The Picky Critic. V.2
Premise:
You are a down-on-their-luck food critic who has just landed the strangest gig imaginable: reviewing alien cuisine for the Galactic Gastronomy Gazette, the galaxy’s premier interstellar food publication. Alien chefs are constantly submitting their signature dishes for your expert critique. The problem? Some dishes are utterly delightful. Others will make you glow in the dark, turn you inside-out, or simply kill you.
Your only protection is your trusty Xenobiological Ingredients Compendium (XIC) — a database of known compounds toxic to humans. Before each dish, you must cross-reference its ingredients, decide whether to eat it, or excuse yourself from tasting it. Too many excuses and you're fired. Too many bites of the wrong dish and you’re dead. Too little courage and your reviews suffer. Balance is everything.
Controls:
Inspired by games like Papers, Please, the controls are simple point and click. Using right click, you can interact with objects, which will enable other controls for their respective object, like the Xenobiological Ingredients Compendium (XIC). You can use the left and right arrow keys to interact with the XIC.
| Published | 20 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | SHRPLZ |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code, Graphics |

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Love the book animation, the ambiance, and the strange alien waiter. Not sure if the book is rendering correctly as there seemed to be a lot of double ups in the pages. Also I wasn't sure how to close the Xenobiological Ingredients Compendium (XIC) once its open.