Agile Coffee

Game Description: Step into a bustling coffee shop where teamwork makes the dream work! Be a VR Barista crafting drinks hands-on and managing the cafe floor, or a PC Cashier, taking orders, handling customers, and making big decisions. Talk it out, stay in sync, and adapt on the fly. Every order, upgrade, and layout change depends on how well you work together!

Abstract: There have been some computer video games that offer players a cooperative experience of managing a Food and Beverage (F&B) restaurant, assigning roles or shifting stations around with the goal of increasing efficiency in their service. While there are similar video games in the Virtual Reality (VR) space, their focus is mainly on letting players experience running the restaurant without having the ability to optimize their workflow to become faster. Due to this, there is still a gap in the VR genre, specifically under the asymmetrical cooperative and time management. Grounded in the General Systems Theory (GST) framework: where it highlights how systems are composed of multiple smaller parts working together, and data gathered from a quantitative survey and relevant research. Agile Coffee seeks to design and develop these ideas and some present in computer games and media into the VR space by focusing on optimizing workflow of a coffee shop through coordination between two players. Where a PC player is the cashier and the VR player a barista, just like coffee shops in real life that are manned by at least two employees with defined roles. These players can also coordinate to upgrade appliances and shift work stations in order to become more efficient and serve more customers. Thus, effectively creating an asymmetrical management game and providing players possible insights on enhancing a coffee shop’s overall efficiency.

Keywords: Time Management, Asymmetrical Cooperation, Coffee shop, Efficient Workflow