What is Kamu Town and what are the Kamus?
Lead the playful Kamus to build your dream town! It is up to you as the mayor of the new town to transform an empty lot into a thriving place full of wondrous things. Daunting? Luckily help is not far. Hire your friends’ to work in your town and they'll help you run the workplaces you build.
The Kamus are the inhabitants of your town, and it is up to you to ensure that they stay happy. The better job you do of keeping them happy, the more new Kamus will want to move to your prospeing town!
The name “kamu” comes from Finnish and translates to English as a friend, buddy or pal. These little guys & gals have just started to live all over the virtual Kamu Towns.
In the current beta version, Kamu Town is being tested for functionality. In the future, we will offer a lot more features including more options to develop your town and Kamus living in it.
Your Mission
Your mission in the game is to create a bustling town with happy inhabitants, the Kamus. The town runs on two simple principles:
Build and operate workplaces
These buildings are the busineses in your town that produce coins and items that make Kamus, the inhabitants of your town, happy. In order to operate the workplace, you need to staff them with your friends - or in the beginning of the game, you can also use special temporary Workers. They will disappear at some point when you progress, so you should invite your friends to play too. You will get more worker slots when you advance in the game.
Build homes
These buildings attract new Kamus to your town. You need to have workplaces staffed with your friends to produce various goods, which will make the Kamus enjoy living in your town. Happy Kamus produce hearts, which are needed to make exclusive purchases in the game.
Getting started
When you start the game, you will choose your own Kamu character which will be running your Kamu Town as a mayor. All Kamus have a major trait: dark, fun, tech or nature. This trait defines your mayor and sets the initial direction how your town will look like and how it functions. Different traits have different housing styles and also allow you to develop your own town in various directions. As you level up your mayor, you can choose to change the skillset he has and thus allow to change the style of your Kamu Town.
What are the traits?
The traits define your Kamu Town's mayor and the direction you want to develop your own town. There are four traits:
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Dark A bit of goth, a bit of ninja style and maybe even some halloween spirits in this mayor. Mayors skilled in dark traits can be found running towns with ninja schools, dark cottages, old cathedrals, secret factories and such. Dark skill helps your production in dark traited workplaces. |
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Fun Life is fun and your mayor make sure the town is filled with buildings which promote fun and games. Mayors skilled in fun traits can be found running towns with ferris wheels, stadiums, theaters and pretty cottages. Fun skill helps your production in fun traited workplaces. |
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Tech Science and technology makes a great industrial town and advances the wellbeing of all Kamus alike. Mayors skilled in tech traits can be found running towns with offices, power plants, science parks and even giant robots. Tech skill helps your production in tech traited workplaces. |
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Nature Cozy farms, green fields and beautiful gardens make a great nature town. Mayors skilled in nature traits can be found running towns with greenhouses, farms, elder trees and markets. Nature skill helps your production in nature traited workplaces. |
When choosing your Kamu Town mayor, the initial choice sets the direction where your town grows. However, when you level up your mayor, you can also develop skills to other than the initial trait you chose and thus you are able to unlock other kinds of houses and buildings for your town.
Kamus, the inhabitants of your town, have also traits according to the houses they live in. The Kamus living in dark houses are attuned for dark, Kamus living in nature houses are attuned to nature etc. The workplaces your town has produce various goods, which make your Kamus happy - and happy Kamus produce hearts, which you can use to buy exclusive items and upgrades.
What are mayor skills?
The game has four major traits: dark, fun, tech and nature. These are also skills, that you can choose your mayor to have. Initially, you choose the initial trait/skill which your mayor starts the game. When you get more experience and level up your mayor, you can use skill points to advance your mayor's skills. In addition to four trait type skills, you mayor can also be skilled in making money (coin skill), which affect the money your workplaces produce (including the production boost).
Mayor skills also affect the production jackpot chances to get better results & bonuses.
Why do I or my friends have high skills when I start?
Each character starts the game with a new player bonus, which is +10 points to all skills at levels 1-6 to speed up the game progress. This bonus is applied to all production and it benefits your friends when they use you as a worker in their own towns.
Starting the game and entering Kamu Town
When you first time enter Kamu Town, you will be guided through creating your town. You can choose your Kamu mayor name and the initial trait which suits you best. After that you'll namer your mayor. Select it carefully, as you cannot change that afterwards.
The next step takes you to naming your newly created town. You can change the name later if you so choose. Choose the name and continue to the game, which now continues with few tutorial type of quests, which will get your town statue, first home and workplace.
How do I move around in Kamu Town?
You can move your mayor around the town by clicking on the map. This will move your mayor to the specified spot.You can move the town map by clicking and dragging the map. This works even when building new buildings.
Kamus are the inhabitants of your Kamu Town and move around themselves, collecting goods from staffed workplaces. You cannot move any Kamus yourself.
