Paddy Makes Breakfast
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Help Paddy make breakfast by finding and preparing ingredients, cooking, plating, and finally, serving.
Paddy Makes Breakfast is a short visual novel with a mix of Hidden Object and Cosy Cooking game elements. It is a solo project created for the Spooktober 2024 Visual Novel jam.
GAME FEATURES:
Choose a breakfast (one available, two more coming soon)
Search for the right ingredients
Prepare and cook the ingredients
Choose out of 3 plating styles
Witness the fruits of your labour
Plus:
Original artwork and animation
3 Endings: good, neutral, and bad
15-20 minutes playtime
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Mild horror and gore
Character smoking
Camera shakes
CREDITS:
Paddy Makes Breakfast is a solo project written and developed by cindercritter.
Music by Fablefly Music: "Fancy Seeing You Here", "Thinking and Tinkering", "Sunny Stroll", and "Our Story Begins".
HINTS / SOLUTIONS (incl. spoilers):
Find recipe book and key: Look behind calculator and saucer.
Find ingredients: daisies in Garden, eggs and butter by talking to Mrs Potts. Vinegar at top right shelf of your Kitchen (drag items aside), salt is in cupboard under sink, muffin is on table behind the olive oil (bottom right).
Prepping and Cooking: click and drag each item to the center chopping board/stovetop, in order.
Getting different endings:
If you save before selecting a plate style, you can easily pivot to different endings. Good ending: choose 'The Eyes' plating and take a Mask.
Neutral ending: not selecting 'The Eyes' but taking a Mask.
Bad ending: not taking a Mask.
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Development log
- Mini Update68 days ago
- Bug Fixes and Future Update76 days ago
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I'm here after playing along with MisterShins and wanted to leave a review on the ending we all achieved on stream! It was absolutely charming, the right amount of unease and whimsy, and goodness Mrs. Potts, she's just so... beautiful. Beautiful.
The art style and animations were really nice too. Everything just came together for this really fun cooking game, that is totally ordinary! Hehe.
I love Paddy! There's nothing Paddy can't do!
Ahh! Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it. I love Paddy, too. Paddy is precious. Thank you for the lovely comments. I look forward to playing your Spooktober entry soon too! <3
This was such a fun game! I love how playful the narrative is; it's slightly unsettling but mostly tongue-in-cheek, and The Horrors are presented in a whimsical and almost matter-of-fact way; it was a lot of fun to read.
The art style for this is really nice, too. It looks simple, but there's a lot of detail in the backgrounds (and the ending animation is nice too, there's so much going on.
The game looks simple but it's clear a lot of thought and effort went into it; I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for making it!
I'm really glad you liked all these parts that brought it together, and that you enjoyed playing through it! Thank you for your lovely comments. They mean a lot :)
Outright cackled when I got to the end. This is the most adorable-slash-disturbing game I may have ever played. Well done, Paddy. I knew you could do it. 💚
Woop, don't know where my original response to this disappeared off to (edit: ah in jam comments heh). Thank you! <3
This was so cute omg! I was expecting something horror to happen anytime, but this wasn't the direction i was expecting, and i love it! Great job with the story and the visuals! I really liked the atmosphere you did with all the graphics in the game!
Thank you! Yeah, it's a tricky thing to mix cosy-cute and unease. I was afraid it just wouldn't mesh in the end, but it looks like it did so I am so relieved. I'm glad you enjoyed it, people enjoying it is really the best I could ask for :)
I really enjoyed your cozy-turned-horror game! The art style is wonderful and endearing, the hidden object/drag and drop elements are fun, and the dialogue is witty and entertaining.
I was also wowed by the ending sequence - the different endings were all delightfully creepy. You managed to pack a lot of brilliant spooky concepts into a short but memorable experience. Good luck in the jam!
And thank you for including my music tracks in your game! I'm glad they could be a part of your project. :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) Paddy just wouldn't feel the same without your wonderful music, thank you! <3
This was really fun! I loved all of the subtle background worldbuilding as you’re collecting ingredients. I hope you expand on it - I’d love to play a longer version!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Info on a future update is on recent devlog; no plans to expand on single playthrough length but certainly more recipes and animation.