Robot Barista for 100 Seconds

A BarisBrew minigame where you play the robot arm on the rail

BarisBrew is XYZ’s robot barista. In this game you are the robot arm on the rail, taking orders for 100 seconds: grab a cup, hang it on a machine, and grab the next cup while it works. It opens from a link with nothing to install, with the keyboard on PC and touch buttons on a phone. A toy project I made for fun over a long weekend.

The station layout follows the real unit. Cup, ice, and coffee machines plus four powder and four syrup nozzles line the rail, and finished cups go on the pickup counter in front. Once you hang a cup on the ice, coffee, or ingredient stations, they work on their own and the arm is free, and most of the game is choosing what to hang first. The icons on an order card are the recipe in order, and the number on each icon is the nozzle to go to. The numbers came after feedback that the colors alone were hard to tell apart.

PC view: order cards on top, the rail with eleven stations in the middle, the pickup counter below

People outside the company don’t know who “Baris” is. So the title stays “Robot Barista for 100 Seconds,” and the robot’s name first comes up in its own voice when the game starts. The result card introduces it with one fact: Baris doesn’t take breaks and has made a million cups so far. At first I compared how many cups the robot makes in the same 100 seconds, but with game time compressed, people beat the robot, so I dropped the comparison and kept the fact.

Mobile: title, gameplay, and result card

The customers are named after my coworkers, and the three executives are VIP customers: serve them for a tip, miss them and pay a penalty. Grades go by sales alone, and anyone who passes Master Barista (₩40,000) gets a coffee from me.

Customer names in the screenshots were swapped for made-up ones.