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I'm not familiar with the original, and so I have no idea what this game is about or how it works. The screenshots and the description don't help at all either. Instead, they make it look like some sort of budgeting app.

Suggestion - Make me want to play it. Include a small description of the gameplay and have the screenshots reflect this. At the moment I'd give it a quick look and a wtf!? and then move on.

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I haven't played this game, but it just looks like a variant of drug wars. Drug Wars pretty much about trading stock (drugs) in the market. You travel around New York and buy and sell different drugs. Sometimes you get busted, and the prices of drugs wildly fluctuate. It's been around for awhile. I first saw it in high school on a TI 83. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars

So it just looks like they replaced drugs with energy efficient objects like recycled paper and hybrid cars.

I'd recommend that you replace the free version with a trial version. Unless this is a beta version and you are expecting users to test your product.

And I agree that the game could have a better description of the gameplay.

Those are helpful suggestions, I'll add some better descriptions as well as captions for the screenshots tonight.

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