The Cookie Project (RELEASED!)
Now playable on web, but downloading is highly recommended!
The holidays are a busy time for the tiny bakery you run in the Last City, and you're used to all kinds of unique customers frequenting your shop during these days. What you didn't expect was a handsome awoken--a guardian no less--carrying a strange contraption and sheepishly requesting your help with his... holiday baking?! In the midst of winter's dreary cold, the blossoms of friendship (or romance 💕) may soon yet bloom!
The Cookie Project is a Destiny 2 fangame in which you can romance or befriend Vanade's Guardian OC, Cepheus, but the game has been made accessible and enjoyable for non-Destiny players too!
The game was developed by Vanade as a solo project for Winter VN Jam 2023, with OST by Piper. The game was produced in 5 weeks.
- 10.7k words of text (about 20-30 minutes for a playthrough)
- romance and friendship ends
- many dialogue choices that change flavour text
- customizable MC name (pronouns are unspecified/gender-neutral throughout)
- beautiful custom background images and hand drawn image assets
- Original soundtrack by Piper (Hamilton Hour)
- Vanade: Art (BG, Sprites, Promotional), GUI, Logo/Cover, Writing, Editing, Programming
- Piper: OST
Additional Resources:
- easyGUI , layered image tool, and layered image visualizer courtesy Feniks
- Stock photo credits:
- Disclaimer: all trademarks/terms/imagery related to Destiny 2 belong to Bungie and I don't claim any ownership over them. This game is produced as a parody.
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Development log
- Thank you art for 1500 plays/downloads + PostmortemJan 16, 2024
- Minor patchJan 10, 2024
- Web playable build now availableJan 09, 2024
- THE FULL GAME IS HERE!Jan 08, 2024
- Where's the game?! Launch date moved.Jan 03, 2024
- The Cookie Project (Demo) launch!Jan 01, 2024
Comments
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Thanks for creating such a sweet fangame! Cepheus and Four were a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting to know them both and would love to see more in the future! ^_^
Help I keep replaying this cause Ceph makes me giggle everytime 😭
My ring finger is looking real empty rn I hope a certain warlock fixes that
imagine if four has a humane form, yknow, body and stuff.
would hold hands with him
hmm honestly, I've never thought about it 🤔
OMG this is so CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHH
thank you!!!
NOOOOOOOO WHYD IT FINISHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
sadly all good things come to an end 😔
ty for enjoying it!!! <3
This is my husband now everyone sorry I don't make the rules
LOL
HOLY HELLThis game is so relaxing.*The artstyle is calming to the mind in my opinion.
*The storylines adorable
*And Ceph is officially making me flustered for no reason.
10/10 would marry cepheus.
Thank you for your kind comment!! he is really and truly marriage material LOL
I saw the image of a Ghost in the thumbnail and immediately downloaded this. It was absolutely adorable! There are too few Destiny fan works like this. Love it!
Thank you so much~! :D I would absolutely love to see more self-indulgent D2 fanworks as well. If you haven't already seen these, there are 2 existing fan-games I can think of: lord shaxx dating sim and a more recent D2 dating sim featuring a variety of charas.
I haven't seen these ones! Thank you :]
OMG THIS GAME WAS SO CUTE AHHH OEWNFLWJDVNLDSJVNS
ahhh thank you!!!
Hi, I'd like to volunteer to translate your game from English into Brazilian Portuguese.
Hello! Thank you very much for the offer! I am open to adding translations in the future (preferably if you have experience working with the Ren'py engine) but I am taking a break from this project for now. I will also have to test first if adding another language will break the speech bubble system for the default language or not.
That's fine. You can contact me in the future.
VSJKDVJKVBKJBVKEBWFFBJE DELICOUS SOUP! DELICOUS SOUP!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS SO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!! 4 and Ceph are adorable!!!!!
Thank you!!! So glad you enjoyed it :D
and thank you for making!!! (人´∀｀)｡ﾟ+
This actually made me interested about Destiny! I am definitely going to come back to it once I understand the lore. It was so soft and heart warming, the sweet blushes can never miss. (Didn't survive the forbidden dough either ahaha)
Ahh I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :D the lore is a bit.... all over the place in game lol. the d2 universe has a lot of potential in it though!
