Two-Inch Town!

(c) copyright 2004, Jim DuBois

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Two-Inch Town version 1.6
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Main Map
- Building
- Person Screen
- Menu Commands
- Building chart

Introduction

Welcome to the Two-Inch Town! The basic play is simple. Watch the little people in the world, and build things to help them satisfy their needs or pursue their hobbies. Tap on a person, or occupied building, on the main map and you will go to a detail screen about the person.

Main Map

The Main map is where most of the game is played. You see the people move around and perform their daily activities. Sometimes they will enter a building, and the building will 'light up' to indicate that someone is inside of it.

Controls from the main map:

Building

When in building mode, you can select items to build from the pop-up menu which appears to the right of the checkox. Tap on a square of the map to place the new item there.

Person Screen

- Find out all the details about a person on this screen. You see their current state, and find out about their hobbies.

- At the very top, you see the person's name. Below that is their picture, followed by some words saying what they are currently doing. In parentheses besides the words are the number of game-minutes they will continue doing that for, if they know.

- Below the name are various words which represent the internal state of a person. They are: hunger, tiredness, isolation, boredom, and agitation. To the right of each word, there is a bar which shows how much of that value the person has accumulated so far, by 'filling up' a certain portion of the bar with black. (Think of them as 'thermometers'.) If the black section is up to the 'circle' on the bar, the person is finally going to notice the accumulation of that value, and try to do something to reduce it. Such as eat, when hunger is too high, or sleep when tiredness is too high.

- The list at the lower left contains hobbies a person might be interested in. By selecting a hobby from the list, you can see details about that hobby, as well as telling the person whether or not to be interested in pursuing it by checking or unchecking the box to the right of the list.

- By hitting the 'Rename' button at the bottom of a displayed person, you can rename that person, as well as select a new picture for them.

Menu Commands

Building Chart

Building/Space Activities Hobbies Evolves to?
Grass Camping/frisbee Painting, Excavating Flower, Tree
Tree Foraging    
Water Boating   Fish
Flower     Grass

Fish

Fishing   Water
Pavement     Grass
House Sleeping Writing a book  
Library Reading, checking email Physics Research  
Apple Tree full Picking apples   Apple tree
Apple tree     Apple tree full
Mountains   Exploring Caves  
School   Physics experiments, Writing essays  
Cafe Having a snack selling paintings,  
Lodge Eating a meal, napping    
Camp Fire Singing with other people, telling ghost stories, having a cook-out    
Airport Going on vacation    
Phone Booth Calling a friend, Prank calls