Strategy guides

## Player experience

### Player profile

The upper left section of the interface including the player's research fund and level.

### General statistics

The bottom-left section of the interface tracks the game play time and Tama's population in the petri dish.

### Petri dish

The main section which takes the biggest proportion of the screen is the petri dish and Tamas.

The petri dish has two environmental parameters that directly change Tama's activity: temperature and pressure. Each of the parameters is an 0 to 100 integer scale.

#### Temperature

The temperature level has four cutoff points: Unconcerned, Niche, Devoted, Fanatical.

#### Pressure

The pressure level has four cutoff points: Orderless, Liberal, Restricted, Terror.

### Research manual

   The tab panel on the bottom right, where all actions are carried out and progresses tracked.

#### Current config

The current applying config card is shown on the cover in the default view, including the config card name, temperature and pressure with literal gauges.

#### Configs

List of Configs

The "Configs" panel is where the player browses and select config cards. Config cards are combinations of the two petri dish parameters. There is also other information attached to the config card: the level of the card, description and cost. A card is only available to the player when the player level is equal to or higher than the card level.

The player can pay the respective cost and choose one card to apply to the petri dish.

#### Tasks

List of Tasks

In the "Task" panel are quantitative goals assigned by the laboratory. Once achieved, the player can collect a certain amount of research fund as rewards.

#### Tamas

List of Tamas

The "Tamas" panel tracks Tamas the player has encountered. The player can also purchase Tamas here and add them to the petri dish, according to their strategy and how well they play

## Actions

The core action loop to play Tama Tama Paradise is designed to be like conducting an experiment: observe, draw a hypothesis, review available resources, try the solution out, receive feedback from observation.

    More specifically, if a player wants to understand how the game works from scratch and make maximum use of their resource, they should perform the sequence of actions as following:

1. First, observe the petri dish and make their own judgement:
	* How are the Tamas different?
	* What are they doing?
	* Are they active or not?
	* Does the change of their activities follow any visible rule?
2. Second, build an inner model of the observed rules:
	* Is the pattern of change a linear relationship, or a non-linear one with twists?
	* Which Tama behaves differently than the others?
3. Third, review resources from the Research manual panels:
	* What is the currently active task?
	* How many funds do I have?
	* How many Tama have I collected and what is the next to expect?
4. Fourth, test the hypothesis by trying config cards in the "Config" Panel:
	* If the hypothesis is "Tamas are not active because the temperature is low", try to get a config card whose temperature value is higher.
5. Finally and coming back to step one, compare the result with the expectation:
	* Are Tama's activity level higher after the new config card is applied?
	* What can be fixed in or updated to the inner model?