9.8 KiB
| Information | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Cakefoot |
| URL | cakefoot.dank.game |
| Developer | dank.game |
| Location | 🌐 Brooklyn, NY |
| Links | x.com/diskmem |
| youtube.com/@nuggetsselect | |
| tiktok.com/@dankd0tgame | |
| ohsqueezy.itch.io | |
| IGDB | |
| Genre | Action, Arcade, Rage, Minimalist, Single-button, Masocore |
| Platforms | Web, PC, Mac, Linux, Android, Coolmathgames |
| Release | 📅 January 1st, 2024 (Early Access) |
| 📅 May 10th, 2024 (Full Release) | |
| Price | Free-to-play, Ad-supported (Web) |
| $2.99 (Downloadable) | |
| 📧 cocktail.frank@dank.game |
Short Description
Cakefoot is an ultra-hard, single-button, minimalist avoid 'em up with natural physics. The cake moves on a rail -- hold to go forward, let go to fall back, avoiding enemy patterns. With an epic 22-level quest, arcade mode, unlockables, and local high scores, Cakefoot is endlessly replayable, and impossible to defeat.
Events
Weekly livestream of Cakefoot, played by the developer, occasionally featuring guest players
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 3/27, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 4/3, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 4/10, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 4/17, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 4/24, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 5/1, 8-11pm EST)
- Fork it up: Cakefoot -- Interactive Livestream (Wed, 5/8, 8-11pm EST)
History
The original version of Cakefoot was a free downloadable game created in 2019 for Ludum Dare 45 by diskmem and Azuria Sky. Like the final version, the original was also a single-button arcade game with a unique, 2D physics on-rails movement mechanic. A small update after the jam added enemy sprites and a new level. The game remained available for free on itch.io. In 2023, after Cakefoot was successfully pitched as a web game to Coolmathgames, diskmem revived the project and added many features, including introductory levels, coins, automatic saves, arcade mode, and unlockables.
An arcade mode was added when Cakefoot was exhibited at Derpy Con in 2023 as part of the Barnyardia pop-up arcade by diskmem and snakesandrews. Arcade mode gives the player limited time and records the farthest distance reached before time runs out. High scores are saved and displayed in the game. After the convention, the arcade cabinet returned with Cakefoot to its owners at Wonderville in Brooklyn, NY, where it is still available to play.
A custom game engine called SPACE🪐BOX for exporting games to multiple platforms was developed alongside the game. The engine was used to add support for PC, Mac, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi, and web browsers. Cakefoot currently is available to play online at 💫dank.game💫, a platform created for Cakefoot and other upcoming games built with the engine.
Features
- Unique game play mechanic challenges players to an avoid 'em up on rails
- 22-level quest, an epic trial against all odds
- A second mode, arcade, tests how far players can get in a limited amount of time and saves high scores
- Progress saves automatically
- Modular enemy types that combine into endless patterns
- Three difficulty settings, including a heavyweight mode which boosts speed at the cost of acceleration
- Unlockable mirror and warped modes transform the visuals
- Rewards for collecting coins at each difficulty
- Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and in web browsers at 60 FPS in any resolution
- Supports mouse, keyboard, and gamepad controls on all available platforms
- Can run fullscreen, and can be displayed on any monitor in a multi-monitor setup
- Dynamically resize the window to any dimension
- Simple JSON syntax for creating and sharing new levels and skins
- Modifiable source code
Trailer
🔥get baked🔥 by this cake game 😡 #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/MdUJVWRxcM
— ron🤡 mac🍔 don👔 (@diskmem) March 16, 2024
Description
Cakefoot is an ultra hard, single-button, minimalist avoid 'em up, inspired by classics such as The World's Hardest Game, Geometry Dash, Flappy Bird, Super Hexagon, Kuru Kuru Kururin, Ralph 4, and The Cat That Got the Milk.
Hurtling hazards bombard your path as you guide a living slice of cake along a curving line through space.
Simple to learn, impossible to master. Hold the button to move the cake forward, let go to move back, and the cake will respond with natural physics. If you can navigate the most challenging enemy patterns you've ever seen all the way to the end, you'll be rewarded with -- a new, harder difficulty 😈
Detour into arcade mode to see how far you can get in the time limit ⏰
CAKE is just the beginning -- beat the game and collect all the coins to unlock BEEF CAKE, BUFFALO BEEF CAKE, and visual effects, MIRROR and WARPED.
Screenshots
Logo
Gameplay video
About dank.game
💫dank.game💫 is a portal for cross-platform ad-supported games primarily created for web browsers. The first game on the portal is Cakefoot, designed by dank.game and released in 2024. Further game development is supported by advertising, selling platform-specific builds, and subscription tiers, starting at free.
Streaming
Permission is granted to stream the contents of Cakefoot for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of the stream is allowed by dank.game. Streaming and sharing the early-access version of Cakefoot is allowed.
Contact
| Method | Contact information |
|---|---|
| cocktail.frank@dank.game | |
| Web | https://dank.game |
| X | https://x.com/diskmem |