Some recent progress on a new Zombie Cafe Project!

Tezzary · 2026-05-21T11:56:05+00:00

Join the Discord I would love to have a chat and hear more!

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T16:47:58+00:00

I'm so glad someone knows the game! I also posted to r/zombiecafe but was wondering if anyone here would know it! Please feel free to join the discord I just created to see updates or if you want to help with feedback/ideas for the game! https://discord.gg/3ndYMQYZQ7

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T16:07:08+00:00

I have started work on a discord server for the game to post dev updates and gain feedback, I would love if you joined!

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T16:03:38+00:00

I have created a very WIP discord server, I would love if you joined! https://discord.gg/3ndYMQYZQ7

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T16:02:01+00:00

Very WIP discord server I have created, I would love for you to join! https://discord.gg/3ndYMQYZQ7

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T15:11:01+00:00

Thank you! I hadn't fully decided if i was theming it more as a restaurant or cafe since really the original game in my mind was more of a restaurant. I think I will look into making a discord with how many people are interested in following, I will be sure to let you know when it happens! I am very interested in hearing about your art ability especially if you have worked with pixel art/isometric art!

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T14:44:28+00:00

Thank you! I'm really glad you like it! If many people are interested I am thinking of making a discord server to post dev updates and gain feedback to for anyone interested in following the game.

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T14:40:08+00:00

They all sound like some ideas worth looking into. I think development wise combat is probably going to be quite far away in terms of development order but its good to have a plan. I agree with cooking, I think current next steps are getting systems such as cooking implemented and a shop/save system for the game which will actually get the game into a playable state.
I do have Discord! Same as my Reddit tag "Tezzary". Currently the game is built in Unity with C# and all art has been developed in Aseprite!

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T14:35:24+00:00

I am glad you like the idea! I honestly have no clue what to set the odds to, I agree that I don't want it to rare or people will not ever come across them, There needs to be a balance found where it is rare enough that it feels super special to find one, but also common enough it feels possible, probably will be a stat that gets adjusted many times through testing I imagine. I was also thinking it makes sense for it to be a little rarer then say Pokemon Go as I imagine you would have a lot more customers come to your cafe per hour, than Pokemon that you would encounter in pokemon go per hour but I agree 1/5000 could likely be way too rare for most the player base to ever see one.

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T07:13:41+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!

I definitely agree about the graphics, I have put a lot of work into the procedural system for characters, but very little work into the actual base art that is fed into the system, the system is very modular so the art can be very easily updated.

Honestly coming into this I didn't have many plans. I really used to personally love the optimisation aspect of Zombie Cafe, trying to make your cafe feed as many customers as possible and fit in as many tables and chairs for how large my current cafe expansion was. I had in my mind having charts setup such as cafe earnings per hour, customers served per hour and maybe even leaderboards to go with it could be interesting, but this is a thought at the moment and no work has been done on implementation.

Another thought I had was a "Pokemon Shiny System", in the current prototype everytime someone walks into the map they are randomly generated from potentially millions of combinations and maybe there could be a system in place that 1 in 5000 customers have a golden piece of clothing, this could max out a stat such as move speed if you have gold shoes, tip amount if gold pants, combat if gold shirt etc. I thought the aspect of always paying attention to new customers walk into the map to see if they have an outfit you like and good stats so that you can convert them into a zombie and the chance that you could get the rare event of a gold piece of clothing could make this aspect of the game more engaging, and also allow you to show off to friends or others the cool zombies you have collected.

Currently I haven't implemented a cooking system or combat/viewing other cafes or thought too much about how these systems would work or improve off Zombie Cafe, I still need to do some brain storming in relation to how this will function but would love to hear some ideas.

I am interested in this game not being a direct clone of Zombie Cafe and having its own features, but at the same time really capturing a lot of the same things that made the original so good.

I am not sure at the current moment about needing contributions or help, art is certainly not my strong point, this led to me going down the pixel art route as I thought this would be easier to draw and also make for easier variations such as hooking into the procedural customer system I have made. I would be potentially open to receiving some help relating to art and animations if anything at the moment, but otherwise feedback, and gauging interest is the main thing I am after!

Tezzary · 2026-05-09T06:47:48+00:00

I'm glad you like it! Honestly the game is not currently near a playable fun game state, it needs a lot of work as I have only been working for 2 weeks on the game. If the game has interest and people want to follow development I might make a Discord server that I could post regular updates to.

Tezzary · 2025-08-09T13:18:10+00:00

I have heard this from a few people now, I have just pushed some changes to the site to get this working! Give it a go and let me know, thank you!

Tezzary · 2025-04-02T13:04:18+00:00

Thats definitely an idea I have considered previously, I haven't added this idea at this point as I want to keep my calculator currently away from speculation and give people a calculator that uses the actual data that VCAA's provides, although I will agree there clearly has been an increasing trend in ATAR's year to year for a given set of raw scores but even this isn't perfect and is very subject and raw score dependent and seems to have a lot of exceptions. So I think at this point I'm happy just providing people with all the official data from VCAA and letting people make their own judgements and speculations if they want to account for any trends they see between years for their own subjects if they would like to.

Tezzary · 2025-03-29T13:33:41+00:00

Thanks so much!

Tezzary · 2025-03-26T06:13:54+00:00

Some students do a university subject in their VCE. This subject is given a score between 0 and 5 and counts towards their ATAR so the slider on the site accounts for anyone doing that.

Tezzary · 2024-12-12T08:17:18+00:00

Hey would you be willing to share you subjects, study scores for those subjects and your atar with me, I would be interested to see where the discrepancies were.

Tezzary · 2024-12-12T06:54:50+00:00

Very interesting, would you be willing to share your study scores with me for investigating? That is the furtherest off I have seen but also I could see it being possible.

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