Elixir Cafe
Elixir Cafe is a potion-brewing customer service game where you use dialogue with the customer to find out what weaknesses you can exploit. What they see as a cozy coffee shop has something sinister hiding in the shadows…
What?
The game is about reading and comprehending dialogue and making decisions based on the information gathered. Then, mixing of both coffee and potions to fit the criteria from the information received!
Details
Completion Time : 30-45 minutes
Platforms : Windows, Mac
Warnings: cults, "drugging", encouraged criminal activity, implied death/murder, customer service experience/retail
Recipes!
Remember! Your goal is to hide secret potions that will best DEHABILITATE your customer based on what they say they need the most! You've gotta make sure they DON'T get what they need~ <3
Sleeping Beauty
- ethereal essence
- eater of worlds
- nightlight
Hocus No Focus
- sucre
- ooze of life
- ethereal essence
Bottled Discouragement
- ooze of life
- storm in a bottle
- sucre
Hysteria
- mushroom
- cosmos' stardust
- brainrot
Brain Empty
- ethereal essence
- brainrot
- mushroom
HOW???
Made in 14 days for July 2024 Pirate Software Jam (Theme: Shadows - Alchemy
Engine : Godot
Art : Ibis Paint + FireAlpaca
Audio : Bandlab (LEARNING ON THE SPOT HELP)
Game Design Document
Anything Else?
A bunch, actually!
Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files
Yes! We did it!
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes. Super super serious
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes! See away~
Tell us about your game!
Enjoy talking to customers and find out their plans for the day, then use the information you've gathered and whip up a potion to hide within the coffee they’ve ordered. Be sure to still get their drink right, too! Successfully eliminate the customers who are threatening your dark overlord and win the game!
Extra Notes
This is in a modern-fantasy world that's why there's a mixture of both in the game. And the characters here are actually from a D&D Campaign universe we and some friends play!
It's our first time making a video game, but even through the hardships, we had a lot of fun! We hope you have fun, too~ <3
Special thanks to our super super beta testers, and super super thank you to all of you!
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Comments
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Coming from one of the other cafe-related submissions, I couldn't pass this one up. I love that the characters are all from your D&D party!
+ Adorable art/designs, and fun dialogue
+ Core gameplay loop is easy to pick up, and runs well
+ You paid a lot of attention to polishing the dialogue system, and it shows
+ Crows are based.
- Some of the correct character-potion combinations are quite unclear. This can be because some potions overlap thematically (Focus/head empty), or because the potion doesn't seem to line up with the character's weakness (The half-elf wants to be patient/caring, the mechanics need focus/not-panic, other potions seem to match better than the intended ones)
- After finishing the game, clicking "new game" again results in a softlock
- It probably got cut for time, but I would love a way to speed up text.
This is so so helpful thank you so much!!! 🥺 We're absolutely 100% gonna be keeping all of this in mind as we tweak the game moving forward; we're eternally grateful for your wise words🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️
Really, it's great to have a comprehensive list like this of what to fix so thank you again <3
- Delve & Murder
I just discovered this while I was searching for storyrich games and I found it awesome that we seemed to have a similar approach with the theme. :D
Oh and this is so cute! I like the art style and the white outlines of the characters! :D Nice artchoices and impressive drawings!
OH!! You made Midnight Sprits!! We loved your game 🥺 When we checked out your game, we were so surprised at how much your team was able to do in just a few weeks
Thank you for checking out our game 💖 we really appreciate it!
_ Delve & Murder
thank you for your Kind words. :D
This is so charming, I love the art and characters so much!! I think the potion mixing system is a little difficult to work around since you can't really intuit what ingredients you need from the dialogue, though, so having the guide in the description really helped. Dialogue was adorable and fun and I had a lovely time playing through!
Tysm!! <:D We were actually debating whether to give the players a recipe book or let them play around to find out, but ran out of time :( Glad you enjoyed, though!!! 💕
- Delve & Murder
Gosh I love everything about this! Great job guys!
AWW thank you thank you!! 😭 It was our first time but we put our hearts into every part of it ♥️
- Delve
I LOVE THIS GAMEE ITS SO CUTEEEE WAHHHHH artstyle is bussin and the silly characters i love them and they are ngl filled with personality <3 <3 love it and the funny beverages
Thank you 🥺 we worked real hard for em!! Thank you to you too for beta testing for us too it really helped a lot <33
-Murder
This game is really cute from the art style to the alchemy mechanics. Adding the ability to contaminate the beverage with the elixir was also a really nice touch and it has allowed me to come up with some schemes against these customers. fantastic work and best of luck in the future!
Thank you so much!! We appreciate the comment I'm glad you liked our game we were a bit nervous since we didn't really know what we were doing 😭
- Murder
Hi guys so the recipes are in the description for faster gameplay!
- Delve