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Quit Restaurant City

Bryan Chung — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:54:42 +0000

Of every Facebook games I played, I have always not wanted to quit Restaurant City. But I guess the time has come for me to quit that game too. After I started working, I found that I have no more time playing Restaurant City. Well yeah I do, but is just probably just going in to click for the money. Then I leave the restaurant open for 24 hours then I repeat the process. No longer have I found any more pull factor to continue playing the game. With that, I decided to quit the game. Here is my final restaurant layout.

I want to take this opportunity to also give special thanks to Sharon from Hong Kong – my Restaurant City friend whom I gave me so much throughout my 2 years of playing this game. Without her help, I will not have enjoyed the game so much too! “Thank you Sharon but sadly I am not going to continue this game.” Also want to give thanks to Jennie from Sweden – another Restaurant City friend of mine who helped me too. :)

So, I am no longer actively playing any Facebook game. I am considering one though – Airport City. But I still do not have time to give it a try.

Jungle Theme for Restaurant City

Bryan Chung — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:44:33 +0000

Having quit from My Shops recently, I now have plenty of time for Restaurant City. Present is the one and only game I am playing actively. So I decided to give my restaurant a new look! Thankfully Playfish released a theme that seems nice this week – Jungle Theme. So I spent almost 5 hours renovating my restaurant both the interior and exterior. In fact it was just half of the restaurant size that I renovated yet it took me so long already. But at the end of it, I like it a lot! :)

Hope you like it! :)

I’m a Millionaire! (in Monopoly Millionaires)

Bryan Chung — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:50:16 +0000

Before I start off, I want to say that I have completely recovered from my fever that plagued me for 5 days. Thank God I am fully healed now! :)

Alright ever since I got back from my in-camp training (army reservist), I had a liking for Monopoly. So I decided to give PlayFish’s Monopoly Millionaires game on Facebook a try. Initially the game seems boring. Not much of a designing factor. In fact till now, there is not much designing factor involve besides the center of the board that you can buy decoration to fill them. Actually after I completed building all the hotels and max level them to the highest, I do not have much aim in the game anymore. I was able to so quickly build up my hotels because I added a lot of temporary friends to Facebook.

I have a nett worth of over $4.5 million in the game now. If only it is my real nett worth in real life. “Haha!” Anyway my only objective now is to level up all the houses there are. It is going to take me some time because even if I have the money, I cannot level up the houses without the property cards. So for now, I will just roll and roll the dice when I can. =)

Restaurant City Airport Cafe Theme

Bryan Chung — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:20:54 +0000

Last week, Playfish released an “Airport Cafe” theme in Restaurant City. I decided to give that theme a try because I like airports and airplanes! I was just holding back to make the renovation because I was waiting to see what items will cost me real life money instead of game money. Much to my relieve, only one (yet very important) piece of decoration requires real life money. That is the air traffic control tower. But again thanks to my awesome friend Sharon from Hong Kong, she bought it for me as a gift. She never fails to get me someone that I wanted. No, not that I am taking advantage of her! But she also knows that I do not like her to spend unnecessarily for me. “Right Sharon? :)“

This latest design took me two days to complete. Not that I spent 48 hours on it but just a few hours a day to complete section by section. The final design was not what I had in my mind originally. But things changed along the way, such as I was disappointed that Playfish limit us to buy only one runway per player. Hence if you look at the screenshot, the tarmac area of the runway, quite pathetic small right compared to the entire airport? I have posted my feedback in Playfish forum to allow us more runways. But I doubt they will listen.

Initially I did not quite like my new design as compared to my previous one. Because my previous I could have very high popularity ratings because of the decorations I used. But because I did not want to destroy my previous design, hence I did not remove those items and saved that layout, for future use. So I came up with a whole new layout for this airport. Because of that, I am not longer concern with how high my popularity ratings are. As long as my airport is nice, I’m happy with it! :)

Top right: Restroom; Center right: Entrance to Airport; Bottom right: Information Counter with Flight Screens
Top left: VIP Area with Lounge and Bar; Center left: Decoration Area; Bottom left: Gaming Area

Top center: Cooking Area with a Coffee Bar; Center: Dining Area; Bottom right: Duty Free Shop
Top left: Air Traffic Control Tower with Runway; Bottom left: Arrival/Departure Waiting Area

If there is one area that I feel I can improve is probably the Decoration Area I mentioned in the first photo. But for now, I think this is just nice! :) Oh and again, thanks Sharon for the Ice Cream Cart Stove as another gift.

So that is it! My new Airport Cafe! :) Hope you like it! And before I sign off, here is a screenshot of my previous design, the Venice Theme.

I believe I will use back this layout one day.

Coffee Bar Restaurant City Theme

Bryan Chung — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:02:43 +0000

It was time once again to renovate my Restaurant City after PlayFish released the Coffee Bar almost a month ago. For the past couple of weeks, I have been going through PlayFish forums to source for ideas of how my new design will be like. And was also trying to learn and understand how the Coffee Bar works. After going through almost a hundred pages within a topic where users were posting screen-shots of their restaurant for the competition, I came up with my own idea. My own idea as in, I mix and match different parts of nice restaurants I see and make my own theme. And here is how my final layout turned out to be.

This is the first time after playing Restaurant City so long that I am making a realistic restaurant layout. I used to always have two islands layout but now with the inclusion of the Coffee Bar, I believe PlayFish is forcing players to use more realistic layout. That is why although I have such a huge space, yet only14 tables with 5 cooks, 5 waiters, 1 bartender and I am still able to have 1 cleaner. The whole renovation caused me about 2 million coins. The most expensive one item was the mini-Eiffel Tower you see in the last photo. That itself is one million coins. But money is not an issue as it will be another few months probably that I will renovate. Well probably next time round is for Christmas. Unless PlayFish come out with a really nice theme.

I really do like my new restaurant! :)