I haven’t played yet but OMG A DESTINY 2 FANGAME??? Yes we are getting fed
my guardian is my most beloved OC at this point and I had to make him a game hehe
AAHHH THIS GAME WAS SO CUTTEEE XDD im so glad that the friend options were just as nice and sweet :'))
Thank you!!! I'm glad you enjoyed befriending my boy!! <3
I don't know anything about Destiny but this was super cute!! <3
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it ♥
this game is very lovely! i enjoy the less heavy flirting options like 'i enjoy spending time with you" ones! honestly this is amazing and your artstyle is truely lovely :)
Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D it was important to me to make the friend options just as rewarding as the romance ones (and to provide less bold/physical romance options on the romance route too)
This game looks fun, I'll try it out when I have some time
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
thanks for this cute game i really had fun <3
I'm glad you enjoyed it :D thank you for playing!
10/10 i ate forbidden cookie dough... never played destiny 2 but this fangame is adorable!
another falls to the forbidden cookie dough
thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
🤍GREAT GAME!🖤
Keep up the great work <33Thank you for playing/sharing my little game! :D ♥
as much i hate four, for being an such ass for my bad flirting, i really want to date him if possible/hj or /srs, idk
I'm hearing this surprisingly frequently LOL. winning Four's love would be Elden Ring/Dark Souls level difficulty.
I'll try to achieve Four's love No matter how hard it is, so four will easily fell in love with the higher ups? sounds like a assistant x boss thing lol
ah no LOL it's more like he would use YOU as an assistant/servant and then begrudgingly grow to care about you over time
Betrayed by cookie dough is a hellish nightmare for me. How dare you tug at my heart strings with romance and death.
the siren call of the cookie dough is so hard to resist...
thanks for playing LOL
This is so adorable n' the art is amazing, adding it to my favourite list 100%
Aww thank you! ♥
Its so cute! Such a heart warming and silly story, I loved it all <3
Thank you so much!! ♥
omg i've loved all of your games so far, so playing it, was a no brainer! loved it!!
Thank you for your support! :D we're really glad you've enjoyed all our games.
Came here from Scuffles, really liked it!... except for the fact that I really want cookies now.
LOL thank you! That is a compliment of the highest degree.
Please add text transitions. It may be a small and seemingly insignificant thing, but for me it helps determine what games are actually good and which ones feel low effort.
There already is basic text animation enabled if you change the text speed setting to a lower setting in options? And if I'm honest, your comment comes across very rudely.
this was so cute omg. i am so glad i stumbled across this. (though, knowing how good your other games are, i knew this one wouldn't disappoint.) ;)
Ahh thank you so much!! ♥ I'm so glad you enjoyed it and I really appreciate that! thank you for your support :D
i wanna date the robot :[
understandable honestly
I've never played destiny 2 but i loved this so much! he rlly is handsome. Also, I didnt know you guys made halloween scrooge and 3 seasons! I loved those games!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! It was a huge priority of me to make it accessible for non-D2 players so it's a relief to hear that it was enjoyable on that front. and hahaha yep that's us 😆 thank you for enjoying our games!
Ahhh thank you so much!!! I'm glad you enjoyed spending time with Ceph~ ♥ Thank you for your support 🥰
I enjoyed it. ^^
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D Thank you for playing!
Noooooo it ended too soon!! I'm so curious about the Day of Dawning and the whole world in the cookie project!
It's rare to experience such a cozy sci-fi, even with mentions of killing/dying and vast space explorations. I really hope you continue it, would love to play more!
Thank you!! The full game will definitely be out! It was supposed to be today but I needed a bit of a breather so I've moved the launch date to Jan 8. I hope you enjoy it when it's out!
Thank you so much! :D I'm really glad to hear that. I was a little worried that the destiny context might be a hurdle but I put a lot of energy into making it as approachable as possible so I'm happy to hear it was enjoyable!