Slay 'n Sauté

Trailer:

View the trailer for our game here!

Description:

After the mysterious gateways materialised around the world, creatures invaded from the portals from their unknown origin. From harmless pets to vicious beasts, thousands of new species have changed the lives of many in the population.

In Slay 'n Sauté, players follow the journey of Pauline, a dropout from Cainùr Culinary School who takes advantage of the sudden appearance of new and unexplored creatures. Pauline’s newfound talent takes her to creating unprecedented dishes, caramelised dragon tongue, desserts baked from slimes or replacing chicken in her stir fry recipe for a cockatrice. She's prepared to prove that more can be done with the creatures that now overrun the landscape. Pauline’s ideas are new, but customers are willing to venture in and observe what she can create.  

Slay and Sauté is a turn-based RPG with a driven narrative that combines the design elements of combat, cooking simulation, and narrative exploration. Fight and defeat various mythical creatures using a card deck move system to harvest unusual ingredients. Cook them into creative cuisines and explore the world through your interactions with customers. With its equal focus on combat, simulation, and exploration, the game offers a seamless experience where players set their own pace, the ability to balance strategy within combat, cook with leisure and discover the new world. 

Current Stage:

This game is part of Abertay University's DES315 Professional Project Module.

The available build is our final demo build, showcasing our game's mechanics and storyline.

Supported Platforms:

• PC via Windows

Team Bio:

Team Socials:

• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/piratepenguingames.bsky.social
  
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PiratePenguinGames
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/piratepenguingames/
  
• Twitter: Nope

Supporting Credits:

Academic Tutor: Troy McCron

Client/Mentor: Hyper Luminal Games

• Ronan Macfarlane
• Katie Spence
• Brodie Templeton
• Emily Cooper
• Marianne Pritchard

Testers: 

• DES315 Students & Module Team
• Annabel’s Dad
• Alex’s Mum

Special Thanks:

• To Maggie, Stevie, and Hank (Troy’s dogs) for providing moral support during our client meetings
• The Relax Trolley run by the Abertay Student Association for getting us through long days of development with snacks and drinks
• Abertay University for providing accessible workspaces and teamworking support

Full Credits

Unity Plugins:

• EzySlice by David Arayan - https://github.com/DavidArayan/ezy-slice
• Node Based Dialog System by Oleg Vishnivetsky (cherrydev) - https://github.com/OlegVishnivetsky/node-based-dialog-system
  

SFXs from Soundly and Freesounds under Creative Commons License:

• Fanfare 2 - Rpg by colorsCrimsonTears - https://freesound.org/s/580310/ - CC0
• whoosh_short_mid.wav by DJT4NN3R - https://freesound.org/s/449996/ - CC0
• Knocking On Screen, 02.wav by LilMati - https://freesound.org/s/368682/ - CC0
• Open button 2 by kickhat - https://freesound.org/s/264447/ - CC0
• Hiking Boot Footsteps on Wooden Planks by Fission9 - https://freesound.org/s/521589/ - CC0
• Shop door bell.wav by 775noise - https://freesound.org/s/494565/ - CC0
• short creaks creek creaky door open close.wav by HowardV - https://freesound.org/s/393800/ - CC0
• Female Battle Cries v1 wav.wav by Volonda - https://freesound.org/s/439515/ - CC0

Shaders:

• Gaussian Blur Material Shader - https://insidethepixels.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/a-gaussian-blur-material
• Toon Material Shader - https://github.com/IronWarrior/UnityToonShader
• Outline Post Process Shader - https://github.com/IronWarrior/UnityOutlineShader

Other Credits:

• Background Music - musmus.main.jp
  
• Font - https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat
• Volume of a 3D mesh function -  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1406029/how-to-calculate-the-volume-of-a-3d-mesh-object-the-surface-of-which-is-made-up

• Easing functions referenced from - https://easings.net/
• Team Avatars and Personas made using Makowka Character Maker II - https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/644129
• Map Prototype made using Inkarnate - https://inkarnate.com/
  

License information for each Unity plugin and font can be found by downloading the "Licenses.zip" file.