Hello there and welcome to the demonstration game! Hopefully this will help you to learn how to play the game and to let you know what things give you more points and why. So let's start...

Okay, here we have the main game screen. As you learned at headquarters, there are 4 frames and each has a different purpose. Let's review class. (Aaaaaahhh! School!) Okay, turn on your computers:

• A) Main Screen: The biggest frame, displays all maps.
• B) Navigation Frame: Under the Main Screen, contains buttons for viewing the maps.
• C) Status Frame: In the top-right corner, displays your score, population, and a neat little Design Paradise logo.
• D) Input Frame: Below the Status Frame, contains blanks for the construction of your island.

That wasn't that bad now was it?? Now class, let's move on.. In front of your face, you see big blocks of colored Legos. This is a zoning map. Each tile on this map matches up with the main map. If that's hard to understand, think of this--Each map is on a transparent overlay. Now place them on top of each other, bingo! So, the tile 1,1 on the zoning map corresponds with 1,1 on the main map. This map is color-coded so you know where it's legal, and illegal to build. If you build in the wrong zone, not only will you be trampled by angry civilians because you built a hotel on their back yard (joke), but the Design Paradise game will deduct happy points each turn, until you rezone the area properly. Now boys and girls, listen carefully, here are the different zones the colors correspond with:

• Yellow: These guys are zoned resort, usually they are close to the shore, because tourists like nice views from their hotel rooms. Tourism is very important to Kauai's economy. We need people to come and spend money here. So to gain your tourism points, you build hotels on the yellow parts. Pretty simple.
• Gray: These parts are zoned commercial, this is also important because both tourists and residents need places to spend money, and businesses need places to put their stores. So, to score points with the businessmen, and gain points for commercial, you would build malls and small shops on the gray squares.
• Green: These heifers are zoned agriculture. To make friends with the farmers, choose "Prepare Ag Land" for the green parts... this makes them happy and gets you agriculture points. The phrase "Prepare Ag Land" basically means plant crops like sugar, pineapples, guavas, and other Hawaiian crops. Agriculture is another important factor of Kauai's economy. We get a lot of income from growing Hawaiian crops. Things like Christmas Trees don't grow well on Kauai.
• Orange: These lil' buggers are zoned residential. Residential is also important, because workers and their families need houses to live in. If you want to keep the workers happy (a wise decision), build houses and apartments on the orange spaces.
• Red: All of the red parts are zoned conservation. This means that there's probably some huge rain forest there. Conservation land is very important to Kauai. The forests are filled with endangered plants and animals; the forests are what keep Kauai so beautiful. To keep the animals happy, and to keep your score high, don't rezone too many conservation squares.
• Black: These squares mean you have occupied that space with a structure or crops. This means, that you cannot build on that space, unless you rezone it. Hopefully at the end of the game, you won't have a burnt Kauai.

As you might have observed class, every one of these things is important to the people, economy, and the future of Kauai. If they are unbalanced, things go haywire. And your score drops like a fly. And that's bad. If you turn the page (Scroll down) you will see some examples of unbalanced Kauais due to too much or too little of things.

Here we see an overdeveloped Kauai. There are too many resort and commercial areas, and too few agriculture and residential. When this happens, Design Paradise docks you points for many reasons: There is not enough housing for all the workers. Too much conservation land has been built on. It's just not balanced--there's too much development and the island is over populated. This person probably got tons of points for all the structures built, but his score is probably going down the drain right now, and so is the island.

In this game, the player has built on all the wrong zones. This causes mass confusion for the island and its people. Think about it--hotels right in the middle of subdivisions, stores in the middle of cane fields, and people living in shopping malls. While everything might be balanced, it's all built in the wrong places, so this person's score very low. Get a clue! (It's the frosting!!) This is a good example of someone who doesn't read the directions.

Now for a good example. This player was smart. There are only a few hotels along the coastline, enough housing, a few malls and small shops, and lots of ag land. And, there was no rezoning of the conservation lands. This person may not have a lot of structures, but she has a very high score because she has everything balanced, without overdevelopment.

Okay, class that pretty much wraps this lesson up. I hope this has given you a better understanding of how the point system works and what things you can and cannot do. We have tried to make this game as realistic as possible, without xeroxing SimCity. Kauai is a very unique island and is a lot different from other places economically. So now that you know how to play the game what are ya gonna do?? Go to Disneyland! No... play the Design Paradise Simulation Game!

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