Press kit

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Fact sheet

Game: Hundred Stories, a tower-building game.
Developer and publisher: Parallax Intelligence (Parallax Intelligence Partnership, LLC).
Platforms: web browser today, at playhundredstories.com/play/, on desktop, phone and tablet. The iPhone and iPad app is out now on the App Store, and an Android app is coming later to Google Play.
Price: free to start. The free game has every room and event up to 3 stars, in a tower up to 20 floors. One purchase in the app unlocks the full tower for good ($1.99, one time, in the App Store).
Ads and tracking: no ads, and the game itself sends nothing about the player. No account needed. The website, the game page included, counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, with no cookies and no profile of anyone.
Saves: on the player's own device. A tower can also be saved to a file.
Offline: yes, once installed from the browser menu.
Genre: simulation, strategy, building.
Players: one.
Language: English.
Inspiration: a homage to SimTower, the 1994 tower sim, built from scratch. The rules follow that classic game, while the code and art are original.
Website: playhundredstories.com
Contact: requests@playhundredstories.com

Hundred Stories is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Electronic Arts, Maxis, or OPeNBooK.

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Descriptions

In one line

Build a skyscraper, keep your tenants happy, and climb from one star to TOWER.

In a short paragraph

Hundred Stories is a tower-building game. You see the whole tower cut open like a dollhouse, so you can watch every tenant, shop and elevator car. Build offices, condos, shops and elevators, keep your tenants happy, and climb from one star to TOWER. It is free to start, plays in your browser with no account needed, and works offline.

In full

Hundred Stories is a tower-building simulation with hand-illustrated art, drawn in code. Start with a lobby and a little cash. Place offices, condos, hotel rooms, shops and restaurants, run elevators up through the floors, and keep the people inside happy enough to stay.

A hundred stories is the height of a tower worth building. It is also what goes on inside one: the tenant on 40 who wants a quieter floor, the shop on 2 that counts on the lunch crowd, the hotel guest who missed the last express elevator and is not coming back. Every floor is a story. Everyone's got one.

Your tower can fail. Every room, price, elevator and stress rule is set up so a tower can fail. Tenants notice slow elevators, noisy neighbors and dirty rooms, and they leave. Set the rent per room, give each elevator car its own floors and riders, and answer the events that arrive: a fire, a bomb threat, a VIP guest who rates your suite, cockroaches in a dirty hotel room.

Earn stars as the tower grows. Each star opens new rooms, from security and housekeeping to sky lobbies, a cinema, a metro station, and at the top a cathedral. The tower can grow to one hundred floors.

There is no account and no ads. Your tower saves by itself on your device as you play. It plays with touch, a mouse or the keyboard.

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