Demo Update and deep-dive into the first 2-weeks!

The Chef's Dogma Demo has now been out for 2 Weeks now and had some major overhauls and bug-fixes to make the experience as seamless as possible. We had over 1,000 people (or bots) redeem the demo and roughly 21 unique players! With a median playtime of 15min, we're seeing that players are at least giving it a solid go! So huge shout out to the community and please see some highlights from the recent patches: -Current version: 1.9

-Updated HUD in battle to be more intuitive, adding colors, Icon positioning, and modern HP bar

-Added a Map-Legend of the Map scene, to give new players and idea of each icon

-Changed Detail button from i -> q on KB & Mouse

-Re-balanced all Foods to use any ability bought at the Shop to give the player more unique builds

-Applied new Enemy Stat scaling to make the game slightly harder early on

-Made the Enemy AI (not a LLM just the enemy controller scripts) to be more aggressive

-Many many more bug fixes, like screen resolution, CRT effect, Sound levels, etc

/////////////----------------------------------------Meet the Apple----------------------------------//////////////

The Apple was the first food ever created, and was my first dive into using Blender. I created all foods through blender as a 3D model, adding bones for animations, applying a color filter, and then rendering to 2D. Below is the original test: Steam post image Now for actual info of the Apple and Balance: Apple embodies the quintessential Wizard, being my first food. I wanted him to be immediately recognizable and show you what the game's concept is about. Avoiding the above MS-paint look, I managed to create a post-filter and adjust some styling from there. I decided that "Fruit" archetypes would be wizard adjacent class styling like warlocks, sorcerers, witches, and necromancers. Apple is Unique in both abilities and Stats compared to other Fruits: -7% starting Crit Chance, most have 0%

-4-7 PHYS DMG stats, double most other fruits

-Candied Ability: Deals between 1- 1.5x the MAG stat, give it an extreme DMG potential of 13 right out of the gate. But Sacrifices 8 of its own HP as a result.

-Juicy Ability: Gives the Apple a permanent +3% Crit-DMG at the cost of their turn, allowing the Apple to potentially scale infinitely and have the biggest Critical hits in the game. Steam post image