The Macaronis: Family Business

Louie promised you a place in the business. Don Lasagna wants results and takes the credit. Nonna Rigatoni and Lao Lao LoMein each have their own instructions, and neither will tolerate the other looking more influential.

The Macaronis: Family Business takes place on one humid block in Machattan, a city of pasta people where shape is body, never heritage. Nonna's pasta shop and Lao Lao's noodle shop face each other across a painted line down the Street Between Shops. Louie hands out jobs from his alley, Ralphie Ravioli keeps an orderly record of a disorderly business, Dez keeps the numbers true, and Don Lasagna holds court at his Social Club in Hell's Pantry, a ride away on the Mill Line. Ricky Rigatoni knows every courier route on the block, and Lilly LoMein reads every contract for the catch.

Every caper starts with an offer: an objective, a complication and a base payout. You choose your angle, borrow a tool such as a folding handcart or a clip fan, case the route and go. Inspect a seal, carry a load, hand it off, turn a route sign, set a decoy, cool a mechanism, then get out. Just when the plan is working, Don or Louie changes the order, and the job ends at a sit-down where everyone finds out whose terms were met.

The rivalry is the game. Nonna and Lao Lao each offer a condition and a route: a short back way if her crate is seen arriving on her side of the street, an exact patrol schedule if her receipt stays out of Louie's broadcast. You decide whose plan gets the credit, try to satisfy both, or take the neutral route. And you are made of pasta, so steam and humidity soften you up and a fan, a patch of shade or a drink becomes part of every plan.

The first chapter, A Place at the Table, is eight connected solo capers across the block, the records office, Lasagna Carting and Don's Hell's Pantry club. It runs from The Wrong Side of the Line and For the Records through The Double Booking, Louie's Big Night, The Carting Window and An Invitation, Obviously, to The Sit-Down, Don's three-phase finale. You can play as Ricky, Lilly, Nonna, Lao Lao or Don himself.

Favors with each grandmother build up separately and open new approaches: at two favors Nonna protects your paperwork through one setback, and Lao Lao can hold a door or a signal for you. Earn Dough and equipment, secure a front of your own, and replay cleared capers with a different plan. Cross Don and his attention rises, bringing tighter inspections, never lost earnings.

The game brings the world and cast of The Macaronis, the comedy series from Greenlight Publishing, to Roblox, feuding grandmothers and all.

The Macaronis: Family Business is in development for Roblox.