'The Simpsons: Tapped Out'

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Game Information Released: iOS February 17, 2012 February 21, 2012 February 29, 2012 February 29, 2012 March 1, 2012 Developer(s): Electronic Arts Publisher(s): Electronic Arts Genre: Action Platforms: iOS Android (future) Ratings: 12+ Players: 1

The Simpsons: Tapped Out is a free game for iOS, developed and published by Electronic Arts, first released on February 17, 2012. The game consists of the player helping Homer and other characters to rebuild Springfield. The game features the original cast. An Android version of Tapped Out will launch a few months after the first release. On March 3, 2012, due to connectivity problems, Tapped Out was removed from the App Store.

Description

D'OH! Homer accidently caused a meltdown that wiped out Springfield. Now, it's up to you to rebuild it. From the writers of The Simpsons, tap into a city building game that lets you create your own living, breathing Springfield...for FREE. Recreate Springfield just like you want it, as you help Homer find Marge, Bart and the rest of his family and friends. Complete comic quests like making Apu work ridiculously long shifts at Kwik-E-Mart, growing and harvesting Tomacco on Cletus’s Farm, partying down with Duffman at Duff Brewery, and more. Finish jobs and tasks to earn currency and...mmm, donuts. You can even get social and visit your friends' versions of Springfield. Make mischief and play pranks on their towns to collect cash. But remember, they can do the same to you. We told you that this game is life-ruiningly fun.

--Official description by EA.com

THIS GAME IS LIFE-RUININGLY FUN! Homer accidently caused a meltdown that wiped out Springfield. D’OH! Now, it’s up to you to rebuild it! From the writers of The Simpsons, tap into a city building game that lets you create your own living, breathing Springfield... for FREE.

--Description at iTunes Singapore

Gameplay

The Simpsons: Tapped Out Trailer Transcript

An example of a town.

How to play

To play the game, players need to tap on things in the game. For example, the player wants a list of Bart's jobs, so the player taps on Bart. Also, when placing things in the game, you need to drag it to a space then tap it to place it. When a character does a task, or builds something, a donut can be used to speed up the task. There is an 'Other Springfield' in which the player can help every day and get money and XP in reward. There is a tutorial in the first few levels.

Tasks

When you tap a character with a speech bubble saying "!", it means they want to say something. What they say may have something to do with a task, and if it does, a box will appear on screen. In the box, there will be a title, eg. Square One, and underneath a task, eg. Build the Simpson House. Sometimes there will be two tasks underneath. Then you might need to buy what you need to complete the task, eg. You go into "Buildings". "Simpson House" will be highlighted and have the price underneath. You buy whatever you need to complete the task, and if your task is to build, you drag the building to the shaded box. Then, a box will come up with the reward, and perhaps another box saying you have unlocked a character, and perhaps ANOTHER box saying you have leveled up.

Adding friends

The player can add friends via Facebook Connect, Gmail, their device's contact list and EA's Origin. After the player has added some friends, they can visit their versions of Springfield to complete three tasks each day, which results in more rewards for themselves. The maximum amount of friends you can add in Tapped Out is 100.

Story

Homer is at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and instead of working, he is playing a The Happy Little Elves Game game on his MyPad. His negligence results in the Power Plant blowing up. Homer starts rebuilding the town, and is soon aided by other characters.

Information

• Collecting all characters in a character collection will result in a reward.
• Levelling up will unlock new buildings and decorations.
• Building new buildings will unlock new actions that the characters can perform.
• Donuts are the game's premium currency.
• The game is compatible on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch 3 (3rd generation) or iPod touch (4th generation), and requires iOS 4.0 or later.

The Store

Real money

Product Dollars ($) Pounds (£) Euros (€) Swiss Francs (CHF) Boatload of 2400 Donuts $99.99 £69.99 79.99€ CHF100 Store Full of Donuts of 900 Donuts $49.99 £34.99 39.99€ CHF48 Truckload of 300 Donuts $19.99 £13.99 15.99€ CHF20 Tray of 132 Donuts $9.99 £6.99 7.99€ CHF10 Stack of 60 Donuts $4.99 £2.99 3.99€ CHF5 Dozen Donuts $1.99 £1.49 1.59€ CHF2

In-game donuts

Product Cost $15,000 115 Donuts $10,000 80 Donuts $5,000 41 Donuts $2,500 21 Donuts $1,000 9 Donuts $500 5 Donuts

