Games often change in the course of development, sometimes radically. We're releasing Cannibal Cuisine tomorrow (!) and the game has come a long way. While our core concept for Cannibal Cuisine hasn't shifted from when the team first came up with the idea, some of the individual parts have.
For instance, initially an idea was floated to structure the levels differently. We would have had an area where you had to lure and sneakily kill tourists, the kitchen area and a delivery area. However, this became too complex and too much to handle. However, there are still the seeds of a few good ideas here, and maybe we can bring some of that back as bonus levels.
Some of the styles for the player characters were adjusted too. That's part of the reason you have concept art of course! You can see in the image below, the machete and mask from image 3 made it into the game as one of the cosmetic hats and weapons, but your chefs don't wear aprons, and the rather creepy hood from the left image didn't make it in either. It's cool artwork, but ultimately didn't fit the overall atmosphere we were aiming for.
Another element that got some reworking was multiplayer! Networked multiplayer can be taken for granted with modern videogames, but it does take some effort to get it working well! Our programmer Niels aka Jonesah says: "The networked multiplayer is something that I personally am very proud of. It was a lot of hard work and required massive rebuilding and tweaking but I’m very proud of the result."
Finally, there are the ideas and inspirations which didn't make it into the game because of time constraints. We have lots of things that we'd still love to do if we get a chance. More features, more content, more everything. No promises mind you!
We'd also like to say thanks to everyone who has been playing the open beta and who took the time to comment on the game, whether it's here on Steam, on Reddit, on Discord, or wherever! The open beta will be closing soon ahead of the full release tomorrow. We hope you're as excited as we are!
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