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Build and expand your Aqua Park to become the biggest one in the country. Look after beautiful dolphins, cute penguins, sweet seals and many other sea animals! Keep pets in a good health, teach tricks and make them happy by buying a lot of upgrades. Keep an eye on finances, bring satisfaction to all your clients and run the park successfully! With so many new animals, you will never get tired of staying at the Aqua Park.

Features

• Toy Upgrades for your guest pets
• Food for Pets
• Hotel furniture, room, and decoration upgrades
• Increase Room Capacity for guest pets
• Repairs & Maintenance on the Pet Hotel
• Advertising to bring in more guest pets

Shopper Reviews

1. 

   Terrible

   by Gustavo Arcanjo Neves, Brazil - Jan 4th 2011

   If you want to throw your money away, buy this horrible game, almost everything is cool in Demo, but after downloading this, you shall se that this game is to short and you stop having fun after 2 hours of playing, the windows version its to much better, and im talking that the Zoo Tycoon is a 100000000000 times better than this trash,

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2. 

   My Thoughts

   by Simon Kincaid, United Kingdom - Sep 25th 2010

   I just played the demo of Aqua Park Tycoon. First of all, it appears that the demo is the full version of the game but with only sixty minutes of game time. I initially thought this was too short a time to get a good idea of the game but I learnt quite a lot quickly within this time period and in a way it has left me wanting me - which I’m sure is the point of the sixty minute trial. However, by the end of sixty minutes I was already getting frustrated at a few things which got in the way of the gameplay. I will install this on my Macbook Pro another time and play it again for an hour with what I already know.
   First of all, I was avoiding the tactic of being too cheap on ticket sales into my aqua park, and I set all prices to average, and used regular advertising.
   The point of being a Tycoon is to delegate and expand your empire. It got really annoying having to constantly feed the animals, they give you an option for the assistant to do a ‘feed all’, ‘clean all’ and ‘repair all.’ On my demo game I press all three and quickly went into debt. I think it will be better if I try it again and just use the feed all command.
   I felt that it was quite tricky to keep track of the numbers - perhaps at the end of each month the game should stop momentarily and show you the results of that month compared to later months.
   I also felt that the inclusion of an assistant who you would give specific orders to would be good. You want to be able to automate tasks but without making the game too easy. My suggestion would be to be able to pick staff with differing levels of quality i.e. capability, and then for each level you can give a specific command. For instance, I should be able to click on ‘Oscar’ the penguin and say as soon as he gets at 3/5 hunger he gets fed one bit of food. Then after a month of training, this staff member can extend it to automating feeding for two penguins. In fact, you would train this person up to be an ‘Animal Feeder’ or send them on an intensive course - which would allow a maximum number of animals to be looked after and also, purchasing of food when stocks get too low. In all cases, you specific a ‘trigger’ i.e. food stocks hit 0 or 5 levels / and then you specify an amount i.e. +5.
   You can then apply the same to a mechanic or a cleaner or a vet.
   Allowing these tasks to be fully automated to your standard means you are free to expand your empire as you see fit.
   If you feel that your animals always need to be fully fed i.e. 100% then you can do so, but if you feel that they can be maintained at a certain level like 80% then you can do this as well to keep lower costs.
   Obviously even with automation, you are the boss so you can always override commands and feed the animals when you want.
   The whole point of management is to ensure that any frantic elements of gameplay where you are repeatedly doing the same things is removed. Of course, once you do this, you have to provide the user with a new level of gameplay.
   Overall, Aqua Tycoon, in the 60 minutes I tested seemed highly original, had fun graphics and quite fun gameplay, but it didn’t do enough to persuade me to buy. This leads me to presume that the actual longevity of the game is short, and the publishers have cleverly chosen this 60 minute amount quite cynically.

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