What is the Mayor's statue and daily lottery?
Each town has a central focus point and in Kamu Town it is the statue that pays tribute to the Mayor - that is you! There is a different statue for each trait (nature, dark, fun and tech) and what you initially chose when you started the game will define the statue.
Each day you can access daily lottery through your statue by clicking it. When the lottery is available the statue has a horseshoe icon on it. The amount you get each day is partly random, as you have to spin the wheel of fortune to get share of the lottery coins. The amount is also affected by your friends playing the game, since the number of hearts your friends have generated in the previous day will produce you more coins. So it really helps to have active friends in the game. Note that the amount of friends playing doesn't affect the coins received, only their town size and activity.
So what do I do in Kamu Town?
The idea of Kamu Town is to build a prosperous town, which is inhabited by Kamus. You can also hire friends to be your workers, which you can place inside various working places that you can build to your Kamu Town. Keeping the workplaces staffed rewards you with more money and various goods, which your Kamus need. Happy Kamus have a chance to create hearts, which in turn open more options to expand your town.
You have the following navigational options where you can choose what you want to do:
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Homes and Kamus |
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Workplace and Workers |
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Decorations |
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Jobs and Awards |
What are coins, hearts and goods?
Coins are the basic payment method in Kamu Town. Coins are awarded from staffed workplaces, so put your friends into work in the various Kamu Town workplaces like factory, market, hospital etc. You also gain coins from daily lottery, which is available from the town Mayor's statue once per day.
Goods are produced by workplaces when they are staffed with your friends. Your Kamus will collect these goods automatically and their happiness level is increased when they do that. Happy kamus produce town reputation and hearts.
hearts are advanced resources and they are produced by happy Kamus. You can also get hearts from completing tasks and achievements, sometimes from staffing workplaces (from production jackpot). You can use hearts to buy more advanced decorations, upgrades and town expansions.
What are tokens?
Tokens are a special currency, that you can only buy from our Kamu Town shop. Tokens are needed to purchase the most exquisite items and buildings in Kamu Town. You can also turn tokens into coins in the future.
What are special items?
Special town items are buildings or places, that produce happiness for Kamus. These special items will help keeping your town inhabitants happy without putting anyone to work in it. Staffed workplaces keep your Kamus happy easier and more efficiently, but special town items can help you a bit if you fall short on other production.
Examples of special items are: Merry go round (fun), Science park (tech), Spooky pond (dark) and Fountain (nature). These items are unlocked at level 6 and can be later upgraded.
What are the workplaces?
Workplaces are special buildings, that you can buy with coins and sometimes with hearts. When you level up your mayor, you also unlock more workplaces, depending how you raise your mayor's skills (dark, fun, tech, nature and coin). You can also upgrade workplaces, thus making them produce more coins and goods for your Kamu townies.
What kind of workplaces are available to me?
Each trait (nature, fun, dark, tech) has different workplaces available in the beginning of the game. These will produce needed goods for your Kamus, who will gain happiness points by gathering them.
There are three basic types of workplaces: single trait, dual trait and coin workplaces.
Single trait workplaces are attuned to one particular trait: nature, fun, dark or tech. Examples of such workplaces are Office (tech), Market (nature), Goth Shop (dark) and Cafe (fun). When you have chosen your initial game trait, these are the first workplaces you can buy. Later on, you can grow your mayor's skill in other traits and unlock other types of workplaces to your town.
Dual trait workplaces are attuned to two traits, for example nature + tech, dark + fun etc. Examples of such workplaces are Maze of Horror (fun + dark), Recycling Plant (tech + nature) and Video Game Arcade (tech + fun). These buildings also require your mayor to have enough skill points in both of the specified traits.
Coin workplaces do not produce goods at the same rate as the previously mentioned workplaces. However they produce more coins. You need to balance your town to have both single/dual trait workplaces and coin workplaces in order to keep the cash flow steady and your Kamus happy. Examples of such workplaces are Jeweller, City Hall and Museum.
In a successfull town, these workplaces exists in harmony, as there are couple of coin workplaces and few other workplaces depending of your (and your friends' too!) chosen traits and skills.
How do I put my friends to work?
You can do it in two ways:
1) Click on Workplaces and Workers menu button and choose the Workers tab. Click on your friend, who is not yet working anyplace, and then click on an unstaffed workplace.
2) Click on unstaffed workplace. In the information pop-up, click on yellow helmet to staff the building. This will open the worker menu, where you can choose you available friends to put to work.
If you don't have enough friends playing the game, invite some more! Keep in mind that your mayor's level also restricts how many friends you have working at your town.