Decoration

Decoration Requires Road - Pavement Level 6 River Level 7 Tree $100, Level 3 Shrub $25 Homer's Hammock 5 Donuts Bench Quest Bench 6 Donuts Wooden Fence $135, Level 6 Parking Lot $175, Level 5 Garbage Bin $175, Level 7 Kidde Pole Quest Large Hedge $325, Level 7 Small Hedge $220, Level 8 Newspaper Dispenser $325, Level 8 Dumpster $1000, Level 9 Trash Can $70, Level 10 Jebediah Springfield statue See Premium Stuff section

Quests

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Task/Quest category Task/Quest Reward Square One Build the Simpson house $100 10XP LEVEL UP TO: Level 2 UNLOCK Lisa Springfield Cleaners Pt. 1 Make Homer Clean up Springfield $100 10XP Springfield Cleaners Pt. 2 Make Lisa Clean up Springfield $100 10XP 1 DONUT The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 1 Build Evergreen Terrace $100 10XP Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart Build the Kwik-E-Mart UNLOCK Apu LEVEL UP TO: Level 3 $100 10XP The Others Welcome to Origin! VISIT OTHER SPRINGFIELD Collect Rewards and Vandalise your Friend's buildings $100 10XP 2 DONUTS The Box, The Box! Get a Mystery Box 10 DONUTS 10XP LEVEL UP TO: Level 4 Soylent Bean Send Lisa to shop at the Kwik-E-Mart $100 10XP Thank Ganesh Make Apu pray to Ganesh $100 10XP Working Hard Make Homer or Lisa Clean up Springfield The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 2 Build the Brown House The Mysterious Brown House Pt. 1 Make Homer Break into the Brown House and watch TV The Taxman Cometh Collect money from Homes $50 5XP LEVEL UP TO: Level 5 The New Evergreen Terrace Pt. 3 Move the Kwik-E-Mart UNLOCK Ned $100 10XP Build the Flanders House Shopaholic Collect money from Shops Green Thumb Plant Trees $100 10XP Donut-denominated Decorations Place Homer's Hammock That Ain't Right Condemn Science myPad Make Homer play with his myPad $100 10XP Hardly Working Place the Kiddie Pool Property Values $100 10XP I-Choo-Choo-Choose-You 1 DONUT 10XP Getting Benched Place a Bench Make Lisa read a book $100 10XP Put Up a Parking Lot Build Parking Lot for the Kwik-E-Mart Pave Paradise Place Pavement Slack-Jawed Yokel Pt. 1 Build Cletus' Farm Apu Plus Eight Make Apu Free the Octuplets The Mysterious Brown House Pt. 2 Make Apu Relax in the Brown House

Levels

The levels for the game go from Level 1 to Level 20.

Level XP Character and quote 1 40 NO QUOTE 2 75 Bart: "Wow, you put the house down where it told you to." 3 85 Apu: "You have been reincarnated to the next level. Thank you, tap again." 4 120 Homer: "Woo-hoo! I bet leveling up is always gonna be this easy." 5 250 Barney: "It's always level 5 somewhere!" 6 800 Mr. Burns: "Excellent! You should celebrate by buying donuts with your money." 7 1 800 Chief Wiggum: "That's some fine grinding." 8 3 200 Luigi: "Now that's a spicy accomplishment!" 9 5 000 Lisa: "If life were a game, leveling up would be birthdays. Happy birthday!" 10 12 000 Otto: "Is it me, or do these levels seem to be taking longer and longer?" 11 15 000 Krusty: "All that for two freakin' donuts?!" 12 12 000 Marge: "I take it you don't have a family or anything." 13 18 000 Skinner: "Congratulations. That was a difficult but insignificant level." 14 22 000 Sea Captain: "Arr! Ye must be playing this on a long sea voyage." 15 22 000 Carl and Lenny: "For he's a jolly good fellow! He's at level one-five." 16 23 000 Comic Book Guy: "Worst. Level. Ever." 17 25 000 Grampa: "This game is a lot like life. It stops being fun after a while, but you gotta keep doing it." 18 28 000 Moe: "Man, I'd have quit this game long ago... and I got nothing better to do." 19 34 440 Groundskeeper Willie: "You're still playing? You should get a girlfriend... or a rake." 20 48 880 Professor Frink: "You've played further into this game than we thought anyone would."

