Game Culture
Food and Games. They go together like chicken and dumplings, coke and potato chips, Chewy and Chewella. It’s no surprise that the love for both runs universal. Even in video games, mixing strange digital herbs with other hard...
If there’s something everyone can agree on, it’s a universal love of food and video games.Far and wide - whether there’s a Wi-Fi connection or not - humanity has always centered around these two happy moments: food and...
How was The True Slime King born? The True Slime King is heavily inspired by Super Meat Boy. The game initially started as a test to see if I could build a replay system similar to Super Meat Boy....
Where classic uses of food provide straightforward boosts to the player, such as restoring hitpoints or temporarily increasing a specific player attribute, a transformative use of food is one where the food itself adds a new mechanic, which means that the food changes how the game is played.
Whether food is a simulation or an inspiration for something more fanciful, the link between the real world of food and game design is clear. As part of our process for creating Bite the Bullet, we wanted to have a deeper understanding of the extremes in that world.
