EP 4. Cooking Is a Must in a Cozy Game!

Today’s topic is… Cooking, a cozy-game essential!

While developing our cooking system, we had a choice to make: keep it simple, with fixed ingredients producing a fixed dish, or make cooking itself fun, like in Zelda.

One of my favorite things about playing Heartopia was tweaking a basic dish and discovering something new. “I want cooking to have that same joy of discovery!” I said. And that’s how Ritty’s cooking system came to be.

In Ritty, you can toss ingredients into the pot even if you don’t know the recipe! One fish makes grilled fish, three make skewers, and four make a steak. Add a fish to a pizza, and you get seafood pizza! Try changing the ingredients one at a time to discover new dishes. And if it goes wrong? You’ll end up with “Strange Food”...

When “!” appears while you’re cooking, tap at just the right moment! Get a “Perfect,” and you might end up with an even tastier dish.

So far, we’ve made 33 ingredients and 29 recipes…

I… should probably… make more, right? I’m still deciding what dishes to add next!

Is there a dish you’d love to see in Ritty? We’d love to hear your ideas!