Undertale: Cooking with Kindness is a fan-game telling the story of Sunny, the green soul that fell many years before the story of Undertale. After encountering an ambitious moth monster named Luna, Sunny teams up with them to run what they hope will be the best restaurant the underground has ever seen. But how much longer can they keep this up before someone discovers who they are?
Instead of fighting or sparing, you'll be cooking and serving for the monsters you encounter with gameplay a bit different than what you're accustomed to.
We'll be posting updates and sneak-peeks here on Tumblr but if you're interested in more information, you can check out our Gamejolt page.
And join our Discord to chat about the project and see exclusive sneak peeks outside of update posts!
Feel free to ask questions but make sure to read the FAQ first!
Hello! I just ask if there's a chance there will be a Deltarune counterpart with this mod? We've already got deltarune yellow, so it begs my question... Would "Deltarune: Cooking with Kindness" be out there in the sea of different deltarune mods?
If someone out there were to make it, then it would exist, I suppose. But I want absolutely no part in that. Making cooking with kindness as is will be more than enough for us, thank you very much.
Loved the demo a lot! I've played it twice over and think its a very enjoyable and cozy game, no matter the legnth. 😁 Was going to ask that since the fangame involves cooking at takes place at Hotland, might there be a hint to the existence of a certain spider who is also proficient in cooking? The Muffet fans must know! Keep up the good work and looking forward to the full game! 🍳
On the topic of spiders, make sure to check in on your restaurant's first fan every so often! Wouldn't want to forget the OGs.
How do Luna and Sunny keep fixing all the tables Mawz breaks?
Every building Mawzz has ever been involved in the construction of has been equipped with specialized explosion-proof technology. If a building can't take an explosion or two, it doesn't deserve to exist, as he says.
What’s Sunny’s gender? Did they lose their binary in the war kitchen fire?
Sunny's pronouns are they/them. If you misgender them, they won't be mad, they could never, but they will feel a hollow pang in their chest and feel so, so much smaller.
what do the employees of the eclipse post on the underground social network?!? come ahhnn i wanna knowww
I'm afraid none of them have access to it, with it being such a newfangled technology.
...Well, apart from Mawzz, whose investment may be partially behind its genesis. Prime real estate for advertising.
Such a network... If you were to access it, would be quite desolate.
Yet still you may find someone. Someone for whom your aid is otherwise unreachable. Would you still seek its favour, or is it layered beyond one abstraction too many?
Although it is all the same to them. Everything, everyone, all the same.
What’s Sunny’s gender? Did they lose their binary in the war kitchen fire?
Sunny's pronouns are they/them. If you misgender them, they won't be mad, they could never, but they will feel a hollow pang in their chest and feel so, so much smaller.
Ok I just played your demo and I must say, you guys truly do be cooking. (Every time I thought I reached the end, another day started lol. I love long demos though so hell yeah.)
It perfectly nails that absurd Undertale vibe without trying too hard to be Undertale either. I love it when UTDR fangames dare to twist the formula a bit.
idk who raised Sunny to have that selfless-to-a-fault mentality, but I have some words of choice for them. Not that it's any surprising. That child climbed the mountain for a reason... Ooh and that bit where Luna asked if they(?) should make more jokes to attract customer and trying to pick "no no no" just got Sunny to refuse and the options to flip. I love that kid already. (I'm so not surviving this game's ending. Well that'll make both of us... I hope Asgore will at least order something, first...)
(... Sunny learned how to make THE pie. ... I just spoiled the ending to everyone, did I not ? ...Anyways.)
The idea that Grillby becomes a professional yapper the second you ask him about food is hilarious. Also Luna c'mon, LET HIM COOK! (Don't get me wrong I love Luna they're sweet. Just. c'mon. :( )
Mawzz is for sure a... character. I dunno how to feel about him which I figure is how I should feel about him. The vibe is successfully nailed, 999999/1000. (props to the voice, too!). Can he please stop destroying our tables...
I could probably go on forever, so let's wrap this ask here.
Just before that. Props to that vending-machine-Monster. Truly the best of all of us.
Thank you for all the kind words. They are appreciated.
Hello!!! I just played the demo, and I have to say— I am absolutely In love with what you’ve done thus far. The characters are wonderful, and the characterization of the pre-existing characters is just as good.
