Description

Manitas Kitchen is narrative cooking simulator where you play as Trexito, a T-Rex whose dream is to have its own pizza restaurant but has it very hard because of its short hands. To accomplish it, they will need the help of Alpadino, an small but imposing dino who has secret plans for the restaurant. 
Help Trexito overcome its own insecurities and discover what lies behind Alpadino.

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Details

Genre: Simulator - Cooking
Platform: Steam, XBOX Series X, Playstation 4/5, Nintendo Switch

Tasks:

• Gameplay Designer:
  • Game mechanics: 
    • ​4 simple minigames adapted to be easy to introduce to every kind of player.
    • Dino companions with abilities to help the player.
    • Cooking during night time.
  • Game systems: 
    • Stress system to empathyze with the main character and its struggles.
    • Sabotage system where the restaurant might be sabotaged during story events.
    • Dino upgrades.
  • Tutorial:
    • Tutorial design to learn the game mechanichs for new players.
• Level Designer.

Stress System

Tutorial

Ingredients minigame

Dino helpers

Night cooking

Awards

FemPowerUp: 2nd place for Best Game.
IndieDevDay 2022: Best Game by Devolver Digital.

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