Category: Games

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

Time is always marching on, and you will need to pay attention to it if you are to succeed.

Click the link above to learn about how time works in the game, how it impacts your relationships with your neighbors, and how your day to day looks.

We’ll look at the Town Map next time.

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This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

The next part of my deep dive into the game is focused on your energy, which dictates whether or not you can rake leaves.

You have a limited amount, and depending on a number of factors, you can use it at different rates. Also, you can learn how to optimize your sleep to recover the most energy each night. Click on the link above for the tips you need to balance your energy needs in the game.

Time will be the focus of the next part of the deep dive.

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This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

The weather is one of the most impactful elements of the game, and it is the subject of the next part of my deep dive.

If you want to know more about how the rain and the wind affect leaf fall and your ability to rake those leaves back up, click the link above. You’ll gain some key knowledge that will help you make better decisions as you run your leaf-raking business.

Tomorrow, we’ll look at your energy.

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This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

You can rake leaves, but you have to put the leaves somewhere! That’s where yard bags come in, the subject of the next part of the deep dive into the game.

You will use yard bags throughout your leaf-raking business, so click the link above to learn more about them.

Next time, let’s look at how weather can have an impact on your plans.

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Get the 24-page, full color PDF of the Toytles: Leaf Raking Player’s Guide for free by signing up for the GBGames Curiosities newsletter!

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

For a leaf-raking entrepreneur, knowing your rakes is incredibly important, and that’s why they get a fairly detailed treatment in the next part of my deep dive into the game.

As of this writing, there are three types of rakes, and they each have their own attributes. Knowing them that might compel you choose one over another when dealing with the tactics of raking a client’s yard.

There’s also the choice of which pace you wish to rake leaves at, which has an impact on the time you use as well as your energy. Click the link above to learn more about it.

Next time, we’ll look at the humble yet important Yard Bag.

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Get the 24-page, full color PDF of the Toytles: Leaf Raking Player’s Guide for free by signing up for the GBGames Curiosities newsletter!

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

Each of your neighbors has one of three types of yards, the topic of the next part of my deep dive.

Learn about how they are different and what impact a client’s yard has on your attempts to earn enough money to buy yourself the Ultimate Item(tm).

Next time, we’ll look at a leaf-raking entrepreneur’s best friends: the rakes!

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Get the 24-page, full color PDF of the Toytles: Leaf Raking Player’s Guide for free by signing up for the GBGames Curiosities newsletter!

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

The town at the center of the game is populated with your neighbors and clients, the subject of the next part of the deep dive.

Click the link above to learn how to turn your neighbors into clients and what happens if you don’t keep their yards clean.

And tomorrow, we’ll focus on the yards themselves.

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Get the 24-page, full color PDF of the Toytles: Leaf Raking Player’s Guide for free by signing up for the GBGames Curiosities newsletter!

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

The next part of my deep dive into the game is up, and the focus is on income. It goes into how you earn it, as well as work you need to do that doesn’t earn you income yet can lose you the game if you do not do it.

Next time, we’ll focus on neighbors and clients.

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Get the 24-page, full color PDF of the Toytles: Leaf Raking Player’s Guide for free by signing up for the GBGames Curiosities newsletter!

This post is part of a series about Toytles: Leaf Raking, a game that lets you explore basic business concepts, challenges your strategic thinking, and teaches the importance of responsibility and keeping your promises. Get it for both iOS and Android.

Toytles: Leaf Raking is a leaf-raking business simulation. You play the role of a young reptile who has 90 days before the first snowfall of winter to earn enough money to purchase the amazingly cool and very expensive Ultimate Item(tm).

Check the main page linked above to see screenshots and a quick description of the game, but over the next couple of weeks I will be adding a collection of tips and tricks.

The first page is titled How It Works, and it is a more detailed overview of what you can expect to do in the game.

Future pages will dive deep into the various aspects of the game. Armed with the knowledge from this guide, you should feel more capable at tackling your own leaf-raking business.

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