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Craft Calming Cuppas In Chai Now On Kickstarter
December 7, 2018 by cassn
Did you know that the Irish are the second biggest tea drinkers in the world? It only makes sense, then, that I would stumble across a Kickstarter about brewing the perfect cuppa.
In Chai, you are a tea merchant, creating recipes and combining ingredients to make the perfect leaf blend for your customers. Compete against fellow tea brewers, completing customer orders, gaining awards and earning money to expand your tea selection.
On their turn, a player can choose one of three actions: visit the market to collect flavour tiles, visit the pantry to collect other items, and reserve customer tables and fulfill orders. There are also special abilities which can be used to try and out-pour your competition!
Chai is a visually beautiful merchant game with an interesting theme. It has already exceeded its goal with over a month remaining on the Kickstarter, and that total is set to increase.
There's also a few cool stretch goals which will likely be released along the way, so pour yourself a cuppa and head on over to make your pledge now.
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Oh, damn you. I was going to avoid Kickstarter for a while after my Carnevalé KS turned up, but now I might just have to back this. I do like my tea…
I prefer coffee, Boston had the right ideas for tea.
Tea is the drink of the Devil…
The righteous drink Whisky…lol
Tea facts:
During WW2 the only thing Britain shipped more of to its troops going by weight was bullets.
Also for a couple years during said war, tea was so vital to the war effort that Britain bought up the entire world’s supply of tea.
British love of tea doesn’t end there; to meet the demands of peak tea making time (eg half time of football matches or post new episode of Doctor Who), Britain built a power station specifically to power all those kettles.
Said power station is also built inside a mountain just in case the power surge from meeting demand causes it to explode.
During the Industrial Revolution, tea actually caused public health in Britain to improve because it meant people were now boiling their water.
Anyone got any others?
The reason the British favour black tea over green is that tea sellers back when it first was sold in English coffee houses would add a poisonous chemical to keep it the correct shade.
All in British tanks come with a kettle equipped as standard.
We got an entire nation addicted to drugs to get their tea and then went to war with them when they wouldn’t sell it to us any more. Twice!
We then transplanted it to India so we could more easily control supply and demand.
Tea was so heavily smuggled that this directly led to the need to bring tea tax laws in British colonies in line with the British isles. This then led to the Boston Tea Party.
Tea was one of the first things that was transported and stored out of London at the outbreak of WWII.
The argument of “milk in first / second” has its roots in British class prejudice. To call someone a bit milk in first was to suggest they were of a lower class.
“The Book of Tea” was considered essential reading for understanding the Japanese cultural mindset by British diplomats. It is also a gloriously passive-aggressive criticism of western culture.
All tea, that is black, green, red, white, etc comes from the same species of bush. The different colour and flavour is dependent on how long the leaves are left to oxidise and how they are treated.
I have more.
Do go on.
Iirc, the Boston Tea Party occurred because Tea tax was going to be put *down*; the smugglers and black marketeers heard of the plan and were upset that its undercut their sales. Then ironically post-revolution tea became unpopular in America and coffee replaced it as the beverage of choice so the market collapsed and the lost out anyway.
Chai is not the perfect cuppa. Too milky ?
First time game designers. I won’t be risking any cash on this one, much as I like tea. Let’s see what real (no paid for) reviews make of this game.
The milk in first or after was to do with the quality of China you owned in ye olden dayes. Good quality bone porcelain could take the heat of water being poured directly on it while China of less quality need the milk in to lessen the temperature of the water against the cup
Of course tea is bloody horrible so I wouldn’t have cared