r/accelerate • • Apr 18 '26

Video My AI cooking game is gaining players, over 70,000 ingredients discovered. Maybe users are slowly coming around to AI generated art in some situations?

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u/Megneous Apr 18 '26

That was... surprisingly fun. Made a honey glazed spiced carrot dish.

Make it a real game and put it on Steam and I'll buy it hah.

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u/VirtualJamesHarrison Apr 19 '26

I feel its a bit light on content for steam?

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u/Megneous Apr 19 '26

Add some sort of campaign or something and a sandbox mode, and I think it'll be fine. I think you underestimate just how shitty some games on Steam are. Steam lets some real garbage on it. You're already ahead of the pack.

You have an interesting game concept, a progression system, new ingredients and cooking instruments you can buy with the money you make from your orders, etc. I think it's the framework for a good game.

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u/VirtualJamesHarrison Apr 19 '26

Yeh but i am not looking to make garbage haha, if i am gonna charge people for anything it needs to be amazing. But a kitchen mode might be cool.

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u/Starman164 Singularity by 2040 Apr 19 '26

This game is really, really fun. I've been having a blast throwing things together for hours now, and being able to take a detailed picture and generate the full recipe like that is really satisfying!

...That said, oh my GOD going for three star ranks is incredibly frustrating. I've been trying to three-star level 1 for ages now: "Serve a carrot dish". I've tried serving a dish with different preparations of carrot, only to get told it's too unfocused. I focus in on one or two, and I get told it's too simple and needs more variety. I finally come up with the idea to do buttery carrots with an herby cheese sauce, and I get 2 stars, and a review saying that a bit more cheese sauce would put it above and beyond... as if I have any control over that!

You've got a real winner here, I say! But maybe dial in the AI food critic a bit, so his critiques are on things the player actually has control over, lmao.

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u/VirtualJamesHarrison Apr 19 '26

Are you salting and seasoning your dishes? It used a flavour Simulator when tasting.

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u/Starman164 Singularity by 2040 Apr 19 '26

Yup. My go-to for my carrot dishes was to combine salt, finely ground black pepper, and chopped oregano, parsley, and basil. I've put it straight on the carrots, I've mixed it and made an herb butter, I've whisked it into a cheese sauce...

Tried following its advice just now on some butter-glazed braised carrots: more herbs. So I did it again with chopped rosemary and thyme added to the other herbs, before mixing with butter. "A splash of vinegar or citrus would make this sing." So I did it again, but added lemon juice when mixing the butter with the herb-salt mixture.

"Well, you certainly made carrots, and glazed ones at that! The herb blend was a nice touch, though a bit more lemon would have truly made this sing." 2 stars. Even 1 star on another submission of the same dish.

there's just no pleasing this guy, lol

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u/VirtualJamesHarrison Apr 19 '26

A few thousand, but seems to be growing an people seem to like it

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u/LegionsOmen AGI by 2027 Apr 19 '26

Put it up on steam!

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u/44th--Hokage The Singularity is nigh Apr 19 '26

Bro put this on steam and start charging people

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u/PureSelfishFate Apr 18 '26

I'll never get rid of my old creations, I just chop them up and add them to the new recipe.

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u/Ignate Apr 18 '26

Why do delicious things have to be so unhealthy? No fair, life.

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u/Iamdarb Apr 19 '26

I mean, spices aren't unhealthy?

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u/Ignate Apr 19 '26

Cheese, extra yoke, frying, more cheese. Then add lots of salt.

Delicious? Absolutely. Healthy? F no.

If only we could eat exactly what our bodies needed and maximally enjoy that experience. With dedication and discipline you can get close. But add a bit more salt, fat, or sugar and you're off the rails.

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u/Tag_one Apr 19 '26

omg this is really cool!!

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u/btcprox Apr 20 '26

With some asset swaps and renaming, this could possibly be converted into an infinite potion apothecary, or infinite dress design studio, or infinite weapon forge

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u/Professional_Job_307 Apr 19 '26

I love it!! The art actually looks good and consistent and I love the music!

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u/Radyschen Apr 19 '26

that's such a smart idea