(press release)
Montreal, Canada. March 22, 2007 - Game publisher Meridian4 and developer Fuzzyeyes Studios are pleased to announce that their fast food tycoon game; Hot Dog King has gone Gold and will be releasing soon to North American retailers and for online digital distribution.
?After tirelessly screening for the most beautiful franchise staff around the world we?re really excited that gamers will finally get their hands all over Hot Dog King, a fun and enticing tycoon game for the North American market.? says Sonny Lu, CEO of Fuzzyeyes Studio.
?We are thrilled that Hot Dog King (HDK) has gone Gold and will soon be available to gamers. We?ve enjoyed playing the game and have built up virtual fast food empires for bragging rights around the office.? said Steve Milburn, Marketing Director at Meridian4, ?HDK is a fun, twist on the tycoon genre and can be played by all gamers looking for a challenge? oh, and the girls in the game aren?t bad either.?
About Hot Dog King
Hot Dog King is a fast-paced strategy simulation with a fresh approach to fast food. You will set out to dominate the fast food industry city by city, using talented staff members in each franchise as your secret weapon to lure customers away from the competition. Play in your own style - start and develop your business using superior marketing techniques and great food, or build your empire quickly by employing the mob and using shady tactics against your competition.
Can you become the Hot Dog King, or will you be just another wiener?
Create your ideal shop ? Players select from a variety of locations and interiors. Tailor products and decor to suit your customer?s tastes. Recruit the staff of your dreams ? Players will manage every detail right down to uniforms. Keeping staff motivated and happy is essential to attracting business. Track progress ? Players keep track of all important financial, employee and competitor information with their own PDA. Events & challenges - Surprising mini-games can pop up at any time to keep players busy. They?ll have to be prepared to conquer these challenges or risk losing business. Use the dark side? - If fair tactics aren't working, players can always use the Mob to trash their competition. The choice is theirs.
Hot Dog King will be available in retail stores in March at a suggested retail price of $19.99. For more information about Hot Dog King go to www.meridian4.com.
About Fuzzyeyes Studio
Fuzzyeyes Studio was established in 2001 as a games development company. In its early stages, Fuzzyeyes focused on developing an introductory product to test on the market and improve management and development process for a major commercial product. Their studio cares about people?s happiness. The company is devoted to seeking the source of people?s happiness, and working to create interactive entertainment accordingly. The experience they create brings happiness to everyone by helping their fantasies to come to life, and providing them with a leisure experience which goes beyond the limitations of reality.
About Meridian4
Meridian4 is an interactive software publisher located in Montreal, Canada. We are a new publishing company, with new ideas and a different approach to forming partnerships with developers. The difference is we actually form a partnership ? a true relationship characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility to achieve the best possible performance for their products.
Wish you guys all the best with this release.
"enticing tycoon game for the North American market" - lol
Game logic is something like this?
if (store-)location == UnitedStates)
Win();
Best of luck!
lol hotdogs
so is this HDHG renamed?
yep, seems to be... search for it at gamespot (were not allowed to post links)
maybe "HDHG" was offensive to the americans!?
HDK is actually a good piece of comedy i thought.
Get into fist fights with customers, feed your customers dodgy dogs and watch them puke in a corner of your store, hire a pimple faced teen whose job it is to mop up puke.
If they are pukeing in site of other customers, they begin to puke too - pukefest and the pimple faced puke mopper teen has a busy schedule!
Let the good times roll.
Well done Fuzzyeyes i hope it does really well.
it looked crap 2 me
:) Yeah well, in comparison to other sim games it was crap, but when we made it we had next to no exp so what do you want? We still shipped, which is a lot further than most get. Regardless, it was my first design, I did my best with a weird concept, and the fact that like a year and a half after I finished working on it, I'm living on the other side of the country and its finally hitting the shelves, I have to say I'm feeling a little jived. I'm glad they changed the name too, never liked the original myself.
