We did it! We have just completed the prototype for our medieval style cooking game. With only two programmers and one artist, it took us just 10 weeks to complete and be ready for testing. The game has simple but effective mechanics, with an engaging and meaningful campaign. You’ll be able to grill fish and sausages, knead dough to make bread, and serve soup to your customers using a variety of colourful and vibrant vegetables in your kitchen.
During development, we ran testing sessions each week to validate the game and make sure we were going in the right direction. It was pretty satisfying to see how the prototype transformed and progressed from coloured cubes to actual, real life food and drink (well, as real as VR can get at least!)
Over the past few months, our artist has been cooking up some unique assets for the game and we’ve been trying our hardest to perfect the kitchen layout. Each week we carefully analysed how everything works to make sure we can offer the best game play experience possible.
But don’t be mistaken, it’s not all been as easy as pie. There were definitely some challenges during development, and we found some, let’s say peculiar bugs whilst testing. There was a point where the game decided to ignore what we wanted it to do and decided to start spawning sausages as the only ingredient. ‘Oh you want some water? No, you can have a sausage instead.’ (And of course this happened when we were showing it off to people that hadn’t seen it before)… typical.
But we fixed the bugs, and look where we are now. A whole prototype complete with the kitchen layout perfected, all mechanics working the way they are supposed to, and we even have an external environment when you look outside the kitchen.
Our plans for the future of the game are to create at least three complete stages within the campaign. We want to have completely new kitchens for each stage and increase the complexity of orders as the campaign progresses.
So what are our next steps? Well, soon we will need some of you guys to come and test it. We will keep you posted on any meet-ups we will be attending so we hope to see some of you there!