Cake Shop game

Cake Shop is a time management game where you run a virtual store that sells many goodies including cupcakes, fairy floss, coffee, soft drink and icecream. Each menu item is added one at a time. For example, on the first day you only need to serve customers cakes, then on the second day coffee is introduced, and on the third soft drink etc. The faster you serve the customers, the more tips they leave, and the quicker you improve your virtual cake shop by upgrading equipment.

The Cake Shop game is targeted towards girls from the age of 8 and onward. Each day gets harder as more menu items are introduced. The game player will notice advertisements through out the game, after each few virtual days. Simply wait them out and the next level will soon begin. If you do click on the advertisement, it will open in a new window, allowing the game to continue onward beneath it. The Cake Shop game is highly recommended and very addictive to play.

Time management games are popular. Now you can offer this free Cake Shop game to your own web site visitors. HTML code is displayed further down this page.

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Hints and tips on how to play 'Cake Shop' game

Mouse click the ingredients to combine them. Then mouse click the customer to pass the order over.

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Game design plan

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Please Note: This game design plan is merely a reverse-engineer of my experiences as a player.

Title: Cake Shop

Developers: EleFun Games

One sentence description: Time management game where you need to run a virtual cake shop and keep customers happy by serving them quickly, therefore returning a daily profit.

Scenario / World: The game scenario is set in a virtual cake shop.

Mode: Single Player

Objectives: You have a set amount of time each day to return a profit from your virtual cake shop by serving as many customers as possible. Profits are used to upgrade your shop and ultimately build a house, which makes you one happy little camper :)

Characters: The main characters in the game are the virtual customers. There are numerous customers including school boys, school girls, teenagers, men, women, business men, business women. The same characters are repeated through out the game.

Audio / visual aesthetics:

• Graphics are colorful, pretty, sim in style.
• The background music is happy sounding. Makes you feel like bouncing along to it.

Genre(s):

• time management
• tycoon

Possible Target Audience: Targeted towards girls due to the scenario being set in a virtual cake shop.

Itemization of game elements:

When the game first loads the player will see the entrance to the virtual cake shop, where they are given four options:

1. Continue game - to continue a game that has already been started. You will see this option if you have already played the game cake shop earlier.
2. Start new game - begins a totally new game.
3. Options - allows the game player to change the music and sound settings, higher or lower.
4. Download full version - takes the player to the game developers web site to download the full game.

The first time you play the game, there is a short instructional walk through explaining what to do. After that you're on your own.

The top GUI displays the total amount of profit made for the day. It also has a button link back to the main menu.

On the left wall, there is a clock. This is your guide as to how much time you have left for any current day / level.

When the day is finished you are shown a tally board. This tally will display sales, tips and total earnings. It also shows you what the service was like ie terrible or good, based on tips customers paid. It then tells you how many customers you served that particular day and has a continue button.

Each day introduces a new menu item, for example, coffee, icecream, fairy floss, soft drink etc.

Itemization of game rules:

• Serve customers quickly.
• Quick service will see your customers leaving bigger tips, which helps in making a daily profit.
• Slow service will see them becoming frustrated and leave your store before being served.
• Spend daily profits on store improvements. The better the cafe, the more popular it becomes.
• Each level will see a new menu item being added. For example, at first you can only serve cakes, next coffee is introduced and later on icecream.
• Over time you will be making enough profits to start building your own house. Then you will be a happier business manager with equally as happy customers.