Diner Dash®: Flo On The Go README - Version 1.0

System Requirements

§         Minimum

§         Recommended

Installation Instructions

Controls

§         Mouse

§         Keyboard

How To Play

Known Issues

Credits

Legal Information

System Requirements

Minimum:

• Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista (Diner Dash: Flo On The Go does not officially support Windows NT)
• Tested Service Packs: Windows XP - Service Packs 1 & 2
  • Note: If you experience any problems running the game and do not have at least Service Pack 1 installed, please upgrade your version of Windows XP with these Service Packs.
• Processor: Pentium® III 700 MHz
• RAM: 128 MB
• Minimum Screen Resolution: 800x600
• Video Card: 3D Video Card with at least 4 MB Video RAM
• Sound Card: recommended
• DirectX® Version: DirectX 7.0
• Hard Drive Space: 15.5 MB

Recommended:

• RAM: 256MB recommended for 2000/XP
• DirectX® Version: DirectX 8.0 or higher

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Installation Instructions

1. Double-click on the downloaded Diner Dash: Flo On The Go installation executable file to begin the installation program.
2. Follow the instructions in the installation program to install Diner Dash: Flo On The Go.
3. After installation, double-click on the Diner Dash: Flo On The Go desktop shortcut, or by using the appropriate shortcut in the Start Menu.
4. To uninstall Diner Dash: Flo On The Go, 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
  

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Known Issues

• There is a compatibility issue with the 3dfx Voodoo 3 graphics card and older onboard intel graphics cards that may cause graphical anomalies during game play on systems using that card.

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Credits

Executive Producer
Kenny Dinkin

Producer and Lead Designer
Chris Bennett

Associate Producer
Dan Chao

Art Director
Nick Stern

Original Diner Dash Game Design
Gamelab

Senior Software Engineer
Jim Brooks

Lead Artist
Barry Prioste

Artists
Jeff Troupe
Armand Dacuba

Quality Assurance
Rebekah Hash
Valerie Gorchinski

Additional Art Work and Animation
Bon Art
Barbara Bayne
Mark West
Jenny Hansen
Maria Waters
David Winn

Audio
SomaTone Productions

Level Design
Valerie Gorchinski
Ethan Levy
Michelle Woods

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

Website Support
Bruce Sherrod
Christopher Chan

Special Thanks
John Welch, Heidi Perry, Andrew Mayer, Philip Sison, Brad Simon, Hung Chang, Sheridan Hitchens, Irene Kaufman, Drew McKinney, Crosby Woods

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Legal Information

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:

Copyright (c) 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:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• 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.
• 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.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

This software uses Lua, which is distributed under the following terms:

Lua 5.0 license

Copyright © 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Copyright 2006, PlayFirst, Inc. All Rights Reserved. PLAYFIRST, the PLAYFIRST LOGO, DINER DASH, FLO the character, and DINER DASH:FLO ON THE GO are trademarks of PlayFirst, Inc. PLAYFIRST is registered in the U.S. Protected by copyright. Any use is governed by the end user license agreement which restricts, use, copying, distribution, and prohibits decompilation and resale. All rights reserved.

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