Hi there, I just tried the demo on Steam and was looking for a place to give feedback, you may have already heard some of this but just writing what I found and hope it helps. I love the idea, the art, and the goal. Keep it up and good luck!
Bugs
- After serving the 3rd customer it bugs out and doesn't let you continue.
- There's a bug with selecting ingredients, not sure the cause but it doesn't register putting ingredients in sometimes. I only noticed it when putting the butter in but I always put the butter in first so it could be the first item you put in. Currently, putting the ingredient in again solves this and lets you continue.
- The collision on the yarn ball game can bug out, it doesn't break anything but it isn't correct.
- The npc dialogue box extends off screen.
- The legend for the fire game in the top right extends off screen.
- Sometimes npcs don't show the speech bubble with the item they asked for, if you accidentally click through the text and miss it, you won't know what to make.
MiniGame Feedback
The yarn game is cute but not very engaging after the first few times you play it, the filling game is uninteresting once you figure out the meta, the fire game can be a little difficult and annoying (not cozy).
Suggestions
Maybe make the yarn ball a dough ball and place randomly generated dough pieces in the bowl that you have to smack the dough into and it grows, making it into a collection game, rather than just hitting it 20 times. You can play sound effects that scale based on the number of dough pieces you hit in one shot, maybe even making it into a score multiplier.
I'm sure you have something planned but a game where you knead dough as cats do could be fun and on brand.
Baking Powder is not the same as Baking Soda as is currently depicted. They are 2 separate ingredients that behave differently.
For the fire game, increase the hitbox of the flames and make the cursor point consistent. With the matches it seemed to be the tip, with the logs you could use the whole image, maybe making it an explicit cursor would be better with the icon next to it or making the icons similar sizes and using the whole image.
Hope this helps, I'm hungry now XD