Tasty Planet

Levels are grouped into different "chapters" that feature different entities and environments, such as parks, cities, the ocean, outer space, and in some cases different playable characters and storylines. The plot is also serialized through comic strips that appear at the beginning and end of some levels, explaining the background of the protagonists and in some cases connecting different chapters together.

• Genre — * Action • Side-scroller • Top-down perspective • Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — * Dingo Games • PlayFirst • Artist — Kris Sayer • Creator — * James Sayer • Kris Sayer • Platforms — * Windows • Macintosh • Linux • iOS • Android • First Release Date — November 4th, 2006 • Latest Release Date — January 2026 • Latest Release Version — Tasty Planet: Final Bite • First Release Version — Tasty Planet (2006) • Title — Tasty Planet

The games star a cast of protagonists that gradually grow as they eat entities and objects around them. The player controls and navigates the protagonist using their finger, pointing device, or by tilting their screen. The main objective of the games is to grow to a specified size that is tracked on a bar on the top-left corner of the screen. Gaining size is done by eating entities or objects that are smaller than the protagonist by coming into contact with them, and avoiding those that would harm it, which are usually larger. Touching a damaging item or entity removes a small bit of matter from the protagonist. In certain challenge levels, touching a single harmful object results in immediate death. The first two games have timed levels that award medals for being completed quickly.

• Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — PlayFirst • Platforms — * Windows • Mac OS X • Linux • iOS • Android • Released — November 4th, 2006 • Genre — * Action • Top-down perspective • Modes — Single-player • Title — Tasty Planet • Artist — Kris Sayer • Designer — James Sayer • Producer — * Erik Zwerling • Kristina Tomalesky The plot is shown solely through comic strips at the beginning and end of some levels. The first comic strip shows a scientist telling his assistant about his latest discovery, the Grey Goo, a microscopic bathroom cleaner that can eat anything smaller than itself and grows every time it eats. They place it under a microscope, and the first level begins. After the first two levels of the game, the assistant touches the Grey Goo, who enters his body. The scientist tells his assistant to wash their hands, believing the goo will be destroyed. The Grey Goo is washed down the drain and lands outside, where it moves to a park and grows in size. It then moves to a picnic table where the scientist and assistant are having lunch. When they discover it, the pair are shocked and throw the Grey Goo into the ocean. The Grey Goo then eats through the ocean before a whale returns them to the city. There, the Grey Goo launches itself into the sky and into orbit. After eating the Moon, Earth, and the Solar System, the Goo moves on to nearby stars like Alpha Centauri and beyond the Milky Way. However, its mass becomes too great after devouring the fabric of space and time, and it implodes, destroying and recreating the universe.

Tasty Planet consists of 60 levels, divided into nine chapters: "Labs", "Outside", "Picnic", "Ocean", "Park", "City", "Sky", "Orbit", and "Cosmos". There is an additional bonus level, titled "Laser Dolphins"; The Grey Goo must avoid and subsequently eat dolphins strapped with laser machines. The level serves as a promotion of another game developed by Dingo Games, Laser Dolphin. An additional, selectable option from the main menu is the "Endurance" mode, where the player grows much slower.

• Title — Tasty Planet: Back For Seconds • Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — Dingo Games • Producer — * James Sayer • Kris Sayer • Designer — James Sayer Kris Sayer • Programmer — James Sayer • Artist — Kris Sayer • Genre — * Action • Top-down perspective • Modes — * Single player • Two-player • Platforms — * Windows • Mac OS X • iOS • Android • Released — September 1, 2010

Just like in the original Tasty Planet game, the plot is shown solely through comic strips at the beginning or end of some levels. The first comic strip shows the scientist from the first game telling his assistant about his new time machine, and also mentioning an accidental discovery, a grey goo, sitting under a beaker, that was created when experimenting with nanotechnology. The assistant thinks the blob looks hungry and gives it some candy, much to the dismay of the scientist who believes it is dangerous and should not be fed. After the Goo grows, it consumes the time machine and travels to the Cretaceous period, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, and feudal Japan. In the process, it prevents the dinosaurs' extinction and the fall of Rome, and destroys the Great Pyramids. The scientist by this point has figured out that the Grey Goo has only one jump left, this time to their future, and they must be prepared for it, so he and his assistant preserve their brains so they can survive until the goo appears. They prepare microscopic robots and energy weapons to stop the Goo, but it survives and infinitely consumes the turtles that the universe rests on.

Tasty Planet: Back For Seconds consists of 48 levels, divided into six chapters: "Modern Era", "Cretaceous Era", "Ancient Egypt", "Ancient Rome", "Feudal Japan", and "Far Future".

• Title — Tasty Blue • Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — Dingo Games • Producer — * James Sayer • Kris Sayer • Designer — James Sayer Kris Sayer • Programmer — James Sayer • Artist — Kris Sayer • Genre — * Action • Side-scroller • Modes — * Single player • Two-player • Platforms — * Windows • Mac OS X • iOS • Android Tasty Blue is the third game in the franchise. It is the first game in the franchise to not be top-down, instead being a side-scroller, and the first not to feature the Grey Goo as the protagonist, though it does make a small cameo as a mascot on a billboard in the game's penultimate comic strip. Set in the ocean, the player navigates one of three aquatic creatures in different marine biomes. The game has 5 difficulties: Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, and Deadly; they determine how much size is deducted from the protagonist should it touch a harmful entity, with harder difficulties deducting more. The "Deadly" mode causes the protagonist to be eaten or destroyed instead of being hurt, triggering an instant game over. An optional feature in the game is "Carnage Mode", which causes blood particles to come out of the protagonist's mouth every time it eats an entity, with the water slowly becoming redder as it eats more.

