Welcome to the third Behind the Doors, everyone!
We have important news today - the Origins posts have officially concluded. We are moving onto the Paradox chapter, where we will cover more than 8 unique doors and concepts!
Thinking long and hard which should be the first door to include in our final and favorite chapter.. the answer was quite obvious! The Cyberpunk category was the first conceptualized idea and Food Fight was naturally one of the first levels to see the light of day.
Mind you, when we say Food Fight, one must take into account the level barely had a concept, let alone a name and general direction. At first, Food Fight was the “Sushi level” as we liked to call it. In fact, quite a lot of levels kept their original codenames in the circles of our studio. Can you guess which level we call the “Wooden bird” ?
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.”
Hazel Nicholson
Inspirations
On the screenshot you can see two faces of the same door. Left one is the front, right one is the back. At first, the level was inspired by the Japanese street food shops on the sides of the busy pedestrian streets. Typically they consisted of stools in front of a long wooden counter, where people could have a nice bowl of ramen on their way home. Our prototype combined the style of Japanese stalls mixed in with some western chair influence and the cyberpunk neon dragon logo on top.
Sushi
Before we get to the meaty part, what’s your favorite sushi? According to our prior research, the most popular sushi differs depending on the country. In Japan, most people enjoy plain sushi with their choice of fish (most often Tuna). However, in the USA people prefer over-the-top sushi with more than 5 ingredients or as we like to call it “flavor bomb”. The one thing we found, that connects both parties, is a nice, fresh avocado.
So naturally, the sushi you make in the level is a classic combo of fish and avo accompanied by the fun minigame of assembling it correctly. If you look close enough, you might even spot the avocado somewhere in the screenshot below.
Cat vs Drone
The drone didn’t really have a purpose at that point in development. We were jumping back and forth between ideas, wondering which one would fit best with the cyberpunk theme. The killer drone idea died out as fast as it was suggested, so all that was left was to repeat the process.
Who would’ve thought a cat would be the saving grace of Food Fight? The answer is none other than one of our devs, a self-proclaimed cat enthusiast, who gave the idea to have a Cat vs Drone fight as the main event of the level.
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If you enjoyed our demo and want to see more from Doors, check in with your favorite puzzle streamers, because plenty of them are already playing an exclusive 15-level version!
