![]() If your villagers are hungry, click the cauldron to send them to eat. The controls are simple and straightforward – you click on a house to build, click on a tree to chop it down, click on a house again to upgrade, and so on. Either way it looks great, but it would have been even better to have SOMETHING fill out the sidebars. However, the game plays in a non-widescreen format, which tells me that the developers did simply upscale the graphics. The graphics are pretty much identical to those on the iPad, though it scales well enough to look great on my 15″ Macbook Pro with a 1680-by-1050 screen. Each area needs something significant, whether it is help with housing or crop production or dealing with enemies who will steal your wood and destroy homes! This includes cutting down trees, making a woodsman hut and a theater and a pig pen and a bath house and even a nice little area for dinosaur rides! These are all traits of a RTS or ‘city builder’ game.īut the game is also handled in a ‘city builder’-like manner in that the villagers have needs you are responsible for meeting, but cannot do so at the expense of achieving your goals. As you build and upgrade you get more gold to allow you to further develop to meet the needs of the villagers. Certainly there are levels and time constraints, and whether or not you get a time bonus depends on meeting a target time – those are all time management game qualities.īut you are gathering up resources like wood and gold in order to build and upgrade huts and houses. From the very beginning this game feels more like a RTS (real-time strategy) or ‘city builder’ than a ‘casual’ time-management game. ![]() He gets aided by the young and beautiful Rainbow to find his way through the world. I will discuss the technical details later.Īt the start of Jack of All Tribes jack finds himself flung back in time where he is taken as a chief who can help others settle their problems. It is very much like playing on the iPad in terms of the look and feel. Starting up the game is quick and efficient, with no added complexity or extra support files needed or anything else to make the process slower. Jack of All Tribes from the Mac App Store downloads quickly and easily either to your Launcher (for those using Lion) or just to your Applications folder. Help the lovable tribesmen prosper and master your time management and task prioritizing skills in this charming and challenging game! Find artifacts from the future to help Jack return to his time. Introduce new technology and become friends with the chief’s beautiful daughter. Keep villagers happy with food, drinks and entertainment protect them from natural disasters and aggressive barbarians. Travel to the past with Jack and rule a prehistoric tribe in this fun time management game with puzzle elements! Help fellow tribesmen set up their homes and create thriving villages. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, so when I was able to review the newly released Mac version, I immediately jumped at the chance! Let’s see how the game did in the transition from tablet to computer! ![]() I recently reviewed the iPad version of Jack of All Tribes, a ‘casual time management meets sim meets strategy’ game.
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