
THE BIG SPICY CURRY FIASCO
This is NBD2's entry in the Ultimate AI-Powered Game Jam #3.
Ingredients fly towards a pot - prep (chop) the ones that belong in curry, ignore the ones that don't. Click a wanted ingredient — a carrot, an onion, an eggplant, a tomato — and it chops and lands in the pot; you never choose how. Click a sardine, a tin can, or a banana peel and it costs you.
Every ingredient makes the pot bigger, leaving less room to see the next thing coming.
The PEPPER ME WITH PEPPERS multiplier stage is 20-to-30-seconds of hot pepper madness. Chop a pepper and your multiplier climbs, and a flame grows behind the pot — taller as the multiplier climbs, gone when the run ends.
There are five curries to make, each faster and meaner than the last: Plain Vegetable Curry, Yellow Curry, Red Curry, Fiery Red Curry, Vindaloo.
Every run ends on a five-pepper score, zero for a failure up to five for a flawless run. Your first ingredient ever stops the action for a few seconds: it highlights what you want, shows the rest of the good ingredients, then shows the one bad ingredient you've met plus question marks for what's still coming. It plays once.
One input: click, or tap, the thing flying at your pot. No menu, no keyboard, no second button, no pause.
NOTE: We collect anonymous gameplay analytics (via GameAnalytics) to see how long people play — no names, no accounts, no ad tracking. You can disable tracking in the settings panel.
Air horn by neilyhype (freesound.org/s/557337), CC BY 3.0. Fire truck siren by sapperlapje (freesound.org/s/819369), CC0.
This is a 72-hour jam build, still being polished. Comments are open — tell us what you clicked, what you missed, and how big your pot got before it got you.
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | nbd2 |
| Genre | Action |
| Tags | 2D, Arcade, Casual, Cooking, Fast-Paced, Food, Game Jam, High Score, Mouse only, Singleplayer |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds, Text |






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Well done! Simple, elegant, fun! The knife flipping confused me for a little bit, and I think it would be better in a square aspect ratio so that the challenge wasn't so imbalanced between the ingredients from the top/bottom and the ingredients from the sides, but good work!
Love the music!