SPLICE sugar cookies for Cipher Prime

“What would you do if you couldn’t fail? We’d make games.” That’s a Q&A peppered on indie game dev company (and local Philly darlings) Cipher Prime‘s website, office, and even coffee mugs. And trust me, they make some beautiful games.

I’m not really a gamer, but I enjoy being on the periphery of the scene because of Ray, and even more so, I love FEEDING the people in the scene. And nobody loves cupcakes more than a team of hungry twenty-somethings–that’s why the boys of Cipher Prime and I get along so well. And maybe it’s because I deliver cupcakes to their office every Friday afternoon with a dash of sass for every ounce of sugar.

I mentioned yesterday that Cipher Prime commissioned me to create custom baked goods to send to Valve/Steam and Intel in honor of their most recent game, SPLICE, which launched in June. I decided to showcase the game’s title, mimicking its unique font, as well as part of the microbe logo–sans halo … because, let’s face it, not everything can translate into icing, especially for a beginner. I flavored the cookies’ icings to correspond with their colors (blue=blueberry; red=strawberry; and green=lime) and packaged them in sets of 5 in boxes packed with bold colored tissue paper–it looked like a pinata was going to explode.

Tucked in with each set of cookies was a sweet note from the boys, explaining why this box full of sugar and buttery goodness was appearing on the recipients desk. And of course, they had some kind words to say about me and Cupcake Friday Project.

This was a challenging project, but I really enjoyed it. And for all my doubts that I wasn’t going to hit the mark … well they were washed away clean with every bite the Cipher Prime boys took out of the extra cookies, polishing them off with smiles on their faces. My focus is still cupcakes, but it’s nice to know I have another avenue to wander down on occasion.