SimTower

SimTower (or SimTower: The Vertical Worsens ) is a Jeu of management published by Maxis. It belongs to the series of the plays Sims.

Description

SimTower left shortly after Sim City 2000 . Although this play was published by Maxis, it in the beginning was developed with the Japan and its license was acquired by Maxis. It was published under the name of The Tower in Japan, and was developed by OPeNBook, the company of Yoot Saito.

A continuation of SimTower , Yoot Tower was also developed by OPeNBooK and was published by Sega with the the United States in 1999.

A clone of SimTower for PocketPC was launched in 2004 under the name of Tower Mogul .

In 2004 the play was related to the console Game Boy Advance under the name of The Tower SP .

Gameplay

As the name of the play suggests it, the objective is to build and manage a Gratte-ciel and to take care to keep its happy occupants. office X, Hotel S and Appartement S give to the occupants places where to live and work, while the Magasin S and the Restaurant S provide the commercial aspect. Services such as the hospitals or the centers of recycling become necessary with the increase in the size of the skyscraper. The progression of the player is based on a star system, as for the hotels, with a new received star with each time the population of the tower exceeds a certain threshold and other conditions. The population is currently the number of individuals in the tower; thus, a great number of hotel room will cause an increase in the population during the night. When the tower improves, more and more of installations can be built by the player. As for the other plays Maxis, the gameplay is not linear, and SimTower does not have specific end; however, the principal goal is a population of 15000 inhabitants, which gives to construction the statute Tour .

One of the activity-key of the play is to build and manage with effectiveness the Ascenseur S with an aim of making it possible to the occupants to quickly move between the stages easily and. Indeed, the original play was a program to test various distributions of elevators within a tower. Many players think that a more suitable title for the play would be SimElevator .

Development team

Concept and Range Design : Yoot Saito
Programming: Takumi Abe, Nobuyuki Kimura
Artwork : Atsusi Hotta, Yo Murashima, Hidesato Matsumoto
Sounds: Yasuhiro Kawasaki
Project Manager : Masahiko Tsukuno
Production: Michael Perry, John Csicsery

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