Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
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Developer(s) | Pocketwatch Games |
Publisher(s) | Pocketwatch Games,MumboJumbo |
Designer(s) | Andy Schatz |
Series | World Ventures |
Engine | Torque Game Engine |
Platform(s) | Windows,Mac OS X |
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Genre(s) | Simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africais asimulation video gameset inAfrica.Players create and control African animals such aslions,elephants,zebrasin thisstrategy game.To succeed, the player must discover the unique behaviors of each species and build food and water sources to suit them. They must plan their ecosystem well so that it can help both predator and prey achieve balance in the wild. The player can also select any animal and teach it about far away food sources, or select a predator to take down aherbivore.
Venture Africawas published bycasual gamepublisher,MumboJumbo,and is also sold online from the Pocketwatch Games website as well as a number of other gaming portals.
The title was developed in 10 months for a total ofUSD$8,000, and sold about 65,000 copies. Andy Schatz, CEO and founder of Pocketwatch Games,designed,programmed,producedand contributedartto the game. A team of seven remote contractors provided the rest of the art and media for the game.
Awards and reception
[edit]- Independent Games Festival 2006
- Grand Prize Finalist
- Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition 2006
- Grand Prize Finalist
- Indie Games Con 2005
- Most Innovative Runner Up
- Best Overall Runner Up
Hyper'sTim Henderson commends the game for its "simple interface" as well as "great life and death balance". However, he criticises the game for its "tutorial [which] is a little vague and no camera rotation".[1]
Legacy
[edit]Venture Africaspawned a sequel calledVenture Arctic.Venture Arcticwas released on the 26 May 2007 and has approximately double the number of animals compared toVenture Africa.Venture Dinosauriawas cancelled before its 2009 release date.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Henderson, Tim (September 2007). "Wildlife Tycoon 2: Venture Arctic".Hyper(167).Next Media:70.ISSN1320-7458.
- ^Gillen, Kieron (January 8, 2009)."Unknown Pleasures 2009: Venture Dinosauria".Rock, Paper, Shotgun.Archivedfrom the original on May 3, 2016.RetrievedJanuary 23,2018.
External links
[edit]- Venture Africaat Pocketwatch Games website