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Confectioner's Atelier

by Grim Baccaris profile

(based on 6 ratings)
2 reviews8 members have played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

About the Story

A short, tooth-rotting experiment made for inkJam '23. I haven't used ink in a few years; I learned a lot this time around!
Features

🌴Explore: the environs around the Atelier provide places to search for ingredients and find items to trade
🍭Barter: trade items and oddities you've found for certain ingredients that you cant do without
🍰Conjure: bake treats in the blink of an eye at the enchanted oven
🍬Befriend: your coworker, the Confectioner's vaguely feline familiar

Awards

2nd Place - inkJam 2023

13th Place (tie), Best in Show - The IF Short Games Showcase 2023

Ratings and Reviews

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Average Rating: based on 6 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A delightful 15min, November 5, 2023
Related reviews: inkjam

This was such a fun and quick treat. A very cozy game where you gather around ingredients to create treats for customers. The gameplay is quite simple (go somewhere, get stuff, maybe barter for other stuff), and you can't lose either. The UI is also quite polished with fun graphics, reminiscing of pixel RPGs.

One of my favourite entry of the inkJam.

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Collect ingredients and bake magical foods, January 25, 2024
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This game is interesting; I went back and forth a lot on what to score it.

It's a cozy type of game, and more of an unfinished prototype (at least, several plot threads are left hanging). It's visually lovely though, with a rich background texture, pleasant fonts and colors, and icons of food.

The gameplay is simple, even (to my feeling) overly simplistic; while there is a little bit of planning required, just clicking every link one at a time generally solves things.

But it looks good, and feels good, so I'm still giving 4 stars. Feels kind of like an ascended tech demo that turned out better than expected, or a planned large game that had to be cut short.

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Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2023 by MathBrush
This poll is part of the 2023 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best Slice of Life game of 2023. Voting is open to all IFDB members....

Outstanding Ink Game of 2023 by MathBrush
This poll is part of the 2023 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here. This award is for the best Ink game of 2023. Voting is open to all IFDB members. Eligible games...

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