Inhouse Baristas by Marin0104

made by Marin0104 for LD 39 (JAM)

Hey Ludum folks, we hope you enjoy our entry. This is our second submit to ludum dare! :smile:

Inhouse Baristas let's you dive into the daily work of a barista in an office full of software developers! Fill their power up with some coffee in different variations! But hurry up, because their power is running out!

Deliver as much coffee as you can in 3 minutes and get tips from your happy customers.

You can play in three modes: - Single Player - Two Player Co-Op - Two Player VS :tada:

Important

Please look closely at the gif on top of this site. It explains how to brew a coffee, step by step.

1) Your first look goes to the customers at the counter, see their coffee wishes. The amount of beans indicates, how many beans you have to fill in the coffeemill. Does the costumer have a glass milk over his head he wishes his coffee with milk. Sometimes he wants a cup of pure milk.

2) So you put the amount of beans in the coffeemill, pay attention that the coffeemill tray is in the coffeemill. Then you press 5x shift to get the beans milled. Yaay your first selfmade ground coffee! Get the stuff out of the mill by pressing enter and put them into the coffeemachine.

3) In the next step you get water for the coffee. Go to the water glass on the left, grab it by pressing enter and put it in the coffee machine.

4) Activate the coffee machine by pressing shift and wait for the coffee to brew. While waiting you can set up other things e.g. get a coffee cup or put new beans to the mill.

5) Wait for the coffee to get brewed. Meanwhile you can set up other things e.g. grab a cup or put new beans to the mill.

6) Get the coffee from the coffeemachine, go to the cup and press shift to fill it.

7) Put the coffeepot back to the coffee machine.

8) Customer is happy and spend you a tip :smile:

The ludum dare version lacks of telling you exactly what to do and how to brew coffee. We are sorry for that :cry: We try to deliver you a better experience of the game in the next few weeks.

Links

You can download the game on itch.io!

Changelog

01.08.2017: Small bugfix considering inputs. Unity did not track input properly.

Windows	https://marinwin.itch.io/inhouse-baristas
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/inhouse-baristas

Ratings

Overall	836^th	2.476⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	794^th	2.4⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	845^th	1.952⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	810^th	2.429⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	652^th	2.857⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Audio	466^th	2.762⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Humor	499^th	2.158⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Mood	786^th	2.15⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		27🗳️	8🗨️

Feedback

theoddpotion

31. Jul 2017 · 23:41 UTC

Your itch.io links don't work. =\ Will check back later!

kromeboy

31. Jul 2017 · 23:42 UTC

I think that there is something wrong in the link

🎤 Marin0104

31. Jul 2017 · 23:49 UTC

Please check again :)
Think you for telling me!

PavelSovushkin

01. Aug 2017 · 16:30 UTC

Not good feedback on moving. Nice art ssolution

Bonelazy

01. Aug 2017 · 19:40 UTC

Simple lowpoly art looks good, but game objectives are hard to understand even though I played Overcooked (which I assume this is an inspiration for your game). Also the controls are laggy and sometimes the commands don't even work (I think). I think it needs a bit more polish to be a fun experience.

Baski

01. Aug 2017 · 20:16 UTC

Sorry, but I think this is a pure clone of Overcooked, graphics are fine, the game is a little bit laggy, good coop and vs mode (same as in overcooked) No guides for recipes(or purely explained). But it's good but it's clone. Good Luck :)

Yetman

01. Aug 2017 · 22:31 UTC

Very good art style. I don't how the game relates to the theme though. I tried the single player option only and I tried it multiple times but never served anything to the customers, not even a single cup. After some retries, I finally made a cup of coffee (harder than real life though) but there was no one there to drink it T_T So I decided to use my new knowledge in my next retry but... I forget how I did it in the first place :( I will try the multiplayer later if I ever meet a friend in real life.

Togis

02. Aug 2017 · 05:59 UTC

I uploaded my gameplay of this game on youtube, you can find it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0H3CIiReY

Thanks for being part of the stream :)

🎤 Marin0104

02. Aug 2017 · 07:47 UTC

@togis: Thank you very much for playing it! Your work is awesome :)

@all: Thank you all for your feedback. It helps me a lot to be a better gamedeveloper! I really appreciate it.

My first take away is:
I missed a crucial point: Telling the gamer **what** and **how** to do things in the game. For the next ludum dare, i will make it a key point in developing the next game. In the next weeks i will improve the usability of this game, so i can teach myself how i can accomplish that.

In the meantime i will provide you a little guide in the description.

raaaahman

02. Aug 2017 · 13:52 UTC

Nice take on the theme, it mixes two things I really like: time management games and coffe! Sadly having to hit shift 5 times in a row to mill the coffee beans just constantly popped the message for activating the sticky keys...:/

Emery

05. Aug 2017 · 10:27 UTC

I think this game could be improved upon if you keep working on it, but at the moment I think there is a lot you could make better. Overall it was pretty fun. Good Job

fledgeling93

05. Aug 2017 · 10:31 UTC

Nice game, though obviously heavily inspired by Overcooked. The one thing you should consider though - don't put an action that is frequently required on shift key, especially if you should press it many times in a row.

Nekonemo

06. Aug 2017 · 17:08 UTC

Good game inspired by overcooked, nice art :) Even with the explanatory gif I did not managed to make one good cup of coffee but I do not know if it is a bug or if I played it wrong. Nice work anyway

tBureck

07. Aug 2017 · 11:06 UTC

Solid game, although heavily inspired by Overcooked as some of the other commenters already said. The controls are a little wonky and the game is pretty unforgiving when doing mistakes (e.g. you don't seem to be able to fill a cup if it's not in front of a customer). Coop was pretty nice.

ToonTeamJ

07. Aug 2017 · 18:29 UTC

The directions in the description were a little useful, but the game is still hard to learn without a full tutorial. The music was definitely good.

elysiagriffin

14. Aug 2017 · 05:05 UTC

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/165203584?t=03h25m53s

Here’s my live playthrough of Inhouse Baristas on https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin :)

elysiagriffin

15. Aug 2017 · 10:42 UTC

Featured Inhouse Baristas in my LudumDare#39 Highlights & Derps Video :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8Ji5YhVkA

Satanos

21. Aug 2017 · 15:34 UTC

Ask me if you need a translation, I made a review of your entry in my jam section video : https://youtu.be/gbRli1YdcXk?t=117 have a good day :)