Cookbook Maven Celebrates Six Years of Culinary Inspirations

Cooking Diary: A Six-Year Recipe for Success

MYTONIA, the developer behind the wildly popular time-management game Cooking Diary, reveals the recipe for its six-year reign. Whether you're a fellow developer seeking inspiration or a player curious about the game's creation, this detailed breakdown offers insights into its success.

Key Ingredients:

• 431 captivating story chapters
• 38 vibrant characters
• 8,969 diverse in-game elements
• 905,481 thriving guilds
• A plentiful serving of engaging events and contests
• A dash of humor
• Grandpa Grey's secret ingredient (revealed later!)

The Cooking Process:

Step 1: Crafting the Narrative:

Begin by developing a compelling storyline rich in humor and unexpected twists. Populate your world with a diverse cast of memorable characters. The narrative unfolds across 160 unique restaurants and eateries spread across 27 distinct districts, starting with your grandfather Leonard's Burger Joint and expanding to locations like Colafornia, Schnitzeldorf, and Sushijima.

Step 2: Customization Extravaganza:

Enhance your game world with an impressive array of customizable elements: over 8,000 items, including 1,776 outfits, 88 facial feature sets, 440 hairstyles, and more than 6,500 decorative items for player homes and restaurants. Players can even customize their in-game pets with 200 clothing options.

Step 3: Dynamic In-Game Events:

Introduce a series of engaging events and tasks. Leverage robust analytics to ensure a balanced and rewarding experience. The key is to create diverse yet complementary events, each enjoyable individually and synergistically. August, for example, featured nine concurrent events, each offering a unique experience.

Step 4: Building a Thriving Guild Community:

Cooking Diary boasts over 905,000 guilds. Introduce guild events and tasks strategically, ensuring they complement each other and avoid overlaps to maximize player engagement.

Step 5: Learning from Setbacks:

Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities. The Cooking Diary team learned valuable lessons from the initial launch of pets in 2019. By adapting their strategy and making pets unlockable through events, they achieved a 42% revenue increase.

Step 6: Strategic Marketing and Presentation:

With a presence across the App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Microsoft Store, and AppGallery, Cooking Diary utilizes a strong social media strategy (Instagram, Facebook, X) and strategic collaborations (Netflix's Stranger Things, YouTube).

Step 7: Continuous Innovation:

Maintaining success requires ongoing innovation. Cooking Diary's longevity stems from its commitment to adding new content, experimenting with presentation, and refining gameplay mechanics.

Step 8: The Secret Ingredient: Passion:

Grandpa Grey's secret ingredient is passion. Creating a truly great game requires genuine love for the craft.

Download Cooking Diary on the App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Microsoft Store, and AppGallery.