Initial Brain Storming

Basic Mechanics

• Player can go through walls, Coffee can't
• Co-op?
• Cook times
  • Pour-over, French Press, Espresso, Aero-press
  • Prep work
    • Milk prep, bakery, Bean prep
• Kitchen Layout map
  • Obstacles
  • 3-D vs isometric
  • Low-Poly, Coffee Aesthetic
  • Simple textures
• Possess Appliances
  • Appliances break, must haunt to fix. Haunting takes time
• External
  • Hide from ghost checking health inspectors
  • Clean-up ectoplasm to keep machines going
• Upgrades for the shop
  • Management vs Different environments
  • Shop extensions and menu extensions (Ghost Parfaits, poetry riffoff)
  • Ghost evolution (Faster Ghost meter repair, ectoplasm babies)

Schedule + Core values: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wn5cHNnlkw_rQgnP4Xro0Bdj8sZR1zMKozzrnpinn2g/edit?usp=sharing

Core Values:

• Chaos
• Chill Coffee shop atmosphere
• Co-op

Core Mechanics:

• Going through walls
  • Player can pass through walls/tables but the coffee they must deliver cannot
  • They must go back and get another cup if they spill one
• Possessing appliances
  • Machines break and players must possess them(long button press?) to repair them
• Time management
  • Players must multitask and strategize to keep as many customers as happy as possible. Customers have a meter that determines *how long before they become angry
• Multistep recipes
  • Players have to move from station to station in order to produce the coffee(think overcooked)