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| Tiny Tower | |
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| Developer(s) | NimbleBit |
| Publisher(s) | NimbleBit |
| Platform(s) | iOS, Android |
| Release | June 23, 2011 (iOS) November 16, 2011 (Android, shutdown in September 2015) May 25, 2016 (Android re-release) |
| Genre(s) | Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Tiny Tower is a business simulation video game developed by NimbleBit, released on June 23, 2011 and November 16, 2011 for iOS and Android devices respectively. The game tasks players with managing a tower filled with virtual people, referred to as “bitizens”, with the goal of building new floors and gradually making the tower taller, which attracts bitizens to move in and work in any floor the player designates.
The game's reception has generally been positive, receiving 4.5/5 on Apple's App Store[1] and being awarded iPhone Game of the Year by Apple in 2011.[2]
On iOS, Tiny Tower is integrated with Apple's social gaming network, Game Center. Game Center provides achievements, leaderboards (based on the number of floors players have) and challenges sent by others. It also allows the player to compare with their Game Center friends' towers. However, Android devices are integrated with the Mobage social gaming network, and unlike Apple's Game Center, an internet connection and a Mobage user name are required to play Tiny Tower on Android. Jet moto.
On August 24, 2015, Mobage announced the shutdown of Tiny Tower along with five other Mobage games. The shutdown of the Android version of Tiny Tower was announced for September 24, 2015.
On May 25, 2016, NimbleBit announced the return of Tiny Tower to the app store with some new upgrades to the app including new floors, costumes, lobbies, roofs, elevators, missions, BitBook posts, and the ability to trade bitizens with friends and earn new Golden Tickets.
Gameplay[edit]
Bitizens[edit]
The lowest floor of the tower, a lobby, has an elevator, where bitizens can randomly appear. They will have a speech bubble above their head, with a number denoting which floor they would like to be taken to. If they are taken to a residential floor which has not been fully occupied, they will automatically inhabit that floor and become a resident of the tower.
Each bitizen has a skill level out of 9 for each category of commercial floor, showing how good they are at each type of trade. This encourages the user to tailor each bitizen to a floor they are most suited to. Each bitizen has a dream job, and the player is rewarded five 'Tower Bux' for placing them in that job. Bitizens sometimes post on the 'BitBook' telling the player how happy they are with their current job.
Occasionally, the player may be tasked to complete a mission, like search for a specific object or bitizen. This may be because the bitizen, for example, had ordered 'some theater tickets' and that they 'needed to be delivered to [name]'. The game might also task you with delivering some People, like “This tower is a number one tourist attraction, please deliver the tourists”. Every time a player accomplishes these tasks by tapping on the floor that the bitizen whom the player was looking for was on, he or she is rewarded 'Tower Bux'. Sometimes Bitizens will also Give you “free money” like, “Here’s the rent, better late than ever!”
Floors[edit]
The tower grows by constructing floors, which can be either residential or commercial. Residential floors house bitizens. Bitizens are chosen to work at a floor in the tower, and are otherwise considered unemployed. Commercial floors sell products, which are automatically sold, even while the player is away. There are 5 types of commercial floors: Food, Retail, Service, Recreational, and Creative.
Each floor is decorated to resemble its real-life counterpart. Up to three products may be sold at a single floor, one per employed bitizen. All these products follow the theme of the business. With every floor, construction time is parallel to real world-time; construction time will increase as the tower gets taller. However, special VIPs can be used to speed this time up, or the player can speed it up with 'Tower Bux'.
Currency[edit]
In the game, there are two types of currency: coins and Tower Bux. Coins are used for the majority of purchases, often the most simple. Tower Bux are used for special functions, such as speeding up processes which would otherwise involve a waiting period. Tower Bux are not as common as coins are, and only appear randomly through active game play, or when a user purchases them with real money. Coins, on the other hand, are earned regardless of whether the player is playing or not.
