You are the the sole Barista in an Espresso bar.

Customers will come to the tables and yell out their orders: espressos or cappuccinos. You must remeber the orders! If you give the customer the wrong order they will get mad and leave.

You create the drinks from the ancient espresso machine maker.

The Espresso machine is senstative to pressure, so you must carefully manage the amount of drinks and how fast you make them. Otherwise, you risk the chance of causing one of the many weak points in the overhead pipes to rupture. Steam from the rupture can hit you or the customers!

You must grind coffee beans as the supply run out. Be careful though, grinding beans uses steam! Grind too fast and you might cause a rupture.

You must serve the drinks to the various customers. If you take to long to serve them they get angry, hurl insults at you, and leave! If you serve them promptly they leave you nice tips.

When a customer is done you must pick up the demitasse and any tips, and return the cups to the preparation area.

Beware of the Cat and Mouse! They can cause you to spill drinks!

I've had various interuptions durring the week--school and work. This has prevented me from sitting down and coding for a long period of time. I have, however, prototyped the entire game on paper.

I've spent yesterday and this afternoon getting familiar with pygame. I am now ready to begin coding the game itself.

The screen shot I'm going to post is my progress as of this afternoon.

I believe I can have the basic game mechanics in place midnight tonight.

Since I running low on time, I'm not going to focus too much on graphcis at this point. I'm going to use the concept art I did earlier in the week. If I have time I'll replace the art with some better art.

First priority is the game mechnanics, second is sound. I have access to an espresso machine and I want to include the sounds it makes into the game. I believe it will add alot to the feel of the game.

Just spent the last 2 hours coding. I've got most of the basic framework in place for the game.

Originally I was going to have steam vents scattered through the cafe which would go off randomly depending on how hard you worked the espresso machine. I'm not going to have enough time to implement this. So I'm dropping that idea.

The game now will consist of managing the espresso machine and client orders. If I have time I will add the steam vents.

I'm going to call it an early night so that I can wake up early. That will give me at least a solid 8 hours to work on the game. That is more than enough to finish. I hope.

Well good night all. Good luck with your games.

I was not able to finish as quickly as I hoped. The game is incomplete. It is more of a demo than a game. Even so, I've decided to submit what I have. In case anyone is interest in seeing where I was headed.

I had a lot of fun participating. I hope to take part in another contest in the future.

Good luck to the rest of you. I look forward to seeing the final entries.