# šŸ³ Now You're Cooking! - A Roguelike Deckbuilder **URL:** \ **Category:** Showcase\ **Tags:** game\ **Created:** [September 30, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763 "2026-09-30T21:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/1 "2026-09-30T21:45:33Z")
# šŸ³ Now Youā€™re Cooking! - A Roguelike Deckbuilder * * * [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/f1BWJVupUOA/maxresdefault.jpg "Now You're Cooking! - Official Announcement Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BWJVupUOA) > Now Youā€™re Cooking! is a roguelike deckbuilder about running your own restaurant. Cook delicious meals, build an extravagant menu, and keep your patrons happy. Did I mention that rent doubles every month? - [Trailer](https://youtu.be/f1BWJVupUOA) - [Steam Page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4327580/?utm_source=s) Iā€™ve been working on this game for about a year, but Iā€™m announcing it publicly for the first time today. The engine is all Zig, the game itself is closed source but all of the game dev libraries that make up the engine are [open source on my codeberg](https://codeberg.org/Games-by-Mason). I also maintain [AYCB/SDL](https://github.com/allyourcodebase/SDL) and a few repos on the Codeberg [AYCB](https://codeberg.org/allyourcodebase/). This is my second commercial game. Feel free to AMA about this game, my engine, or indie dev in general! Iā€™m also at SYCL this week if you wanna say hi in person. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/dmckinney/32/10210_2.png) [@dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/u/dmckinney)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/2 "2026-09-30T22:21:48Z")
I thought that was a great trailer. The frames with the drums stopping in on ā€œ\*rent doubles every monthā€œ was a good touch. Game flow looks pretty fluid too! ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 10:25pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/3 "2026-09-30T22:25:13Z")
Thanks!! I hired a friend who works in video to do the trailer, and Iā€™m glad I did. I know my way around the basics of Davinci and Kdenlive, but I donā€™t feel like I speak the language or video well enough to make nice edits like this. ---
**Author:** ![dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/dmckinney/32/10210_2.png) [@dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/u/dmckinney)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/4 "2026-09-30T23:04:52Z")
I had to Google Davinci and Kdenlive. Iā€™ve never worked with video editing. I believe I would be too fidgety for it. Anyway. Congratulations on the announcement! ---
**Author:** ![vulpesx](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/vulpesx/32/3989_2.png) [@vulpesx](https://ziggit.dev/u/vulpesx)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/5 "2026-10-01T04:32:05Z")
ā€¦ I think you cooked XD ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/6 "2026-10-01T04:45:56Z")
Iā€™m amazed this is the first time Iā€™ve heard this today hahaha ---
**Author:** ![vancluever](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/vancluever/32/4911_2.png) [@vancluever](https://ziggit.dev/u/vancluever)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:16am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/7 "2026-10-01T05:16:10Z")
Blender also has a great video editor, there was only one thing I wish I had (rounded corners on PiP) when editing video but I ended up not needing it in the long run and it wasnā€™t too hard to get around. I used it to edit a couple of talks I did this year. Congrats on the announcement @MasonRemaley! Gonna keep this (and your engine!) in mind when I talk to people about Zig. ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/8 "2026-10-01T06:05:28Z")
Thanks!! I havenā€™t tried Blenderā€™s video editor in 5 or 10 years, Iā€™ll have to give it another shot. I love Blender for 3d modeling and IIUC theyā€™ve done a lot of work on the video editing since I last looked at it. ---
**Author:** ![pierrelgol](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/pierrelgol/32/10233_2.png) [@pierrelgol](https://ziggit.dev/u/pierrelgol)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:23am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/9 "2026-10-01T07:23:38Z")
Wouah, thatā€™s absolutely insanely cool, canā€™t wait to play it tonight! Thanks for your great work, you are a source of inspiration! ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/10 "2026-10-01T07:26:39Z")
Thanks!! šŸ™‚ Itā€™s not available yet, this is just me announcing what Iā€™ve been working on, but I will need playtesters soon. ---
**Author:** ![pierrelgol](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/pierrelgol/32/10233_2.png) [@pierrelgol](https://ziggit.dev/u/pierrelgol)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/11 "2026-10-01T08:49:31Z")
well feel free to reach out, Iā€™d be happy to lend a hand and test it ---
**Author:** ![fearedbliss](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/fearedbliss/32/8875_2.png) [@fearedbliss](https://ziggit.dev/u/fearedbliss)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/12 "2026-10-01T13:17:55Z")
Lol this is hilarious. As the preserver of Blizzard Northā€™s Diablo II (2000) and Lord of Destruction (2001), it brings me happiness to see the words ā€œRoguelikeā€ in the game description. Good job! Are you thinking of bringing in item rarity levels into the deckbuilding (Common, Magic, Rare, Set, Unique), something like that? Allowing the person to try to ā€œkeep finding a better, more rarer versionā€ of potentially the same card? It also reminds me of when I played Yu-Gi-Oh back when I was a kid and people would try not only to build the deck they wanted, but specifically wanted to have every card in the deck either be 1st edition, hollow, or both! ---
