Help Jill turn her cake baking business into a sweet success! Bake, ice and serve your cakes as fast you can and try to keep your customers happy to rake in the big tips! If you're quick enough a booming business might be a piece of cake!
A brightly coloured 2D strategy game.
Calling Cake Mania a strategy game is a little like calling a light switch an entertainment system, but this game is closer to a strategy game than it is a bakery simulator. That is not necessarily a bad thing, or even a criticism, it is just a definition of what is supposedly a kid’s game.
Can Adults Play It?
People think that Harry Potter is a kid’s book, and yet adults read it, so even though this game was built for kids, you can play it as an adult if you wish. This is the first of three games, and actually runs better than the other two. The second cake mania takes longer to load, and the third takes a silly amount of time to load.
Repetitive Fun That Some People Enjoy
It is going to hurt your wrist, but there is some repetitive fun to be had as you make your cakes. It is brightly coloured and has a nice soundtrack to it. You have to make cakes for your customers, and keep them happy. The game is two-dimensional and the screen looks a little packed at times, but it is not a deal-breaking flaw.
There Is Not Much To Do
Cake Mania is not a game for hardcore gamers that want new ideas, in-depth gameplay and new features as you progress. It is a simple and easy to play game, and for some people it is going to mean the game gets old very fast. The later versions tried to fix this with more advanced features, but they still didn’t manage to tackle the whole idea that your creativity or innovative gaming technique is not really rewarded in any significant way. A bit more variety would do wonders for this game.
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The gameplay is repetitive, which is going to put a lot of people off. As you progress (if you carry on playing), then you can make your own custom cakes and such, without running out of time. For example, you can use faster ovens or work it so you can make extra cup cakes. This means that the gameplay does become more in-depth and more interesting as time goes on, which may be why so many people bought the second and third versions when they came out.
Pros
- Repetitive but fun
- Ideal for kids and tweens
- Colourful and bright
- A nice soundtrack
Cons
- The 2D graphics are a little primitive
- It offers the more advanced features too late in the game
| Cake Mania | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Time management |
| Developer(s) | Sandlot Games |
| Publisher(s) | Sandlot Games |
| First release | Cake Mania April 15, 2006[1] |
| Latest release | Cake Mania: To The Max! December 2010 |
Cake Mania is a series of cooking and time managementvideo games developed and published by Sandlot Games since 2006.
The series is available for PCs, Apple Mac, game consoles, on the web as a Flash game, on Facebook as Cake Mania: Special Delivery, and as a mobile game for cell phones. Cake Mania is also notable for being one of the first top-50 titles available as a free download in an advertising-supported model.[2]
Cake Mania[edit]
Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery[edit]
Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery is an expansion to the original Cake Mania. It has slightly different gameplay and features from the original.
After Jill saves her grandparents' bakery, she has to win the Cake Mania Bake-Off contest to send her grandparents on a cruise. Jill has to race against the clock baking sponge, chocolate, strawberry, and blueberry cakes. For various business men, grandmas, construction workers, teens, and your usual town people.
Cake Mania 2[edit]
Cake Mania 2 is a sequel to the original Cake Mania. It has different features from the original one, including different locations, slightly different gameplay, new customers, and a new design.
After helping reopen the Evans Bakery, Jill sends her grandparents on a long-overdue cruise and decides to get back to business by helping out her friends.
Cake Mania 3[edit]
Cake Mania 3 is the sequel to Cake Mania 2. New features include mini-games and power-ups as well as the introduction of voice overs for the different storyboards throughout the game.
As Jill prepares for her wedding day, disaster strikes when finds herself bouncing through various time periods in history - from Ancient Egypt and Revolutionary France, to an unknown future where anything is possible - and she must work to find her way back before the ceremony begins.
Cake Mania: Main Street[edit]
Cake Mania: Main Street is the fifth game to be released by Sandlot Games based on the original Cake Mania. New features include the ability to play as Jack, Risha, and Tiny in establishments other than the Evans Bakery.
Newlyweds Jill and Jack return to Jill's hometown of Bakersfield only to discover Jill's favourite spot, Main Street, is all but abandoned thanks to the flashy new mega-mall, Bakersfield Corner. Distraught at the idea of her beloved Main Street's fading life, Jill comes up with a plan to get Main Street business booming again with the help of her baking expertise and the business skills of Jack, Risha, and Tiny.
Cake Mania: Lights, Camera, Action![edit]
Jill is pregnant and must run a bakery, while her other friends run a pizzeria and a fashion shop.
Cake Mania: To The Max![edit]
Cake Mania Games Online
The picture of Oliver and Rose, Jill and Jack Evans' children, are shown in the intro. Jill imagines her teenage life. Jill has gone home. Her grandparents gave their apple to Jill.
Cake Mania Cakes Recipe
Cancelled sequels[edit]
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Cake Mania: New Generation was given the go ahead to be pushed into development in early 2011. However, due to the subsequent acquirement from Digital Chocolate after being sold by Sandlot, this led to its cancellation. Digital Chocolate made it clear that it had no intentions of carrying on with producing PC platform based games, and instead wanted to opt into creating either app or browser based games.[citation needed]
References[edit]
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- ^IGN: Cake Mania
- ^'Wild Tangent - Cake Mania'. WildTangent. WildTangent.