Penguin Chef by Frey

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made by Frey for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

A fast-paced and chaotic cooking game where you (and potentially a friend!) take on the role of a penguin chef. The objective is to combine and cook various foods by colliding them together, all while trying to fulfill customer delivery requests for specific dishes!

Ratings

Overall 618th 3.556⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Fun 525th 3.5⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 348th 3.625⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Theme 696th 3.806⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Humor 381th 3.439⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 595th 3.53⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 49🗨️

Feedback

Kabura
01. May 2023 · 19:35 UTC
haha I love it! very cute and easy to understand. it's definetly not as easy as you might think at first, but still fun to play!
Mesaying
01. May 2023 · 19:41 UTC
Loved the iclusion of a co-op mopde and the sfx as well!
aligator
01. May 2023 · 19:47 UTC
Very funny game! However the controls are a bit too cracy for me^^
But it makes fun and different from anything I played yet
It also has a very nice music and sounds and the graphics is lovely.
Thereza Cristina Alves Brito
01. May 2023 · 21:29 UTC
So funny
Rainmaker02
01. May 2023 · 21:51 UTC
it is very uncomfortable to play XD, but still very beautiful, congratulations for the good work! I love the art and the penguin
bokchoyboy
02. May 2023 · 00:22 UTC
The game is surprisingly hard! But very cute and fun
cortexdeveloper
02. May 2023 · 09:16 UTC
Clear rules and good idea! Little bit hard, mb difficulty levels can improve it.
osullivp
02. May 2023 · 11:36 UTC
Great cover art and name. Game (IMO) would benefit from being a bit easier as I found that by the time I started pushing an ingredient the destination had gone.
Answer21
02. May 2023 · 11:39 UTC
a very pleasant game, but because everything comes very quickly and you do not have time to lay out the dishes in time, you are very nervous !!!! I really liked it, you are great!! 1
Junecc
02. May 2023 · 11:44 UTC
Aha I was so bad at this game, definitely harder that I thought! Really nice/cute game, the pinguin is great, and the idea is quite original! Maybe you could include a tutorial?
Tul Games
02. May 2023 · 12:06 UTC
A very fun and challenging game. Really nice and unique!
Cowgummiboy
02. May 2023 · 12:12 UTC
Very fun idea, remindes me a bit of overcooked, i would have appreciated a way to get the food out af a corner or away from a wall, tough, sind a lot of it is just stuck there.
LDJam user 43351
02. May 2023 · 12:15 UTC
Really fun idea! I like the penguin and when he slides on his belly. Cool that you can upgrade and buy more stuff for the kitchen. Felt a bit overwhelmed when so much food was appearing, like I couldnt keep up. But managed to do it anyway! Something you could add is maybe a way to drag stuff! Could be cool. This has some really nice potential, hope you keep working on it!
LDJam user 297532
02. May 2023 · 12:27 UTC
This game is so cute!!! The artstyle, the music, and the little penguin and his expressions are just wonderful! However, the gameplay is actually quite on the harder side, since food just rapidly spawns in, and there is no way to grab certain foods, but rather have to slide on them... Which is an interesting take on the cooking sim games! This seems like it would be super fun with a friends, unfortunately I don't have anyone to play with... But, overall well done! I love it!
niterich
02. May 2023 · 13:48 UTC
Such a cute game with a fun concept! Though I do agree, it's a bit difficult to control where everything goes. I personally found the grill to be more trouble than it was worth - I had trouble getting food off of it and it ended up being burnt into a candy apple for some reason. Maybe it would be easier if the grills were stationary and you could walk over them?
Ahsoo
02. May 2023 · 15:02 UTC
It's a bit difficult and I was not able to get a great score though I can imagine penguins would not be the best cooks :) I had a lot of trouble controlling the ingredients, especially getting them off the stove. Still very fun and cute concept.
sailorocean
02. May 2023 · 15:08 UTC
Kinda reminds me of Overcooked ! A bit difficult to play but very nice game, I love the music and the graphics !
Allax
02. May 2023 · 16:21 UTC
It's fun to play, but so hard. Very interesting concept, it has potential
Trevor Lentz
02. May 2023 · 16:49 UTC
I really like the penguin animation, it reminds me a bit of castle crashers. :) Seems pretty difficult to get an ingredient unstuck from the edge, but there's enough items to cook, so it's not too much of a problem. Well done.
Congeesetador
02. May 2023 · 18:21 UTC
@frey This is one of the best games I have rated so far, and one of my favorites! I love how fast paced it is and how hard it is to get things cooking, I would constantly accidentally bump into a piece of meat that was cooking and it would fly away from the grill. The physics gives it a big challenge that I absolutely loved! and the fact it can be coop as well, I wasn't able to try coop but I guarantee it's going to be great! This was a perfectly executed game with amazing sound design and graphics. I had a really fun time playing this game and I will be keeping it on my desktop to play it as a regular game. You guys did an amazing job! Keep up the good work!
Lenan
02. May 2023 · 23:48 UTC
Interesting game, has a nice mechanic that could make the game chaotic, although it could be frustrating due to foods getting stuck in corners and being unable to unstuck them
RenardGames
03. May 2023 · 12:02 UTC
Very nice visually and I love the music and the movement feels very nice!!It was a bit hard to play especially when food was in the corners and you couldnt get it out also if you accidently push ingredients to other stuff it turns into a thing you dont want and you can accidently push stuff into a delivery and it can dissapear.Also it might be better if you cant push the oven because I push the oven and the food and it still gets overcooked.
LorenzoCgt
03. May 2023 · 17:54 UTC
played with a friend, was a bit hard at start but finally we had fun within the food chaos and orders x)
Kristallllllik
03. May 2023 · 17:57 UTC
so cute penguin
Butterflan
04. May 2023 · 14:37 UTC
WOW. It was HARD and so chaotic. I would not be a penguin in real life ! But very fun to play and the penguine is so cuuute !
It maybe needs more time before other food to appears, because there is a time where it exists a lot a food that you don't need on ice and it stuck uyou.
sillyman987
04. May 2023 · 16:17 UTC
A really challenge, but enjoyable nevertheless!
Kartof
05. May 2023 · 17:19 UTC
Interesting idea, had a lot of fun, I think it's a little frustrating when the food gets stuck in the corners and the chaos can be a little too much at times. Good job for the final product nonetheless, really enjoyed my time with it!
Lisek Gagatek
06. May 2023 · 17:04 UTC
Really cool game, I love the co-op option! The idea is super cool and on theme. I love that the game isn't too easy and you can actually burn the food. It really gets pretty chaotic very quickly, especially with two people playing.

Maybe with some work spent on different arenas, solving the problem with food being frequently stuck in corners and after polishing movement it would be a really cool and enjoyable game. Nevertheless it's a really cool entry.
krzymsky
15. May 2023 · 20:38 UTC
Nice! Really fun idea, quite challenging but fun to play
Tan90
18. May 2023 · 15:25 UTC
Great art, I really like it. And the operation is very smooth, I really like it