Cook-n-Dash

Notable Features

• Kitchen Counters

  
  An abstract base class, Base Counter, was created to add functionality to all other counters such as placing and removing kitchen objects, showing progress bar, or building meals. Different counters adds additional functionality to create a fun cooking experience.

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• Progress Ability

  
  Each ingredient, if they're able to be cooked or sliced keep track of their own progress. Continuing on another stove or cutting counter will resume the progress of the object, even if swapped with another.

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• Successful Recipe Detection

  

  As meals are built on a plate, I wanted to have a quick and cheap way to detect whether the meal is currently waiting to be delivered or not. Each recipe requires a specific number of ingredients and the players should be able to add them in any order. At first, I was just going to use a Set or a Hash Map to detect if the correct amount of ingredients were used. Instead, I opted to use a string of integers, where each integer dictates the ingredients as shown in the picture above.

  For example, a double cheeseburger requires 1 bread, 1 lettuce, 2 cheeses, 1 tomato, and 2 cooked meats. The meal would then have a meal string of "112102". Alternatively, a salad would require 1 lettuce and 1 tomato resulting in a meal string of "010100". Note that burnt meat can be accidentally placed in a meal, which would then need to be thrown away, as no recipe would call for burnt meat.