sneak back upstairs once your food is cooked
| HTML5 (web) | https://dayn9.itch.io/stealth-cooking |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/stealth-cooking |
Ratings
| Overall | 431th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 180th | 3.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 587th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 253th | 4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 619th | 3.425⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 490th | 3.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 293th | 3.447⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 205th | 3.763⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
The vision restriction is well done but the ingredients handling was a little difficult to realise how it works. Once I fogured out how it worked was easy to win.
Make more levels!
I've noticed a small bug: When you hold down "walk" toward the fridge and push "E", the character will keep on walking (and making noise) while he's seeking an item in the fridge.
Overall, I had a lot of fun completing the game, congrats!
I think one of the hard parts of stealth games is balancing out those moments of avoiding detection. Where the game (and honestly any stealth game) loses it's fun is when I'm just forced to walk away from my my objective to wait for suspicion to die down, which isn't as fun.
Maybe instead of just having to run away, you could add humorous ways of avoiding detection based on the environment, like distracting the dog with pepperonis, cramming yourself into a cupboard, wearing your mom's bathrobe and a showercap. Little things like that may help give the player more agency in sneaking around vs being forced to wait.
There's definitely a good theme here (I love when games are based on real life experiences rather than just other games) and I'd be curious to see where you take it post-jam!