The Game

Pick up a menu, wipe down the table, and get ready to keep the paying customers happy. In Diner Dash, you take the role of Flo, ex-corporate executive and aspiring restaurateur, as she serves up food, drinks, and good vibrations to wave after wave of grumpy customers. Diner Dash is a five star hit, landing in top spots on game portal sites like Shockwave.com, Trygames, RealArcade, and Big Fish Games.

The Design

Diner Dash is the first downloadable game we created, and is still our most popular title. We kicked around the idea about a game on the theme of serving food for a few years before we started production, and some early ideas that led to Diner Dash included a game called Bust-A-Gut about making sushi. That led to a concept called Lunch, which eventually became Diner Dash, establishing the “spinning plates time management” gameplay genre as a mainstay of casual games. Comics artist Amy Ganter designed Flo and the other game characters, which have been a big part of the game’s success.

• 5 different customer types
• 2 modes: Career, Endless Shift
• Cool visual style and humorous animations
• One of the most popular casual games of all time

System Requirements Intel Pentium III 600MHz or higher Windows 98, 2000, ME, or XP 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended for 2000/XP) 12 MB available disk space

Nick Fortugno, game designer
Peter Nicolai, game programmer
Peter Lee, game designer
Carolina Moya, visual designer
Amy Kim Ganter, character designer
Mattia Romeo, game designer
Shim Beom-Sik, art

"It's easy to learn and the game play is highly addictive. No wonder it's one of the most talked about digital diversions this summer." - Marc Saltzman, USA Today

^{Diner Dash is TM and © PlayFirst, Inc.}