Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa

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Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
Developer(s)	Pocketwatch Games
Publisher(s)	Pocketwatch Games, MumboJumbo
Distributor(s)	Garage Games, Trymedia
Designer(s)	Andy Schatz
Series	World Ventures
Engine	Torque Game Engine
Latest version	1.05
Release date(s)	v1.0 October 2005
Genre(s)	Simulation
Mode(s)	Single Player
Rating(s)	N/A
Platform(s)	Windows, Mac OS X
Media	Download CD-ROM (Retail)

Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa is an Adventure game set in Africa. Create and control lions, elephants, zebras, and more in this unique and deceptively deep strategy game. To succeed you'll have to discover the unique behaviors of each species and build food and water sources to suit them. Plan your ecosystem well so that you can help both predator and prey achieve balance in the wild. You can also select any animal and teach it about far away food sources, or select a predator in order to cull a herd of disruptive herbivores.

Venture Africa was published by casual game publisher, MumboJumbo, and is also sold online from the Pocketwatch Games websiteas well as a number of other gaming portals.

The title was developed in 10 months for a total of $8,000, and sold about 65,000 copies. Andy Schatz, CEO and founder of Pocketwatch Games, designed, programmed, produced, and contributed art to the game. A team of 7 remote contractors provided the rest of the art and media for the game.

[edit] Awards

• 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

[edit] External links

• Pocketwatch Games Home Page
• GarageGames (online publisher)
• MumboJumbo (retail publisher)
• [1](A fan site)

[edit] Screenshots

A lion and elephants at a watering hole

A zebra and flamingoes