Recipe Rhythm

A tiny, mobile-first browser game that turns African food knowledge into a cognitive rhythm challenge.

You see a recipe sequence briefly — then it disappears. Ingredients float around the screen like bubbles. Tap them in the correct order before the timer runs out.

This project is part of an unique African Gaming System: using cognitive load (attention + timing + interference) as the “action,” with African food as the cultural layer.

Play

• Open the GitHub Pages link (once enabled), or run locally:
  • Download the repo
  • Open index.html in your browser

How to Play

1. A recipe sequence appears (e.g., TOMATO → ONION → PEPPER → RICE)
2. The sequence disappears
3. Tap the floating ingredient bubbles in the exact order
4. Wrong tap:
   • time penalty
   • sequence resets to step 1

Levels (Current)

• Level 1: Black & white bubbles, short sequence (3 steps)
• Level 2: Black & white, longer sequence (4 steps)
• Level 3: Color noise is introduced (text colors change), but the rule stays the same: tap the correct WORD

Planned: expand to Level 6 using the same progression style (speed, density, similarity, interference).

Why this exists

African food is often boxed into “kitchen-only” contexts. This game puts it in a different space: casual play.

No lectures, no heavy framing — just a game that happens to be built from African food knowledge.

Tech

• Single-file HTML/CSS/JS

• Canvas rendering

• Mobile-first layout

• No external libraries

  Maintained by The African Gourmet · Licensed under CC BY 4.0

  Part of [SankofaKitchen](https://github.com/ChicAfricanCulture) — African foodways retrieved through play

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