Diner Dash®: Hometown Hero README - Version 1.0

System Requirements

§         Minimum

§        Recommended

Installation Instructions

Controls

§         Mouse

§         Keyboard

How To Play

§        How to Play Multiplayer

Known Issues

Credits

Legal Information

System Requirements

Minimum:

¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
²User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges.

Recommended:

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Installation Instructions

1.      Double-click on the downloaded Diner Dash: Hometown Hero installation executable file to begin the installation program.

2.      Follow the instructions in the installation program to install Diner Dash: Hometown Hero.

3.      After installation, double-click on the Diner Dash: Hometown Hero desktop shortcut, or use the appropriate shortcut in the Start Menu.

4.      To uninstall Diner Dash: Hometown Hero, use the appropriate shortcut in the Windows program menu or by accessing Windows’ Add/Remove Programs control panel.

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Controls

Mouse:

·         You can use the mouse for all of the actions in the game.

Keyboard:

·         Diner Dash does not support keyboard control.

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How To Play

·         HOW TO PLAY DINER DASH

The key to Diner Dash is this: keep the customer satisfied.

The faster you serve, the happier your customers are, the happier they are, the bigger your tips, the bigger your tips! Take too long to serve your customers and they’ll get up and leave. Get enough tips and you finish your shift and win the level. Fail to earn those tips and you lose tip money. Fail to reach the goal score and you lose the level.

Action 1: Seat customers
Click and drag a customer group to seat them at a clean, open table.
Color matching: Re-arrange customers and match them with the same color seats to make them happier.

Action 2: Taking orders
Take order: when customers put down their menus, click on their table to pick up the order
Drop ticket: click on the spinning ticket station to drop it off

Action 3: Serve food
Pick up food: click on the food at the counter to pick it up
Serve food: click on the corresponding table to serve food

Action 4: Settle the bill
Give check: when a table is finished eating, click on the table to give the check and customers leave.

Action 5: Bus the tables
Pick up dirty dishes: click on a table to pick up the dirty dishes
Drop off dirty dishes: click on the bus station to drop them off

*You can only carry two items at once.

*Earn bonus points by doing the same action many times in a row!

*Checkmarks show you all the restaurant locations Flo has queued to visit. Two checkmarks in the same location mean Flo will perform two actions (i.e. give check and pick up dirty dishes).

CUSTOMER TYPES
Young woman: Orders and eats at a moderate speed; Moderately patient; Moderately dislikes noise;Average tipper

Family: Orders and eats at a moderate speed; Moderately patient; Noisy when they're not happy; Doesn't mind noise

Cell Phone Addict : Fast to order and eat; Not patient; Always noisy; Doesn't mind noise; High tipper

Bookworm: Slow to order and eat; Very patient; Strongly dislikes noise; Average tipper

Kindly Senior : Slow to order and eat; Very patient; Moderately dislikes noise; Low tipper

Jogger: Orders and eats at a moderate speed; Moderately patient; Doesn't mind noise; Average tipper

Businesswoman: Fast to order and eat; Not patient; Moderately dislikes noise; High tipper

Tourist: Slow to order and eats at a moderate speed; Very patient; Moderately dislikes noise; High tipper; Occasionally asks to have their picture taken

Lovebird: Orders at a moderate speed and slow to eat; Moderately patient; Average tipper; Can only be seated at a 2 top; Occasionally kiss and annoy couples around them

Celebrity: Boosts mood of customers seated nearby; Impatient; Orders and eats at average speed; Super high tipper; Dislikes noise

Food Critic: Boosts mood of customers seated nearby; Impatient; Slow to order; Eats at average speed; Super high tipper; Dislikes noise

Teenagers: Average patience; Order and eat at average speed; Low tippers; Always noisy except when flirting!

Hungry Man: Always orders seconds; Average patience; Low tipper; Dislikes noise

How to Play Multiplayer Diner Dash

 

Multiplayer Diner Dash allows you to play with another person online!

All games are for 2 players only.

You can play in Cooperative Mode or Competitive Mode:

 

Cooperative

Work together to see how much you can earn before losing five groups of customers. The yellow circles show how many more customer groups you can lose before the game is over!

 

Competitive

Compete against each other to see who can earn the most money. The needle on the score meter points toward the person with the most money.

 

Whether you play Cooperative or Competitive, there are two different types of levels:

 

Assigned Tables

Each player is assigned a certain set of tables, either purple or turquoise. You can only seat and serve customers at your own tables.

If a table is colored orange, it means that it is a neutral table.  Whoever seats a customer there first gets to serve that table.

The food trays are color-coded to match the tables too.

 

Open Floor

Both players can seat and serve any customers at any table.

 

There are different ways you can be matched up with another player:

 

Go to a Game Room

In the Game Room, you can host or join a game.

 

Join a Game

Click on any game listed in the Game Room to join that game.

 

Host a Game

Click on the Host a Game button. Then choose a restaurant and a level, and wait for someone to join your game.

 

 

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Known Issues

·         None.

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Credits

Diner Dash Line Producer
Chris Bennett

Producer
Solveig Pederson

Senior Software Engineer
Jim Brooks

Software Engineer
Joe Garfield

Lead Designer
Michelle Woods

Art Director
Nick Stern

Lead Artist
Barry Prioste

Artists
Jeff Troupe
Derek Smith
David Ryan Paul

Assistant Producer
Valerie Gorchinski

Site Team
Bruce Sherrod
Wesley Chao
Sora Bai
Robert Aquirre
Alison Pilapil
Ryan Pfenninger
Maria Waters
Juan Botero
Sara Kellenberger
Todd Wong
Mike Risse
Paul Workman
Mik Scheper

Executive Producer, Creative Director
Kenny Dinkin

Director of Internal Production
Rebekah Cunningham

Engineering Manager
Bernt Habermeier

Quality Assurance
Amy Belden
Peri Cumali
Christopher Dunn
Bryan Kiechle
Adam Gourdin
Devin Grayson
Cesar Lemus
Drew McKinney

Level Design
Valerie Gorchinski
Michelle Woods
Dan Chao
Alexei Othenin-Girard
Chris Bennett

Additional Artwork and Animation
Bon Art
Nikitova
David Winn
Charles Hailstones

Audio
SomaTone Interactive Audio

Playground Game Engine
Tim Mensch (Lead)
Brad Edelman
Jim Brooks

Original Diner Dash Game Design
Gamelab

Special Thanks
 John Welch, Brad Edelman, Sheridan Hitchens, Brad Simon, Hung Chang, Heidi Perry, Saurin Shah , Ann Chen, Teale Fristoe, Kirstin Ohm, Cathy Segurson Larissa McCleary, Christine Regino,Armando Freemonde, Glenn Mulvaney,
Troy McKee, Shannon Prickett, Crosby Woods, Cody Grayson

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Legal Information

 

Copyright © 2007 PlayFirst, Inc.  All rights reserved.  PlayFirst, Diner Dash, Hometown Hero, and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of PlayFirst, Inc.  Any use is governed by the End User License Agreement which restricts use, copying, distribution, and prohibits decompilation and resale.

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

This software uses OGG/Vorbis, which is distributed under the following terms:

© 2002 Xiph.Org Foundation.  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: (1) Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer; (2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; and (3) Neither the name of the Xiph.Org Foundation nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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