Raise The Village
Detailed App Info:
Application Description
Change lives in a real African community as you build, grow and customize a virtual village on your own iDevice. The more you put into your game, the more you help the real village of Kapir Atiira that was attacked and raided by Joseph Kony's LRA.
You can create a new account or use Facebook to login. However, Facebook is NOT required to play.
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Key features
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•BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL VILLAGE: To grow your village, build everything from village huts and stores to crop and livestock farms. Your village is based on a real village in Uganda, Africa called Kapir Atiira.
•DELIVER ITEMS: Deliver clothing, mosquito repellent and water cans. Grow crops like cassava and cabbage. Raise sheep, rabbits, pigs and more. Watch your village's population grow and level up as you become chairman of the village!
•GET REAL-LIFE DELIVERY PHOTOS: When New Charity Era makes deliveries to the real village in Uganda, we will update our users with delivery photos!
•SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE: Use Facebook to easily share your updates, unique delivery photos and screenshots of your village with your friends. Plus, delivery photos will automatically appear in a "Raise the Village" photo album on your Facebook profile.
•MEET THE VILLAGERS: See actual video footage and photos of villagers in Kapir Atiira. Learn about village activities and experience the villagers' day-to-day lives.
•VISIT BIKO IN AFRICA: Users have Biko as their village tour guide throughout the game. Biko is one of three founders of New Charity Era, along with Cameron and Joey. He permanently resides on location in the Ngora district of Uganda to provide you quick feedback as you play. Visit Biko’s Hut to read updates about Kapir Atiira and much more.
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Version 2.0 is here!
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We listened to all of our user feedback and implemented over 100 new features!
•Share your game with the world through Facebook
•Ability to deliver gifts to your friends
•Visit Your friends’ villages
•Receive a thank you letter from a child in Kapir Atiira village
•Collections are introduced
•Interactive portal video experience with the real village
•And much more! Visit our blog for full details
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Media coverage
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Nominated for “2011’s Best App Ever” in “doing good” by 148apps.com
Ranked #1 Game -- 'Putting the Social in Social Media Games'
Featured in Apple App Store’s “What We’re Playing” -- March 2011
"This free game by New Charity Era goes beyond a regular city building game and incorporates social good into its game." - Singapore Kopitiam
“If you've yet to pay real cash for virtual goods, this could very well be the game that inspires you to take that leap.” – AOL’s Games.com
“'Raise the Village' is seriously revolutionary. I can’t get over how unbelievable this idea is and how much potential it has.” – GetYourBizSavvy.com
“'Raise the Village' should be commended and is more than worth a try.” – Inside Social Games
•TOP TEN! - #9 Overall Free App - iTunes (April 2011)
•#6 Overall Games: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Free Strategy Game - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Simulation Game: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
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About the developer
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New Charity Era is a low-profit, limited liability corporation, or L3C. This means that our first and foremost goal MUST be to further a social cause. We aren’t non-profit, but we operate with the desire to innovate in the realm of charity. Learn more about our initiative on our website:
http://www.raisethevillage.com/
*We are not affiliated with Invisible Children, but we are supporters of this movement. We simply like the idea of helping others in innovative ways.
You can create a new account or use Facebook to login. However, Facebook is NOT required to play.
============
Key features
============
•BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL VILLAGE: To grow your village, build everything from village huts and stores to crop and livestock farms. Your village is based on a real village in Uganda, Africa called Kapir Atiira.
•DELIVER ITEMS: Deliver clothing, mosquito repellent and water cans. Grow crops like cassava and cabbage. Raise sheep, rabbits, pigs and more. Watch your village's population grow and level up as you become chairman of the village!
•GET REAL-LIFE DELIVERY PHOTOS: When New Charity Era makes deliveries to the real village in Uganda, we will update our users with delivery photos!
•SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE: Use Facebook to easily share your updates, unique delivery photos and screenshots of your village with your friends. Plus, delivery photos will automatically appear in a "Raise the Village" photo album on your Facebook profile.
•MEET THE VILLAGERS: See actual video footage and photos of villagers in Kapir Atiira. Learn about village activities and experience the villagers' day-to-day lives.
•VISIT BIKO IN AFRICA: Users have Biko as their village tour guide throughout the game. Biko is one of three founders of New Charity Era, along with Cameron and Joey. He permanently resides on location in the Ngora district of Uganda to provide you quick feedback as you play. Visit Biko’s Hut to read updates about Kapir Atiira and much more.
====================
Version 2.0 is here!
====================
We listened to all of our user feedback and implemented over 100 new features!
•Share your game with the world through Facebook
•Ability to deliver gifts to your friends
•Visit Your friends’ villages
•Receive a thank you letter from a child in Kapir Atiira village
•Collections are introduced
•Interactive portal video experience with the real village
•And much more! Visit our blog for full details
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Media coverage
==============
Nominated for “2011’s Best App Ever” in “doing good” by 148apps.com
Ranked #1 Game -- 'Putting the Social in Social Media Games'
Featured in Apple App Store’s “What We’re Playing” -- March 2011
"This free game by New Charity Era goes beyond a regular city building game and incorporates social good into its game." - Singapore Kopitiam
“If you've yet to pay real cash for virtual goods, this could very well be the game that inspires you to take that leap.” – AOL’s Games.com
“'Raise the Village' is seriously revolutionary. I can’t get over how unbelievable this idea is and how much potential it has.” – GetYourBizSavvy.com
“'Raise the Village' should be commended and is more than worth a try.” – Inside Social Games
•TOP TEN! - #9 Overall Free App - iTunes (April 2011)
•#6 Overall Games: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Free Strategy Game - iTunes (April 2011)
•#1 Simulation Game: Free - iTunes (April 2011)
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About the developer
===================
New Charity Era is a low-profit, limited liability corporation, or L3C. This means that our first and foremost goal MUST be to further a social cause. We aren’t non-profit, but we operate with the desire to innovate in the realm of charity. Learn more about our initiative on our website:
http://www.raisethevillage.com/
*We are not affiliated with Invisible Children, but we are supporters of this movement. We simply like the idea of helping others in innovative ways.
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 19.74 MB of space to download and install Raise The Village app. Raise The Village was updated to a new version. Purchase this version for $0.00
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of New Charity Era, L3C at http://www.raisethevillage.com/.
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