Digital Eclipse Arcade: Invasion of the Buffet Snatchers

Invasion of the Buffet Snatchers is a simple, fun but challenging single screen arcade game with nice pixelart. Serve the aliens what they want to get rid of them, serve them incorrectly repeatedly and they'll get mad. If you don't serve them quick enough they'll help themselves, if they manage to clear a buffet it's game over. Make combos by serving the aliens multiple dishes at once to score big and become top chef! There are three levels, a chicken, a sushi and a pizza buffet. Each level has 10 rounds with the final one a boss level. Beat the third boss and you start over with the second loop a bit more difficult. Shooting diagonally is a bit hard on controller or gamepad. It's fine while moving but when you stop a diagonal often reverts to horizontal or vertical. The game would probably be more controller friendly as 8-directional twin stick shooter or with a "hold in place" button. My button mashing days are behind me. So I mapped Steam's turbo fire to an additional button. The game would benefit from an online leaderboard and a couple achievements. https://youtu.be/LE0Boq1GtDc

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Digital Eclipse Arcade: Invasion of the Buffet Snatchers takes the spirit of an old-school arcade cabinet and builds an amusing action game around one of the stranger alien invasions imaginable. Instead of extraterrestrials arriving to conquer humanity through military force, the Buffetlians descend upon Las Vegas because of their enormous appetites. The resulting battle takes place around a buffet where players must satisfy demanding alien customers before those visitors become hostile and start causing trouble. Developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Digital Eclipse and Atari, the game embraces a deliberately retro approach in both its presentation and straightforward gameplay philosophy. The central gameplay loop revolves around collecting food, assembling plates, and throwing completed meals toward hungry Buffetlians. Movement and aiming are easy to understand, while a primary action handles grabbing food and launching plates. This intentionally small control set fits the arcade format nicely because players can understand what they are supposed to do almost immediately. The difficulty instead emerges from trying to perform those simple actions efficiently as more threat…