Zoo Tycoon allows players to create realistic habitats.
Many computer games now allow players to create realistic virtual environments. Zoo Tycoon helps gamers establish a virtual zoo in which financial success or failure depends on the player's ability to provide appropriate habitats for the animals placed in the zoo. Zoo Tycoon is a simulation game in which resembles a real zoo because both animals and zoo guests may do the unexpected.
Instructions
1. Install Zoo Tycoon on your computer. Log in using an account that has administrator privileges. Put the installation disk in the CD or DVD drive of the computer and follow the on-screen prompts. If the installation program does not launch itself, go to the desktop and double-click on the My Computer icon (in Windows 7, click on the start button and choose Computer).
Find the icon for the CD or DVD drive and right-click on it. Choose Autoplay. This will launch the installation program manually.
2. Double click on the Zoo Tycoon icon on your desktop. The installation program creates a shortcut and places it there. You must have the Zoo Tycoon disk in your CD or DVD drive in order for the program to run.
Choose "Play Freeform Game" from the menu that appears. A list of possible zoos will appear. Choose "Basic Grass Map (Small)" and click the "Play" button at the lower right edge of the screen. A beginner zoo will appear on the screen.
3. Click on the construction icon. It is located in the top left corner of the screen. A menu will pop up. Click on the top icon on the right side of the menu to select fences. Click on the tall chain link fence to select it.
Click and drag across any grassy area to draw an L-shaped piece of chain link fence. Place the mouse cursor against one edge of the fence and click and drag to continue the fence line. Repeat until you have created a rectangular enclosure with no gaps. A box will pop up prompting you to name the exhibit you have created. Type "Bears" in the box.
4. Click on the animals icon on the left side of the screen. Second from the top, it shows a panda bear. A menu will pop up. Scroll down the list of animals. About three-fourths down you will see an icon of a large black bear. Click on it to purchase an Asian black bear.
A ghosted image of a bear appears. Move the cursor until the bear is inside the enclosure you built. Click to place the bear inside the enclosure. Click again to place another bear. The bears will begin to move around and guests will begin to enter the zoo to see them.
5. Change the habitat in the enclosure to suit the bears. Click on the construction icon again. A menu will pop up. Choose the button with a bush on it. This will allow you to adjust the terrain inside the enclosure.
Click on the snow terrain choice and click inside the terrain. The bears will release green happy face icons. This tells you that they like the change. Click on the various terrain types and apply them, watching the bears reactions.
For more information about the bears' habitat needs, right click to close the construction menu. Then click on a bear and from the pop up in the lower right corner, click on the zoo keeper icon. A list of requirements will pop up, telling you what the bears need to be happy in your zoo.
6. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 to build more enclosures and place other animals in them.
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