Overcooked gained plenty of attention at the convention.įollowing release, plans were made to make a retail package of the game. There the game was beside the Yooka-Laylee booth. Team 17 flew the game makers to E32016 to show off their game.

Team 17 announced that they would help publish the game in May 2016. The shift then moved from creating recipes to good level designs, as they found more players were interested in the level design rather than the cooking part of the game. There they found a lot of bugs that they fixed. Since the game was being created by two people in a game that could have four-players the creators spent a lot of time at conventions getting feedback from players. The final level designs were a mix of a challenge with a fun-based system. To keep the game simple they replaced a life-based system with a score-based system, so players wouldn't be afraid of making small mistakes. For example, you would have to fry a hamburger, but while that's frying you could go chop the tomatoes that go along with the burger. They included kitchen actions that would take time to complete on their own, so players could focus on other things to do while the kitchen actions were being completed. There were barriers that would make it so, all players must be able to work together in order to create a dish. He said, 'Kitchens have always struck me as a perfect analogy for a cooperative game: an occupation where teamwork, time management, spatial awareness and shouting are all vitally important.' The initial level design was created with the idea of working together in mind. The kitchen setting was based off of one of the founders experiences in restaurants.

So, they decided they wanted to create a game where multiplayer was the focus point. The noted that games with multiplayer, the multiplayer is treated like an afterthought and single-player as fleshed-out as possible. When the company was first created, they knew they wanted to create a cooperative game. Overcooked was the first video game created by Cambridge-based studio Ghost Town Games. Its name 'Overcooked!' comes from when food is burnt. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the paying customers storm out in a huff. Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players.

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