Check out these tips and tricks for Top Chef, courtesy of Brighter Minds Media's Ben Snider. BASIC GAME TECHNIQUES The Top Chef video game, much akin to other time management games, requires you to manage your time wisely in order to succeed. Top Chef also combines knowledge of ingredient pairings to the traditional time management faire. In order to excel at Top Chef, a player must be both excellent at managing time and excellent at choosing ingredients that go well together. There ...
Cooking games, pioneered by the likes of Cooking Mama and Hot Dish, are nothing new. But Top Chef, based on the hit reality TV show, dares to do something different by tasking players to actually create dishes instead of simply following recipes. But does it succeed, or is it a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth?For those unfamiliar with the Top Chef TV show, amateur chefs compete against each other in a variety of cooking challenges including Quickfire (preparing dishes with specific criteria ) and Elimination (cook your heart out, making multiple courses). These dishes are judged and scored, and the chef with the lowest score "packs their knives" and heads home.
Our friends at Brighter Minds Media and Gamelab have shared some details with us about their latest collaboration, the cooking game Top Chef, which is set to launch this month to coincide with the new season of the reality cooking show Top Chef.As a contestant on the show, you'll have to compete in 30 Quickfire and 15 Elimination challenges against other talented chefs who are all gunning for the top prize.Each challenge revolves around creating one or more dishes using special ingredients based on a theme or to suit the tastes of a particular client. You'll have to pick ingredients that will impress host Padma Lakshmi and Head Judge Tom Colicchio, while paying attention to the clock.