Kamutown worker and workplace expansion
The amount of workers and game unlocks are dependant of your mayor's level as follows:
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Workers |
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| 1 | Tutorial | Tutorial quests |
| 2 | Tutorial | Tutorial quests |
| 3 | Tutorial | Tutorial quests |
| 4 | Single trait workplaces lvl 2 | |
| 5 | New worker | Coin workplaces lvl 1 |
| 6 | Special Town items lvl 1 | |
| 7 | Home upgrades lvl 2 | |
| 8 | New worker | Dual trait workplaces lvl 1 |
| 9 | Single trait workplaces lvl 3 Coin workplaces lvl 2 |
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| 10 | New worker | Special homes lvl 1 |
| 11 | Home upgrades lvl 3 |
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| 12 | New worker | Special workplaces lvl 1 |
| 13 | Large workplaces lvl 1 | |
| 14 | New worker | Special decorative items |
| 15 | Special homes lvl 2 Dual trait workplaces lvl 2 |
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| 16 | New worker | Special workplaces lvl 2 |
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| 18 | New worker |
After lvl 18, you gain one extra worker each two levels you gain.
What is the production boost and how does it work?
Each time you staff a workplace, your mayor gets a production bonus of the staffed workplace. The bonus is affected by random elements and by the mayor's and chosen worker's skills. These are then compared to the workplace's traits, e.g. staffing a Tech workplace with a friend skilled in Tech and a mayor with a high Tech skill grants better production bonuses.
The bonus is better the more you get solid areas created by similar icons. If you are running continuous shifts (i.e. staffing rapidly again after the previous workshift ends) you'll gain an additional bonuses in hearts. Depending of your luck, you can also gain extra hearts from the production bonus if you get exceptionally big groups of similar icons. In each icon, you also have a chance to gain multipliers and straight bonus production.
The total bonus is then calculated from jackpot and shift bonuses which grows 5% after each successfull continuous staffing, being 25% at maximum. So it really pays to keep your workplaces continuously staffed.
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| In this example, the mayor gained one extra heart, 38% production bonus from the worker motivation and 5% extra for continuous staffing, getting a total production bonus of 43% to all that the workplace produces in the given workshift. The random elements were pretty good, creating large areas of "coin icons" giving more bonus. | In this example, the mayor gained 3 extra hearts, 10% production bonus from the worker motivation and no extra for continuous staffing, getting a total production bonus of 10% to all that the workplace produces in the given workshift. The random elements were not very good at this example. |
What are homes?
Homes are the residential buildings where your Kamus live. When your Kamus are happy, they produce hearts and these can be collected from their respective homes. There are different types of homes available, depending of the Kamu and his preferred trait. You can also upgrade homes, which allows your Kamus to produce more hearts.
What are special homes?
Special homes become available at higher levels. These are very exquisite living quarters. Kamus living in special homes tend to generate hearts faster and they become happy easier. Examples of special homes include: pirate ship, home tree, wizard tower and scientist lavoratory.
How do I get more Kamus / homes?
The number of homes - and thus Kamus that come with them - depends how happy your existing Kamus have been and how many hearts they have produced. These hearts will grow the town reputation. In order to keep Kamus happy, use your friends to staff working at the workplaces in order to generate goods. Kamus will then consume these goods and gain happiness. When they are happy, they have a chance to produce hearts in their homes, which in turn advances town reputation.
You can check your accumulated town reputation points from the overall gauges (see above picture, the orange gauge marks your town reputation points). When your Kamus produce hearts, this gauge advances. When certain number of hearts have been produced, you can build new homes as the maximum number of available Kamus grows. Thus, keeping your Kamus happy will grow your town population by adding more Kamus.
New homes & Kamus will be unlocked depending of your town happiness (that is: the number of hearts your Kamus have produced while being happy):
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Town Reputation |
| 1 | Tutorial |
| 2 | Tutorial |
| 3 | 30 |
| 4 | 85 |
| 5 | 170 |
| 6 | 300 |
| 7 | 470 |
| 8 | 700 |
| 9 | 1050 |
| 10 | 1450 |
| 11 | 1950 |
| 12 | 2530 |
| 13 | 3200 |
| 14 | 3960 |
| 15 | 4800 |
| 16 | 5800 |
| 17 | 7000 |
| 18 | 8400 |
How do I upgrade buildings?
You can upgrade both workplaces and homes: higher level building yield more coins & hearts, respectively.
Workplace upgrades are level dependant, you gain new upgrades as you progress in the game. In many cases, they also requires certain skill level from your mayor in order to unlock. Upgrading can be done when the building is not staffed.
Home upgrades will become available when the Kamu inside it has been happy. The homes count hearts that the Kamu living inside it has produced, and after reaching certain amount the upgrade will become available. Please also note, that if the upgrade level has been reached but you have not upgraded the home, the Kamu will not produce any hearts until the home has been upgraded.
What are decorations?
