The Cookie Project
Now playable on web, but downloading is highly recommended for better performance!
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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I really like your game
I wish you could make a romantic game mobile♡
Thank you! I don't have any plans to create a mobile port for this game right now unfortunately, there are too many adjustments that would need to be made to the menus and speech bubbles. It should be playable on mobile devices via the web player option though!
wow i liked that so much, i ended up befriending him. that was amazing!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
THAT. WAS. SO. CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Ok, I love this, I didn't know the characters and I didn't know I needed a Destiny romance sim until now. I didn't even get the romantic ending out really and still loved the characters. It really is a gift to have found this game and to know that there is a great artist behind it is magnificent. I'm definitely going to join this community. Thank you for being so amazing in absolutely every aspect.
Greetings from Argentina 👋 💙🤍💛🤍💙
Aww thank you so much for your kind words!!! I'm so happy you enjoyed it! ♥
I already created a Tumblr account just to follow your work and I want to say that I love your art and your humor. Seriously I'm glad I found all this 💓
This game is sooo cute! I wish there was a continuation of this story, i just adore Ceph so much <3
Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
AWHHH, that was so sweet! I adore Ceph so much!! 💘
Thank you!!
Already missing Ceph, this game deserves more recognition, and I am here to help it increase!
Aw thank you so much!!! I'm glad you enjoyed Ceph!
No I loved this game! It's so well done! You definitely worked hard on it, great job!
Thank you!!
Ofc!! ^^ You should be proud!
Loved the little playthrough you go thru before paying for the game! Makes you really build a connection with the characters. My favorite has to be Four, he never fails to make me laugh. I just wished character customization could be added bc I feel like it would make the experience more personal. But overall it was so fun to play and am considering on buying the full version(just to see what Ceph's brother looks like)
Aw I'm glad you enjoyed it and four's shenanigans!! Although, I need to clarify that the game both on web + in the downloads section are both the same file (as in , there isn't a more complete + bigger version of the game unfortunately!). The payment is set up as an optional donation but both the web/download versions are free. web version is available for folks who can only play on mobile or don't have a compatible PC.
While I would've loved to add more features like a character customizer (that was in my original plans! but I couldn't figure it out in time), this was a project done in just 5 weeks by myself so I was limited in time/resources. I kept it small on purpose just to have a light, quick & fun story experience :) Re: Eridanus, you can see some art of him in my last devlog about the game where I shared some previous art I did.
NOOO I WANT MORE
Darn it! Your oc is so lovable that I have no choice but to get into Destiny 2 after playing this vn! >:0
o-oh well, Destiny 2 is a little rough right now but it's still fun! :D I'm glad you enjoyed Ceph!!!
that was nice
wanted to point out the rock on the bakery shelf. I christen him Dwayne and he shall henceforth be my steadfast companion forevermore. you could say that he's... my rock.....
henceforth Dwayne shall canonically be his name!
This was so cute! I love the art and the warm, cozy vibes. I know nothing about Destiny 2 but never felt lost trying to understand the source material’s lore.
Four was my favorite :’)
i loved how four was our wingman or should i say wingbot, anyways i just loved it
This is so sweet and wholesome. I was giggling the whole time and it made me wish that it could be longer. I love it <3
isn't he so dreamy
I CAN'T I'M DYING!! WHY AM I GIGGLING AND BLUSHING HE ISN'T EVEN REAL!
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