crazy cakes

Crazy Cakes - 4th of July 2008 Weekend Challenge
Use 17 Fireworks power-ups between Friday, July 4 and Monday, July 7!

Update: Debbie wrote in to let us know that she had more success in getting fireworks on the Beginner level than on the others. Thanks Debbie!

There’s a special edition 4th (of July, we assume) badge coming at the end of June or early July. It features characters from Crazy Cakes, so the challenge will probably be for that game. More details as we get them (of course).

For those of you who have been waiting for Pogo’s latest time management game, Crazy Cakes has been released.

We’ll admit we nearly jumped out of our chairs when we saw the headline of the latest Pogo Insider: “Exclusive Sneak Peak to a New Game!” (and of course we had to use the sneaky marketing ourselves, but with proper spelling). Sadly, it wasn’t so exclusive: just the tour page for Crazy Cakes.

Due to (what we assume was) a technical error, the badges for Crazy Cakes were already pushed to the live server, affording us a sneak peek at the five “unreleased” badges and chat icons for the game.

Rank 10: Cookie Chef

Rank 20: Muffin Master

Rank 30: Pie Paragon

Rank 40: Brownies Beyond Belief

Rank 50: Perfect Pastry Wizard

We’ve got more of these “unreleased” badges to show you for some other upcoming games, so stay tuned!

If the tutorial wasn’t enough information for you about How to Play Crazy Cakes, the rules are now available.

Here are just a few of the things we’ve learned from the full ruleset: it’ll be a Club Pogo game, there will be tons of powerups, each rank you earn will grant you a dessert recipe you can print out and bake, and you won’t need to win the game to progress in rank, just serve a lot of customers.

We told you we’d tell you when we had more news on the new re-name for Plate Spinner. It’ll be “Crazy Cakes”.

The name “Plate Spinner” did seem a little weird, we’ll admit. The latest word on the street is that Pogo will be changing the new game’s name to something else before release, but they haven’t decided what it’ll be yet. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear word of its new name.

We got a peek at Plate Spinner yesterday and those of you who love time-management games will be delighted! Time management games, for those of you not familiar with them, are like Pogo’s Makeover Madness (although most time management games make Makeover Madness look like child’s play). The most popular games of this genre are Diner Dash and Cake Mania (and have spawned many other titles, like Burger Island, Wedding Dash, Nanny Mania, Doggie Dash, Pizza Chef, and so many more). They all involve juggling a number of different tasks in order to make your customers happy.

Plate Spinner is a “Fairytale Bake Sale” where you cook up fruit-flavored pastries and serve them to customers. You’ll be able to earn combos by fulfilling successive orders for goodies of the same flavor or type. From happy customers, you’ll earn either powerups or tips. Different customers will have different attitude (for example, elves are very impatient and should be served first). Each round has a goal (like a certain amount of tips) and upon completion of that goal you’ll get a medallion. Five medallions will earn you a jackpot spin.

For a more in-depth look, check out the Plate Spinner Tutorial we have posted.

And if you’re as excited as we are and can’t wait for Plate Spinner to come out on Pogo, check out some great downloadable time management games to pass the time. All of these games have an hour free trial and you can get two for less than $10 each.