Roughly how far are you in the adventure?
I just saw one of my wishlist games is part of this so I guess it's time to tackle this bad boy at 10pm!
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Happy cakeday godprobe! Just got aware of this thread because it popped up in my feed... seems to be huge so far. Made it to the "MEETING ROOM, FLOOR 2" so far and collected some jerseys, figures and other stuff. Gonna get myself some bigger pockets to store all of the items to be able to continue. :)
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Thanks! (And what a perfect image for that! :D)
As it's late in the game before it ends, I'd also suggest using the "Last-minute solver time-saving pro-tip" in the bullet-point at the top of the main post now. Still plenty of stuff to collect and make note of, but the ?=XX parts can mostly be ignored at this stage. Good luck on your adventure! :)
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Tuesday afternoon bump! (well, "afternoon" from where I'm sitting anyway)
- Be a detective, discover a thief!
- Be an accountant, compile an inventory!
- Be a taste-tester, eat cakes and pastries!
- Be an infiltrator, and find out what's happening in The Cake Factory!
Just a few days left to go on the adventure! :)
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Mid-day Wednesday bump!
Three days left to go on the Cake Factory tour!
500 people have visited the Cake Factory, but only 19 have made it back out!
However, those who have gotten through the initial thief and supply puzzles have also usually made it to the ending(s) within a day!
There's still time!
Additional hints are unlikely to be added, but you're still welcome to request help from me.
I'll be out most of the day today though, so I won't be able to reply for some hours.
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Back-for-the-day CONGRATS! bump :)
And nice job making it to both endings, too! :)
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Midnight at The Cake Factory bump...
Look > With time running low, you visit the Cake Factory after hours. You've heard rumors of the sweet delicacies that can be discovered inside, and that's piqued your interest. Could the rumors be true? No, impossible. No one even has pink cakes anymore. It's all chocolate and vanilla these days. Still, you can't shake the feeling that there's something more to the stories you've heard, and you reason with yourself... "It's a Cake Factory... what harm could possibly befall me if I just... visit? Just take a look inside? Go on the tour? Maybe even meet the employees, if they're still working at this hour?" You've heeded all the advice about "time-saving pro-tips", "ItsTooHard quizzes", and mysterious "tables in Human Resources" and feel you're ready, and that you can do this.
Use > The Cake Factory lobby entrance door > With your Tour Party Group Reservation Code in hand, you venture inside...
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Thank you to the people who bumped the thread today!
(I was too afk today to do so myself.)
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You clearly put a ton of effort into this, and I wish I had the energy to complete it, but I think I'll have to settle for just scraping the surface. Neat idea though.
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Totally understandable to either not have the time or energy. Thank you for the compliment though, and thank you for the bump! :)
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I have to join Taalen in my congratulations to you for putting this together. Clearly such a labor of love deserves to be experienced by more people but I just can't muster the energy for it right now I'm also currently also on meds and boy are they messing me up. I like your descriptive prose though (the little I saw of it) and I salute you for doing this, it's quite the feat!
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The adventure itself will always be here for any brave adventurers wanting to take it on sans giveaways. :)
And yeah... I don't think I'd want to try this one while medicated on anything myself!
Thank you for the kind comments! :)
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Whoohoo!
Well on your way to the full tour then! :)
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Time's running out, but I managed to complete the whole thing! Bump! :D
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Cake Factory tour completion number 23! :D
Thank you for the bump, and the compliments elsewhere! :)
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Less than 24 hours to go bump!
To be perfectly honest, if you haven't started it already, it's unlikely now that you'll make it through to the end of this adventure before the main giveaways end; you'd have to shatter the current finish time record of about one day and three hours. However, here's a list of the giveaways you're still privy to if you just want to conduct an investigation into the Cake Factory's thief for the next twenty-four hours...
- Lobby: The Stanley Parable
- Air Ducts: Clandestine
- Restroom: Mirror's Edge
- Meeting Room: Cuphead
- Break Room: Legendary Eleven
- Customer Service: Hotline Miami 2
- Orders & Fulfillment: KAMI
- Human Resources: Human Resource Machine
- Server Room / IT Department: TIS-100
Catching the thief, and following up with the requests of the IT department will of course grant you access to the other giveaways, but you're definitely running out of time now.
The bonus giveaways will end sometime after the official Cake Factory closing time.
If you're just interested in playing the adventure, and don't mind missing the giveaways, don't worry -- as long as SteamGifts and SGTools both stay up, The Cake Factory will too.
Also, I feel a quick shout-out to Fet for contributing Dandara to The Long Alleyway (a part of The Cake Factory) is long overdue!
Thank you, Fet!
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Less than sixteen hours left...
- Visitors to The Cake Factory after twenty-eight days: 562 (and climbing)
- Found the thief and compiled a supply inventory: 33
- Took the tour and made their way through management: 28
- Discovered Level 3 and completed the entire adventure: 24
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The Cake Factory, an interactive text adventure... [SGTools Lvl 2+]
A walkthrough for The Cake Factory has now been posted.
Although this topic is now closed, The Cake Factory adventure will remain available for the foreseeable future should you wish to play it.
The Cake Factory closed on Saturday, September 15th at 5:21 PM Pacific time!
If you're stuck on the thief puzzle, make sure to use the assistance of the ItsTooHard quiz (also linked from the comments in Orders & Fulfillment) as well as the table in Human Resources! If you've found the thief, but are stuck on the Supply Inventory puzzle, use the ItsTooHard puzzle again -- it identifies every item type of the items it asks about.
You can read more details about the event or the FAQ for the event (now including a list of games found inside the factory) in the first-post replies below.
The Cake Factory
An interactive text adventure...
Look > This appears to be some sort of puzzley giveaway event.
You vaguely recall that there are Guidelines about Entering these sorts of things and that leaking puzzle giveaways is a bannable offense.
You wisely decide never to do that.
Talk > There are a few people to talk to here in the comments below.
Use > Tour Party Group Reservation Code (Don't be late!)
Every other day nostalgia bump adventure game bonus giveaways [Lvl zero]...
(roughly in order of personal affection, lasting one week each; dates based on Pacific time)
A trilogy originally set in ParisFrom a well-known author, although the book was written by his friendCold and mechanical? Yes, but also no, not at all!Helped revive classic comedy style adventure gamesA modern adventure game based on a popular TV seriesA simple game with roots in Flash from a consistently great developerA beautiful classic whose follow-up's sequel was released over the past four yearsOriginally exclusive to Mac, it also helped popularize the CD-ROM formatAn early example of successfully adapting movie to game. (First graphical point-and-click I ever played?)A great modern contributor to the revival of classic point and click adventuringA darker iteration of one of the very first adventure games(region locked)Continuing the trilogy from the previous giveaway......and concluding the trilogy from the previous giveaway!I know the capital of Iceland because of this time travelling adventure(region locked)The real fourth movie of the franchise (imho)Another modern point and click, I'll be looking forward to "Whispers of a Machine" nextIf a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, what color is the tree?The bike from the Sep 5th giveaway was manufactured here.A hilarious adventure game not made with any pixels. (Also, this is a lie.)The sequel's coming out soon, better play the original first!I feel like I could... like I could... ... ... like I could... take on the world!You're still here? Hmm... maybe you know me too well. And you were expecting me to end this list with another game.(ended)Month-long public level zero.(ended)I'm sorry, did you need a train?(ended)Comment has been collapsed.