You are a Chef!

by Dan Shiovitz profile

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Silly, but meant to be, December 12, 2011

I think this game serves more as a purpose to show what an IF-game can do, than actually being a game. It's very short, very silly and very easy to complete. If you need something to occupy you for a couple of minutes, go for it. Unless you're looking for a challenge. Then go elsewhere.

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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Best SpeedIF Evar., September 5, 2010
by AmberShards (The Gothic South)

Of course, given that most Speed IF entries suck more a black hole, the hurdle for good Speed IF is ridiculously low. All you have to do is finish your game and you're in. You are a Chef not only surmounts that apparently difficult hurdle, but actually succeeds in being enjoyable to play and funny, to boot. The humor here is wild-eyed breathless zaniness. The difficulty is very easy, and the time it takes to win is a few minutes, tops. The ending is nothing spectacular, but the fun is all in the breathless over-the-top style and the running gag. It's definitely worth a few minutes of time. Bravo, Dan Shiovitz.

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0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Worth a couple of minutes..., September 1, 2010

I don't regret the time I spent on it, the recurring joke was kind of funny for a while. But I'm afraid it was more of a relief than anything else when the game ended, and that was after playing it for about two minutes. I guess the game was the perfect length!

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- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), August 25, 2010

- Stickz (Atlanta, Georgia), June 23, 2010

- Danny Huss, March 12, 2010

- Felix Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), September 16, 2009

- J'onn Roger, August 10, 2009

- four1475 (Manhattan, KS), June 14, 2009

- Shigosei, January 31, 2009

- Juhana, January 29, 2009

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Not funny, January 29, 2009
by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands)

You are a Chef! is solidly within the "look, I have written a really bad game!" school of comedy. We can see this from the very first line: "HELLO CHEF!!!!!1". The string of exclamation marks ends with a '1' because the fictional 'n00b' author put his finger off of the Shift-key a little too early.

The main problem with this approach to comedy is that an intentionally bad game is still a bad game. To take badness and elevate it to another level is possible, but very hard; and I doubt that taking a straightforward approach to it is the way to go. See Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective" for a non-straightforward, and much more successful, example. There, a separate "commentary" track is used to make fun of the source material. In You are a Chef!, we are just playing the very bad game.

Nor is the sheer absurdity of the events enough to make the player chuckle. Absurdity is only funny if there is some method behind it. Random objects falling from the sky simply do not qualify as a good joke.

Perhaps the dreariness of the game is best demonstrated by this exchange:

Iron safe falls from the sky!
It lands on top of clown and breaks open!

>x safe
In the iron safe you see a MYSTERY INGREDIENT.

>take ingredient
Taken.

>x it
I cannot tell you! It is a mystery!!


If you thought that was funny, please play this game.

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- Adam Biltcliffe (Cambridge, UK), December 28, 2008

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
grotesquely stupid and very funny, December 21, 2008
by kba (berlin)

The minute it took me to play was hilarious.

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- brattish (Canada), March 27, 2008

- jfpbookworm (Hamburg, New York), February 25, 2008

- Ziixxxitria (California), February 3, 2008

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Zany, November 27, 2007
by Tracy Poff (Hamlin, West Virginia, United States)
Related reviews: Speed-IF 8

This is a pleasant and zany little piece of SpeedIF. It's positively nonsensical, but so enthusiastically so as to be quite amusing. There's no real puzzle--walking about typing 'take all' would be sufficient to solve it--but it's brief enough that it's oddness alone is enough to sustain it. How can one not love a game that opens with "HELLO CHEF!!!!!1 You must make FOOD! You have a list! First to food wins!"?

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Very, very silly, November 26, 2007
by Kake (London, England)
Related reviews: Dan Shiovitz, ***, Speed IF

It's silly, it's fun, it has a monkey in it, and the goal is to make soup. What more could you want? (It's Speed IF, so don't expect it to be typo-free.) Effectively puzzleless.

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- Nusco (Bologna, Italy), November 6, 2007

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Pleasant sillyness, October 21, 2007
by Michael R. Bacon (New Mexico)

Describing it would ruin it, other than to say that it's surprisingly fun for seemingly almost no reason at all. It should take you only a few minutes, none of which will you regret.

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Baf's Guide


One of SpeedIF's gems. Pure nonsense, but nonsense of a highly enthusiastic and infectious sort. Very small and easy.

-- Carl Muckenhoupt

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