About this Game

Green Diner is a 2D single-player restaurant simulator game that educates players on sustainable restaurant practices. The practices featured in this game are based on practices real restaurants use and that climate change experts recommend. We hope that through this game, we may inspire people, especially those in business leadership, to continue searching for and implementing sustainable solutions to help reduce the burdens of the ongoing climate crisis. We also hope to be able to raise awareness in a player-base that may have been otherwise apathetic or unaware of the potential impact they can make. While the solutions are far from perfect, education on the trade-offs necessary for fighting climate change is our number one goal.

Current Features

For this iteration of Green Diner, we focused on establishing foundational features: basic scene setups and core gameplay mechanics.

Players progress through the game in turns. A turn always starts with the player being able to shop for new upgrades to their restaurant. Upgrades include restaurant-service appliances and machines, water, food, and energy sourcing, and decorations. Each upgrade affects green score, customer satisfaction, and restaurant expenses. Currently, the green score and customer satisfaction score are correlated 1-to-1 but this will change in the future.

Future Features

With the foundational features established, we hope to increase the variety of gameplay elements and include more convenience-related features in future versions of Green Diner.

Our biggest priority for additions is increasing the variety of upgrades. The more upgrades that are included in the game, the more players can develop their own strategies and preferred playstyles within the context of Green Diner. When more of these are implemented, creating buff mechanics, breaking down the green score into further subcategories (e.g. water usage, electricity usage, food waste), inspections, and various game endings (including both winning and losing endings) will become more viable.

As the game expands, we would like to make sure features such as saving/loading game files are readily available.