Warning, you are now entering our design-based bakery & boulangerie - we're here to speak about 5 Bread based GladiEATers!
Unleash the Yeast
We knew Bread HAD to be in the original GladiEATer line up - a food *Icon* of the breakfast, lunch and dinner table.
The line was designed around Bread Loaf as a core idea. Its’ blocky, rectangular shape was iconic we thought. We also wanted it to feel heavy, starchy and slow; so we gave it short-stubby legs to emphasise this weight - akin to how the tiny legs on sausage dogs or munchkin cats make them seem heavier.
Bread Loaf's sound design emphasises this with cow-like moos and hooves. Those deep empty eyes add to the bread's character of being a plain and innocent ideal. We placed a huge mouth where the crust top and fluffy body begin which allowed us to give the bread air sucking abilities. It now rises as bread does when cooking = expanding its fluffy body.
The Slice is (Up)-Right
The natural question followed, what is a bread slice? Not all that different from a bread loaf - it’s a thinner version of its big bread loaf brother. Same eyes and mouth.
It only needs two legs to give its quirky vertical slice body movement. We tried giving it four little legs and lying it flat. However, seeing that standing little bread slice balance as it runs is just the type of cute our carby critter needed.
It only needs two legs to give its quirky vertical slice body movement. We tried giving it four little legs and lying it flat. However, seeing that standing little bread slice balance as it runs is just the type of cute our carby critter needed.
Their abilities involve headbutting their opponent, inspired by their big loaf brother. Shaking off pesky crumbs for a boost in speed and taking a little loaf around nap to heal up. All adding to that charming plainness that bread holds in our hearts
From Fluff to Flames
But not all bread is plain and fluffy. Some have a darker, more intense side – and we've brought that essence in the Toast GladiEATer.
The charred black crust, the sharp edges of toast and the smokiness of burnt bread. We took those smooth curves in bread slice and sharpened them out. We darkened the bread and added sharper eyes.
Previously, we tried out teeth in our Bread Loaf GladiEATer but e found it took away from that cute plain energy we wanted...and we are so glad we did. We brought in that previous design take out and added it into toast where that fierce edge was wanted. That little sad lip mouth in bread slice becomes a large, scary, gaping mouth of teeth in toast's stomach. This crispy toast bites back. It shoots out the smoke of toast and can defend its allies in a smokey fog. Menacing.
Avo-can-do
When we had designed Avocado Paste, we came back to Toast Slice for Avocado Toast. Seeing how it shaped into this sassy little green critter, we imagined the paste making its home on the toast slice when spread.
For some visual storytelling, we thought the Avocado Paste would work great as a
face-hugging creature onto the toast host it’s been spread on.
Its abilities are largely structured around merging the Avocado Paste's and Toast Slice's abilities - while giving the toast slice underneath an appearance to let the host-avocado story be uncovered.
*Flour* Power
And finally, when we settled that we want EVERY minigame in GladiEATers to give the player a new GladiEATer - our Dough making minigame fell short of that. To fix this, we designed the Dough GladiEATer.
The Dough minigame can branch into the Bread but also Croissant GladiEATers so the dough GladiEATer needed to be relatively faceless so that it could grow into both branches seamlessly. So, it has no face, just a bright wide smile cornered by floury cheeks.
Its abilities involve kneading itself for a power boost, rolling stickily towards its enemy and puffing out some yeast spores that give an ally a nice-power boosting sleep.
Resting Remarks
With that, we love our topic to rest. We're thrilled to share our passion for Bread and GladiEATers - we can't wait to feast on your messages and ideas for more flavour filled food creatures!
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