Welcome to MyFlora game

System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Video card with support of Shaders 3.0
• CPU Intel Core 2Duo, 2GHz
• RAM 2GB
• Free space on HDD 150 Mbytes
• DirectX 9.0c latest version
• XNA 3.1

Content of this manual

• Game Summary
• Game Goals
• Definitions
• Game Rules
• Game Control and Management
• Earn Your Skills
• Collect Crop
• Protect Your Plants
• Mission 1
• Mission 2
• Mission 3
• Game Results
• Game Web Server and Community
• Copyrights

Game Summary

MyFlora is an educational game for children of 6-12 years. It allows interactively introducing to children the process of agriculture and cities supply with foodstuff. Bright colorful episodes, ability to select plants to rear, plan cultivated area, pest control, harvesting involve a child into learning and perception of agriculture management process. All players get information not only about plants and their care rules (uploaded directly from Wikipedia), but they also get to know the geography and history of those countries, where they will grow their products. Players can be situated in any place of the world, as information exchange between them will run through special web server. This helps MyFlora cover a wide range of children worldwide, achieving universal primary education goal. The winner of a game is a player who manages to feed his/her city faster than others. Together players solve such an important problem as eradication of extreme hunger and poverty.

Game Goals

Main goal of our game - educate children how to overcome hunger problems in the world through game in global partnership with consideration of environmental sustainability. The main idea of the game is to supply cities with food from the harvest. The Game can be played in two modes: Single Player and Multiple Players modes. In Multiple Players mode players can be located in any place of the world, as information exchange between them will run through the special web server. In the future food vendors can sponsor the delivery of products earned by players into different countries. Player should produce as many plants as possible and deliver them into cities. The winner is a person who delivers the most products to cities.

With this process children should study

• Agriculture
• History and geography of country where they play
• Economics

With this game children should understand:

• Base economical and agriculture principles
• History and geography of different countries
• Importance of harvest problems
• How to help people in poor countries by endowing their prizes from food vendors to children in these countries

Definitions

• In a single player mode the Winner of the game is a player who is able to collect the appropriate amount of plants, skills and floras according to the story related to the appropriate Mission
• In a multiple players mode the Winner is a player who collected maximal amount of plants, skills and floras according to the Mission story between all other players who played together with this player
• Floras is a game currency for defining cost of products
• Action Level is a randomly appearing action game for protecting your plants from mice, bugs, caterpillars and wild grass. With these Action Levels you can earn more floras as bonuses
• Bonuses is a additional amount of floras which can be obtained by successfully completing Quizzes and Action Levels, or by reading Wiki articles

Game Rules

• At the beginning of each Mission you will receive the task - how much plants with the required calorific content you need to collect on this level to complete the mission and to help starving people.
• In your house you have a notebook with internet and web shop where you can buy everything you need for planting: potato, wheat, corn, of apple and pear saplings.
• During the game you need to complete Action Levels to preserve your harvest.
• With Quizzes and reading of Wiki you can also grow your skills and earn more floras
• After completing each level you need to send products to hungry people through our global server. In the future we can invite food production companies as sponsors and they will send real products to real people basing on the results of your game.

Game Control and Management

For playing the game you need to use the mouse for any actions. Only 2 keys can be used on the keyboard: Enter - to confirm any action or selection. You can use buttons Next, OK on the game screen for the same needs. Escape - exit (pause), cancel. Only one action that cannot be done with mouse click is exit to main menu from the play screen. For this you need to use Esc.

1. When you launch the game after Introduction movie you will see this screen with New Game, Continue, Help and Exit buttons. Click with the mouse on New Game button.
2. On the next screen you will see the field for entering your name. Enter your name and click Save button.
3. On the next screen read short manual for game playing and click Next button.
4. On screen you will see the world map. You need to select a country where you want to play. For now you can select Ukraine, Poland and the USA. Also from this page you can read information about the country from Wikipedia.
5. Click the Next button with the mouse and you will see the screen with your task for Mission 1. Read your task carefully before clicking the Next button. After your click the Next button Mission 1 will be started.
6. To you will be opened main game screen. Here you can see your Farm House and place where you can plant your plants. At the bottom of the game screen you can see the buttons for game management. Here are following buttons (from left to right): Select and move cursor, Prepare land for planting your plants, Water your plants, Plant your plants, Gather wheat crop, Gather apples and pears, Growth skill and Help.
7. Farm House is the place that contains a lot of features necessary for game playing and management.
8. When you start any level, you need to enter your Farm House on the first step and buy some plants. You can also read wiki articles here, play the Quiz game, review game statistics, and purchase/sell plants. To activate Farm House control, click on the notebook screen. On screen in farm house you have: Count of calories, button for launching Quiz game and Back button for exit to main game screen.
9. When you click on notebook screen you will see the following screen in notebook.

Here you have the following abilities:

• Buy/sell plants
• Quiz
• TV channels - tv.msn.com
• Radio stations music.msn.com
• Plants growth and game statistics
• Encyclopedia wikipedia.org, encarta.msn.com
• Communication with friends download.live.com/messenger

Earn Your Skills

For gaining additional floras you can earn additional skills. You can develop the following 3 skills:

• Combine - Increase speed of digging-up the ground and harvesting
• Trade - Improves trade skills and allows buying cheaper plants to land.
• Growth - Improves skill for plants' fast growth. It is possible to activate it one time per level and all plants will grow very fast. Accumulation of this skill is impossible. At each level it is necessary to develop this skill from the beginning

Collect Crop

Use a combine for gathering potatoes, wheat and corn. For gathering apples and pears you need to move fast in arcade game!

Protect Your Plants

During all game on all levels you will randomly face with the problem to protect your plants from mice, bugs, caterpillars and weeds. With these Action Levels you can earn more floras as bonuses

Mission 1

Mission 1 is in Ukraine. You need to collect 1000 calories for successful completion of the level. On this level you can plant potato and wheat. You can buy potato and wheat for planting in total for 100 floras.

Mission 2

On the second level you are playing in Poland and you need to collect plants to have 2000 calories. Use your floras appropriately. You need to buy saplings of apples, potatoes and wheat. Again you need to produce as many plants as possible and gain additional skills.

Mission 3

Welcome to the USA ! This is not an easy level. You need to collect plants to have 3000 calories. For this you need to plant apple and pear trees, potatoes, corn and wheat. The number of floras can be increased with Quizzes, Wiki articles and successful completion of action levels. The better you complete previous levels, the more resources you have.

Game Results

This is the final screen where you can see your current results and results from the previous games. From this screen you can send products which you produced during the game to people who need these products. Delivering products and food will be supplied by well known food vendors. In this way you will really help people in the world through your game and will resolve the following The United Nations Millennium Development Goals:

• Eradicating extreme hunger and poverty
• Achieving universal primary education goal
• Ensuring environmental sustainability
• Developing a global partnership for development

Game Web Server and Community

Communications between players in Multiple players mode will be realized with the help of web server based at myflora-game.com. With this server you can have the following features:

• Game results exchange
• Game results storing
• Global leaders board
• Sending products to people in need with the help of leading food vendors.

This feature will be available for any player who has connection to internet

• Gifts for winners from leading food vendors

Copyrights

The following sound tracks are used in the game, for demonstration purposes only:

• Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"
• Led Zeppelin "Rock'n'Roll"
• Scooter "Fire"
• The Beatles "A hard days nights"
• Elvis Presley "Tutti Frutti"

Later these sound tracks will be changed to some original music and sounds

If you want to read manual with pictures you can download it here