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Spring Valley Town
A village by a clean spring wants to become a town.
You are the Mayor and all five Vice Mayors, or a team shares the seats, one screen each.
Build homes, roads, schools and plants, one year at a time. Water is the limit.
Laptop and Chromebook
iPad, held sideways
Saves every year
Can read aloud
Start
Six tabs on the right, one per seat. Add cards, then the Mayor presses Run year.
For parents and teachers
- The size of an easy family board activity: six seats as tabs (Mayor, Growth, Civil, Public Service, Finance, Water), a plan column, a map and a chronicle that shows the next five years. Up to 40 years with milestones at 16 and 32. No enemies, no timers, no scores, nothing to buy.
- What it teaches: budgets and loans (three banks with different prices), taxes and what they pay for, and water as the bottleneck of a town: the spring's supply, the river's limit, wastewater and the pollution ladder, reclaimed water. Two years in the red and the banks take the town; the Menu offers "Try this year again".
- Team mode: one screen starts a town (it becomes the Mayor's screen and gets a four-letter code); the others join with the town name and the code and claim a seat or several; a teacher joins to watch. Everyone sees every tab live; a seat's cards can be clicked only from the screen that holds it; the Mayor hands out empty seats and runs the year. The Mayor's screen holds the town (keep it awake). The screens pass only the moves through our relay, which stores nothing, asks no names and carries no chat.
- Read-aloud is off at the start so a classroom stays quiet; the Voice button in the top bar turns it on and uses the device's own voices.
- Progress saves itself after every year on this device. Both editions share the save. Clearing the browser's site data erases it.
- Crayon or Movie look: the switch at the top of this site sets the default; the title card and Menu inside can change it any time.
One file, about 0.25 MB. Alone, it never talks to the internet once loaded. No accounts, no ads, nothing collected. More for parents and teachers