The original one was released about a year ago in Europe and some asian countries, this is just the North American release with a different name, same game.
wow.. the girls are hot in Hotdog King....nice restaurant designs too!!!
HOTDOGS PWNS ALL so STFU
h0td0g king is teh pwn!!!! lolz gimme some nice T&A!!! lolz
It actually did pretty well in certain individual places like Germany and Taiwan who aren't as austere a market. I would've liked to have gotten more of the Mafia and Corporate Mercenary aspect into it though, like havin minigames where you're bustin up competitor shops or sabotaging delivery trucks, and setting up the owners to be framed or blackmailed, that would've been hell cool but we didn't have the time.
Also having the shop haunted by a little wraith who did pea soup puke strafing runs up and down the shop floor, but that was a later inspiration. (Not that I have a puke fetish or anything, just once you add that kinda thing it sort of opens the door for a lot more)
I don't think hot dog king was supposed to be a super duper title, it was just meant to be a fun little game and a bit of stocking filler for the company.
Makes one wonder, is it a strategy game, a flesh parade or a series of mini games? Looks to me as a game that doesn't know what it is.
Its breaks through convention genres man to create a whole new experience!
Thats right! Hotdogs was a political statement all along! Finally someone saw it! and now we've been successful in showing the government that damn it, we just ain't gonna stand for conformist shit anymore.
The bikinis? a symbol, three triangles each funneling their own efforts to a singular point, then uniting together to form something beautiful... revolution!
The shops? a symbol. the oppression of the modern capitalistic world, an overbearing environment, purposefully chaotic to keep the people unaware and threatening to drown out that very beautiful triangular masterpiece,
See how the customers all line up in sort of a robotic unnaturally straight line? That ain't no code thing, CONFORMISTS The people are being led by the marketing carrot and organised into the orderly queues to feed the consumerist machine! and the only way to break that line is by hurting themselves in the process... throwing up = Anarchy!
Do you see it now people! You're being lead, and Hotdogs is the key to your shackles. You are told as a child to go your own way but you're being led into conforming, led by the bright colours and the swaying hips of marketing to support the capitalist machine! They draw your attention with the beauty... oh yes... it has been their primary weapon, but they don't realise that beauty will be our muse! Look to the bikini! the three triangles of focus! the three triangles of unity! the the triangles of FREEDOM!
.... shhHHHIT YEAH!... RRGH! ..... should be called the mutha f*^kin PEOPLE'S HOTDOG!!!
Aaaaaaaaw yeah!
Scott.
My lord...
Jackydablunt truly has an amazing point...
Looks like a cross between DOA Beach Volleyball and Lemonade Stand on the C64
Hotdogs PWNS DOA, Lemonade Stand AND conspiracy theorists so STFU NooBz!!!
Da People's Hotdog FTW!
Yeah but is it Triple A?
The one true measurement of an awesome game, is it Triple A or not Triple A.
Only the best game companies make Triple A games.
Triple A
Triple A
AAA? CAPITALIST!
Yo mamma's AAA
I approve of and/or endorse The People's Hotdog.
Did you guys ever see the film Cube? The basic premise was that this deadly, gigantic, cuboid maze came about due to aimless bureaucracy gone mad. Without any particular body being in charge, behind, or even aware of the project, countless people became the unwitting designers and manufacturers of this horific structure. It was just a pointless project that emerged from the ether. The final product was a system, the sole function of which was to trap a group of unsuspecting strangers and then force them to waste their time until they died of boredom or stupidity. One could perhaps draw parallels.....
Plus, it the first death was wicked!
well. its not a great title... but hey, how many of your title even been released in NA?
At last, a game about hot dogs
-) yeah, 2.
Both of the titles I have worked on were release in NA as well as a number of other territories. You are just making yourself sound like a twat #27... oh, and don't bother asking me how much they rated in reviews, you will only be making yourself look more like a fool.
Anyway, great work fellas for your first title, even though it was released a while ago :)
Triple A? More like Double D m i rite?!