Coffee of the Damned
The Game:
In Coffee of the Damned you are a barista at 24-hour cafe. That means dealing with drunks, insomniacs, and uh... Dracula, sometimes. This is also the local hangout for all of the creatures that go "Bump!" in the night. Your job is the same - make and serve delicious coffee. But the consequences could be your untimely death!
What I Like About This One:
I've worked these sorts of jobs, and met some of my lifelong friends doing them. They are literally the worst, but coming into contact with so many weird people in a short span of time can introduce you to ways of being that you've never considered before.
What I Would Have Done Differently:
I almost feel like this one would be better as a board game with RPG elements? I think the mechanical focus feels like a Red November type of thing, and if I do go back to the drawing board on this one, I might actually make it a board on which I draw.
I draw/write all of these on medium card stock, and I picked up some new paper from a local art store. They told me it was 8.5x11, which was the format I'd been using up until this point, but it's actually 9x12 and this was the first game I made in that new aspect ratio, so it went kinda off-grid this time. It's also encouraged me to further nail down the layout for these and bust out some of my old art supplies. For future games, I'm actually laying out a template with a non-photo-blue pencil before I start work on the game itself, and you'll see some improvements in the formatting in the next week.