Cups and Curses Demo

This is a demo of Cups and Curses: the first four days in your very own coffee shop. Invent a drink, offer it to someone, and watch it land. You brew in the morning, serve whoever the day brings, and spend the evening in the town or at your own counter trying something new. InventCoffee, tea or cocoa, then whatever is in the pantry. Every ingredient does something, and you find out what by using it. An undiscovered effect is a grey mark under the jar until the first cup reveals it.

Combine what you have and the shop names it: Honeyed Cool Tea, Spiced Soft Cocoa. Some combinations turn out to have had a name all along. You can also rename cups as you like! OfferYour board is your vocabulary. When someone comes to the counter you talk, and what you can offer is what you invented and chalked up that morning. Every morning the forecast tells you what the day will want, and there is more on it than four slots on a board can hold.

A cup that does two things at once is how you make room for everyone. Nobody walks out because you took too long. There is no timer on the shift: the day is a list of people, and it ends when the last of them has been served or sent home to try again tomorrow.…