Announcing Sandwich Makes Chef!

What if instead of you making a sandwich the sandwich made you?

The Gamemaker's Toolkit (GMTK) Game Jam introduced a theme last weekend: Roles Reversed.
We were given 48 hours to release a game based on that theme.

We thought of reverse tower defense, playing an enemy rather than a hero, and we had several more ideas. 5hadowduck, our artist, suggested that we have a sandwich that makes a human. We all dropped every idea we had to bring that idea to life.

..but you see, we both had other goals in mind that would further complicate the project. 5hadowduck wanted to make a 3D game, and I wanted to make a game with Godot; which is better known for 2D projects. Well, we decided to do both! Lucky for us, Godot 4.1 was released 2 days before the start of the game jam.

well.. both lucky and unlucky. There were a lot of quality-of-life issues we ran into during development. Rigging the skeletons in blender didn't translate smoothly into Godot for 5hadowduck. On the other hand, RuneStomper, Lockedown and I had a very smooth workflow in the new Godot engine, to the point that Lockedown swore off Unity altogether. The biggest drawback to our development was the lack of up-to-date tutorials and documentation for Godot 4.1. I think the Godot community is doing amazing things! That said, it's hard to keep up with all of the changes. Lockedown and I are eager to put together some Godot 4.1 tutorials to help other developers with the learning curve.

Godot 4.1 first-look by GDQuest

The game has been out for nearly a week now. I'm announcing it now because the GMTK Game Jam is nearly finished collecting ratings for games! This is your chance to give us feedback so we can update the game after the jam is finished. Our players are having a lot of fun with the physics engine; a couple of players even figured out how to launch the sandwich into space! While the 'broken' physics add to the charm of the game, we want to make sure it feels professional. It's fun to break the game with physics, and we want to keep it that way; but we also want players to have confidence in their experience. Please play our game and tell us what you want us to keep, and what we should improve on before sending this baby to Steam!

Thanks for being awesome!

- SpellMender