Chocolate coffee cake – Coffee Noir – Business Detective Game

The videogame market is not just triple A games – the indiedev is currently going through dynamic development, both on the world and the Polish market. A lot of productions surprise us with their attention to detail and original world creation, addictive gameplay or intriguing, complex plot. Their variety and fresh approach to virtual entertainment is an evidence for the hidden potential in niche productions. What’s more, sometimes so-called “indies” don’t only want to provide entertainment, but a lot more and then they are also part of the serious games type – they can touch upon difficult, social topics, and sometimes they even can be considered as intellectual entertainment.

The detective game Coffee Noir produced by Doji S. A. is a great example of an indie serious game. At first it was supposed to be a product only for business clients, created as a browser game. However, the positive opinions motivated the developers to transform the game to a more casual product, intended for the broader audience of gamers. In the end, the game evolved so much that it got practically completely improved in terms of the plot and audiovisual content.

But what’s even more interesting – guess who did own’s share in this project and is currently working on it? Ha, of course I’m talking about myself! In the meantime, Jakub joined the ranks of the Nerds’ Kitchen team and now he’s responsible mostly for the videos, but professionally it was him who started the whole idea of the Coffee Noir game. So it is a system of interconnected vessels and I hope that our efforts will create a good product. You can play it from 30/09/2021 to see for yourself if we managed to combine such different genres into one. Both on GoG and Steam you will find a free demo that will allow you to familiarize yourself with the basic mechanics of the game and assess whether you want to invest in the full version.It’s really the first game that I’m creating and supervising so comprehensively, so your support is priceless for me!

The plot itself, in general – it’s 2021, coffee rules over the world and Neo-London, the place where the action takes place, is crazy about it. We play as Arthur Oliver, a private detective, who returns to London after years of being far away and he get unexpectedly involved in one of the local mysteries. He has to investigate the dissapearance of one of the coffee market businessmen – Richard Kersey. The daughter of the missing man suggests that Oliver should cover his actions as a manager of a coffee producing company and reach contractors who were tied to her father’s business and might be involved in the whole matter. Unfortunately, to be reliable, Arthur has to learn enterprise management – so the investigation’s success relies on acquiring certain business and negotiating competences… Coffee Noir efficiently combines elements of economical strategy and noir-style atmosphere, intriguing crime novel narration and graphic design just like in american comics.

Of course, my work on the game production couldn’t happen without putting culinary elements into it – so the title coffee doesn’t appear only in cups and teacups, but also in the dishes of Neo-London’s inhabitants. One of my inventions created for the game is the Coffee Noir cake, which we can see in the first negotiating scene during the game. The daughter of the missing Kersey, Claribel, has her own coffee shop and is the first contractor on our way to power on the local coffee market. Of course, every respected coffee shop has to serve delicious desserts – that’s why I created a recipe for a cake, which perfectly fits with its character into the game’s atmosphere itself, and our artist included the cake in the mentioned scene. In addition, another scene takes place in a restaurant, and our detective, to obtain information, bribes the interlocutor with the appropriate selection of dishes from the restaurant’s menu specializing in meals with the addition of coffee!

A very chocolate cake with a distinct coffee aroma with a soft, moist structure, soaked with alcohol and served with silky whipped cream with an additional portion of coffee – who could resist such a temptation? Especially when its preparation is pretty easy and requires only a bit of time. Ideal for coffee lovers! So, while waiting for the game’s premiere, prepare the cake and then savor this delicious retro-style cake. You can’t say no to it 🙂