deKay's Lofi Gaming

Zoo Tycoon

Basically just expanding my zoo more today. In fact, I’m almost out of space. Animals added include sea lions and my zoo now has a reptile house and aviary too. I had a look at my budgets, but things there don’t look good. Although I have more money than I started with, most of that came from one-off awards which have started to dry up. My outgoings are higher than my incomings and although everyone thinks my zoo is ACEBEST, …

Zoo Tycoon

Added some more animals to my zoo today – an elephant, two polar bears (that soon became three with the birth of a baby) and some Emperor penguins. I put a few more buildings in too, including an Animal Theatre (which is neither for animal performances, nor for surgery) and a huge gift shop. I’m getting used to the really bizarre control system, but it is still so unintuitive I keep making mistakes.

Zoo Tycoon

This arrived today, along with Potatio Leg Ends. Had a quick play through the tutorial, and it seems OK but suffers from a rather stupid problem – the screens on the DS seem to be the wrong way round. Basically, you use the touch screen for things that don’t need to be touch activated, and the d-pad to control the top screen, which really needs to be touch activated. And you click on a simple bottom-screen map representation of the …