ChefVille
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| ChefVille | |
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| Developer | Zynga |
| Platform | Internet |
| Release | August 2012 |
| Genre | Social simulation game |
| Mode | Single-player with multiplayer interaction |
ChefVille is a defunct multiplayer restaurant simulation social network game created by Zynga. The game was announced at Zynga's June 2012 Unleashed event,[1] debuted August 2012 on Facebook, and was released October 3, 2012 on Zynga.com.[2][3] Within the first month of its release, ChefVille had become the No. 1 Facebook game.[4] As of early October 2012, ChefVille had more than 4.8 million daily active users (DAU) and more than 45 million monthly active users (MAU).[5]
On March 31, 2015, Zynga announced ChefVille would be one of 11 games to be closed.[6]
ChefVille is Zynga's second game in the restaurant genre following Café World, a Facebook game with 456,000 DAU and 2.4 million MAU as of early October 2012.[7] The main differences are that ChefVille players interact with the environment outside their virtual restaurant and earn real recipes as they progress in the game.[4] ChefVille is available for free in 17 languages on Facebook.[8]
Gameplay
ChefVille players act as chef, restaurant owner, designer and manager with the goal of creating a ‘dream restaurant.’[9] Players customize restaurants to specific themes, such as a 1950s diner or an Italian restaurant, and they mix and match food types while cooking and serving.[4] Players also choose the restaurant décor, from sushi stations and cold stations to woks and grills, and cook menu items that correlate with their cooking equipment.[9]
Similar to other Zynga ‘ville’ games, players are given tools needed to build their restaurants.[9] Players cook dishes using various appliances, such as a brick oven for cooking pizza.[4] As the game progresses, players help friends by sharing needed recipe ingredients, by dining in their friends’ restaurants, and by helping friends build their restaurants.[10] Players can also purchase food and ingredients with actual currency.[9]
With ChefVille’s ‘Game to Table’ feature, players who master a dish can receive a recipe for that dish by email.[8] At the time of launch, the game included more than 200 in-game recipes, 50 of which players could earn.[3] Game recipes include Confit de Canard with Potatoes au Gratin, Miso Soup, Bruschetta and Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise.[3] ChefVille recipes are created by Zynga Executive Chef Matthew Du Trumble and his team of 15 company chefs.[11] Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and his wife contributed a Spaghetti Bolognese recipe to the game.[3] Players also have the ability to show off their own recipes in the game.[10]
ChefVille takes place on a map segmented into a grid, with new areas unlocked as players meet milestones or spend actual currency.[4] Recipe ingredients are obtained from raw materials acquired from visiting spots on the map, such as a butcher for fresh beef, a milk truck for fresh milk, and a breadbox for bread.[4]
