Indie Game Spotlight: Cake Bash ( @playcakebash​)

We hope you saved room for dessert with this week’s Indie Game Spotlight. Cake Bash is a four player party game where you fight to be the tastiest cake! There’s loads of game modes and minigames to battle it out in, and you get to be a cake.

We spoke with Laura, the artist and director at High Tea Frog, who makes all the cakes, environments, UI, particle effects and lighting. She also helps with the design and production, a bit of finance. When you’re an indie in a tiny team like theirs, you have to do a bit of everything!

When did you conceptualize the idea behind the game?

Our first prototype was inspired by the sentence “what if you play as a doughnut and punch each other”, back in April 2018. It’s evolved a fair bit since then after nearly two years of development.

What are the different kinds of desserts we can expect to meet?

There are seven different treats to meet! We have Casie the cupcake, Slice the cheesecake and Chip the muffin to name a few. They each have a bunch of flavours to choose from, so hopefully we’ve covered all of your favourites!

What are some gameplay mechanics introduced in Cake Bash?

Our five main game modes have the same chaotic combat but different goals, like chuck the most fruit into a pie, grab the most sweeties, break the most fortune cookies and more!

We noticed pigeons are in the game! How do they play a role in the game?

The pigeon is very popular! It flies into our Patio level and pecks at whoever is currently winning. It can also drop ‘bombs’ which you need to avoid because pigeon poop isn’t tasty.

If you woke up tomorrow as the last food item you ate, what would you be?

I’d be a lotus speculoos biscuit. I ate nearly half a packet yesterday which is gross, but they’re so good dipped in tea…

Do you have any good baking stories?

My sister and I spent ages making a lemon drizzle cake when we were younger, put it in the oven so excited and it exploded. No idea what we did wrong but we had to spend hours cleaning the oven, and didn’t even get a cake for our efforts. Luckily I can make better cakes in the digital world.

Cake Bash will be launching on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Steam later on this year - there is also a free demo available on Steam now if you’d like to try it early! You can learn more by following Cake Bash here!