*New Games* Fun Park

Fun Park is one of the rare games to actually be social, practically demanding that you play it with, ideally, at least six friends. The game is so reliant on having friends that it provides you with three CPU “default” friends, because without any friends it is literally impossible to make any progress in the game. Fun Park gives you chat and in-game mail systems so you can make the experience even more social.

When you start up in Fun Park, you’ll go through a bunch of tutorial quests that explain the interface and basic game concepts to you. Essentially, you want to use your money to build up a “theme park” that is really a bit more of a fairground or arcade, full of games to play rather than rides. You build your park up by buying new games, attractions, and decorations. You earn money by inviting guests into your park, letting them stay awhile, and sending them home. You can give guests drinks or do other little things to earn more money from them. While guests mill around your park, you get to see them chatter to each other (and most of what they say is quite funny).
This is great fun when you have friends in the game, because you can see how they’ve decked out their avatars. All of Fun Park’s avatars are bizarrely cute anime-like persons wearing enormous hats or cakes animal heads that have a lot of charm.

  












A problem quickly rears its head as you play the game: there’s just little incentive to play it very long. The stuff you buy at higher levels doesn’t feel very different from what you buy at lower levels, since you mainly interact with guests rather than the attractions. It’s a pity, because otherwise the game does some things to make even browsing the menus fun. Instead of a little drop-down menu of items you have, you can go to a customizable virtual space that lets you interact with your collections by clicking on furniture. The game’s cash item shop is set up the same way, as is the shop full of stuff for customizing your avatar. The shop where you buy new attractions is just a simple menu, though.

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Build Workshops in your Island

Earn more coins by building workshops in your island. Producing items such as wooden legs or harvesting from your farm to sell them for a profit will help you gain some extra cash to further improve your ship and customize your island and remember to collect on time or your investment will be lost.

Collect Gems, Stones and Coins from Neighbors

The great thing about visiting your neighbors is that you are rewarded with items you need to restore your treasures like gems and stones plus coins to purchase items for your island. But, wait! Not all visits will give you rewards.
The neighbor list has indicators that help you choose which neighbor to visit. Looking at the screenshot below, you’ll notice some of your friends have coin pouches beside their picture. This means your visit to Johnny will reward you coins instead of gems. Click on the floating treasure chest near their island and it will reward you 200 coins.

Daily Lucky Dip

Loyal pirates are rewarded with a daily lucky dip. You can turn over the number of cards based on the days you’ve visited. Be rewarded with food, gems, stones and coins to aid you in your adventure.

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Fulfill Quests and Missions

 For a player to follow the storyline, quests are available to break the monotony of the gameplay. Having to fulfill quests reward you more experience points and coins. Accept a quest when your energy bar if full. This will give you a head start and ensure you achieve the objective before your energy runs out.

Missions randomly appear during game play. You’ll find them while you are sailing. Keep your eyes peeled for floating bottles containing instructions or ships that indicate they have a quest waiting to be accepted. This will add to your quest book until you’ve fulfilled them. And you only can have 2 missions and 1 quest in a time.

Tip: It is easier to locate where special items are (e.g. searching for sea monsters or where to deliver the parcel) when you use the zoom tool. Images with an exclamation mark on them serves as a guide for you to fulfill the quest faster.

Purchase Tools

When presented, buy the tools you need to search treasure locations. You can't buy when it's presented.

Collect and Restore Treasures

Treasure locations appear when a map is found. Dig for treasure and you’ll eventually find one which you’ll need to restore. As you find each treasure, this will be added to your collection. The objective here is to restore each one to gain experience points. Once you’ve completed each collection, you’ll unlock a hidden treasure which you can place in your island.

Take note that you’ll need a number of gems, stones and jewels to restore them. Visit newly added neighbors and go through more treasure locations to get more of these items. Also
you can get it from your lucky dip.

To be continued....

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