Decorations are special items that you can buy to your town. These include roads, water elements, bushes, flowers and other similar decorations. These do not affect the gameplay in any ways, but are essential when you try to make your town look good.
How can I change my mayor’s name?
You can’t change the name of you Kamu mayor as it is used to identify you amongst all of the users. So when you are creating your mayor, take a moment to give it a good name.
How can I change my town's name?
You can change you town name by clicking it in the game. The change costs 200 coins.
How do I advance my mayor's level?
You advance the mayor's level by getting experience (XP) points, which you get by putting your friends to work on workplaces. You can choose different staffing durations that suit your playing style best. Different staffing duration payout different amounts of money and XP. When enough experience points per level are gathered, you get a new level which in turn allows you to develop your mayor (three skillpoints per level which you can distribute amongst the mayor's skills as you please).
You also get experience by building workplaces, homes and decorations.
When you level up you can also unlock new buildings and new workers to your town.
Help, something weird just happened?
I suddenly lost a lot skills!
This is propably because you just gained level 7 and your newbie skill boost was lost. Between levels 1-6 all mayors receive skill boost to speed up the initial game.
I just lost bonuses when I re-staffed my workplace!
This propably happens because you didn't get back to the game in time to get the continuous bonuses. Keep in mind, that the time window for continuous staffing is subjected to your previous staffing: a 15 minute work duration will give you a window of few minutes to keep the bonus, but a 1 day shift gives you few hours to keep the bonus.
My Kamus are not producing any more hearts!
Each Kamu will produce certain amount of hearts and then they need home upgrades. For example, for level 1 house the Kamu living there can produce 30 hearts maximum. After it reaches this level, home upgrade becomes available and that will extend the heart pool size for that particular Kamu. After upgrading, the heart production will continue (with better rate too).
I sunndely lost all my temporary workers!
The three temporary workers will be available until level 6 has been reached. You should hire your friends as workers in your town. You can also look for people in the game discussion forums who are looking for new friends to play with.
Tips & tricks for the game
Few tips for the starting and maybe more experienced players:
- Your mayor's skills affect many gameplay features, like the production in workplaces. The four traits (nature, dark, fun, tech) are important, but coin skill is also something you should not overlook, as it affects the production on coins. So a good guideline in the beginning would be to put skillpoints to coin skill and maybe one or two other traits.
- Choose friends (if you can) to work at buildings that they have matching skills. For example, to staff a friend at market (a nature aligned workplace) you should find someone who has high skills in nature. High coin skill is also a bonus
- Production bonus is calculated everytime you staff your friend to a workplace. You have better chances to get good bonuses if you and your worker have high skill in the traits of the workplace
- Production get additional bonuses from continuous staffing, so you should keep the workplaces staffed all the time and accumulate the bonus for better yield from work (max 25%, five percent for each successfull continuos staffing)
- You get experience from work but also from building items to your town: homes, workplaces and decorations
- Kamus, the little creatures that live in Kamu Town houses, need various goods produced by workplaces in order to be happy. Happy kamus produce more hearts, which in turn will eventually grow your city as the town happiness increases.
- Build various workplaces into your town to support coin and goods production. Therefore, using single/dual trait and coin workplaces is something you should consider carefully.
- Remember to upgrade your Kamus' homes when these upgrades are available, since heart production will cease if they reach upgrade possibility and it is not used.
Connecting with friends
How do I invite my friends to Kamu Town?
You can invite your friends to Kamu Town by clicking on the Invite button in the button bar in the bottom of the screen.
Why should I invite friends to play Kamu Town?
The more the merrier, of course! You can put your friends to work in your workplaces and at some point, visit their towns and see how they are doing it. Your friends' mayor stats also affect your gameplay, as you get bonuses for daily lottery and production, depending what kind of skills your friends have chosen for their mayors. Active friends also give your daily lottery more bonuses!
General help
What are the minimum computer requirements to run Kamu World?
Kamu World runs as Adobe Flash application within your web browser. For the best performance, we recommend the latest version of Flash. The latest Flash player can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/We recommend a modern computer with at least 512 megabytes of memory. Kamu World runs on modern browsers such as Firefox 3.x, Internet Explorer 7+, Opera 9 and Safari 4.
How do I turn sound effects off?
You can toggle various sound effects by clicking the toggle switches on the small menu on bottom of the screen.How to give the developer’s feedback?
As Kamu Town is in beta phase, all feedback and ideas are very much appreciated. You can send the feedback to us in the discussion area of the Kamu Town application area in facebook. We love to get your reviews and you can also become a fan. Also join the discussion on the Kamu Town discussion groups on Facebook. Finally, you can find news and information on the Kamu Town application page on Facebook.What are the Terms of Service?
The Terms of Service define the legal rules according to which you can use the Kamu Town. By using Kamu Town you accept the Terms of Use.
How is my private information handled?
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