Sprite Kit

Barista! Now Available!

An illustration of a Barista having trouble keeping up. Coffee is spilling everywhere.

My new game, Barista!, is now available in the App Store!

Barista! is a fast-paced coffee creation game. Can you fulfil all of the orders and get to the end of the day before your Jim fires you?

Orders appear on the blackboard and you’ve got to get ’em made before the time runs out!

With four different types of drinks with various combinations of cups, espresso shots, and mixers, can you harness the power of caffeine to keep track of it all and survive the day or will the pressure grind you up like so many medium roasted beans?

* Four different drink combinations with up to 3 shots per drink to keep you on your toes!
* Bonus Busy Days where you can double your earnings—if you can keep on top of things!
* Up to four orders at once to really test your cool under fire!
* Many levels of coffee-making mayhem!

Created as part of my 100 Hour Game challenge, it ended up taking me around 160 hours to get it to finished product.

This is actually pretty good for me. Usually projects take 2–3 times longer. This only took 60% so…win!

I’m excited to finally get this out there. I’ve learned a lot during this process and I’m eager to take what I’ve learned and get going on my next game.

Barista! is available in the App Store.

Button to Download Barista! On The App Store

100 Hour Game—Day 3

Hours remaining: 79.

The Name

The young boy was walking
When the old man appeared
"Hey, you!" said the man
As he stroked his white beard.

"Now where do you travel?
To where do you head?
To the forest? The desert?
Or home to your bed?"

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The 100 Hour Game—Day 2

Time Remaining: 84 Hours

After playing around with Inverse Kinematics and struggling to get it to transfer the velocity of arm motion to the coin in a realistic way, I thought about how much time I wanted to spend getting this to work and came to the conclusion that I didn’t really like this idea enough. So I threw it out and started over, which is always a good idea when you have severe time limitations.

I considered the set of limited skills and experience I had with SpriteKit and figured out what I could do with them in a hundred hours and came up with:

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