There are three levels of difficulty in the game, which affect things like the speed at which changes occur and the player's budget. Kids have to keep their parks financially as well as ecologically viable. The park overview screen Not to worry though. SimPark makes it easy to get a nice park going. Once the area the climate and difficulty level are chosen, players are presented with park overviews of several possible layouts.
Some layouts are mostly land, some mostly water, and some are evenly divided between the two.
Once the layout is selected, the park overview is always available to provide both a look at how the park is doing as a whole and for quick navigation from one point to another. Once a layout is chosen, the view changes to an isometric view of a small portion of the park. Buttons down the left side of the screen allow the player to choose between such items as trees, shrubs, grasses and flowers, birds, reptiles and mammals. The player simply clicks on the desired category, then clicks on a choice within a category. After that, it's simply a matter of clicking on the place that the player wants the item to go and its placed.