Popoki Cafe

When I thought of creating a project with object-orientation, my mind was drawn to the idea of idle clicker games with the different revenue generators. Thus, I decided to create a clicker game where your goal is to reach one hundred thousand dollars! The short narrative I came up with involved pre-existing characters, with the one the player controls wanting to have a wedding in Hawaii, but not enough money to do so. To deliver this, I drew a simple comic cutscene that plays at the start of the game, as well a CG of the player character and her husband getting married on the beach when the player wins.

For the game itself, I drew a bunch of assets for all the food the player can sell, the UI, as well as the stands and the little characters. I programmed a base stand, and from there had two scripts inherited from it. One for food stands, and one for the player’s stand. Inheriting from the parent class meant that all stands could be upgraded from the UI buttons present, and I simply had to add the unique functionality of each. The food stands would generate a certain amount of money over a certain period of time, both values which can be upgraded. However, they had to be bought first, and wouldn’t do anything until purchased.

The player’s stand, meanwhile, generated money every time the player clicked on it, another value that could be upgraded. Each stand had little animations and text pop-ups as they generated revenue, with the stands displaying their current money and time values. As the player generates more and more money, they’d eventually reach their goal and would be able to win the game!