Raise The Village
By New Charity Era, L3C
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Description
Heard about Kony 2012* and want to do something about it? Playing “Raise the Village” gives you a fun way to help people in Uganda who’ve been hurt by Joseph Kony and the LRA.
Change lives in a real African community as you build, grow and customize a virtual village on your own iDevice. The more you put into your game, the more you help the real village of Kapir Atiira that was attacked and raided by Joseph Kony's LRA.
You can create a new account or use Facebook to login. However, Facebook is NOT required to play.
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Key features
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•BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL VILLAGE: To grow your village, build everything from village huts and stores to crop and livestock farms. Your village is based on a real village in Uganda, Africa called Kapir Atiira.
•DELIVER ITEMS: Deliver clothing, mosquito repellent and water cans. Grow crops like cassava and cabbage. Raise sheep, rabbits, pigs and more. Watch your village's population grow and level up as you become chairman of the village!
•GET REAL-LIFE DELIVERY PHOTOS: When New Charity Era makes deliveries to the real village in Uganda, we will update our users with delivery photos!
•SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE: Use Facebook to easily share your updates, unique delivery photos and screenshots of your village with your friends. Plus, delivery photos will automatically appear in a "Raise the Village" photo album on your Facebook profile.
•MEET THE VILLAGERS: See actual video footage and photos of villagers in Kapir Atiira. Learn about village activities and experience the villagers' day-to-day lives.
•VISIT BIKO IN AFRICA: Users have Biko as their village tour guide throughout the game. Biko is one of three founders of New Charity Era, along with Cameron and Joey. He permanently resides on location in the Ngora district of Uganda to provide you quick feedback as you play. Visit Biko’s Hut to read updates about Kapir Atiira and much more.
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Version 2.0 is here!
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We listened to all of our user feedback and implemented over 100 new features!
•Share your game with the world through Facebook
•Ability to deliver gifts to your friends
•Visit Your friends’ villages
•Receive a thank you letter from a child in Kapir Atiira village
•Collections are introduced
•Interactive portal video experience with the real village
•And much more! Visit our blog for full details
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Media coverage
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Nominated for “2011’s Best App Ever” in “doing good” by 148apps.com
Ranked #1 Game -- 'Putting the Social in Social Media Games'
Featured in Apple App Store’s “What We’re Playing” -- March 2011
"This free game by New Charity Era goes beyond a regular city building game and incorporates social good into its game." - Singapore Kopitiam
“If you've yet to pay real cash for virtual goods, this could very well be the game that inspires you to take that leap.” – AOL’s Games.com
“'Raise the Village' is seriously revolutionary. I can’t get over how unbelievable this idea is and how much potential it has.” – GetYourBizSavvy.com
“'Raise the Village' should be commended and is more than worth a try.” – Inside Social Games
•TOP TEN! - #9 Overall Free App - iTunes (April 2011)
•#6 Overall Games: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Free Strategy Game - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Simulation Game: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
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About the developer
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New Charity Era is a low-profit, limited liability corporation, or L3C. This means that our first and foremost goal MUST be to further a social cause. We aren’t non-profit, but we operate with the desire to innovate in the realm of charity. Learn more about our initiative on our website:
http://www.raisethevillage.com/
*We are not affiliated with Invisible Children, but we are supporters of this movement. We simply like the idea of helping others in innovative ways.
What's New in Version 2.0.1
New in version 2.0.1:
•Facebook connect issues fixed
•Fixed in-app purchase bug
•All buildings that cost florin now have instant construction times
•Other minor bugs
Along with version 2.0's new features:
•Vastly improved gaming experience
•Ability to deliver gifts to your friends
•Visit your friends’ villages
•Receive a thank-you letter from a child in Kapir Atiira village
•Collections are introduced
•Interactive video experiences with the real village
•New village pastimes introduced
•Biko's hut now contains posts that are full screen
•Share your game with your friends by showing off delivery pictures and screenshots of your village with Facebook
•New 'Re-Deliver' button allows you to quickly and easily start a delivery over again
•New game menu user interface
•New building menu user interface
•New decorations to make your village stand out
•New village goals
•New tutorial
•Now login through Facebook
•New buildings added
•New building tours show you an inside look at the real buildings in the real village
•New main menu design
•New automatic login
•New giving mapp
•New items that represent what the real village needs
•New interactive in-app safari pop-ups keep you in the app while still having fun
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Parents: have your kids play this instead of Smurfs!
This is an innovative idea for an app that has been executed brilliantly! I sincerely hope that more games in this genre will go in this direction.
Parents should really have their kids play this game. It teaches them about social responsibility, while being fun at the same time. And since they're going to blow your money any way on virtual items (really just a bunch of pixels) from games like Farmville and Smurfs' Village, why not have that money actually do some good and go to a community who can use it, instead of lining the pockets of companies who are purposely trying to market their game at your kids to take your money.
I wonder if Apple is taking their usual 30% cut from the in-app purchases.
Groovy!!
Heyy!! Great game guys!! I love how you've integrated fantasy game play with real life things. There's no other game out there like it so great job y'all!!!
WOW.
this is probably one of the coolest games ever. it takes all the simple fun of farmville and other city-simulators, and adds in the educational element that all of these games are missing. it actually lets you see what your buildings and actions look like in real life, in a real village in Uganda. teaching people, especially kids, about helping out developing nations is so important because most of the time, people have no idea what it's REALLY like.
this game is awesome, easy to play, and makes you feel good!
- Free
- Category: Games
- Updated: Jun 22, 2011
- Version: 2.0.1
- Size: 19.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: New Charity Era, L3C
- © New Charity Era, L3C
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- 8 Florin$1.99
- 25 Florin$4.99
- 60 Florin$9.99
- 150 Florin$19.99
- 250 Florin$29.99
- 1000 Florin$99.99
- 450 Florin$49.99
