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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! :)

Another Home (The ‘Other’ National Day Video)

Bryan Chung — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:34:43 +0000

I recently watched this on Youtube and decided to share it here. Singapore favourite theme song for National Day has always been “Home” – written by Dick Lee and first sang by Kit Chan. But after so many years, many new version of that song surfaced. One of the better versions was during Total Defence Day. This is that video link from Youtube. But today I share with you “Another Home” – The ‘Other’ National Day Video, created by SINdie. This is a funny version I supposed! :)

If you want to skip the front part of the video which is kind of boring, go to 1:50 where the fun and song starts. :)

National Day is exactly 1 week away!

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! :)

A little update on my Restaurant City Lounge

Bryan Chung — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:55:22 +0000

After receiving feedback from Quyen, my Facebook friend, I have decided to make some changes to the center portion of my newly renovated Restaurant City Lounge theme. She drew out the idea of how my restrooms should be redesigned. I did not use her idea but with her idea, I kind of got another idea of what I should do. Hence here are the changes.

Here is a close-up screen-shot.

I forgot to set the game to “High Quality” before taking the screen-shots. So the graphics looks edgy. And yes, I prefer this updated layout. :)

“Thanks Quyen for inspiriting me to make the changes!“