Unfortunately, since TinierCafé uses the Selfy avatars, you can’t actually customize them without joining TinierMe and doing the customizations in the virtual world.

Because TinierCafé uses the Selfy avatars, there’s a level of detail possible with them that few other café games can match. TinierCafé‘s integration with TinierMe is really the best and worst aspect of the game. In short, TinierCafé simplifies a lot of the more frantic time management aspects of the average café game. Likewise, customers seem very patient about waiting for new tables to open up if they arrive and your café is full. Food doesn’t go bad if you neglect to serve it right away and there doesn’t seem to be any sort of individual mastery system for dishes you serve. Some game mechanics that appear in most café games appear to be entirely missing. Most of the other features in TinierCafé are entirely standard for the genre, such as inviting friends to work in your restaurants. As players progress in the game, they’ll eventually be able to open new restaurants in other cities. This gives you access to special regional recipes and décor that you can only use in that restaurant. When you begin the game, you take the unusual step of selecting which city you want to open your restaurant in. The icons for food, characters, and décor are much bigger and more detailed in TinierCafé, which makes the game more vibrant and colorful.

Playing TinierCafé is almost exactly like playing an earlier café game like Zynga’s Café World, but simplified and with more attractive graphics. The game seems indicated both to help draw new users to TinierMe and perhaps as a game to occupy already-registered TinierMe users, since the game also shares TinierMe‘s cash-based virtual currency. TinierCafé uses a shared TinierMe account system and uses the virtual world’s distinctive avatars, the anime-style Selfys. Though it appears to simply be a game that’s a little late to the café game rush, it’s actually a spinoff of a virtual world available on Facebook called TinierMe. TinierCafé is a simple but very attractive restaurant sim that is something of a Trojan Horse.

TinierCafé looks great, but might be more trouble than it’s worth

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