PlateUp!

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spent 40 hours to get the joy of getting amazing cards and finally getting the overtime 15 achievement, worth :' )

waltuh we need to cook

i love this game but me and my friends only ever play turbo hehe

A long time ago I saw this game and laughed at it for being a bad-looking Overcooked clone, but man... once I gave it a chance, I found that the roguelite formula works surprisingly well for party cooking gameplay and I'm upset I didn't think of this concept first as I'm something of a game developer myself. I've 100%d this game and continue to play it with my gf as an endlessly replayable couch co-op game. Sometimes we play with her mom who is 68 and doesn't speak English. She refers to it as "cocinita" which means "little kitchen" in Spanish. She really enjoys playing with us even though we mainly stick her with simple tasks like doing the dishes and interacting with desks. We've had some pretty memorable moments like when she threw a fully cooked turkey directly in the trash or when she yelled "wat ze hail" as a robot buffer I placed in her area messed up her walking with randomly faster tiles. The weakest point of the game is definitely its aesthetics. I hate to say it but the first thing I did was turn off the in-game music. The art style is also pretty bland. Like, it's functional, but doesn't really have any personality or meaningful stylistic choice. However, I will take these shortcomings over not being able to tell what a food item is. Additionally, after playing the game for a long time, you'll start to notice little inconsistencies like if you are serving Sundaes as a main dish (with an ice cream bowl), the customers are able to grab individual scoops of ice cream from buffet tables, but if you get Sundaes as an add-on dessert, you have to manually grab the correct number of ice cream scoops in the correct flavors for customers to accept them. Also it can be a bit confusing what is allowed to be placed in a prep station and what isn't. A lot of times we'll go into practice mode to try putting different food items in them to figure it out. Lastly, I have a small game design gripe with the restaurant layout system. I find myself cycling through restaurant layout blueprints a bunch of times before settling on a really ideal one. Roguelikes typically try to stick players with some kind of randomized situation (think of the long walk to your weapon choices in deadcells or the lack of unique starting options in slay the spire if you abandon your run immediately) and the ability to endlessly cycle for no penalty seems like a big miss to me. I would rather be stuck with a suboptimal layout for the sake replayability than feel the need to layoutmaxx every time I play. Blueprints that allow players to knock down walls and add/remove doors/halfwalls would be a cool way to let players mitigate the layout randomness. To be clear, I don't actually expect the developers to make this change because it would upset a lot of players who don't dislike the current system, but it's food for thought! One last gripe: the tile targeting system can sometimes be infuriating on corners. I've had cases where I'm facing a table diagonally and the dish I'm holding ends up being given to a table on the other side of me that happens to have ordered the same thing, and then we lose the run because we now have 2 tables waiting on a second dish that isn't prepared yet. I would love to know what the code looks like for deciding what tile to highlight. I imagine it involves a series of raycasts and the behavior I'm describing is a side-effect of a different bug fix. Overall, the game is a 9/10. Despite its shortcomings, it manages to be something really special that can be enjoyed by gamers and non-gamers alike. Keep up the great work, devs!

Great little cooking game