VIPs[edit]
Apart from just the ordinary bitizens, there are also special bitizens called VIPs, who randomly appear in the elevator during gameplay. Originally, players were forced to use a VIP as soon as it arrived, but now up to 5 VIPs can be stored in the lobby at any one time, and they can kept for any period of time.[3] VIPs have special abilities such as reducing the time taken for stocking and construction, or attracting extra customers.
Big Spender – A Big Spender VIP will select one item in the shop at random, and buy out the entire stock.
Celebrity – A Celebrity VIP makes the first listed employee that works in the shop and is not in their dream job make that job his or her dream job. They are only female.
Construction Worker – A Construction Worker VIP will knock 3 hours off the construction time of the floor they are sent to. They wear a safety orange outfit and a yellow hat.
Delivery Man – A Delivery Man VIP will fully stock the floor in any shop the player chooses. They appear in an all-brown outfit.
Real Estate Agent – A Real Estate VIP is taken to a residential floor. They will move a bitizen into each open bed on that floor, adding up to a full room of 5 bitizens to the player's tower. They wear blue suits.
Spin-offs[edit]
Tiny Tower Vegas is a game by NimbleBit that is a spin-off from the original Tiny Tower. The only differences are that in Vegas, a floor you build has a chance to contain a special character. This character usually looks or acts like what would be expected relative to the given floor they came with. There is also the addition of various Casinos, instead of just the one in the original, simply named 'Casino'. Lastly, in addition to Coins and Tower Bux, there are also Poker Chips. These are used as payment to play the Casino's various games.
Tiny Death Star is a game by NimbleBit that is a spin-off from the original Tiny Tower, themed as the Star Wars franchise. It was released in 2013 and then taken down around two years later.
LEGO Tower is a spinoff in collaboration with LEGO and Nimblebit. It was released in the summer of 2019.[4]
Reception[edit]
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The game received a generally positive reception, with a score of 82/100 on review aggregatorMetacritic.[5] In the App Store, and the Google Play Store, Tiny Tower currently has a rating of 4.5/5 stars from user reviews.[1][12]
Several reviewers commented on the addictive nature of the game; Edge stated that 'returning after half a day feels like a jackpot',[6] while Eurogamer described it as 'curiously addictive'.[7]AppGamer went as far as to say that it 'will take over your waking life'.[8]
Microtransactions are present in the game; small payments allowing users to purchase in-game currency which can speed the player's progress. They brought mixed response from reviewers, with Eurogamer saying 'as it is, it reminds me of all the reasons I despise micro transactions'.[7] Other reviewers had less negative comments on these payments. Edge wrote that 'Tiny Tower isn't defined by microtransactions: there's nothing that can't be done, given enough time', noting however that 'forking out for a single 100 Bux bundle makes the first stretch so much more pleasant.. it’s hard to resist.'[6]
Since its release, the game has achieved more than eight million downloads from the App Store,[1] more than one million on the Google Play Store,[13] and on February 7, 2012, NimbleBit announced that the game had reached 10 million total downloads.[14]
Apple announced the game as their iPhone Game of the Year in 2011.[2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Tiny Tower on the iTunes App Store'. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ abc'Tiny Tower, Dead Space Lead Apple's Game Of The Year Picks'. December 9, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^'Storing Saved VIPs'. NimbleBit Support. 4 Feb 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^NimbleBit (2019-07-02). 'LEGO Tower is out NOW! High-five @LEGO_Group + our testers & fans! Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nimblebit.legotower … iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lego-tower/id1433811063 … #LEGOTowerpic.twitter.com/m3pnxUyjKW'. @nimblebit. Retrieved 2019-09-23.External link in
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- ^ abc'Tiny Tower review — Edge'. July 19, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ abcReed, Kristan (July 4, 2011). 'Mobile Games Roundup — Page 2 - Euro Gamer'. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ ab'Tiny Tower (ver 1.5) review — AppGamer'. November 22, 2011. Archived from the original on November 27, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^Jordan, Jon (June 28, 2011). 'Tiny Tower review — PocketGamer'. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^Campbell, Nissa (June 22, 2011). ''Tiny Tower' Review – Tiny People in a Freemium World'. TouchArcade. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^'Tiny Tower Review — Gamezebo'. June 23, 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^'Google Play - Tiny Tower'.
