Five Star Dining by arcadia

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made by arcadia for LD 40 (COMPO)

In Five Star Dining, you're in charge of the finest restaurant in the land! Keep your rating above 1 star to avoid being shut down, by providing excellent, timely service. Cover Pic.png

You can follow me on Twitter @arcadiaxdev

Ratings

Overall 205th 3.622⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Fun 157th 3.645⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 461th 2.895⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Theme 218th 3.684⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 323th 3.329⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Humor 401th 2.429⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 346th 3.048⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

darkgrisen
04. Dec 2017 · 18:15 UTC
Cool game!
pinmei
04. Dec 2017 · 18:16 UTC
Enjoyable and appealed to the 'compulsive' instinct of completing orders and clearing the customer queue.
RiverPirate
04. Dec 2017 · 18:19 UTC
very fun! can't really say much about the art style but what is in there is solid. It is hard sometimes to click on a tile right in front of a customer to place the dining plate. Really like how you stayed true to the theme as it is definitively harder the further you get and the more people you serve. Interesting concept!
Call_me_Nutty
04. Dec 2017 · 18:21 UTC
Very intense game, I like it. I definately feel like I'm in a rush and the game makes no mistake in telling you that when you have a bunch of bubbles, waiting customers and dirty tables. Something that somewhat irked me was the fact that it was difficult to click the plates of the customers sometimes (would have been much better if you clicked their head). The Art could have been improved and so could the Sound but in general it was quite gamey but in a good way.
seano
04. Dec 2017 · 18:26 UTC
Great game. Love the pixel art 3d style.
sgadrat
04. Dec 2017 · 18:27 UTC
Su much things to handle at the same time. Being a restaurant owner is not easy, but I definitely love it.
Swifttech
04. Dec 2017 · 18:30 UTC
Oh that was stressful :D great game, gets really hard to remeber to get all the payments and cleanup.
cptalbertwesker
04. Dec 2017 · 18:41 UTC
I have just played this for half an hour! Suffice to say I was hooked!! I got all the way up to 470 ratings and still managed to keep over 1 star!! It gets bloody tense, though I felt because you can leave people waiting then you can control the madness! Fantastic addictive game you've got going there though, perhaps that's because I was an old fan of diner dash!
Mirroar
04. Dec 2017 · 18:42 UTC
Nice idea, though it gets quite stressful after a while and I just thought to myself: Oh god please make them stop coming! In the end I made it to 345 reviews, though I stopped interacting with the customers at about 165.

Some kind of level mechanic (stopping after 20 customers, more on later levels) might have helped with that, I think.
Strelly
04. Dec 2017 · 21:11 UTC
Excellent game, had me hooked for 10-15 minutes, almost got to 5 stars but couldn't handle the stress anymore!! Really good job, I love it, from the simplicity to the straight forward gameplay!
crazyrems
04. Dec 2017 · 21:50 UTC
It's really well made. The only thing is that's tedious to follow the pace at the end, but t's the goal of the game after all.

I made it to 100 reviews and I quit with 2 stars. Good game.
kroltan
04. Dec 2017 · 21:50 UTC
The game is REALLY nice! Could use with some keyboard shortcuts (RTS style). Most of my time was spent moving the mouse over to the menu.
🎤 arcadia
04. Dec 2017 · 22:09 UTC
Thank you all for your comments! They've certainly put a big grin on my face. I'm considering expanding this after the voting ends, and I'm noting all the great feedback provided to improve the game. Glad you all enjoyed the stress of running the most manic restaurant around! :D
360
04. Dec 2017 · 22:34 UTC
This game is very addictive, yet I don't know why. Got around 100 ratings and the queue was huge, thought I was doing good but my restaurant only had 2 stars. Haha.
Awesome idea, should work it up.
leffe108
04. Dec 2017 · 22:41 UTC
Solid and addictive game. Sometimes I would have liked a more top down view as some tables were hard to click on when a customer is in the way, but maybe that is part of the game and what makes it overwhelming when you have too many things going on at the same time. :-)
Belea
04. Dec 2017 · 23:31 UTC
I love this kind of games. It kept me playing for more than 15 minutes! It becomes really stressful in the last part, but I think that's the point!

Good job!
Lawrence
04. Dec 2017 · 23:45 UTC
At first I thought "Only three meals? This is going to be easy", aaand then I got a lot of stress :smile:


But it felt like it stopped getting harder at some point though. I had 400 ratings and I felt like I can go for as long as I want.

Overall very good game, somehow reminded me of overcooked. Good job!
Xacur
05. Dec 2017 · 02:56 UTC
Cool game. It took me a while to understand how it worked, but once you get it it's fun.
Priom
05. Dec 2017 · 10:00 UTC
Fun game. Although the difficulty dies down after some time.
glock00
05. Dec 2017 · 11:20 UTC
Now that gave me nearly a heart attack but great game. The only thing i was missing is a visual feedback what you have selected. Good job!
notpresident35
06. Dec 2017 · 02:07 UTC
Nice job! I somewhat like it, but the endless amount of people you can have waiting for spots is a little ridiculous. Also, the diminishing returns really hit hard once you reach around 100 ratings, so it becomes almost impossible to lose. I literally had to just sit there for 5 minutes waiting for the votes to overcome this. As far as graphics, it is pretty, with a rather simplistic art style. Innovation is almost none, because it's just another cook'n'serve game. It does fit rather well with the theme, but at a certain point, it just becomes a grinding game.
Jupiter_Hadley
07. Dec 2017 · 15:07 UTC
Really fun little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yel2Ap19z6s
velvetlobster
08. Dec 2017 · 00:47 UTC
Love the game! I agree that some shortcuts would be nice
PonchoGuy
14. Dec 2017 · 23:38 UTC
Hey! Had huge fun streaming your game! Got up to 348 reviews!

I loved the fact that there were an assortment of commands to do to clean the tables, get the check books and serve the 4 kinds of food

One issue was clicking on the people, maybe highlighting the people when I hover over them would give me the visual feedback I need to know where I was clicking.

A feature I would add to spice up the gameplay would be to have some meals that mix colours e.g Red + Blue = Purple Meal (Mixing colours etc)

Great game anyway! Nicely polished and had a great time streaming cheers :wink:
Papaver
15. Dec 2017 · 01:12 UTC
Nice game! I had fun playing it. :) I would have liked feedback if I pressed the buttons correctly (it blinks very shortly but highlighted would be better), because many times I thought I clicked it but nothing happened. (Apparently the game is looking for a mouse-up event, and not a mouse-down event, which fooled me many times.)
The game takes quite long, so after 400+ reviews and still having a 2 star rating, I gave up. I think if the game play was shorter, I would play again and try to beat my own score, but now there just didn't seem to be an end to it.

Well done!
🎤 arcadia
28. Dec 2017 · 12:48 UTC
Hey everyone, just wanted to take a minute to thank you all for playing and rating. No matter what score I get, I'm so happy that so many people enjoyed my game. Special thanks to @ponchoguy & @jupiter-hadley for the streams, watched them both and I'm happy to see you enjoyed it! I'm currently looking in to expanding this in the new year, if you're interested, you can follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Arcadiaxdev
Thanks Again!