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Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Freeware Development System: TADS 2 Baf's Guide ID: 1201 IFID: TADS2-DE6FF56FD763F7A272240CA66FDFD11E TUID: f2oyetp93zdpg4k4 |
Awards
Nominee, Best Writing - 2000 XYZZY Awards
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Not funny, January 29, 2009The main problem with this approach to comedy is that an intentionally bad game is still a bad game. To take badness and elevate it to another level is possible, but very hard; and I doubt that taking a straightforward approach to it is the way to go. See Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective" for a non-straightforward, and much more successful, example. There, a separate "commentary" track is used to make fun of the source material. In You are a Chef!, we are just playing the very bad game.
Nor is the sheer absurdity of the events enough to make the player chuckle. Absurdity is only funny if there is some method behind it. Random objects falling from the sky simply do not qualify as a good joke.
Perhaps the dreariness of the game is best demonstrated by this exchange:
Iron safe falls from the sky!
It lands on top of clown and breaks open!
>x safe
In the iron safe you see a MYSTERY INGREDIENT.
>take ingredient
Taken.
>x it
I cannot tell you! It is a mystery!!
If you thought that was funny, please play this game.
Zany, November 26, 2007This is a pleasant and zany little piece of SpeedIF. It's positively nonsensical, but so enthusiastically so as to be quite amusing. There's no real puzzle--walking about typing 'take all' would be sufficient to solve it--but it's brief enough that it's oddness alone is enough to sustain it. How can one not love a game that opens with "HELLO CHEF!!!!!1 You must make FOOD! You have a list! First to food wins!"?
Very, very silly, November 26, 2007It's silly, it's fun, it has a monkey in it, and the goal is to make soup. What more could you want? (It's Speed IF, so don't expect it to be typo-free.) Effectively puzzleless.
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Polls
The following polls include votes for You are a Chef!:Best Short Games (5-60 minutes) by Sasha Davidovna
I'm pretty new to IF and am having a lot of fun, but in between a toddler and a job and other real life stuff, I'm having trouble finding time to finish many of the longer games I want to play. Can you please recommend me some fun and/or...
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