Let Me Cook! by reaxt

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made by reaxt for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

Mild flashing lights warning!

You've spent the last few years as a system administrator, working a good job, making good pay, what else could you want?

Dreams! Thats what!

You've been dreaming of heading to culinary school to pursue your passion for cooking, and you're going to announce your plans to your friends tonight by making them dinner!

Sadly, however, given your career in tech, they tend to think of you as their personal tech support. It's going to be in your best interest to heed their summons to fix their computational woes, lest they not show up to your announcement!

Controls:

  • whole (QWERTY)keyboard for cooking!
  • whole mouse for your phone!

    Features:

  • Hand drawn and photographed art style!

  • Dynamic music!
  • Tech support hell!
  • Cuisine!!!!!!

This game has you balancing between a simple key repeating game, and small microgames at the same time! It also features fully dynamic music!!! It can get quite challenging, but I believe in you! If you manage to win we even included a cute little ending for you :D

As usual: we HIGHLY RECCOMEND you download the game! especially if you're struggling to keep up.

Credits: - Rea (Reaxt) Koehler - Project lead, programming, design, SFX. - Brendan Abernathy - Design and Programming for cooking systems, 3D Design for kitchen environment - Ivan Navarro - Art Director, all 2D graphical assets(except for the heart), microgame design. - RJ Lake - Music

Ratings

Overall 150th 4.024⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 145th 3.977⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 91th 4⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1114th 2.795⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 362th 4⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 150th 3.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 46th 4.25⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 378th 3.795⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

john-clemente
16. Apr 2024 · 02:34 UTC
bruuuhhh, you had me cryin on dis lmaooooo
SvenErik
16. Apr 2024 · 02:42 UTC
Haha that was lovely, quite the little amusement! Very well done! ^^
Vantalogic
16. Apr 2024 · 02:47 UTC
The gameplay is actually quite fun balancing the cooking and talking with people online and the game has so much character with the art and what the people are saying online. Great game!
Gabriel Mendonca
16. Apr 2024 · 02:52 UTC
hehuehahueaeh this kept me replaying too many times, really loved the game and how you implemented the theme, awesome!!!
Pusheeneiro
16. Apr 2024 · 02:53 UTC
Great multi tasking game
JKazuk
16. Apr 2024 · 03:19 UTC
damn, pretty challenging actually. Really love the artstyle and the mood
Adam Gallina
16. Apr 2024 · 03:30 UTC
The art was really good! Most of the quick time events were pretty intuitive, but the desktop cleanup on the phone took me a couple tries before I realized I had to drag the files, and I never figured out what to do on the website with malware links. Overall the pacing was really good! I definitely felt the clock, but it wasn't too stressful
🎤 reaxt
16. Apr 2024 · 03:41 UTC
@adam-gallina that ones a lil tricky, it shows up half as much as the others cuz of that, but you just need to scroll till you find the real link (being, the normal blue link). its kinda a homage to old sites that would like, reupload minecraft mods and the likes. :D tysm for playing!
LDJam user 342640
16. Apr 2024 · 04:37 UTC
Really fun, I loved the art and the humor and balancing the minigames with the cooking was actually pretty tough. Great job!!
LightningST
16. Apr 2024 · 05:14 UTC
Felt good, loved the interesting controls! Really creative!!
Rincs
16. Apr 2024 · 05:46 UTC
I loved it, I'll definitely not ruin dinner next time (although honestly one needs to pay more attention to cooking!!!) LOL.
Breaddysticks
16. Apr 2024 · 19:50 UTC
I like the silly microgames that have a funny result. It became challenging to combine me cooking and doing quests. I'm glad that they let me cook.
Justin Pena
16. Apr 2024 · 21:00 UTC
Very fun game. I love the hectic nature keeping you on your toes.
Talon24
16. Apr 2024 · 21:55 UTC
Fun concept, kind of gives my vibes of The Multitasking Game. Audio and visuals and humor is fun, and a fun twist on the theme, only thing is that instructions can be confusing when on a different keyboard layout (e.g. QWERTZ)
James Greenleaf
16. Apr 2024 · 22:00 UTC
Bro this is a kitchen get off your phone! Loved this game. Took me a couple tries to get the hang of it. 10/10 ADHD simulator.
Kirass
16. Apr 2024 · 22:57 UTC
I like this game! You guys are great!
Gabrimer
28. Apr 2024 · 01:50 UTC
Really cool entry! I really like the idea, it's super unique, and the aesthetic of the game is incredible. Lovely art and super duper cool addition of the adaptive music :D
Salanyel
02. May 2024 · 14:47 UTC
Really fun game!
I like the idea and the art difference between the cooking and the IT job :)
It got me hook at trying to become better and do both at the same time!