Coffee Shop Simulator VR

Ground Up!

ROLE

Game Designer, Gameplay Scripter

DESCRIPTION

'Ground Up!' is a game where you play and take the role of a barista, serving waves of customers, filling out your café with furniture, equipment and earn money.

Work your way up to the top by paying off debt to your boss and becoming much more than just a barista...

This was a project that involved myself and Timothy McAllister, another game designer.

YEAR

2024

GENRE

Top-Down Simulator / Management

Contributions

Helped design the movement mechanics and gameplay loops
Scripted the player movement, camera movement, coffee making process and the objectives
Helped balance the efficiency of serving and earning.
Implemented and scripted in animations for the player character and the milk and kettle animations.
Created Niagara particle effects for player character and some aspects of the coffee-making process such as steam etc .
Set up gamepad support.

Main Menu

Main menu I created for the game that includes the play section (Continue and New Game), and the options menu.

Brewing Coffee

The player can brew and create up to 7 hot drinks. The process can take up to around 25 seconds for experienced players and up to 35 seconds for newer players.

Purchase Menu

This is a purchase menu that I created that allows the player to refill their ingredients, purchase new equipment and furniture and purchase upgrades for their equipment. I balanced the prices for each purchasable,

Serving Customers

While Timothy worked on the Customer AI, I helped work on some blueprints of the chair and table, which includes the purchasing and spawning of tables and chairs, which are grabbed by the customer AI to sit down at.

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