Comments on: The Pub Game, for designers!

By: Raino Tenk

Raino Tenk — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:30:53 +0000

If the guys from ID-Software would have made one
You would have to kill a couple of hundreds ugly DOOMIES befor you come close to the entry, where, of course, the master monster would wait on you to serve the final drink

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:51:47 +0000

If Raph created this restaurant, after he left to do something else, half of his previous customers would blame him for the new owner’s mistakes.

By: Swift Voyager

Swift Voyager — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:12:39 +0000

If Raph designed this restaurant: There would be a very low barier to entry, as the restaurant would be located just outside each customer’s home. There would be a nice sampling of professionally created food, but most customers would be encouraged to create their own food and make it available for other customers to eat. Each menu would come with a complete explanation of why food tastes good, and copies of the menu would be available on Amazon for $15.63 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping.

By: Robin Green

Robin Green — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:54:20 +0000

If Sean Stewart, Elan Leeand Pete Fenlon created a restaurant, you’d hear rumours of it opening somewhere across the town. Conflicting reviews from customers would pop up across the web and a crowd of people would create a Yahoo group tracking down and painstakingly documenting how to book a table there.

By: Raph

Raph — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:09:29 +0000

Heh, this got picked up by the Guardian!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/24/game-design-game-design

By: Stevo

Stevo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:41:22 +0000

If Tim Schafer created this restaurant, all of the wait staff would have something funny to say and the furnishings would be exaggerated and crazy. The food would be decent but you’d probably come for the other aspects.

By: Cyranix

Cyranix — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:17:23 +0000

If Fumito Ueda created this restaurant, there would be neither maître d’ nor waitstaff. You would meander through the impressive architecture, vast and towering, gleaning details here and there which indicate that surely there must have been cooks in this place once, long ago. Perhaps you have your girlfriend or wife in tow, perhaps she is… parking the car. At last you reach your private booth, with a table for two, and then — just as you come to associate the emptiness of your stomach with your insignificance in this desolate yet highly-rated restaurant — your nose detects a sublime aroma. You smile, close your eyes, and await the inevitable meal…

By: Rik

Rik — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:28:17 +0000

Going to have to say that doesn’t sound quite right for Andrew Tepper. Here’s my stab.

If Andrew Tepper was to make a restaurant, they would serve hot soup right into your hands. Repeat customers would bring their own bowls and spoons, and explain how it was all part of the creative process.

The soup would be the greatest soup you have ever had. No, it was the greatest food you’ve ever had. You would talk about it, putting it forth to other people as an example of how good food could be.

You’d go back every chance you could, and the line would get longer every time. At first you thought it was getting popular, but you realized the line is just moving slower. When you get to the front of the line you find the cashier is just counting to 100 before helping the next customer. You’re told this is to make sure they never run out of food, but it looks like they throw out extra food every night. A few weeks later she’s counting to 1000 and you notice that the line is moving so slowly some people have starting bringing food to eat while waiting.

By: Mike Darga

Mike Darga — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:00:28 +0000

And if Rob Pardo created the restaurant, it would be a traditional sushi restaurant with VERY comfy seats.

You’d take your mom there and she would say, “Wait, this is RAW FISH?” but by the time you got back from the bathroom she’d be happily devouring raw fish eyes and live eels.

By: Mike Darga

Mike Darga — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:53:36 +0000

If Matt Mihaly created the restaurant, every guest would have to be initiated into their table by a by all the people already sitting at that table, after a modest amount of hazing.

You could write your own menu, with anything you wanted on it, but blank menus would be the most expensive thing the restaurant sold.

The food, which would be roleplayed by devious staff members, would seriously mess with your head, and sometimes eat YOU.