Cafe World: Cooking Academy design

Cafe World was a fun and social way to run your own virtual cafe on Facebook.

The purpose of my Cooking Academy design was to add a long and retaining story driven progression system to the game that leads players into specialization with unique powers. The Player must first earn refferals to enter the acadmy by performing tasks. Then the Player can attend a school and learn a cuisine from the master chef of their choosing. The Player must cook dishes of that cuisine many times to master them and thus master the cuisine.

This may not seem innovative today, but the design was actually awarded a design patent.

By leaving your cafe and completing cooking tasks at a school, the Player can achieve a higher level of skill, which is then transferred back to the Player's cafe. The skill allows the player to perform special cooking tasks that are only allowed for those who have acquired this level of skill.

This is the perfect setup for specializing players for chef vs. chef and club vs. club battles.