Bread Baking In Video Games

In September last year, as part of a series on card games, I wrote about card game mini games in video games. It was fun to conduct a little bit of research related to a specific topic in the world of video games. Since you are reading this on Brain Baking, my interest is always piqued when a game allows me to bake crusty baked goods. The idea to dig into the topic of bread baking in the many virtual gaming worlds came to fruition when I played Bug Fables in 2021. As I wrote in the review: As a professional baker myself, I especially adored the baking honeybee in the Golden Outpost, that exclusively sells flour, which you can use to bake tarts, doughnuts, croissants, glazed honey treats, cupcakes, and more. Discovering new recipes was a great distraction—albeit an expensive one, if an expensive ingredient was turned into a mistake, healing one measly HP and TP (“team points”, or mana, just like in Paper Mario). The local bakery in Bug Fables, trying out new recipes. Bug Fables is a…