Devlog 1- Creative Brief 🍰

Background Music: Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-ayUbGtu4&t=87s

Background Music: Forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxEhuSJF780

Background Music: Café/Bakery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llour2YvsiI&t=2003s

Elevator Pitch 

In Whisker's Sweet Journey, you take on the role of a small mouse pastry chef setting out on an imaginative journey across the Sweet Dreams continent. You can obtain new recipes, tales, and characters by gathering uncommon ingredients and creating enchanted desserts, which will reveal special cards. You can also customize your experience by decorating the pastry shop and exploring this enchanted and enchanting world for a stress-relieving and enthralling journey. The gameplay is simple and has mild challenges.

Background Pitch

In the enchanted dessert game Whiskered Mouse's Dessert Journey, users can explore different parts of the Sweet Dreams continent while controlling a tiny mouse pastry chef from a top-down viewpoint. The game is meant to help players unwind and relieve stress. With a few simple taps or swipes, players can control the character's movement as they search for uncommon ingredients by going through marketplaces, mountains, forests, and other locations. Players can access new cards through an easy-to-use interface similar to a collection book after they complete a dessert successfully. Additionally, a backpack with a grid system is used to manage the ingredient collection. The user-friendly interface design lets players concentrate on exploring and customizing their decorations to fully immerse themselves in this enchanted adventure. Aimed primarily at female gamers aged 16-28 who need to relax and unwind, this game aims to deliver a pleasurable gaming experience through a heartwarming story and creative desserts.

Backstory 

There is a legend from the continent of Sweet Dreams that a great dessert maker once created desserts so magical they changed the world. With the passage of time, the confectioner vanished and took his secrets with him, leaving behind only a few magic cards lying around to be found.  

As the skilled mouse pastry chef Whisker, you find the old recipe book belonging to the fabled confectioner. You set out to find rare magical ingredients while exploring the enigmatic continent of Sweet Dreams in an attempt to recreate that lost magic. You can reveal secret histories and legendary abilities by using a magic card that you can unlock after every dessert creation success. Unlock the mysteries of the Sweet Dreams continent with your pastry skills, then set out on an amazing adventure to bring this magical world back to life.

Machines

  Foraging & Baking

Cards illustration

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Mood Board 

Main Tone

Early Sketches

Early Character Design

Early NPC Design 

Early Background Design

Forest

Characters

You play the main protagonist Whiskers, a skilled baker who has to collect ingredients and recipes to serve customers at their bakery.  You’ll interact with many types of customers, taking orders and recreating them for the customer. Depending on the customer, they’ll have preferences of what treats they like depending on their diet. 

Some of the customers that the player will interact with include but are not limited to: 

Cat/Karen  - they’re a picky eater where they will like one item for a certain amount of time and it’ll change each time. Make sure to prepare the order correctly as the cat will complain if you mess something up. 

Bear -  Bear customers will enjoy anything you give so long as it’s a large quantity. Their favorite foods include berries and honey so treats like honeycomb and pies are a great option for this customer

Beaver - Beavers are vegetarian customers, the player has to make sure not to provide any meal that contains meat in it. They enjoy treats like banana bread and rice pudding ice cream 

Birds - They love anything that includes seeds and berries, items like sesame seed bagels or fruit-based pies will be their favorite items to order. 

Other customers not listed above include rabbits, raccoons, deer, other rats/mice, otters, & red pandas. 

U.S.P

Pleasant gaming experience: In a stress-free setting, players can quickly unwind, savor the excitement of creation and exploration, and forget about their everyday concerns.

Magic desserts and card collecting: Every dessert is full of surprises thanks to the special card mechanism, which also unlocks intriguing magic abilities and rich stories, providing hours of enjoyable exploration.

Custom Decoration: Players can freely design their own desserts and pastry shop, showcasing their individuality and inventiveness to create a one-of-a-kind confectionery world.

Enchanting pixel art style: A wonderful world full of fantasy and magic is created for you to immerse yourself in by exquisite visual design and lively characters.

Appropriate for a large audience: The game, which is meant for female players between the ages of 16 and 28, is enjoyable and lighthearted for players of all ages, making it a great way to decompress.