When Games Simulate Life - Indie Sim Games Overview.

Like simulators? There are hundreds of independent game developers who developer excellent and very unique games you should really know about. Here are some of the picks.Coffee Tycoon (Jamopolis)Coffee Tycoon gives sim games a jolt of caffeine. It's packed with awesome graphics, tons of features, and lots of fun. Start fresh with one store, customize your coffee business by giving it a name and choosing a logo and store design. From there, choose a city start your coffee empire, maybe New York or L.A., or if you are really daring, the coffee capital of the world: Seattle!Coffee Tycoon is filled with dozens of charming characters who will offer up their opinions, good or bad, on the quality of your store. Choose from dozens of store upgrades and coffee recipes to customize your business. First, you'll need to choose a name for your coffee company. It can be anything you like. Some examples of names are: "Sally's Coffee", "Cup of Joe" or "Cream and Sugar." Adjust the percentage of each type of Employees to meet your daily need. If you need more Money, make more Employees Baristas. If you need more Customers, make more Employees Managers and so on.Betty's Beer BarBetty's Beer Bar is a fast paced and addictive arcade game. Your task is to serve the customers as quickly as possible - keep them happy and they will give you huge tips. Serve them coffee when they're about to get drunk, to keep them awake - drunk customers rarely pay. This nurse had one beer too many. With good reflexes and a sharp mind, Betty will earn enough money to leave her original work place and start progressing towards her own bar in the caribbean! Betty's Beer Bar features four unique scenarios and over fifty original and fun animated characters in a beautiful hand-drawn, cartoonish style.It also includes different soundtracks to keep you fully immersed in its world. Even bears come to Betty's Beer Bar. You can choose your own difficulty level to keep the game challenging at any time. It also includes an in-game tutorial so you will be playing in no time. You can also play in several different modes - including Free Play, Time Challenge and Story Mode, complete with inter-level cutscenes. And ifyou feel like competing, post your score in our online scoreboard.Smugglers 3In the case of Smugglers 3, you are a pilot in a interstellar conflict. However, instead of spending your time in non-stop battle action sequences, Smugglers 3 is based more on text. Smugglers 3 places you in one of four factions. Each of the factions has different objectives and weapons. Playing through the game, one of your main goals is to trade goods with the various planets that you visit. This will help you to build up your funds so that you can buy better weapons and a better ship. In addition you will undertake missions that will help to increase your standing within your faction and win you medals of honor.You do in fact have action battles in the game. However, the battles consist of you and an enemy in a turn based conflict that shows you both ships, a proximity meter and the special weapons that you each have available. These battles work very well to put you in control of all the important factors of the battle without making you get too tied up with minute details.Game Download Links:Coffee Tycoon http://www.deprice.com/coffeetycoon.htmBetty's Beer Bar http://www.deprice.com/bettysbeerbar.htmSmugglers 3 http://www.deprice.com/smugglers.htmJohn Deprice loves simulators. His collection is publically available at http://www.deprice.com/games-6-1.htm

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