All-You-Can-Snack - A Balancing Game

All-You-Can-Snack  -  A Balancing Game

The Story

Your stomach growls like a restless beast as you enter the legendary all-you-can-eat, El Buffet del Destino. The air is thick with the scent of chorizo, garlic and saffron. Platters of paella gleaming like golden treasure, pitchers of sangria weaved dangerously through the crowd.

With the confidence of a seasoned adventurer, you head towards the snack section, ready to load your plate to impossible heights. No one shall claim the last pieces of Manchego while you stand watch!

Fate, and your table companions, are watching closely in silence. Something is about to go wrong…

The Menu

• Tabla de Quesos - The Cheese Cube
  An essential snack in a buffet. Who cut this cheese so badly?

• Aceitunas Pimiento - The Olive
  The classic olive, without pit. Wait, they also have them stuffed with sweet pepper!

• Croquetas de Jamón - The Croquette
  A warm, crunchy snack with a béchamel filling. Let’s hope they don’t get squashed.

• Plato de Embutidos - The Sausage Slice
  Is that salami or fuet? Only one way to know… to the plate you go!

• Huevos de Codorniz - The Fried Quail Egg
  Cute mini fried eggs! I'll take two.

Game Modes

• La Ración del Aventurero - (Competitive) One plate for each player. Taking turns, pick one snack to stack on your own plate. Last player with a standing plate wins!

• El Plato Común - (Collaborative): One common plate, multiple players: Take turns to place a snack on the plate. The game ends when the tower falls. The last player who managed to balance a snack on the tower wins.

Printing Advice

In general, all pieces are designed to be printed without supports and with a single-color printer. All the parts snap-fit together without glue. Depending on your printer accuracy, you might need to use a vise or a rubber hammer.

• The Plate: Change the difficulty of the game by scaling it up or down.

• The Cheese Cube: For a smooth cube, use thin layer heights.

• The Olive: Change the infill settings of the filling block for different weight distributions.

• The Croquette: For a rough surface, I used the fuzzy skin setting with the following parameters:

  • Fuzzy skin: Outside walls

  • Fuzzy skin thickness: 0.8mm

  • Fuzzy skin point distance: 0.3mm

• The Sausage Slice: Again, no supports needed. Make sure you have proper adherence on the first layers and that your printer is well calibrated for bridges.

• The Fried Quail Egg: The bridges at the bottom side of the egg white are intended. I used 0.15mm layer height.

You hear some movement in the kitchen… is there more food coming? Suggestions are welcome :)

Enjoy! 🧀