Save your coffee shop

You're the proud owner of a small neighbourhood coffee shop. Not only have you poured your life's savings into this business, but all your heart and at least a hundred hours of watching online tutorials for the perfect cup of espresso. How hard could it be? Pretty hard, it turns out. After a year of grinding behind the counter, you scraped together a couple of repeat customers and serial squatters, but neither are enough to save what is, by all accounts, a cursed undertaking. To make matters worse, your competition from across the street is gearing up to squash you like a cockroach in the break room.

Time to descale the drip machine and steam some soy milk - will you manage to save your coffee shop in time? Or will your extraordinary efforts cause your shop's premature downfall?

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This is a silly little choose-your-own-adventure-style narrative add-on to the classic dice game Yahtzee (or Kniffel, as I’ve grown up to know it). If you’ve ever been stuck on a weeklong class trip with a Yahtzee-crazed colleague or had to spend the holidays locked up with your loved ones and a cup of dice in the Polish countryside, you might be familiar with the intense boredom I have been subjected to. From these harrowing experiences, this small project was born. What if I could enjoy myself without having to ruin everyone else’s fun?

While playing along with a normal game of Yahtzee, you tally up your successes and failures to determine whether you can save your coffee shop from ruin. Each and every round you get to read a little more about how your efforts help or hinder your goal, and every playthrough will be a little bit different. Deal with some truly unhinged customers, make terrible decisions and woo your crush with your barista skills - the dice determine how well you will do! 

The Dregs

The writing is rough, my friends. This is a first draft that barely anyone has laid eyes on so far. Some major decisions have yet to be made, knowing myself, however, I will probably never touch this again, and I'd rather share the tiniest bit of incomplete fun now and again than let all my weird little stuff gather dust somewhere on my hard drive. Here's a list of stuff I'd like to change/add in the future:

• some text editing (possibly character names and pronouns)
• art for a nicer print version and better formatting
• more elaborate PvP rules

If you have some suggestions, shoot me a message. If you wanna turn this into your own thing, mix this up etc. Do whatever you wish. Sharing is caring.

Title "Dice or Decaf" courtesy of The Librarian, thank you so much!