Alice Greenfingers v1.06 Copyright © 2007 Mac Joy - www.macjoy.com The Plot Take a step into the gardening business in an intriguing simulation game, where you build and decorate your own blooming garden of flowers and vegetables. Follow the market trends, learn to know your customers and sell ripe crops down at the town market to expand and get your business profitable. How To Play Use the mouse to control Alice. Click where you want Alice to go. If you click on an item, Alice will pick it up. Depending on what item you are holding, Alice will do different things the next time you click. The game contains a tutorial that will teach you how to play in more detail when you begin playing. The game takes place during a full month, playing one day at a time. You start off with learning the basics of preparing, growing and harvesting a crop. Once you have harvested your first crops, the town market will be open for your business. The local citizens are always happy to buy fresh vegetables and beautiful flowers at a decent price, but as you gain more knowledge, experience and popularity the quality of your groceries goes up, and your customers will be willing to spend more. At the end of each day you will be handed a summary to let you know how you have been doing. The game contains a shop where you can buy new items to expand your farm. By selling your crops at the market you earn money to spend in the shop. In the beginning, the shop only contains a few items. New items, such as new flower seeds and helpful tools, are introduced as you play the game. Game Tips Hold the mouse pointer over buttons for a few seconds to see a tooltip with information about what it does. If you are carrying an object, click on Alice to put it down. You don't have to wait for Alice to finish each task before telling her what to do next. For example, if you have a seed bag, you can click on several patches of soil and Alice will remember each click and sow them all, one at a time. Each click is represented by a small arrow. If you want to cancel the click queue, simply press the right mouse button or the space bar on your keyboard. At the bottom right of the screen, you will find a toolbox with three icons. These buttons change the control mode. The first controls Alice. This is the normal gameplay mode. The second allows you to move items on the farm using the mouse. The third allows you to throw away items. When selling your crops at the market, you should adapt your prices to the current market demand. Click on the stats button in menu at the left side of the screen, and then on the market tab. Here you can see how popular each crop is at the moment. Popular crops can be sold for higher prices! If you hold the mouse pointer over some items, a colored bar will appear telling you how full the item is. For instance, in case of the watercan, the bar tells how much water is inside. For a box, the bar tells you how many crops are inside. Each patch of soil has two bars; one blue bar and one red bar. The blue bar tells how much water is available, and the red bar lets you know the current health condition of the plant. If a plant is growing slowly, it might be because the health is low. You can increase a plant's health by putting a piece of fertilizer on the patch! Advanced users can use the keyboard to control certain functions: Escape - Pause the game at any time. In some situations you can also press Escape to cancel the current action. Arrow keys - Move the game screen. 'M' - Open or close the menu 'S' - Open or close the shop. Don't let the game stress you. It is not necessary to harvest crops directly when they are ripe. Also, unlike traditional arcade games you can not "die". So, take it easy and do things in your own pace to enjoy the game to the fullest! Credits This game was developed by Mac Joy: Ola Zandelin - Concept & Design Dan Saedén - Programming Daniel Zandelin - Programming & Design Ola Zandelin - Graphics Daniel Zandelin - Sound Effects Ĺsa Kronquist - Quality Assurance Martina Zandelin - Quality Assurance The music was composed by Melin Music. Alice Greenfingers, copyright © Mac Joy / Swedish Game Development AB, 2007. FMOD Sound System, copyright © Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2007. System Requirements Mac OS X 10.2 or higher OpenGL compatible video card (16 mb) History v1.06 (2007-07-25) Three new decoration items added Egg, milk and wool salesmen will call even after you completed the game Fixed a glitch in the grading system v1.05 (2007-07-09) Force-exiting the game now works when Alice is inside the storage Duplicate profile names are not allowed anymore (to avoid confusion) Fixed a few typos v1.04 (2007-06-19) Added an X to allow closing of word bubbles from the shopkeeper Fixed a graphical glitch in the sprinkler Fixed an issue causing some players not to be able to obtain full knowledge level v1.03 (2007-05-22) First official Mac OS X release v1.02 (unofficial version) v1.01 (unofficial version) v1.00 (unofficial version) Disclaimer Alice Greenfingers is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Mac Joy and / or Swedish Game Development AB can not be held responsible for any damage whatsoever, direct or indirect, caused by the software.