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Story
Requirements and Installation
Real-Time and Pause Mode
Map Scrolling and Villager Selection
Game Description
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How
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The
4 Main Screens
Feeding
Building
Researching
Breeding
Healing
Exploring the Island
Island Events
Strategies
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| Story |
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| Once there was a beautiful island where a happy tribe lived. Things were fine until disaster visited them in the form of a huge volcano! As a few survivos fled on a rickety boat, they watched their beloved island ravaged by fire and lava. |
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Lost at sea, these few survivors finally found some luck as their boat crashed onto the shore of an island. As they looked around they beheld what appeared to be an empty and isolated paradise! Maybe they would have a chance afterall... |
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Requirements
and Installation
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Operating
System: Village Sim requires a high resolution color Palm
OS device running OS 5.0 or later.
Memory:
4mb available RAM with all the music files installed
Installation: To install simply remove the "Village Sim.prc" file from the zip and double-click it, or drag
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Music: In the zip you will find 3 original soundtracks (music1, music2, music3); you can install all of them, a couple or none. |
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Real-Time
and Pause Mode
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Remember, this game
runs in real-time even when your Palm
device is turned off. So don't forget to check in from time to time
and care for your villagers!
They need to eat and they can get sick and die.
If you ever need a break, you can pause the clock (go into Preferences
- Game Speed - Pause).
When the game is paused, time will no longer advance. You can still move people around but they will not do anything until you unpause.
To unpause, go back into preferences and select a game speed setting other than pause. |
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| Map Scrolling and Villager Selection |
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To move around the map just take your stylus, click anywhere on the map and without lifting the stylus,
move the ground in the direction you want to go.
To select a villager, simply click on one of them. He/she is selected when you see a white/pink ellipse around his feet. |
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When a villager is selected, you can see his name, his skill, what he/she is doing and also thinking.
If you click on detail you will see additional information on the age, gender, health and skills. |
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Game
Description
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| Village Sim is a village simulator where you care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. The object of the game is to grow a small village in your Palm OS: there is food to forage, huts to build, technologies to research and diseases to fight! As the village grows and prospers perhaps they will uncover secrets about the mysterious island that they have found themselves on. |
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The
4 Main Screens
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1) THE MINI MAP
From this screen you can overview the entire village. Click anywhere on the map to zoom in and go exactly where you want. You can also see how many people currently live in your village and how much food they have.
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2) THE MAIN MAP
This screen is where most of the action takes place.
You can scroll around, pick up villagers and help them interact with their new island home.
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3) THE VILLAGER DETAIL
This screen shows additional info on your villagers. |
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THE VILLAGE TECH
This screen is where you guide your villagers' research. Investing in research is essential for the growth of your village. |
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| INTERACTING WITH YOUR VILLAGERS |
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| Feeding |
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| Grab a villager and drag him/her to the large berry bush near the top of the map. |
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When the villager is successful he/she will carry a bowl of delicious berries to the granary in order to store food and feed the tribe.
You can click directly on the granary and check how much food your villagers have gathered.
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Remember that it can take a couple of tries before your little people are successful at this skill.
Foraging is the basic level to keep your villagers alive. Later when you upgrade their technology levels, they will discover new ways of finding food. |
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| Building |
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| Grab a villager and drag him/her to the scaffolding between the huts.
He/she will construct a hut by carrying wood and rocks from the woods. |
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You can click directly on the scaffolding and check what % has been constructed.
You start with the basic level of construction, and when you upgrade your building technology, your villagers will find other ways to use their constructing skills.
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| Researching |
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| Grab a villager and drag him/ her to the research table in the center of the map. By doing so you train your villager to becoming a scientist!
When villagers succeed at research, technology points are accumulated. |
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You can spend tech points, just like money, on 6 different categories. Click on the TECH button and you will be directed to the Technology Screen.
You will notice that your initial population has already attained the first level of each technology, your challenge will be to improve their knowledge and technologies
which will enable them to do new things and do them better. |
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| Breeding |
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Breeding is very easy: just drag a man onto a woman or a woman onto a man. If they are in the mood (not too hungry, nor sick..), and if they get along, they will decide to "go indoors" to have some privacy. If you are lucky a stork may visit the village and bring new babies!
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| Healing |
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When a villager is sick, he will tend to cough, slow down and rest. Drag another villager
on top of the sick one and he/she will try to heal him/her. By doing so, he/she will also gain healing skills and will be very handy to have around within the tribe.
You can "buy" medicine tech levels to reduce the incidence of disease and improve the success rate of healing. |
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| Exploring the Island |
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| With their survival needs met, your villagers will start to be curious about their new island home. You can drag them to different locations on the map to see if they interact with what is there. Note that your villagers will be confused about many things on the island until they improve various types of research or achieve other tasks.
What mysteries lie hidden on this island? Who lived here before? What is the large, sparkling rock for? |
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| Island Events |
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| As the game progresses, special events may occur on the island. Be careful! Some of these events may have choices for you to make and these choices can have important effects on your village! |
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| Strategies
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How you manage your human resources is the most important thing to consider
There is more than one approach to solving the game
Upgrading to higher tech levels will allow the villagers to improve their skills and add many new behaviors
Male breeders will impregnate many women, but female breeders will only seek out one mate
Nursing mothers will not do anything else for the duration of the nursing
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How to
Register
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| You can
download the trial version for free: this will allow you to play
with a limited number of features until you decide if you want
to buy it or not.
If you decide to buy it just visit our purchase
section.
When you register, you will receive a registration code based
on your HotsyncID (the name you have assigned to your Palm OS
device). This code has to be entered in the register page of the
game and it will unlock all features that are necessary
to proceed in the game. You will then be eligible for support
and enhancements.
Thanks for trying Village Sim, and Enjoy! |
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LDW Games
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If you enjoyed
this game you may also like:
Fish
Tycoon: The award winning real-time fish breeding sim that everyone is talking about
Plant
Tycoon: The immensly popular real-time gardening sim
Little
Palm Pet: The adorable virtual pet to adopt and care
for in your Palm |
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Tech/support
issues: www.LDW.com/support
Additional help: www.LDW.com/forums |
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Credits
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Created By:
Arthur Humphrey, Carla Humphrey
Programming: Arthur Humphrey, Walter Humphrey
Original Art, Illustrations: George Hu
Interface Design: Ryan Anspach, Howard Penner
Music / Sound: Jason Surguine
QA / Design Assistance: Barbara Bell |
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| Special thanks to Kate, Treefern, Buttoneer, Diana, David, Flash57, PhillipEarl, Clarin, Cobug and the rest of our exceptional beta team! Thank you all for helping to shape the game. |
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Legal Disclaimer
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| This product
is provided without warranty and the user accepts full responsibility
for any damages, consequential or otherwise, resulting from its
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