Really great job, and loved the little game over song! Overall game was fun, and I enjoyed the enemy variety a lot! One note I have is it didn't seem like there was much to the chef weapon crafting mechanic. As far as I could tell weapons didn't really have durability like the turrets? Might've been worth including an ammo or chef weapon durability to incentivize players to create more chef weapons - could've led to some interesting choices between making new turrets or getting a primary weapon. Great submission!
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Chef's Kiss's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #12 | 3.906 | 3.906 |
| Graphics | #20 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Accessibility | #29 | 3.219 | 3.219 |
| Controls | #29 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Fun | #34 | 3.594 | 3.594 |
| Originality | #36 | 3.781 | 3.781 |
| Theme | #62 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2.1
Wildcards Used
All 3 - See Page Description!
Game Description
A misadventure in the kitchen causes unspeakable Lovecraftian mayhem! Turn to your trusty oven to forge weapons and gadgets to salvage the situation! Kill enemies, collect resources, and forge more weapons!
How does your game tie into the theme?
"Cook" weapons and gadgets from food materials to restore order in your kitchen!
Source(s)
No
Discord Username(s)
passivistefforts, solonnnka, noitcani
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
2
Comments
Thank you so much! There is indeed no durability or anything to the chef's weapon. Went back and forth on crafting/ammo costs for a bit but ultimately with the overall difficulty in mind we left it here for the jam. Definitely something that could be expanded upon! Really enjoyed your game too, thanks again for your kind words and feedback!
Fun game, liked the idea and the intro with the lore and art was cool. Once you place many turrets you are practically a god, I think this game would benefit with some strategy involved so I had to think what buildings are better to buy. Overall good job!
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Click ForgeFun gameplay with good art and music.
Excellent story telling and game worked fine. I did not find any bugs except I played on web version and sometimes it lagged.
I would like to play levels of this game with different enemies and progression for weapon unlocks with different recipes. Game makes me remember the good old days of plants vs zombies.
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Forge The PathReally fun game, one small issue was that on browser, the game would freeze for a second every time a new enemy spawned
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Forge RaidersThis game was amazing, and aside from the lag experienced when I played on browser, this was a stellar entry! I loved the sound effects, and I loved the core gameplay loop. The game was scoped really well, but maybe some additional UX/controls for PC/keyboard would be nice. Like for example, having to a key to press instead of a button on the screen to open and close the forge every time would have gone a long way (if there wasn't one already). Great job team.
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HexsmithWhacky and fun! This wasn't at all what I expected, but it was solid! Animations were hellish and awesome, and the music was very nice too. Nice job team!
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Snake Eye SagaSolid little game! Fun intro comic, and I thought the idea of “Forging” your weapon through food was pretty cool! That little song when you die is also really fun!
One thought I had was, I’m not entirely sold on the turrets. They don’t really seem to be that much more powerful than the hand held version, and the turrets are very quickly brought down. Given the “cost” to build them, I feel they should have either hit harder, or lasted a bit longer.
I also think there was an issue with firing weapons when against a wall. There was a point I noticed I wasn’t firing anything while I was strafing against a wall. I think the issue might have been that, the placement of the bullet, when it spawned, put its hitbox right against the wall’s collision area and, so, the bullet immediately despawned because it thought it hit the wall. Maybe this could be fixed by spawning the bullets a little ahead of the player in the direction they were pointing.
I also noticed that there was no (visible) wall on the right side of the play area. It didn’t effect the game, really, but it had that “invisible wall” feel, where it looked like there was more space that I was being artificially blocked from running towards.
I thought this was a great game and, again, I really dug that death song!! If you’re interested, I played this game during a stream
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Li'l Bottys: Forging PathwaysMany thanks in order here obsidian. For playing, for streaming, and for the deep, candid, insightful feedback!
Agree with you on the turrets! There were plans to provide for upgrading them (like towers in typical tower def games, but it was beyond our manageable scope this game. We also faced dilemma with how to "scale" the game, and went with the easiest way out (increasing the qty of mobs). Some of our initial ideas included increasing health and dmg of the mobs, while providing the opportunity for player to "spend" resources at each wave completion to buy upgrades to counterbalance the difficulty increase.
Good catch on the weapons near the wall! You rightly mentioned that it was a problem with collision Area2D. Will definitely try the leading spawn tip the next time we have projectiles!
We wanted to give a infinite room feel, as the enemies can sometimes spawn far away enough that they might be outside of a wall, but a visual marker of the wall limit would indeed be better. Maybe even a line will help.
Definitely will be checking out the recorded stream, and please continue your good work of streaming and helping games improve!
Nice game! The premise was really cool and you executed it really well!
The art was really impressive, especially as it was all hand drawn. I loved all the sounds/music and it was really cool that when you are low on health it makes the kettle whistling noise (though that did get a bit repetitive for me).
Really impressive project for the game jam, nice job!
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GWJ#68 - REPLACEMENT CLAIMAmazing game :D I love the game over song that was really funny! 10/10 for that wildcard.
I really loved the unique character designs and enemy animations. The one that would bite out of the floor was sick!! This game is really polished with lots of depth, I really loved all the combinations of recipes you could explore and customize. My only downside with the experience was some performance issues — i couldn't figure out if it was enemy spawning, or whenever enemies died, but I had frequent lag spikes playing in browser which made it tricky to aim sometimes while compensating for the lag. But I had a great time! Music, sound, graphics all are so well done. Excellent work on this!
I feel like the pineapple kingdom has been maligned :sob:
But other than that this is great! I enjoyed the super playful take on the theme and tower defense. A little levity goes a long way. The gameplay loop was solid and the tension of needing to be at the oven to craft new towers / in the fray to collect items vs the super powerful removed observer magically collecting and dropping goods was a great move. Added a ton of tension to the waves.
Extremely solid submission.
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Helter SmelterThanks for playing envy! No pineapples were harmed in the making of this game. In fact, our musician passivistefforts love pineapples :D
Glad you liked the gameplay loop! I'm gonna let you in on a secret, the turrets were not planned in the original design doc XD. I ran into difficulty thinking of how to make the game more interactive, and the team came up with it midjam :D But glad it turned out well!
The game is very fun and the art goes perfectly with the vibe of the game, the only thing is that the game keep having small lags repeatedly, maybe it's because i played on browser, other than that very fun game, i loved discovering new weapons
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Beats into ShapesThank you very much for playing, and sticking with it even if it was difficult! If you were playing on the web version, the downloadables are a little smoother if you ever want to give it another go. Very happy you enjoyed the artstyle, I was just playing your game a moment ago and it's gorgeous! Thanks again!
Super cool game, I liked the gameplay of shooting food and placing towers to vanquish this evil pineapple ! The graphics are amazing, I wasn't expecting such an introduction at a game jam. And the music is super cool and goes well with the game. Super good job !
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Travelling BlacksmithOooo the audio for this game has a lot charisma~! Felt super immersive! Will say, even with the tutorial, it took me a minute to figure out the controls and also how to build turrets and weapons. I kept defaulting to thinking that the game had hotkeys I could switch to for turret placement and firing my weapon (I'm too MMO brained). I think the forge system confused me the most on my first playthrough (I kept trying to use hotkeys and kind of wished some sort of prompt popped up to let me know "I'm dumb").
Eitherway, once I figured out what to do I had fun. Good stuff!
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KATAMARI MEATBALLLOL t his game is hilarious. it has pizza tower vibes! very creative mix of genres, love the "losing" music
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Ring ForgeI like the artwork and it's a very fun game. I would like to have similar food combinations for the turrets though since I have too many of one type of food while always lacking in other types.
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It's An "Honest" Work
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