Who said you shouldn't play with food?!
The Game
Feeding Frenzy is a platform game for two to six players. As a player, you control a dwarf, whose only purpose is to survive longer than the other dwarves. You survive by collecting various types of food, spread out through the level, and delivering them to your home. This increases your life meter, which otherwise slowly decreases; when the meter reaches zero, you have lost. When there is only one player left alive, that player has won the game. If there are no surviving players, the one with the highest score wins.
Food
Every dwarf has a bag on its back that can contain food. Once in a while, pieces of food will appear in the playfield; these can be picked up by walking over them. There are a few ways of losing the collected food:
- Delivering the food to your home.
- Using the food as a weapon, by throwing it at other players.
- Being hit by another player’s food loses you a portion of your own food.
There are six types of food spread through the playfield: bananas, oranges, peppers, cherries, cucumbers and pumpkins. Normally, these always act the same, but there are special powerups that give each of these a unique characteristic.
Powerup
When a player collects a lightning bolt, he/she gets powerupped food. This means that during a short time (about 15 seconds) food that is thrown gets special powers. The type of power depends on the type of food:
- Banana: works like a boomrang; once thrown it will reverse course and come back to you.
- Cherry: when you throw a powerupped cherry, another (free) cherry will be thrown in the opposite direction.
- Cucumber: the cucumber is shot away like an arrow using a bow; you can triple the reach of your throw.
- Orange: works like a bazooka; you can shoot across the entire field (horizontally).
- Pepper: works like a granade; you can hit someone directly with a pepper or let it hit the floor. When you hit the floor, the pepper will lay there silently for 2 seconds and then suddenly explode into two peppers going in opposite directions.
- Pumpkin: the powerupped pumpkin has little friction with the floor and can therefore roll four times the distance of normal fruit.