TAKE MARS
Help (Windows Phone 8)
The Story:
Achievements Screen
Here you can see your progress in the game. View the badges that have been won.
View the number of games completed and the number of games won.
See how you have fared against different numbers of opponents.
Using your Microsoft Live Login, compare your totals against other players (Leader Board). Minerals, Energy and Cyber scores only use data from games that were won.
Leader Board: Each category will show your own score and the top five scores. Press Refresh to get updated data. You will be prompted to enter the name you would like to use; please enter a family friendly name, otherwise it may be changed.
Unlocks Screen
Settings – Game – Options
Note: Only player assistance is settable while playing a game.
The start of a game, against one opponent
With player assistance turned on, you will get hints of what to do.
The green arrow points to the solar collection grid, which is where to collect Energy.
Above this is the Asteroids, which is where to collect Materials.
Top center is the Comm Center, primarily used for communications back to Earth. However some nefarious corporations may have found another use.
Top right is the Manufacturing Center, used to construct new items.
Bottom right is the Space Elevator, used to deploy some items to Mars.
Bottom center is your home base. This shows the the amount of Energy & Material you have collected and ready for use. It also shows the number of colony segments you have deployed to Mars. The green arrow begins above your worker bot. You move your worker bots to the various locations to get things done. However you can only move your worker when its your turn, notice the yellow badge in the bottom right corner of you home base. This badge tells you when its your turn, and later a number is in the badge to tell you how you rank compared to your opponent(s).
To move your worker:
Use your finger to touch the worker, then slide the worker to a destination. Release.
Informational Help Messages
Making things
Notice it show the resource requirements for the item.
Simply touch the item to start building it, or touch else where on the screen to abort.
Once an item is constructed, it will go into space storage next to the Manufacturing Center.
Game Over
As you play enough games, more game features will become available (or you can unlock them faster using the $ unlocks). Then that empty space in your home base will start being used, and more fun things will happen.
Playing on Multiple Devices:
Unlocks:
When reaching game completion milestones, unlocks are given for free. The first is “Space Effects”, which is available after 100 games are completed.
Alternatively, the “Immediate Access” unlock may be purchased, which gives all the unlocks immediately.
Space Effects: The solar system is a hostile place. Bad things can happen.
Solar flares super charge the Solar Array, shorting out all workers there for their next turn.
into each other. Your workers may not all survive.
Where is the Water: No one lives long without some water to drink. Guess you better find a source of water on Mars.
More built bots results in a faster search, with the above number being colored from Red (orange, yellow, blue, turquoise) to Green (fastest search).
Surface Effects: The surface of Mars is not hospitable, for man or machine. Bad things can happen.
The winds of Mars are a damaging force. Looks like you will be doing some colony repair.
that one land on your colony, too bad.
Alien Artifacts: What’s that sticking out of the sands of Mars? It looks like a fragment of a device, one not made by us.
More built bots results in a faster search, with the above number being colored from Red (orange, yellow, blue, turquoise) to Green (fastest search).
Neo-Mars: A new beginning, a new home. Its time to start a Martian makeover.
Cash unlockables:
Update v1.0.0.6:
Increase touch zone for active worker, should make moving worker easier.
Experimental: add support for Twitter and Facebook, send out your achievements or thoughts. Available in the Settings screen, and in the Achievements page when you receive new awards after finishing a game.
Update v1.0.0.8 Win8, v1.1.0.8 Win8.1:
Add Microsoft Live Login (this is what you use with the store), which allows comparing scores of other players (Leader Board) in the Achievements screen. This is also used to sync scores between devices. Settings screen allows logging off.
Leader Board: Compare how many games you have Completed, Won, Abandoned against other players. Also, for won games, compare collected Material and Energy, plus Cyber events.
Fix a possilbe double request for login to Facebook. Also handle a change in behavior for posted data to Facebook, which resulted in truncated messages.
Fix an Advertisement sizing issue.