Poultrygeist

For the GMTK 2023 Game Jam: Roles Reversed!

Tired of managing chaos in cooking sims? Cook up a some of your own as the ghost of chicken out for revenge! Distract the chef, ruin orders, and try to lose the restaurant its stars!

Move the mouse around to move the ghostly chicken fingers, and use the number keys (numpad works too) to interact with kitchen appliances to distract from and destroy the dish! Each action turns white when ready, and bright blue where you're able to use it.

• BREAKING SPICES and WIGGLING THE FAUCET immediately draw the chef to the location, letting the food cook extra and the order take longer.
• CRANKING THE HEAT on the stove makes a dish on it cook twice as fast.

The more overcooked and late the dish is, the more it hurts the kitchen's ranking! Destroy the kitchen's reputation and get your revenge!

Some notes about the game:

• Performance. Play this at 60fps. It's a javascript game made in 48 hours. There's some timing weirdness that happens sometimes (specifically at high refresh rates), but at least it supports any resolution up to 4k.
• Title. I found out a ways into the jam that there's a movie with the same title. I already had my plan by then (and have never seen it). The similarities are funny but purely coincidental.
• Quality. I'm a programmer first and foremost, and I thought it'd be a fun challenge to have to make all of the assets during the time frame. So I ended up sleeping eight hours total.

Credit to Francisco Suarez for the incredible font!