James Becker

Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama Series

Tech used
PHP
Flash
HTML
Javascript
MySQL
Plaforms
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo DS

The Project

I was lucky enough to work on the intial few websites for the massive Cooking Mama franchise. All of the sites were 100% Flash based with redrawn graphics in Adobe Illustrator and then pulled into Flash. I wanted sites which brought 'Mama' to life, giving her a personality for the viewer.

Cooking Mama : Cook Off introduced Mama to the world and her kitchen. Offering interactive elements such as the frying pan and boiling water added fun elements to the site.

Cooking Mama 2 : Dinner with Friends welcomed people back to Mama's kitchen but this time with added people! The actual game allowed for customisation of Mama and the Kitchen so I wanted to match this with the website. Click on the light switch to start your customisation of Mama's kitchen.

I followed on with this site having little easter eggs littered around, the kitchen sink fills and empties by clicking the plug or tap, the gas stove turns on and off at the press of the knobs, and some more, but that's for you to find.

Cooking Mama : World Kitchen and Mama's gone all 3D! This outing of the website was a lot older in looks, introduction of the 3D rendered Mama and friends in 3D kitchen. Following closely to the games visual appeal so that from purchasing the game on the website you felt you knew the game before you'd even loaded it up on the Wii.

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