Roast is a tycoon game set on a coffee plantation in Central America with colony simulator style AI.

Roast will allow the player to dive into the cultural and financial facets of Central American coffee production - A colony simulator cross tycoon game allowing the player to build residential and production facilities piece by piece on a world grid. Players will choose from a range of top coffee-producing Central American countries to control, providing players with different coffees and export/import targets. The player must balance technological advancements, staff happiness and grid based planning to produce the best coffees and achieve high scores on the world stage.

Key Mechanics:

• Building System
• Utility AI Staff
• Farming and Coffee Production (Ground Nutrients, Drying, Brewing, etc)
• Technology Tree
• Exports/Imports
• AI Country Coffee Judging/Satisfaction

• 0.5
  • New Assets + Buildables
  • Main Menu Screen Added
  • Options Menu added
  • Final rework to Utility AI - Available Jobs Class + Context Class
  • Coffee Creation and Product system added + Required Inheritance
  • Prototype Contract system added
  • AI Optimisation
  • New UI Assets
  • Post Processing
• 0.3
  • Utility AI - Reworked "Work" action to allow for better control and work ratio.
  • Added core product and design scripts + Reworked some existing class inheritance
  • Created Prototype Coffee Product and Design system / flow with related UI elements.
• 0.2.2
  • Action Manager Added
  • Optimised available actions
  • Fixed Work availability + Coffee plant FSM
• 0.2
  • Initial Release
  • CineMachine Camera System - Mouse Pan, Rotate, FOV Zoom, Keyboard Pan
  • Grid System + Tile Events instantiate at runtime
  • Building System + Placeable Object SOs added
  • Building System checks + Rotation + Building Ghost
  • Building UI added
  • Prototype CoffeePlant + Storage and Inventory class added
  • Staff NPC + Stats class added
  • Implementation of Utility AI + Actions and Considerations SOs
  • Animation Curve weighting for Considerations added
  • 160 hours development time reached