Daily Play Combo

Day 1 - $150

Day 2 - $250

Day 3 - $500

Day 4 - $1000

Day 5 - Mystery Box

Premium

Product Cost/Requires Mystery Box 6 Donuts Volcano Lair 200 Donuts Duff Brewery 190 Donuts Springfield Sign 170 Donuts Your jobs income will be increased by 4.50% Frink's Lab 150 Donuts Aztec Theatre 80 Donuts Jebediah Springfield statue Tap Homer and make him play with his MyPad, then tap him 10 times while he is playing and the player will be rewarded with the Jebediah Springfield statue and 10 donuts. Homer Buddha 15 Donuts. Buy a Homer Buddha you'll be guaranteed to get a premium item meaning anything from a picket fence worth one donut to possibly one of the big buildings. Lard Lad Donuts 110 Donuts Hans Moleman 60 Donuts Tire Fire 40 Donuts Squeaky Voice Teen 30 Donuts Tree Swing 20 Donuts Burning Bush 20 Donuts Orange Tree 15 Donuts Apple Tree 15 Donuts Flower Planter 10 Donuts Dumpster 10 Donuts Bench 6 Donuts Picket Fence 1 Donut

Job income

Character/Object Income Springfield Sign Increased by 4.50% Hans Moleman All your jobs will earn 150% more money and experience points. Squeaky-Voiced Teen Springfield Tire Yard Increases bonuses for money and experience by 2%.

Reaction to the game

"We want this to be one of the biggest titles this year," EA SVP of global publishing for social and mobile Bernard Kim told CNET. "We've invested a lot. It's absolutely a top-tier development priority for us. Hardcore Simpsons fans will get a lot out of it."

On February 17, 2012, the free Tapped Out app appeared on the Sweden, Singapore, Norway, Denmark and Finland's App Stores. It was later added to Canada, the United Kingdom and several other countries, with the United States recieving the game last. On March 1, the reaction to the app being released in the United States was so overwhelming, that it created connection problems.On March 3, 2012, the app was removed from the App Store, so "to make sure you current players have the best possible experience".

Most connection problems have been fixed since then, but the bugs were the main problem with the downloaders of the game. Tons of bugs were reported on the Tapped Out forum, mostly reported was the "DC while loading friends city bug".

International releases

Country iOS release date Android release date Singapore February 17, 2012 Sweden February 17, 2012 Norway February 17, 2012 Denmark February 17, 2012 Finland February 17, 2012 Canada February 21, 2012 United Kingdom February 29, 2012 Spain February 29, 2012 Greece February 29, 2012 Egypt February 29, 2012 Botswana February 29, 2012 Germany February 29, 2012 Australia February 29, 2012 Mexico February 29, 2012 Indonesia February 29, 2012 New Zealand February 29, 2012 Ireland February 29, 2012 Switzerland February 29, 2012 Russia February 29, 2012 Poland February 29, 2012 Portugal February 29, 2012 Romania February 29, 2012 Turkey February 29, 2012 United States March 1, 2012 Summer 2012

Gallery

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  A screenshot from a town in Level 20.

• The Simpsons Tapped Out ad.PNG

  A screenshot from a teaser trailer of the game.

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  Promotional image.

• TappedOutReconnecting.png

  Reconnecting screen.

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  App icon.

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  Logo.

External links

• Official Tapped Out page at EA.com
• Official Tapped Out Facebook page
• Official EA Games Tapped Out forum
• A Beginner's Guide to Tapped Out by Gameteep.net
• Unofficial Tapped Out website

The Simpsons video games
Console/Computer games
The Simpsons Arcade Game • Bart vs. the Space Mutants • Bart vs. the World • Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly • Bart's House of Weirdness • Bart vs. the Juggernauts • Krusty's Fun House • Bartman Meets Radioactive Man • Bart's Nightmare • Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness • Virtual Bart • Bart & the Beanstalk • The Itchy & Scratchy Game • Cartoon Studio • Virtual Springfield • Bug Squad! • Bowling • Wrestling • Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror • Road Rage • Skateboarding • Hit & Run • The Simpsons Game
Mobile games
Minutes to Meltdown • Arcade • Tapped Out • Itchy & Scratchy Land
Non-The Simpsons
Lego Dimensions
Pinball
The Simpsons • The Simpsons Pinball Party
Handheld
Bart vs. Homersaurus • Bartman: Avenger of Evil • Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis • The Simpsons Electronic LCD Game • The Simpsons 20Q
Fruit machines/Arcade
The Simpsons (Maygay) • Homer's Meltdown • The Simpsons Beer Guide! • The Simpsons Skateboard Stomp
Other software
The Simpsons Comics iOS • The Simpsons Screen Saver • The Simpsons Ride Sneak Peak Bonus CD-ROM • The Simpsons Unleashed