makemecookies!

A shift is one play of the song, and the song is the clock. Flour into the hopper. Dough out of the mixer, before it toughens. Along the belt, unstick it when it jams. Out of the oven the moment it turns golden, not after. Into a box, and the bigger the box the better it pays. Five machines, all running at once, none of them waiting for you. The difficulty is not any one station. It is that your hands can only be in one place, and the oven does not care where they are. THE SHIFT Tap a station to act on it, or use the keys 1 to 5. Every station has one moment that is right and a slow slide into something worse: dough overmixes, trays burn and then catch fire, the hopper overfills and goes on the floor. Nothing blocks you. Everything degrades. Four RUSH windows land on the music, the belt speeds up and every box scores double. The song is makemecookies! x4, and it gets four. Mess builds…