The brief

Cookiddoo runs cooking classes for children in Kanata, Ottawa. Kids leave a class excited about food, and at home the nearest screen is usually a parent's phone. Fox Kitchen gives that screen something on topic: a short cooking game with the school's character and tone.

The constraints came from the audience. Small fingers on a phone come first, so every action is a gesture, a tap or a drag. Anything meant for adults sits behind a parent check. The app collects no child data, shows no ads, has no chat and needs no account. Real cooking with hot water or an oven stays a job for a grown-up, and the game says so.

What we built

Fox Kitchen: recipes made of gestures

The game offers three recipes in one illustrated kitchen. Pizza: stretch the dough, spread the sauce, slice tomatoes, sprinkle cheese, add basil and bake. Pasta: pour, stir, transfer, swirl the sauce and grate cheese. Cupcake: pour, crack an egg, mix, fill the cup, pipe the frosting and add a garnish.

Each recipe starts with collecting its five ingredients, and a wrong ingredient gets a gentle correction. The dish changes on screen as the child works. Roux, an original red fox, gives hints that never block play and can help with the first gesture. A finished plate goes into "My little cookbook", which is saved only on that device.

Chef Academy: 12 lessons, 36 questions

Chef Academy is the learning half. It has four units, 12 lessons and 36 interactive questions. An answer is checked before any XP or unlock is given, and a mistake gets an encouraging explanation. Children collect five apron patches. Spoken prompts use the browser's own speech and are switched on by choice. After Pizza School, a child can open the pizza practical in Fox Kitchen.

Cookiddoo Play: one home for both

The mobile hub greets the player with "Hello, little chef!" and two adventures, Fox Kitchen and Chef Academy, with counters for lessons, dishes and XP. A grown-up corner opens after a quick arithmetic question. From there a parent can install the app to the home screen and save its files for offline use. A service worker caches the game after the first full visit over HTTPS.

The whole app is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript on static hosting. Food illustrations are inline SVG. There is no server code and no analytics.

Checked at phone and desktop sizes

The hub was rendered in Chromium at 320 by 700, 390 by 844, 768 by 1024 and 1366 by 850, with no horizontal scroll and no script errors. Both new recipes were played step by step at phone and desktop sizes, including wrong ingredients and saving to the cookbook. Testing on physical iPhone and Android devices is the next step on the roadmap, together with French and English localization.

Where it stands today

On 8 November 2026 foxkitchen.mmix.biz opens straight into Fox Kitchen with "Ready, little chef?" and the line "Cookiddoo studio · Ottawa". The hub lives at /mobile/ and Chef Academy at /academy/. The game is in English and works on phones and desktop browsers with touch or a mouse.

Related

Learning products: educational websites. The sector: education. The school the game was made for: Cookiddoo. Another cooking game of ours: Order Riot!.

Project lead: Marketing MIX. Product: Cookiddoo Play (Fox Kitchen and Chef Academy), our browser game made for Cookiddoo. Year: 2026.