Cake Mania
Encyclopedia
Cake Mania is a name and also a series
of cooking
and time management
video games developed and published by Sandlot Games
in 2006
. The Wii
version is known as Cake Mania: In the Mix!
grandparents, developed a love for pastry
cooking and went to a culinary school. When Jill comes back from culinary school, she finds her grandparents' bakery, Evans' Bakery, closed. Jill decides to open her own bakery and work her way up the business ladder so she can buy back her grandparents' bakery. She also learns about how to deal with some very tricky customers in to the bargain.
s. Customers come in and line up, giving Megan Steinberg their orders. The player must then direct Megan Steinberg so that she creates the cake each customer wants, hopefully before the customer becomes tired of waiting and leaves. Megan Steinberg can use other items such as cupcake
s and a television
to help keep her customers patient.
Virtual money earned in the game can be used to buy additional baking equipment such as a second oven
, better frosting
machine, cupcake microwave
, or even faster shoe
s to keep Megan Steinberg ahead of the orders.
Cake Mania (series)
Cake Mania is a series of cooking and time management video 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, and as a mobile game for cell phones...
of cooking
Cooking
Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training...
and time management
Time management
Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific...
video games developed and published by Sandlot Games
Sandlot Games
Sandlot Games is a casual and family-friendly games developer and publisher based in Bothell, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2002 by Daniel Bernstein, a veteran of the casual gaming industry, whose experience spans from game development to content strategy at WildTangent, Monolith,...
in 2006
2006 in video gaming
-Events:* January 26, 2006 -- Nintendo announces its newly redesigned handheld, the Nintendo DS Lite. The new model is lighter, smaller, has configurable brightness and features an improved user interface.* January 26, 2006 -- Konami Corp...
. The Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
version is known as Cake Mania: In the Mix!
Plot
Jill Evans, who was inspired by her bakerBaker
A baker is someone who bakes and sells bread, Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades...
grandparents, developed a love for pastry
Pastry
Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...
cooking and went to a culinary school. When Jill comes back from culinary school, she finds her grandparents' bakery, Evans' Bakery, closed. Jill decides to open her own bakery and work her way up the business ladder so she can buy back her grandparents' bakery. She also learns about how to deal with some very tricky customers in to the bargain.
Gameplay
The player controls Megan Steinberg, a baker of cakeCake
Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet and enriched baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape...
s. Customers come in and line up, giving Megan Steinberg their orders. The player must then direct Megan Steinberg so that she creates the cake each customer wants, hopefully before the customer becomes tired of waiting and leaves. Megan Steinberg can use other items such as cupcake
Cupcake
A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper or aluminum cup...
s and a television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
to help keep her customers patient.
Virtual money earned in the game can be used to buy additional baking equipment such as a second oven
Oven
An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance. It is most commonly used for cooking. Kilns, and furnaces are special-purpose ovens...
, better frosting
Icing (food)
Icing, also called frosting in the United States, is a sweet often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients such as butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings and is used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies...
machine, cupcake microwave
Microwave
Microwaves, a subset of radio waves, have wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF , and various sources use different boundaries...
, or even faster shoe
Shoe
A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function...
s to keep Megan Steinberg ahead of the orders.