InexorableTash said:
Thanks for keeping us in the loop. Can you share other screenshots of your adventures so we can get a taste of the game?
Sure. Here's the screen that greets you once you log in:
This is your base camp. The big gold building is El Dorado, which I hope to unlock by completing adventures. Active adventures appear in the boxes on the left-hand side of the screen. Various status bars show up at the top of the screen. The blue bar shows experience points (XP), and the yellow bar below it shows energy. Just about every action of any consequence eats up one energy point, and the bar maxes out at about 30, so you can only play for maybe ten minutes before you run out of energy. (Energy regenerates at a rate of something like one every six minutes, so when you've run out, you can just take a break for a few hours and when you come back you'll be fully recharged.)
The boxes at the top are supplies, which you need to undertake adventures. You get them by contracting a supplier (the boats at the dock near the bottom-left).
The gold coins are the in-game currency, used to buy equipment (like dynamite and whip upgrades) and supplies. The stack of dollar bills, on the other hand, represents "Adventure cash," which costs real money (40 Adventure Bucks to a US dollar). You can use it to buy really powerful upgrades, or to skip difficult tasks. (Needless to say, Zynga won't get a dime from me.)
The bottom of the screen lists your friends. I've blacked out this section to protect the innocent. You can pester them for special items (like Milk, to feed the Sleepy Sloth, so he'll follow you back to your base camp). It also has the button for the map, from where you can choose your adventures:
The expeditions themselves are all pretty similar. You break rocks with your pickaxe, cut down bushes with your machete, and fight snakes/spiders/rams with your whip, all in the name of performing some specialized task (save the baby monkeys! move the snake eggs away from the village! bake some brownies!), collecting artifacts along the way.
Here are some baby monkeys:
That's pretty much it.