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Cake Mania is a series of cooking video games developed by Sandlot Games.
[edit] Cake Mania
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| Developer(s) | Sandlot Games
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| Publisher(s) | Sandlot Games
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| Platform(s) | Windows, Adobe Flash Player, Nintendo DS, Mobile Phones, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2
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| Release date(s) | 2006
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| Genre(s) | Time Management Game
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| Mode(s) | Single player
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| Input methods | Mouse, Gamepad, Stylus
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Cake Mania is a time management game developed by Sandlot Games in 2006. The game is available for PCs, game consoles, on the web as a flash game, 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.
Jill, who was inspired by her baker 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.
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The player controls Jill, a baker of cakes. Customers come in and line up, giving Jill their orders. The player must then direct Jill so that she creates the cake each customer wants, hopefully before the customer becomes tired of waiting and leaves. Jill can use other items such as cupcakes and a TV 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, or a better frosting machine, a cupcake microwave or even faster shoes to keep Jill ahead of the orders.
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[edit] Reception
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| Aggregate scores
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| Aggregator
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| Metacritic
| 55%[1]
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| Review scores
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| Publication
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| 1UP.com
| C+[2]
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| Eurogamer
| 4 of 10[3]
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| G4
| 1 of 5[4]
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| Game Informer
| 65%[5]
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| GamePro
| 3.5 of 5[6]
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| GamesMaster
| 69%[7]
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| GameSpot
| 4.0 of 10[8]
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| GameSpy
| 3 of 5[9]
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| GamesRadar
| 4 of 10[10]
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| GameZone
| 7.0 of 10[11]
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| IGN
| 6.5 of 10[12]
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| Nintendo Power
| 55%[13]
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[edit] Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery
Sandlot Games after Cake Mania released a spin-off, Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery.
After Jill has saved her grandparents' bakery, she has to win the Cake Mania Bake-Off Contest to send her grandparents on a cruise.
[edit] Cake Mania 2
Cake Mania 2 is the sequel of the original Cake Mania. It has different features from the original one, like different locations, slightly different gameplay, new customers and a new design of everything.
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.
[edit] Cake Mania 3
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 The Second Expansion Pack Promo Sandlot Games announced Cake Mania 3, sequel to the original Cake Mania and Cake Mania 2. There are a lot new features.
As Jill nervously prepares for her wedding day, disaster strikes when a Time Bender shatters and she finds herself bouncing through various periods in history - from Ancient Egypt and Revolutionary France, to an unknown future where anything is possible - and she must work quickly to find her way back before the ceremony begins!
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Each stage includes its own customers (excepting for the Unknown Future) , comics , background design and all include the same mini-games . Also , you receive a trophy for completing each stage . The Stages are :
- Prehistoric Age : Jill must find Agent Bundt, and a T-Rex offers himself to tell Jill where he is if he gets something in return, so Jill prepares cakes for him, the other dinosaurs, the monkeys and cavemen. After completing the task, Jill uses the Time Bender to teleport Agent Bundt to the Present.
- Ancient China : Jill saved Risha, but it needs to bake cakes for the emperor, and for all China . After completing the task , Jill needs help for the emperor and teleports Risha to the Present .
- Ancient Egypt : Jill must save her grandpa from the top of a pyramid , but first it needs to impress Pharaoh . After completing her task , she uses the Egyptians to complete the pyramid, and saves her grandpa, and then teleports him to the Present .
- Ancient England : Jill needs to demonstrate Merlin that her Grandma isn't Endora, so Jill bakes cakes to prove her Grandma cooking abilities and make Merlin to find Endora and marry them. After finding Endora, Jill teleports her grandma back home .
- Revolutionary France : Jill must free Tiny from the Bastille after he ate all the bread and caused a food shortage, but she needed to impress Marquis and Marie. Resolving the bake problems with her cakes, she frees Tiny and teleports him back to Present.
- Unknown Future : As Jill teleports everyone back home , there was someone who didn't get to the end : herself ! As there seemed to be no hope , a new world appears , and Jill enters it , but it finds that the Time Bender has a problem , and now customers from all the times were brought to the future. So , Jill needed to become the Supreme World Baker to have the scientist fix the Time Bender . She chose Marquis de Cake to organize activities and get the time bender fixed and go home with Jack and her family and all customers back to their age. Managing of accomplishing her goal , she gets back home .
As Jill gets back home , she realises that she forgot something : her wedding cake , so she prepares one . Then she and Jack get married by Tiny .
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Also, two expansion packs were released, featuring even more weird customers and levels. The first one features customers from the North Pole , while the second one features from the Wild West , like Bandits .
At the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, it was announced that a follow up game, "Sausage Mania - Feeding Hungry Grannies", was to be produced and released in Q1 2009.
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