Alien Bar

Alien Bar is a game where the player, as a barista, combines fictitious ingredients to form recipes, which are then delivered to clients. This game is similar to Cook, Serve, Delicious! or Overcooked!, in the sense that it is a continuous game where players use ingredients to form recipes. Yet, unlike those games, all the ingredients and utensils presented in-game have fictitious names (e.g., Thirpunasorec and Orgeine), and the mechanics are built in such a way that in-game tasks become memory puzzles that do not require previous player knowledge. A video explaining the core mechanics of the game is available online.

In total, the game considers five difficulty levels. Yet, the levels considered by the game depend on the game mode. Each difficulty level comprehends a set of recipes, and relies on the steps and mechanics needed to generate them. During gameplay, three game modes can be selected in the main menu of the game: Tutorial, Training, and Survival. Tutorial presents only recipes from the first level, and has a fixed duration; Training also has a fixed duration, but throughout this phase, the player is free to start any level and play for as long as they want; and in Survival, the game starts from the first level, and progressively increases its level until either a maximum duration is reached or the pending orders zone gets full. Unlike in Survival, orders in both Tutorial and Training are generated every time the player delivers a pending order, so that the orders area is always full. Finally, in Survival, an order is generated every time there are no pending orders left to deliver.

License

The current and previous versions of the code are licensed according to Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).