The Goldfish, also known as "Goldy", is the first character of the game. A child purchases Goldy from a pet store and overfeeds it, ignoring the warning on the aquarium saying "Do not overfeed". The goldfish escapes from its bowl, grows to a massive size, and consumes the town the child lives in.

The Dolphin, or "Smiles", is the second character of the game. Smiles is forced to work in an abusive aquarium where it is forced to perform dangerous tricks. It overhears a video being watched by a visitor about Goldy and is inspired to escape and eat the aquarium and everything around it as revenge.

The Nano Shark, otherwise known as "Brenda", is the third and final character of the game. She is an artificial shark created by the pair of scientists from the first two games to stop Goldy and Smiles. After successfully stopping the two, Brenda devours the Solar System.

Tasty Blue consists of 56 levels and 15 bonus levels, divided into three chapters: "Temperate", "Tropical", and "Polar".

• Title — Tasty Planet Forever • Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — Dingo Games • Producer — * James Sayer • Kris Sayer • Designer — James Sayer Kris Sayer • Programmer — James Sayer • Artist — Kris Sayer • Genre — * Action • Top-down perspective • Side-scroller • Modes — * Single player • Two-player • Platforms — * Windows • Mac OS X • iOS • Android • Released — October 16, 2018 Tasty Planet Forever is the fourth game in the franchise, and was released in 2018. It has sixteen chapters; some levels are top-down whereas others are side-scrolling. Each of the first eight chapters features a different storyline and protagonist, the last eight repeat the first with a cosmetically different character.

The game begins in a restaurant in Paris, France. Two chefs use a robotic cat to clean the establishment, but it misinterprets its orders to "eat everything" and consumes all of Paris.

An octopus in the Caribbean Sea is sleeping, only to be awoken by an aluminum can that hits its head. It swims to the surface of the sea and, much to its dismay, finds that a city resort on an island has produced a large pile of waste. The octopus starts to eat rubbish, causing it to become larger and eventually consume the resort.

In Africa, a foreign stray rat appears among other rats trained to eat old land mines to prevent the deaths of endangered animals. The rat grows as it eats the inhabitants and fauna of the Sahara, along with safari vans, resorts, and planes.

To prevent the collapse of endangered bee colonies, a genetically engineered bee is kept in a test tube; but a beekeeper raises concerns that the bee grows abnormally large after eating and shows hostility to things smaller than it. During an interview, a man walks by and observes the bee. Shocked at the size of its eyes, the pedestrian snaps the tube, causing the bee to be released. It initially eats nectar before becoming big enough to consume the Earth.

In an alternate 1956, a man in charge of a large fishing business boasts about having killed all basking sharks in the Pacific Ocean. A shark off the coast of British Columbia begins to consume other fish and grow rapidly, then eats scuba divers and log cabins.

In the Australian Outback, a stray dingo trained to eat invasive species begins to consume humans and eventually the entire landscape, including tractors, houses, livestock, and crops.

In the future, most of the ice on Earth has melted, resulting in a sea level rise. A group of penguins has been confined to a barren island, while most of humanity has moved to floating islands. One penguin develops the ability to fly and eventually grows big enough to destroy the cities.

In 2057, the first humans are finally able to land on Mars. However, one of the crew members reports observing "anomalies" in the ice samples he had brought with him. The "anomalies" turn out to be from a grey goo frozen in ice, which is subatomic in size. The goo begins to eat atoms before growing in size to destroy Mars and the observable universe. The universe is revealed to be a singular quark in a much larger universe, allowing for infinite consumption.

• Title — Tasty Planet: Final Bite • Developer — Dingo Games • Publisher — Dingo Games • Producer — TBA • Designer — James Sayer (likely) • Programmer — James Sayer • Artist — Kris Sayer • Genre — * Action • Casual • Indie • Modes — * Story Mode • Endurance Mode • Platforms — * Windows • iOS • Android • Released — January 23, 2026 Tasty Planet: Final Bite is the fifth game in the franchise, and was released in 2026. It has six chapters. Each of the six chapters features a different storyline and protagonist.

Lab scientists create a conversion machine, 'Mippy', to solve the office's paperclip limits. However, being poorly instructed to just ‘maximize paperclips’, Mippy consequently consumes several office buildings and warehouses, eventually converting the universe into paperclips.

Aliens grow concerned on if humans notice cows going missing, so they released the Teeny UFO. The UFO ends up abducting everything including the mother's ships. In the ending comic strip, it was revealed that "Teeny" stood for 'The Ever Expanding Nonparticular Yoinker.

A dragon egg is stolen by a peasant, the dragon ends up eating a red dragon that was terrorizing the kingdom. Yet the peasant says he could not read and the real enemy was illiteracy.

The young scientist (now just a Canadian guy) spills maple syrup, leading the House Hippo from its hiding. Soon it grows large enough to eat all the syrup factories.

The scientists, now as gods, send out Cetus to teach the greedy residents of Atlantis a lesson of ethics and virtue, but the teaching backfires, as Cetus devours the city in the final level.

A small, 1 centimeter-wide ball of clay falls from space and ends up eating the whole earth before being squished by the designer of the series, James Sayer.