- ^'Tiny Tower — Android Apps on Google Play'. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^Brown, Nathan (February 7, 2012). 'Tiny Tower passes 10 million downloads'. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
External links[edit]
- Mobage (Replaced by DeNA)
- Google Play (No longer available)
Floors in Tiny Tower are the main source of coins. You can build a floor in any empty floor, hire bitizens to work there, stock items,and more. To see the specific types of floors that can appear in yourtower, read the list offloors.
Creating a new Floor
To create a new floor, you need to build an empty floor, tap it andchoose the floor type that you want. For more information,read Building the Tower.
Hiring Bitizens
You can hire bitizens by viewingthe bitizen's stats, then tap Job in the bottom middle and choose a jobfrom the list that appears. Or, you can tap on a floor that has fewerthan three employees, tap one of the Hire buttons, then choose a bitizenfrom the list.
Selling Items
Each floor has three types of items for sale. The items go from cheapestto most expensive. Once your store is stocked, random bitizens will come inand each will purchase a random item, giving you one, two, or three coins for the cheapest, middle, and most expensive items respectively. Each bitizenwho buys from a store will have a speech bubble overhead that shows theitem that he or she purchased.
Stocking the Store
Before you can start selling items, you have to stock the items. In orderto stock items, you have to have at least one bitizen working for thatfloor. With one employee, you can stock the cheapest product. Withtwo employees, you can stock the cheapest and the middle products. Withall three employees, you can stock all of the products.
Each floor can stock a certain number of each item depending on the type of floor it is. It costs coins to stock the items, and it takes a certainamount of time to finish stocking. The more items that can be stocked at atime, the more it will cost and the longer it will take.
To see what you can stock, tap the floor. You will seethe types of items that can be stocked, as well as how many items canbe stocked at a time, along with the cost of stocking each item and howlong it will take.
To stock the store, tap on the item that you want to stock. The cost ofstocking the item will be deducted from your coins. Then the store willdisplay an icon on the right side with the amount of time remaining beforethe stocking of that item is complete.
You can spend Tower Bux to reduce the amount of time left before the item isready to stock. You can also send a delivery VIP to that floor to reducethe stocking time by three hours.
Once the stocking is complete, you MUST tap the brown stock icon to put theitem in stock. The product will not be put in stock automatically. Youcan use the menu screen to go to the settings menu and turn on notificationsto be notified when your floors are ready to be stocked.
Stocking Fee Discounts
You will get a discount on a floor's stocking fees if the employeesare skilled in that type of floor. The employees' skill level numbersare combined together to determine the percent discount you receiveon the stocking fees.
For example, if you have three employees at a service floor, and theirservice skill levels are 1, 3, and 7 respectively, then you will get an 11% discount (1 + 3 + 7 = 11) on the restocking fees for all the items in that store. You can get a maximum of 27% discount on a store'srestocking fees (9 + 9 + 9 = 27).
Dream Job Employees
Every bitizen has a dream job. If you hire a bitizen for a floor that ishis or her dream job, you will get a bonus to the number of items thatcan be stocked. Having one dream job employee at a floor will allow youto stock twice as many of the cheapest product. Having two dream jobemployees allows you to stock twice as many of the cheapest and middleproducts. Having three dream job employees at a floor will allow youto stock twice as many of all the store's products.
A star will be displayed in the elevator shaft next to the floor for eachdream job employee who works there.
Quick Sell or Gift
If your store is not restocking, you can see how many of each item yourstore has in stock by tapping the store. Then, you can tap on an itemthat is in stock to get the option spend a Tower Bux to sell or gift that item. Once you choose Sell or Gift, you get the option to say No or Yes toselling or gifting the item. If you sell it, you receive coins for that item.