In other words...

... a blog about our experiences as engineers, as husband and wife as well as our adventures into unfamiliar places and situations. We write this as a recollection and as much as we want to become informative for others who would like to learn from these experiences, we cannot guarantee that all the information or data we provide are accurate or updated. They are accurate at the time of occurrence.

Thank you for visiting.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Puzzling Village Sim (beware of some clues and spoilers)

I recently revived my interest in this addictive game which I started to play several years ago when my palm was still relatively new. I have stopped playing mainly because my palm has been defective for 2 years now particularly the touch screen which at times does not respond (especially at cold temp).

Ever since I allowed my niece-in-law to play games in my palm (because I wasn't so concerned she will break it as it is already defective) and she tried playing all the games in it, I have become interested on how the village is doing. I then started a new game of my own because from the last time I played it I was able to solve only up to the unblocking of the boulder. I had no idea what the last puzzle was. Just playing the game will give you no clue, unless you move a specifically skilled villager to a particular location. That is what I found out when I searched for clues in the LDW (Last Day of Work) forums.

Now I know what skill to prepare for my villagers and the location in order to solve the last puzzle. Finally I uncovered the last puzzle and the golden child was already born. I was now waiting for the miracle to happen. After several hours of checking whether the boulder has been moved, I started looking for the golden child and what he has been up to. But due to unknown reasons he became missing! I tried searching the net if this actually happens. But I cannot find any instances in forums mentioning about this. My guess is since the golden child is the 50th person in the tribe and the population has been reduced to 47, it might have something to do with maintaining the 50 or more population.

I tried breeding more so that I could reach the 50 population milestone but the golden child is still nowhere to be found. Now I'm thinking maybe my palm has had another bug. During the course of my game I have had some hard and soft resets which made me go back to where I last paused the game (which is rare).

I have been telling Rene about the progress of my village and my frustration and he suggested maybe there is a way to backup your game to a certain level. Then I just remembered I had a tool for that! I knew I had installed some add-ons for Village Sim a long time ago and remembered being able to save 5 games at a time. In addition I also had installed a tool wherein you could edit the current game. You can change the level of skills you are in, the skill / status / age / gender / health of each villager, the puzzles you solved, etc. Now I know how I can bring back the golden child to the tribe. I just selected the 50th person and converted him to a golden child. It's not really cheating, di ba?

Now I'll just have to wait till the cave is opened. I'm not sure what will happen next after you complete the puzzle. Is there something more to expect? I somehow feel bad it's going to end. I read though that there is a PC version with more puzzles. So maybe I will later try that.

No comments: