The first sequel, Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue features Flo going to her friend's restaurants to earn money to prevent them being shut down. Sequels ĭiner Dash's success resulted in the game being ported to a number of different game platforms, as well as sequels. Games Magazine gave it a favorable review, calling it "remarkably flexible". The game has two modes: Flo's Career, which follows the story of Flo, and Endless Shift, a survival mode in which the player must last as long as possible in a single level.ĭiner Dash has been mentioned in The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and in a variety of casual game studies, including Nicole Lazzaro's analysis of player emotions at the 2005 Game Developers Conference. There are also expert point totals for advanced players to achieve. The goal of a level is to earn a certain number of points. When customers lose all their hearts, they leave the restaurant, costing the player points. Flo can perform various actions, such as talking to customers or serving them drinks, in order to revive these hearts. Each type of customer has different degrees of patience and tipping habits. The longer the customer is forced to wait, the more hearts he or she loses.
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Ĭustomers have a series of hearts over their heads that indicate their mood. Each successful action earns the player points, performing the same action multiple times in a row earns the player a chain bonus, which is broken once a different action is performed. The dishes must be cleared by Flo before the next set of customers can use the table.
When the customers are finished eating they must be taken a check, at which point the customers leave a tip and their dishes on the table, departing the restaurant. After the chef has prepared the meal, Flo must deliver the food. Then the player must guide Flo to the table to take their order, which must be taken to the service hatch.
As customers arrive in the restaurant, the player must drag and drop them onto a table, where they sit down and read menus. Flo can be moved around the restaurant in order to complete tasks. Gameplay centres around catering to customers within a time limit in order to gather as much money as possible. As the game progresses Flo updates the dilapidated restaurant she begins with and builds three further restaurants, which provide new settings. If enough money is earned after each level, play progresses to the next. Gameplay involves seating customers and guiding Flo around the restaurant to serve customers. She has to make enough money to have the diner for herself. However, she spots a sold-out diner, in which she buys. Flo runs away, wishing she could work at someplace else. She's tired of doing all the work, and all the employees make a bash. A regular edition of the game will be available - two weeks later - for $6.99.Flo is a hard worker at a big stock market. This collector's edition will include five extra levels, a strategy guide walkthough, a behind-the-scenes digital artbook, animated screensaver and wallpapers and a "Flo Over Time" historical retrospective.
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The game will include some social networking elements, though the details on that have not been revealed just yet.Ī special collector's edition of Diner Dash 5 will launch on February 18 on for $19.99 (for both PC and Mac). As the new eatery is under construction, Flo will be seating, serving and cleaning up after customers in 50 outdoor levels, earning tips which can be used to buy fixtures, decorations, upgrades and more for the new diner. Of course, it'll take work to rebuild the diner. "With this fifth sequel we wanted to make sure we were keeping the series just as fresh with new ideas and innovative game play and not relying on the same old stuff: so we blew up the diner!" says Kenny Shea, PlayFirst's Chief Creative Officer.
The game begins as Flo's diner goes "boom," and players will be tasked with rebuilding a new diner from the ground up, adding their own personal touch along the way. This go-round, the popular time-management game will include both customizable and social elements that will add a new twist to the series.Īs expected, sassy multi-tasking waitress Flo will be at the center of it all. Just as Diner Dash celebrates its five-year anniversary, can exclusively reveal that PlayFirst will release a new sequel - Diner Dash 5: BOOM! - on February 18.
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