Veteran-Owned | Gluten-Free | Small-Batch | Phoenix, Arizona
Veteran-Owned | Gluten-Free | Small-Batch | Phoenix, Arizona
SauceGAME™ is bigger than a bottle, but everything starts with the food.
We are a Black Veteran-Owned food company built around bold, gluten-free sauces, seasonings, marinades, rubs, and other flavor products, backed by original recipes, family history, and a growing creative universe that now includes characters, storytelling, RecipeGAME™, and an actual playable video game. This page is the official briefing on what SauceGAME is, who is behind it, what is real, what belongs to the SauceGAME universe, and where everything fits.
SauceGAME™ Foods is a Black Disabled Veteran-Owned food company based in Phoenix, Arizona, creating bold, gluten-free sauces, seasonings, marinades, rubs, dressings, finishing products, and other original flavor concepts.
The company was built on a simple idea: everyday food shouldn't be boring, complicated, or predictable. SauceGAME combines real food products with storytelling, characters, gaming and interactive brand experiences, but the foundation is still the same thing it has always been: making food taste better.
SauceGAME™ Foods was co-founded by Dewan and Tené Aiken. Dewan is a U.S. Navy veteran and serves as CEO. Tené serves as Co-Founder, Co-Owner, and CFO. Together, they are building SauceGAME as both a food business and a long-term family brand.
SauceGAME develops sauces, dressings, marinades, dry rubs, seasoning blends, finishing sauces, and other flavor products designed to work across multiple foods and cooking styles.
The company has developed more than 100 original formulations, ranging from products like Mama Ruth’s All-Purpose™ Salad Dressing & Marinade, To The Bone™ BBQ Sauce, Zesty AF™ Lemon Pepper Seasoning, and flavorBOMB™ All-Purpose Seasoning, to newer concepts, limited releases, and products still in development.
Who is Mama Ruth?
Mama Ruth was Dewan’s great-grandmother and one of the family influences behind SauceGAME’s foundation. Her story represents the part of SauceGAME that existed long before the brand had a name: family meals, recipes passed down through generations, cooking with intention, and the belief that food is one of the ways people stay connected. Mama Ruth’s All-Purpose™ Salad Dressing & Marinade carries that legacy forward as one of the brand’s signature products.
Read the Mama Ruth story → HERE
What is The Flavor Corp?
The Flavor Corp is part of the SauceGAME universe and ultimately represents the larger community gathered around the mission to fight bland food. It is not a separate company or organization. Nor is it a fee-paying membership or some kind of formal enlistment system. Think of it as the SauceGAME universe’s collective identity for the people who cook with the products, identify with the content, and believe food deserves more flavor.
Read more about the Flavor Corp → HERE
What is RecipeGAME?
RecipeGAME™ is SauceGAME’s culinary side of the mission, built to show people how to actually use SauceGAME products in the kitchen. It includes recipes, techniques, product applications, and creative ways to build meals around SauceGAME flavors without making cooking unnecessarily complicated.
RecipeGAME also extends into the Flavor Deployed Volume I Cookbook, published by DeltaTango Press, which brings the SauceGAME approach to cooking into a more complete collection of recipes and ideas designed around real food, real products, and practical flavor. Flavor Deployed Volume II is also currently in development and will be published by DeltaTango Press as well.
Explore RecipeGAME™ → HERE
Why does SauceGAME have characters, stories and gaming elements?
Because SauceGAME was never intended to be just a collection of bottles and spice jars.
The products are real, but the SauceGAME universe gives the brand a world to live in. Characters, comics, gaming, storytelling, and other creative projects let us talk about food and flavor in ways that go beyond traditional food marketing. The universe does not replace the food. It grows around it.
What is the SauceGAME universe?
The SauceGAME universe is the fictional world built around the brand’s central idea: the ongoing fight against bland food. It includes original characters, enemies, stories, and environments that appear across SauceGAME content and now extend into SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed, an actual playable video game. Some parts are purely fictional. Others connect directly to real SauceGAME products, recipes, and experiences.
Who is The Saucelier?
The Saucelier is one of the central characters of the SauceGAME universe and the primary hero of Flavor Deployed. He represents SauceGAME’s mission to restore flavor wherever blandness takes over, whether that means a kitchen, a plate or an entire 16-bit city.
Who is SaucyGame?
SaucyGame is a core character in the SauceGAME universe and The Saucelier’s closest counterpart in the fight against blandness. She appears across SauceGAME storytelling and in SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed, bringing her own personality, style and presence to the mission.
She is inspired in part by SauceGAME Co-Founder Tené, and there is clearly a little chemistry between her and The Saucelier, even if neither of them has exactly made it official.
Who are the Blandiez?
The Blandiez are the Flavorless Zombies of the SauceGAME universe. They represent people completely overtaken by blandness and serve as recurring enemies across SauceGAME storytelling and in SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed. They are part of the larger threat The Saucelier and his allies face as they fight to restore flavor.
Who is Lord Bland?
Lord Bland is one of the major villains in the SauceGAME universe and a central force behind the spread of blandness or "Blandification". He represents the larger threat behind the Blandie outbreak and the chaos The Saucelier faces in the Flavor Deployed video game.
What is SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed?
SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed is an actual playable 16-bit-inspired beat ’em up built around the characters, products, and world of SauceGAME. This is not just promotional artwork or a concept trailer. The gameplay footage SauceGAME shares comes from the working game itself.
Flavor Deployed takes the SauceGAME universe and turns it into a playable fight against blandness. Players battle through missions filled with Blandiez, environmental hazards, boss encounters, and other threats while using abilities and powerups inspired by the SauceGAME world and its products.
How do real SauceGAME products fit into the game?
Real SauceGAME products are incorporated into the game as powerups and other gameplay elements. That connection is intentional. Flavor Deployed is not a separate universe with SauceGAME branding pasted on top. The food products and the fictional world are designed to exist together.
Who is developing the game and when is it coming out??
SauceGAME™: Flavor Deployed is being developed by NyotaTech Systemations in collaboration with SauceGAME™ Foods. The game is COMING VERY SOON, as it's currently in the final stages of development. Additional missions, characters, enemies, and gameplay elements are still being built and tested to ensure we give Players and Foodies the best experience we can provide.
SauceGAME products, brand updates, recipes, and new releases can be found right here at saucegamefoods.com and through SauceGAME’s official social channels.
FLAVOR DEPLOYED. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.