Another big part of early development was trying to answer the age old question "If bread came to life, how would it move around?" so the challenge of making that fun and look good was enticing." From there, it's become this crazy 3D puzzle game about finding out where you can toast yourself and then figuring how you're going to get there. Williams, the game's lead designer, explained: "That's essentially how I first came up with the idea it was a simple goal that every player can understand. It's a tough act to follow, but in this new odd-ball concept, it seems like they might just be able to do it. It's a grizzly game that requires superhuman hand-eye coordination, and often the results are hilarious, much to the detriment of the patient under the knife. At the beginning of each day, the loaf finds itself in a new environment and the next slice must figure out how to become toast by any means necessary."īossa Studios hit the big-time with Surgeon Simulator. "Every day a new slice of that loaf comes to life with the mindless and never ending desire to become toast. It's also a great introductory line to a game and an article such as this. It's one of the stranger concepts we've come across in the world of gaming, and that's certainly saying something. Everyone else is better off just letting this one flop on by."I am Bread is about a sentient loaf of bread," opens the description of the game from Bossa Studios' Luke Williams. If you did laugh, you’ll love I Am Bread. So am I just supposed to laugh when I spend ten minutes flopping a piece of bread around a house, only to lose when the bread wildly flops to the floor and goes bad? I’ve laughed at goats rocketing through the air, and comedic surgeries gone wrong …but go throw a piece of bread on the floor. With this amount of inconsistency, actually accomplishing anything is difficult. Other times the bread would hardly move at all, and there were times where the entire piece of bread would just launch in the intended direction. Sometimes I would swipe and half of the piece of bread would flop up in the direction I swiped. It sounds easy and straightforward, but it is rarely reliable and I was hardly able to achieve the same results with each gesture I made, apart from the tapping. The control scheme in I Am Bread involved tapping to nudge the bread, swiping to bump the bread, and tap-and-holding to get the bread to stick to a surface. I ultimately figured that one of the bread’s four corners would be assigned to one of the screen’s four corners. I wondered how this would translate to the mobile version. I saw how each corner of the bread had a button assigned to it, to, I assumed, help the player control the bread’s movements. Part of the reason for my accelerated disinterest came from how the game handled.īefore I played I Am Bread on my iPad, I watched the trailer on the game’s Steam page. It’s a funny concept, but I found it too dull much faster than its predecessors did. Unlike Surgeon Simulator, where failing is funny because surgery is such a serious thing in the real-world, or Goat Simulator, which is funny because you’re just a dumb goat, I Am Bread never approaches a high level of comedy simply because you’re a piece of white bread. I find them funny for a time, but ultimately I’m ready to put them away for good after about an hour or two. In these games, failing spectacularly is the draw which is why these sorts of games absolutely flourish on YouTube and Twitch. Games that are cute and silly, but are largely known for their loose controls which make seemingly simplistic tasks, overly difficult. Players must complete objectives by flinging, flopping, dropping, and wiggling their way through the game’s seven levels as a piece of bread.Īs the child of Bossa Studios, I Am Bread appeals to the same sort of players who enjoy games like their previous Surgeon Simulator game, or even Goat Simulator from Coffee Stain Studios. I Am Bread is a simulator about what it would be like if Bread had a mind of its own. Let that sink in like butter melting into a warm piece of toast. I Am Bread is a game about being a slice of bread. Not really all that amusing to begin with.
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