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Indie Game Spotlight: Cake Bash ( @playcakebash​)

We hope you saved room for dessert with this week’s Indie Game Spotlight. Cake Bash is a four player party game where you fight to be the tastiest cake! There’s loads of game modes and minigames to battle it out in, and you get to be a cake.

We spoke with Laura, the artist and director at High Tea Frog, who makes all the cakes, environments, UI, particle effects and lighting. She also helps with the design and production, a bit of finance. When you’re an indie in a tiny team like theirs, you have to do a bit of everything!

When did you conceptualize the idea behind the game?

Our first prototype was inspired by the sentence “what if you play as a doughnut and punch each other”, back in April 2018. It’s evolved a fair bit since then after nearly two years of development.

What are the different kinds of desserts we can expect to meet?

There are seven different treats to meet! We have Casie the cupcake, Slice the cheesecake and Chip the muffin to name a few. They each have a bunch of flavours to choose from, so hopefully we’ve covered all of your favourites!

What are some gameplay mechanics introduced in Cake Bash?

Our five main game modes have the same chaotic combat but different goals, like chuck the most fruit into a pie, grab the most sweeties, break the most fortune cookies and more!

We noticed pigeons are in the game! How do they play a role in the game?

The pigeon is very popular! It flies into our Patio level and pecks at whoever is currently winning. It can also drop ‘bombs’ which you need to avoid because pigeon poop isn’t tasty.

If you woke up tomorrow as the last food item you ate, what would you be?

I’d be a lotus speculoos biscuit. I ate nearly half a packet yesterday which is gross, but they’re so good dipped in tea…

Do you have any good baking stories?

My sister and I spent ages making a lemon drizzle cake when we were younger, put it in the oven so excited and it exploded. No idea what we did wrong but we had to spend hours cleaning the oven, and didn’t even get a cake for our efforts. Luckily I can make better cakes in the digital world.

Cake Bash will be launching on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Steam later on this year - there is also a free demo available on Steam now if you’d like to try it early! You can learn more by following Cake Bash here!

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Benefits of the remote hiring services

Hiring remote workers is the new trend for business owners. Thank goodness for the recent upgrade to our technology and the ability to outsource annoying business tasks to remote workers. Hiring remote workers to do these tasks has become a huge benefit in the workplace. Running a business can be an exhausting job that requires so much of your time. Business owners have recently discovered the opportunity of hiring a virtual assistant, also known as a remote employee.

These remote employees are often personal assistants that help you manage everyday tasks. Working remotely is often a position that many people search for because they do not have to travel to and from work and can work from the safety of their own homes. This has become a prevalent opportunity for international workers as well.

Advantages / Benefits Of Remote Hiring

Employee Engagement:

Employee engagement is not an easy thing to accomplish.  By and large, it really depends on the type of organization and the type of workers typically employed by said organization. When a company then adds remote workers into the mix, one can see how it gets more difficult to see success in a strategy. In some ways, it’s easy for human resources to develop this idea remote workers don’t need engagement.  The opposite is actually true.  Remote workers tend to be very productive.  Most statistics back up this claim.  A solid remote worker is typically described as:

Adaptable

Flexible

Self-Disciplined

Strong communicators

Independent

Energetic

Confident

Reliable

Increased employee happiness and retention:

It should come as no surprise that people love working remotely. And happy employees stay at their jobs for a long time. Here are a few of the many perks remote working offers:

Go wherever you want – You are being able to move anywhere in the world and done your job from wherever you want. It’s make our tough life easy.

More time with the people who matter – Working remotely allows employees to spend more time with their parents, kids and also to move closer to their family members and friends.

Improved quality of life – Being able to choose where you live is a key to happiness. City life is stressful for some and they would prefer to live in the middle of nowhere. But others enjoy all the activity an urban area offers.

Save time and money – Commuting isn’t just costly. It also sucks time and energy out of people before they even get to the office. But when you work at home, you can start as soon as you wake up.

Cost saving:

We’ve all heard about the steady incline in real estate prices over the past few years. While most the media coverage focuses on the cost of buying or renting a home, leasing office space has also gotten expensive. Remote staffing services also has plenty of monetary benefits like cutting on expenses like electricity, office space, food, beverages, office supplies, internet connection, equipment and so on. Another important benefit would be saving on the costs associated with traditional hiring methods.

Increment in productivity:

Remote employees are far away from the distractions present in office premises. In their own environments, their mental health and physical wellbeing are much improved thereby boosting productivity. Eliminating a 30 minute to 1 hour office commute can reduce stress and improve overall mental as well as physical health. Company productivity has direct ties to wellbeing of their employee the better mental and physical health of employees, the more productive they get.