This game was built for the GMTK Game Jam 2024. What follows is the original pitch / design, and work tasks. The game was originally called Smoothies at Scale.

Smoothies at Scale

• You're cooking live.
• Customers are weirdly scaled and bring you weirdly scaled ingredients (a troll that brings you a giant carrot, a mouse that brings you a tiny block of cheese), which you then slice into the right shape.
• You don't see which ingredients you've put into a blender, and the colour changes based on proportions of ingredients
• How much the customers actually want
• The recipes are in weird units (1 second of oil, half a cup of something but the cup has no markings, a cup that is literally half a cup)
• Recipes also have a time component (how long you cook / blend?)
• Conveyor belts?
  • Ingredients arrive on it

Work Tasks

MVP

• [Joe] Cutting

  • Take existing asset, implement straight-line cutting

• [Misha] Blender

  • Basic physics of things falling into it

  • Blender should know what things have fallen into it

• [Aviral] Scoring

  • Blend once, take all the things in the blender and match to desired

  • Scoring algorithm/values

• Ingredients

  • Stick with solids

  • A few different colours and shapes (e.g. carrot, banana, apple)

  • Spawn ingredients on the screen

• [Aviral] Recipes/UI

  • UI showing a single recipe with multiple ingredients

  • +/- points for how accurate you were

• [Aviral] Recipe queue

  • Clear up blender and state of anything that changed state

• Timer

  • 2 minutes of gameplay, get as many recipes as you can

  • Or per-recipe timer, and you can just do as many recipes as you want (score keeps increasing). If so, when does the game end?

Post-MVP

• Colour blending and ability to blend multiple times per recipe (so using colour as an additional clue)

• Pouring

  • Liquids

  • Grains e.g. rice and beans

Polish

• Creatures bringing ingredients

• Cleaning/sweeping your workstation

• Scoreboard/Leaderboard (using provided API)