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A jam submission

Acquired TastesView game page

Manage your restaurant, or maybe you could...?
Submitted by MikuDev, hellfirejefe — 35 minutes, 38 seconds before the deadline
Rated by 25 people so far
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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/omgmac/Let-Him-Cook

Game description
Managing your restaurant from day to day proves lucrative enough, but there are always opportunities for those that seek them out...

Theme interpretation
We built the game around a simple concept with an optional secret wave that can be unlocked

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Speed Run

Make time the enemy

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Submitted

Cool graphics. Overall well done.

Maybe a thing or two to consider. Maybe increase the time for assembling the burger and give a hint to the players that they need to get rid of the knife before picking up the plate. Also the time for the order and until the guest are leaving was waaaay to short.

Submitted

Cool graphics. Overall well done.

Maybe a thing or two to consider. Maybe increase the time for assembling the burger and give a hint to the players that they need to get rid of the knife before picking up the plate. Also the time for the order and until the guest are leaving was waaaay to short.

Submitted

Cool graphics.

Maybe a thing do consider. Maybe increase the time for assembling the burger and give a hint to the players that they need to get rid of the knife before picking up the plate.

Submitted

Nice graphics and good atmosphere.
A little hard for my taste, but the idea is nice and well executed.

Submitted

I'm usually horrible at these stressful food managing games and while I had tense moments, like being unprepared on the second day or being out of reserved food during the busy hours, I was able to get through it. I don't believe I could manage it without being able to prep and reserve the meals beforehand. The gameplay feels very nice and polished, same with the beautiful pixel art. 

I didn't quite understand the murder-part. The way I found it felt natural yet random, killed someone in the bathroom with the knife because I couldn't find any other use for the bathroom and knife. Nothing happend after I murdered 4 customers, was something going to happend or did I miss something? Overall I found the serial killer aspect to be a fun and unique addition to the already stressful cooking environment. Amazing job!

Submitted( 1)

Cool game, I love the cooking management aspect and the mini-game work well for the stress inducing time constraints. The audio and graphics worked well too. I think the window for delivering customers was just a little too short, and the shape of the level would also lead me to catching on corners more often that I would care to admit. But those are very minor criticisms compared to the complete package. Very well done!

Submitted( 1)

I like the restaurant management mini-game, it’s fun, but when I’m too late, I really just want to pick up the knife below and kill someone :D

Submitted

Nice little game. The time pressure quickly builds up and the mini games take a bit of practice to handle well. Having the recipes unlock progressively could help to learn them one at a time. I couldn't manage to get that secret wave even though I understood how to do it, I just lost from the customer satisfaction dropping before I reached it.

The art is super nice and I liked when the lights got darker. The music was chill but a bit repetitive. Overall very well done!

Submitted( 1)

I was able to reach lvl 4 but couldn't get secret wave, smooth gameplay, nice artstyle. game could have benefited from tutorials as i didn't knew i could place the plates. good job.

Submitted( 1)

Oh thanks, placing the plates on the counter before the wave was super helpful.

Submitted (1 edit)

Great art and fun gameplay! Got overwhelmed quickly but I probably just need to get good

Submitted

Cool art! Love the capsule art too! Not sure if there was something I was missing but even the second day of cooking was really difficult I wasn't able to get past it even with sprinting.  Also wasn't sure how to use the knife in the kitchen?

Submitted (1 edit) ( 1)

Really cool cooking game ! The cooking gets quickly chaotic just like a cooking game should. I did have a sneaking suspicion about the twist, but it's still good nonetheless. The only thing I found confusing was the tutorial. I took quite some time to figure out where to get the plate. Other than that, great game ! I enjoyed it a lot !

Submitted( 1)

Great concept. I really liked art style. Did you make the sprites yourself?

Developer( 1)

Thank you, the sprites were made by Hellfirejefe :)

Submitted( 1)

Cool I love restaurant games

Developer( 1)

Thank you :)

Submitted

The graphics and music seem great. I spent quite a long time trying to figure out what to do but I just couldn't. I managed to grab a knife, make a hamburger and split a pizza. But I have no idea how to serve or move the food. The game is telling me to plate something, but i have no idea how. Sorry...

Submitted

nice game, pretty click intensive. I liked the minigames. I could feel the pressure that restaurant staff are under during lunch hour

Developer

Thank you :) You can for sure feel the pressure haha 👩‍🍳

Submitted( 1)

Love the atmosphere! Having tutorial on what to do might improve the experience overall (take me too long to realized how to prepare food)

Overall great game! keep it up! 

Developer

Thank you so much! :) An expanded tutorial would be cool to have :)

( 2)

add lemonade so i can make the customers go to the bathroom quicker and then we're in business

Developer( 1)

Was thinking on doing that as well as some other hidden tech to the game 🥤 Next version, next version 😎

Submitted( 1)

This game has a great twist! Definitely my favorite so far - could not stop playing.

Lovely art and music.

Developer

Thank you so much! :)

Submitted( 1)

Pretty cute game! Love the art, MC looks very cool.
The managing of the restaurant crimes was a fun concept, if anything we'd add a little bit of randomness to the burger minigame or to have to dispose of the bodies, maybe putting them on trashcans, but like, that's just to point anything to improve, overall it was very good! Good job!

Developer

Thank you so much, we were short on time but we were definitely thinking of adding the features you suggested to the game. :)