Well, I tried Betty's Beer Bar, that wasn't very fun. Diner Dash was much more fun. The problem I think is the game doesn't seem to force you to do anything other than refill the glasses when the customers want them refilled. You can wash the glasses, but it's not necessary. Also the display is really busy and the thought bubbles only appear for a moment and as a result it's hard to keep track of what the customers want.
Wild West Wendy on the other hand was pretty fun, once I figured out I could stack actions. The gameplay really wasn't that different from Diner Dash or Betty's Beer Bar, yet Betty's Beer Bar somehow managed to not be much fun.
I hope that the difference between being fun and not being fun isn't that the customers are spaced around the shop so you have to run around a lot. That might not bode well for my game. Of course, my game is a bit different from Beer Bar in that the customers will move about and you'll mever serve the same guy twice. And the layout will be much clearer as to where the items are.
This does get me thinking though about how I might want to include the ability to stack actions. But then again, in my game you won't be able to serve more than one customer at once, or weild two objects at once. And there is the focus on memorizing the orders. So there are some major gameplay differences. Stacking actions might not make sense in the context of my game's style. Hm... Well... maybe it would. It could be helpful if you could click on more than one ice cream flavor without having to wait for the character to finish animating the scooping of it. Hm.
I found anothe rgame while looking for those suggested above, called Pizza Frenzy. While it doesn't play like the others, it was a lot of fun and had really nice graphics. In that game, there were several play modes. I played a simon says mode, where you have to fill orders as they come in. You see a top down view of a city and you click on each person and the appropriate pizza factory to fill their order, and then a little pizza truck goes to their door and monye appears for you to click. Then there are bonus games where you get scored based on how closely you can place toppings on a pizza to match an example pizza. And as you advance you get to choose which toppings get added.
Wild West Wendy on the other hand was pretty fun, once I figured out I could stack actions. The gameplay really wasn't that different from Diner Dash or Betty's Beer Bar, yet Betty's Beer Bar somehow managed to not be much fun.
I hope that the difference between being fun and not being fun isn't that the customers are spaced around the shop so you have to run around a lot. That might not bode well for my game. Of course, my game is a bit different from Beer Bar in that the customers will move about and you'll mever serve the same guy twice. And the layout will be much clearer as to where the items are.
This does get me thinking though about how I might want to include the ability to stack actions. But then again, in my game you won't be able to serve more than one customer at once, or weild two objects at once. And there is the focus on memorizing the orders. So there are some major gameplay differences. Stacking actions might not make sense in the context of my game's style. Hm... Well... maybe it would. It could be helpful if you could click on more than one ice cream flavor without having to wait for the character to finish animating the scooping of it. Hm.
I found anothe rgame while looking for those suggested above, called Pizza Frenzy. While it doesn't play like the others, it was a lot of fun and had really nice graphics. In that game, there were several play modes. I played a simon says mode, where you have to fill orders as they come in. You see a top down view of a city and you click on each person and the appropriate pizza factory to fill their order, and then a little pizza truck goes to their door and monye appears for you to click. Then there are bonus games where you get scored based on how closely you can place toppings on a pizza to match an example pizza. And as you advance you get to choose which toppings get added.