Praise aside though, is there a place to find the sprites for the characters and whatnot? I haven’t looked very hard, but I thought I’d ask! Fan-animations are really fun to make, and even though my artistic ability is lacking.. I’ve made quite a few with sprites alone for deltarune and undertale and whatnot.. I’d love to contribute to the fan space of this game with my own little niche if possible,, apologies if it sounds odd!
Not odd at all! While, not official, there does exist the UTDR Fan Resource, which has sprites for many undertale and deltarune things. This includes CWK. Here is a link to CWK's folder for that.
Again, this is not an official source, but it should hopefully suffice for your needs.
Has the Deltarune character Green affected how you’re planning to characterize Sunny in any way? Obviously you’re not just going to redo their design or anything but has it like given you any ideas for character moments or jokes?
Nope! Sunny's story and character was planned and outlined long before chapter 5 (and the majority of it before 4, too).
A pancake for everyone who has played our funny little game!
In other news,
Development on the full game is now in full swing and making swift progress! Keep an eye out for further updates and previews before the end of the Summer.
No further updates to the demo are currently planned, with the exception of additional languages. Translation efforts are ongoing.
The full OST should hopefully be released soon. Please remain patient.
As previously mentioned, this is planned to be the last build for the demo (excluding updates for potential translations down the line). From here on, the team will be fully dedicated to working on the full game.
As usual, if you find any major bugs please submit them in the official discord server or the bug report form.
Here are the patch notes for this version:
Balance:
-Chance Time made less extreme. Multiplication and division changed from 1-4 to 1-2
-Mawzz final wave nerfed
-Several ingredients nerfed in their prestige output
-Minor tweaks to the meatball game to make it faster while keeping it easier
-Mawzz now informs you that you can use items during his boss
-Made the required prestige to reach rank 3 higher to avoid it being reached in the demo
Fixes:
- Snik and Snak talk syncing now more consistent
- oooo now loops properly
- Fixed minor typos
- Some quests now update their descriptions properly
- Simplified collision in a lot of rooms
- Fixes a softlock in the Pasta Roll minigame
Other:
- Joe Quizma now has music
- Added a reminder that you can ASK Grillby for his order again if you fail a minigame enough times.
- Set up internal infrastructure for translations
- Made certain graphics more colour-blind friendly
And so the Sun has risen and dawn drawn to a close.
But now the day becomes overcast…
When will you see the Sun again?
Thank you all for the great reception to the demo in this first month! Now that time has passed, you must surely be asking yourselves the same burning question.
What now?
Well, here is the plan going forward:
As our Sun has risen, another Sun, elsewhere, elsewhen, has begun to set…
Indeed. DELTARUNE Chapter 5 is releasing in a matter of hours. As you might expect, everyone on the team will be far too busy with that to work on the game.
In fact, shortly after the last patch went out, the team has been taking a break. Releasing the demo took a lot out of us, and we all deserved a nice break to enjoy the start of the summer. Point is, this break will likely extend for a week after the drop of the chapter.
Once that break is over, we hope to get working on v.1.0.3 of the demo which will attempt to aid the performance issues found when playing on weaker hardware, especially in the CORE square, alongside some tweaks to balance and general bug fixes.
It will also include a new song!
This patch will hopefully be the last patch the demo will receive. Once it's done, we will shift our focus to the full game.
With that said… We are also happy to announce that work has begun on official translations of the demo into Chinese and Spanish. We will be sharing more details on these at a later point.
Looking beyond the demo, I'm sure some of you have been wondering what the release structure of the full game will be. Well, the answer is that the full game will be released all at once whenever it is complete. When will this happen? Well, I can't say for sure, of course, but considering the time it took for the demo to be complete, I would not expect it to be ready in less than two years, likely more.
Seeing as the demo covered the first 5 days, and the full game is planned to have [ ], you can see that we've made [ ]% of the game! Not to mention all the [ ] and [ ] still to make!
This will really be a [ ]…
Don't despair, however! We will still be sharing frequent updates on Gamejolt, Tumblr and the Discord server. (And twitter… I guess…)
On a final note, we want to assure everyone that we are working to release the full demo OST. Hopefully we will have everything sorted for a release sometime in July. Thank you for your patience.
