Sandwich King was an idea born out of a discussion at a meeting of the “Creativity Club” that I started with my brother Ruth and our friend Rob where we get together and just talk about our creative pursuits. At one of our meetings, Rob was showing off some video game development software that he had purchased, and we needed a simple idea to test it out. One of us threw out the idea “Sandwich King” with no explanation, and a new project was born. That initial session didn’t develop the idea into anything meaningful, but it planted the seed.

A while later, we were discussing fun ideas for projects to work on and Sandwich King once again reared its bready head. We pitched some ideas and eventually settled on a story about a prince in the Sandwich Kingdom, a land where everyone’s lives revolve around sandwiches:

Our protagonist, an heir to the Sandwich throne, narrowly escapes a political coup and is cast out to the far reaches of the Sandwich Kingdom.

Across the varied sandwich regions within the kingdom, he must find his way home, following the path of a sandwich artist. He will meet many other sandwich artists, each with their own skills and perspectives.

Along the way, he will carve out his own identity from the strictures of his past and the experiences of his current quest. In doing so, he will find the answer to the ultimate question: what is a sandwich?

Design

The game has two modes of play. The first game mode is open world, where the player can wander around the Sandwich Kingdom, explore different regions, and meet different characters. The second mode is a sandwich building mini-game (“sandwich battle”) where the player designs and builds sandwiches. Sometimes the goal of a sandwich battle is simply to fulfill a customer order and sometimes the player has to compete against an opponent to build the better sandwich.

Here is some early concept art: