Carefree Cafe

Carefree Cafe is a simulation game where you start your own cafe selling Melbourne-style coffee in an otherwise coffee-deprived town.

You play the role of Alex, who moved from Melbourne, Australia to a small town in country America. You love the place but hate the lack of coffee, and so you decide to do something about it!

NOTE: The game has been noted to run poorly / behave strangely in the browser for some people (specifically Mac users), so if something doesn't seem right, please try the downloadable standalone version below! We build for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Linux build untested, please let us know if you test it so we can remove this message or fix it if required 🙂).

Controls

• Largely mouse controlled, clicking on buttons and dragging items around
• Hold spacebar to pour pourable items

About

This game was created in collaboration with RudiB for Coffee Jam 2023. It was also our first foray into Godot, so a lot of learning experiences.

Lots of art created by us for the core gameplay, but open art assets were used to fill out the game, and music and SFX assets were also sourced.

We hope you enjoy, and please leave feedback below!

Credits

A special thanks to our playtesters, the CRAB crew 🦀:

• Chloe
• Rafi
• Alex
• Brendon

Art (all from pixabay):

• dibidarthur
• Clker-Free-Vector-Images
• LUCASGREY
• ivabalk
• FrankyFromGermany
• andibreit
• StockSnap
• OpenClipart-Vectors

Music:

• TVARI - Tokyo Cafe
• JuliusH - Cool Piano Jazz
• Juan_Sanches_Music - For When It Rains

SFX:

• Pixabay:  Tea Pouring, coffee-machine, steam-2, Indistinct deep male mumble, CircuitBreaker, BoxCrunch-01
• UNIVERSFIELD - Click Button
• irinairinafomicheva - start

Tools:

• Godot 4.1 - Game engine
• Photopea - Image manipulation
• Paint.net - Image manipulation
• Figma - Graphic design