Justine Magbitang

Food Truck Story

A virtual reality food trucking simulator game about cooking food and serving a hungry line of customers.

“Food Truck Story is a cooking-life simulation game for Virtual Reality (VR). Play as the new owner of a food truck business, right in the heart of a vibrant and bustling city! Cook a diverse selection of food, serve your hungry customers, and explore your community by building meaningful relationships.As a food trucking simulation, the goal with the game design was to bring the player through the various steps involved in customer service and food preparation. I find that most existing food service games tend to focus on efficiency and profit, and barely at all on connecting and building positive relationships with customers. For example, in this game, the player can engage in additional dialogue with a customer waiting for their order, which increases their patience timer. This is modelled after real life and how having more friendly and personal chats can create a positive and welcoming experience for the customer. Designing this game in VR also presented unique challenges with the virtual in-game space, such as with travelling from place to place and reaching for things. Placing necessary objects and stations at differing heights and distances leverages the uniqueness of gaming in VR and provides the player with a more immersive experience since they would have to reach, look around, and traverse the space similarly to being in a real-life kitchen.This work is being developed as part of DoomScroll Studios. My role is in game design.See more at: doomscrollstudios.itch.io/food-truck-story”