**Author:** ![dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/dmckinney/32/10210_2.png) [@dmckinney](https://ziggit.dev/u/dmckinney)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/13 "2026-10-01T16:26:01Z")
His trailer shows item/card rarities. edit \*card ---
**Author:** ![eanyanwu](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/eanyanwu/32/9871_2.png) [@eanyanwu](https://ziggit.dev/u/eanyanwu)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/14 "2026-10-01T16:42:19Z")
As someone who does really play games or intend to buy games on steamā€¦this trailer raised my browā€¦you might be able to convince me to buy this. Well done! It has the nice mix of ā€œthis seems ā€˜cozyā€™ā€, but also needs me to use my brain. I like it. This must have a LOT of work! Iā€™d love to see some blog posts about the process if you would spare so e words šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![herluf-ba](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/herluf-ba/32/5025_2.png) [@herluf-ba](https://ziggit.dev/u/herluf-ba)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/15 "2026-10-01T17:11:45Z")
This looks great! I especially love the animations and how the cards move around the scene. That shuffle is neat šŸ‘Œ ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/16 "2026-10-01T19:55:30Z")
> Lol this is hilarious. As the preserver of Blizzard Northā€™s Diablo II (2000) and Lord of Destruction (2001), it brings me happiness to see the words ā€œRoguelikeā€ in the game description. Good job! Are you thinking of bringing in item rarity levels into the deckbuilding (Common, Magic, Rare, Set, Unique), something like that? Allowing the person to try to ā€œkeep finding a better, more rarer versionā€ of potentially the same card? It also reminds me of when I played Yu-Gi-Oh back when I was a kid and people would try not only to build the deck they wanted, but specifically wanted to have every card in the deck either be 1st edition, hollow, or both! Yes definitely! The current breakdown is common, uncommon, rare, and legendary. The rarer cards are more powerful, but itā€™s still important to be smart about synergies because powerful cards typically have tradeoffs. For example thereā€™s a legendary card that makes vegetarian meals worth a lot more, but discounts all meals containing meat by 100%. This can be super powerful, but whether or not itā€™s a good idea on any given run depends on how youā€™ve built your deck out. > This looks great! I especially love the animations and how the cards move around the scene. That shuffle is neat šŸ‘Œ Thanks!! I used to perform magic so I really like cards, and am always disappointed that people donā€™t show the cards being shuffled haha. The animations are all created with a mix of my [FSM library](https://codeberg.org/games-by-Mason/mr_fsm), my [tween library](https://codeberg.org/games-by-Mason/mr_tween), and my [spring transform](https://codeberg.org/Games-by-Mason/mr_ecs/src/branch/main/src/ext/spring_transform.zig) abstraction. I love the spring transform in particular. It lets me just set the position orientation and scale I want an object to be at, but instead of changing instantaneously, itā€™s pulled towards that state as if it was connected to it via a damped spring. You can set the spring to be underdamped, overdamped, or crticially damped depending on how fast you want it to converge/whether you want it to bounce. Unlike the tweens, this works great even when the target position is changing over time. ---
**Author:** ![MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/masonremaley/32/4454_2.png) [@MasonRemaley](https://ziggit.dev/u/MasonRemaley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/17 "2026-10-01T20:01:08Z")
> [@eanyanwu](#): > > It has the nice mix of ā€œthis seems ā€˜cozyā€™ā€, but also needs me to use my brain. I like it. This must have a LOT of work! Iā€™d love to see some blog posts about the process if you would spare so e words šŸ™‚ Thanks!! I have some posts [here](https://gamesbymason.com/blog/), but they were all from before I announced this game so I was being coy with the details. Once I get back from SYCL Iā€™m gonna start writing more about what my process with this game has been, and Iā€™ll share how the announce went and such. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![weskoerber](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/weskoerber/32/2129_2.png) [@weskoerber](https://ziggit.dev/u/weskoerber)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/18 "2026-10-01T20:10:59Z")
Wishlisted! Iā€™ve never played a deckbuilder before, Iā€™m excited to try it out! ---
**Author:** ![fearedbliss](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/fearedbliss/32/8875_2.png) [@fearedbliss](https://ziggit.dev/u/fearedbliss)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/19 "2026-10-01T20:30:50Z")
Ah ok I must have missed it then when I watched the trailer. My eye is used to a specific color association for rarity types given Iā€™ve been playing Diablo II for 23 years haha. Thanks for the reply @MasonRemaley. Keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![eag](https://ziggit.dev/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@eag](https://ziggit.dev/u/eag)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763/20 "2026-10-01T20:52:13Z")
looks good, google apps can help xd, including with a tips but bro, you has starts with your own engine, whats about darkengine, or swarm source? its have some what we still doesnt have on any other default engine. do you like immersive? thief2, deus ex? [Next page](https://ziggit.dev/t/now-youre-cooking-a-roguelike-deckbuilder/17763.md?page=2)