January 13, 2008 – Tilted Mill Entertainment -- independent developers of strategy, simulation and role-playing games – today announced that the demo for Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition, is now available for download on the official site at: http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/downloads/demo.php
Compared to the original Children of the Nile, The Enhanced Edition features:
° Vista Compatibility
° Added Brickyard (new infrastructure building that can store bricks closer to construction sites)
° New statues (2 small, 2 large and 1 brick)
° 3 new fountains and 2 new shrubberies
° 4 new plazas
° 2 new shrine variants
° New bricklayer home variant
° Travel accelerated on roads
° Priests are more effective - they now have wives and activate buildings longer
° Pyramid construction tweaked (smoothed and accelerated)
° Reduced barter times during shopping (making everyone's life a little easier)
° Temples made more effective relative to shrines
° Papyrus easier to make and more effective
° Lessened the effect of Hapi's "No Flood" event
° Quickstart Tutorial Scenario
° Resources more visible on map & mini-map
° Buildings that require additional specific materials now describe what they need when selected
° Problems with supply chain are displayed on buildings effected by the problem (e.g., no boats to move things across the river)
° "No Problems" indicator (homes and figures show all satisfaction types at all times)
° Right-click orders are available on a new button (buildings that house figures with multiple order options now have a button that can be used select from those options)
° WASD camera control
ABOUT TILTED MILL
Based in Framingham, MA, Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc. (www.tiltedmill.com) has developed industry leading city-building games including SimCity™ Societies and Caesar IV™.
The company was formed in 2001 by a team of veteran game developers whose credits include classic games such as Pharaoh™, Caesar III™, Lords of Magic™, and Zeus: Master of Olympus™. The Boston area studio combines innovative gameplay with the latest cutting edge technologies to create original strategy games, role-playing games and simulations.