Hi folks and welcome to the Diets and Deities Steam News Update! 🥳🎉
Whether you've never heard about Diets and Deities before or you're familiar with our project, thanks for dropping by!
Diets and Deities is an upcoming PC rhythm cooking game in development by our team at Larrikin Interactive, an indie game studio based in Darwin, NT!
For everyone on the team, Diets and Deities is actually our very first official game project! We are so excited to continue to share our progress and updates as we continue development into alpha! 🙌
As for introductions, I'm Skye👋 the concept artist and community manager for Dieits and Deities! You'll be hearing a lot from me in the future~
But first!
Wait so...What is Diets and Deities? 🤔
Okay! Let's catch you up on the journey so far...
Introducing Diets and Deities: The rhythm cooking game you can taste! 🎵🍔
Discover the music and recipes from diverse cultures as you dodge to the beat and uncover the flavours of the universe!
Set at the epicentre of a multicultural universe - food and music are the essences of life...At least that's how things used to be. Now the world is a gentrified husk, sucked of its colour and culture.
It's up to you to dance and dodge your way through forgotten cultures, vibe to the beat and eat your weight in long-lost dishes. 💃🎶
Diets and Deities is a narrative-driven story that guides the players to discover recipes from different Deities from different cultures and mythologies around the world. Every recipe you make in the game can also be made at home! 🧑🍳
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FAQs🥞
When Will Diets and Deities Be Released?
Late 2023! Keep an eye out for updates on our various socials!
Is Diets and Deities Coming Out On Consoles?
Nothing is planned for now!
Can I Become a Beta Tester?
If you're interested, join our Discord Server and connect with the team! 💫
Where Can I View Content and Updates?
Check out our video content on TikTok and Youtube! Discord and Steam will have our updates and announcements!
That's it for this month! But before you go...
We'll leave you here with this amazing Balinese recipe! 🧑🍳
Enjoy A Balinese Recipe 🍽️
Balinese Chicken Satay
Ingredients:
- 3 shallots
- 3 or 4 garlic cloves
- 25g root ginger, peeled
- 2 small red or 1 large plump red chilli
- 1 tbsp vegetable or groundnut oil
- ½ tsp each ground turmeric, ground white pepper and ground coriander
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- Pinch ground cloves
- 500g pkt minced chicken (or lamb)
- 2 fresh (or freeze dried) lime leaves, cut into fine strips with scissors
- 1 tbsp unsweetened desiccated coconut or 25g/1oz block creamed coconut, grated
- To serve 12 lemongrass stalks (or wooden skewers)
- Banana leaves, optional
Method:
- Thinly slice then finely chop the shallots, garlic and ginger. Now finely chop the chilli, including the seeds. This amount of chilli gives a spicy but not too fiery kick to the chicken satay, but discard the seeds if you don’t like the heat.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan over a low heat. Add the shallots, garlic, ginger and chillies and fry for 1-2 minutes just to soften. Pour in a couple of tablespoons of water to soften, then stir in the spices (and freeze-dried lime leaves, if using) and fry for a minute.
- Remove the pan from the heat, let the mixture cool down, then blend to a paste with a pestle and mortar, using an up-and-down motion with the pestle. It will take several minutes to make a soft paste.
- Mix the spice paste, the coconut and, if using, the shredded fresh lime leaves with the minced chicken. Season with salt.
- Break off pieces of the mixture the size of a large walnut. For each, flatten into a round and lay a lemongrass stalk or wooden skewer in the centre. Mould around the bulbous end of the stalk (or skewer), working it so it goes about 8cm up it.
- Rough up the surface a little with your fingers so that the meat is not completely smooth and has some texture, then set aside while you shape the rest of the skewers. Brush each skewer with extra oil.
- Cook the skewers on a preheated BBQ, griddle pan or grill for 8-10 minutes, turning several times. Serve on banana leaves
Thanks to amazing music producer, Liam, for recommending this recipe from BBC Good Foods!
We're currently working with the team to get personal and authentic recipes from our chef team and our grandmas!
In Our July Update…
We're so excited to officially introduce you to some of the main characters in Diets and Deities! 🙌
If you have any questions, you can connect us on our Discord Server and send us a message!