Thanks for your detailed and thoughtful review! This is our first game jam, and we wanted to push ourselves to make something that could be viewed as a finished product. So yes, while it's actually a demo for a longer, more in-depth game, we wanted people to rate it as a full game. Maybe next time we will do it differently.
We are working on revamping the mixology minigame and the recipes to make it both easier to understand and more flexible, so thanks for helping us with your feedback.
I picked the name Livia based on the ancient Roman empress Livia Drusilla (Augustus' wife.) There is no specific connection to vampires, other than I was originally planning to name her Drusilla, but that's a vampire's name in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I didn't want to rip it off! Haha
The current plan is to finish the game with more customers and continue the overarching plot with new details and mysteries. Thanks again for your thoughts!