Really enjoyed this game. I found you can easily cheese it by rejecting all the customers.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #5 | 4.769 | 4.769 |
| Theme | #10 | 4.577 | 4.577 |
| Gameplay | #15 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #25 | 3.872 | 3.872 |
| Polish | #30 | 3.962 | 3.962 |
| Audio | #46 | 3.577 | 3.577 |
| Limitation | #155 | 2.346 | 2.346 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Looks like there's no character limit on the character naming textbox so I decided to go for some super long name. Anyways, I really enjoyed the minigames when preparing the espresso, and frothed milk. Also kinda funny you can just reject the customers, funny stuff like this makes the game fun as well. The art is pretty cool too.
7 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much! (: & yeahhh i definitely wish we were able to get that resolved before submitting, but glad you still had a good experience and thanks for checking out our game!
Oh yikes - I'm really sorry about that experience! That's really good to know though - I just made a fix that should hopefully help post-jam where when you pick up an object, it now highlights all the spots you can drop it but unfortunately I wasn't able to get it in this version ): Maybe I can tweak the wording too to make it clearer! I'm sorry you had that experience though, but we both really appreciate the feedback and for taking the time to play!
The jam limitation was implemented a few different ways - anytime you turn around to go to the cafe and click back to the character, they start to mutate. Also if you get a "bad" order, they fully mutate as you "turn around" away from the coffee bar. In addition with the overall story, the characters are supposed to be "not as they seem" and you only see their "true" forms when they get upset or you aren't actively looking at them (:
Oooooo no it wasn't in reference to the tale actually, but that would've been a fun twist to add!! :D
Oh ok I see the intent here! And I understand how I missed it with the way I played: First I welcolmed the customers, without leaving the screen I asked them for the clue, then I went to make the drink and once the drink was done I clicked the serve button. No back and forth, no opportunities for the limitation to show itself :/ one way to incentive the player to make back and forth could’ve been to put the drink recipes on the customer screen instead of the brewing area! Now I’m a bit sad I didnt get to see those in between stages xD
Thank you for explaining it to me, I’ll up my limitation rating since you genuinly worked with it!
Gg for the game, and don’t worry to much about those couple of misteps, it didnt keep me from playing a good 1-2 hours, unlocking every clues, while genuinly enjoying my time ✨
8 days ago(+1)
Thank youuu (: & haha yess he's one of my fav creepy characters - my sister went a little crazy with his alter ego LOL
& yes sorry about that! I caught that at the very end and had to leave it in since there was at least a quick work-around, but I got a patch done and will update post-jam! Thank you so much for your feedback and playing!
8 days ago(+1)
Hehe i see what you did there LOL & thank you so much! My sister and I actually debated on the time thing a lot, but we really wanted to lean into the "cozy" vibes where you can just chill, remake stuff as much as you want, and just take it at your own pace, so that's awesome to hear it was the right move! Thank you for taking the time to play! (:
Thank you so much - such a high complement!! (:
& ahh sorry you ran into that! Honestly that was annoying me too, but unfortunately I had to crunch a bit towards the end and left it in to get it submitted on time (mostly bc there's at least a work-around to recreate the espresso even if it is annoying) ): but I got a patch done and will update post-jam! Thank you for the feedback and for playing!! Glad you enjoyed it :D
8 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much!! Yeah the coffee grind mini-game took me awhile to get the grains looking like that, so I'm really happy to hear someone appreciated that small detail :D & LOL that was definitely the hope to shock a few people (just a little)!
Procreate is awesomee - there's so much you can do to change up the look of whatever you create (: (& her artwork in your game looks so cute btw)
Oh noo! ): I was crunching towards the end to implement the currency feature, thank you for bringing that up!
If you chat with Ol' Reggie, you'll find out there's a specific attribute he hates that is given in the default options for that drink in particular, so the hope with that is as the player keeps playing, they either a) skip that drink for him learning he wont like the default and/or b) buying an alternative item in the shop that would work for his character. For a few of the characters, we wanted the player to likely trigger the "creepy" phase and get them to have to find a way around it, but might need to work on making that a bit clearer moving forward. Thank you for the feedback and for checking our game out! (:
10 days ago(+1)
Haha very fair - we were hoping to give people different options by either deducing who likes what or chatting w/ them to figure it out, so love the YOLO approach too LOL
Thank you so much and thanks for stopping by to play! (:
10 days ago(+1)
Ahh yeah that's totally fair - we were trying to make it feel like all of the customers were "off" and you'd only see their true colors when you "made them mad" by getting their drink wrong. Thank you so much for playing and glad to hear you enjoyed it!! (:
10 days ago(+1)
Thanks so much!! & haha yay that's what we were hoping to go for - I'm glad that came across well! Thank you for playing (:
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