Hall set out to raise $400,000 for the project but only raised around $108,000. In February, Hall started a Kickstarter campaign to fund “Worlds of Wander,” a LittleBigPlanet-style game creation suite, as well as a Commander Keen-inspired game made with the Wander tools called Secret Spaceship Club – Hall said the game would have been a Commander Keen title but ZeniMax Media, owner of id Software, refused to part with the IP. If Hall is making Diner Dash 6, sadly he won’t be making the new game or the platformer construction suite he was developing under the studio name Pieces of Fun. Diner Dash 5: BOOM!, released in 2010, was the last main entry in the series. Hall’s game will be the sixth in the series when it comes out.

“We’re going to give him the next-generation Dash game,” said PlayFirst CEO Marco DeMiroz. Both Flo in Diner Dash and Commander Keen are wearing red Converse sneakers.”įlo will be the character Hall is working with during his time at PlayFirst.

I’ve made all sort of games all over the place, but that’s what I love. “I started my career with cute and quirky character-based games like Commander Keen,” Hall told Games Beat, “That has always been where my heart is.