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Yup you heard it right, Super­Fun Town has been added to Hi5 and is cur­rently one of the fea­tured games in the revamped Games page. Start play­ing today!

A major update has been released to Super­Fun­Town this week, and a num­ber of new build­ings have been added to the game. Includ­ing some really cool build­ings such as:

Looks pretty cool eh? Well, come and play: http://bit.ly/aq4V5f

Yet another major new fea­ture Super­Fun­Town, you can now rotate your entire town!

To rotate your town left or right, sim­ply click on one of the two new but­tons (see left), but remem­ber, you can only rotate your own town!

Strug­gling with all the tow­er­ing build­ings and would like to see those nice lit­tle dec­o­ra­tion work you’ve done a while back? Well, rotate your town and bring them back into the view! Here’s how my town looks in all 4 angles :-)

Yup, you’ve heard right, finally you can have some mov­ing parts in your town!

All you need is to build a ‘Used Car Dealer’ (see images below) in your town so the town folks can start buy­ing cars to drive their kids to school or gen­er­ally move around the town.

You will start see­ing the ‘Blue Fam­ily Car’ in your town almost as soon as you’ve built your first ‘Used Car Dealer’, and if that’s not exotic enough for you, you can add other cars to the road by buy­ing the type of car you want to see from the Build menu, under Dec­o­ra­tions and then Vehi­cles.

Here are the chances you have right now:

And here’s some snap­shots of how they look in the game :-)

For me, the thing that sets Super­Fun­Town apart form other city build­ing games on Face­book is the abil­ity to cus­tomize and change your town in a way that makes it truly unique! There are a num­ber of pow­er­ful tools at your dis­posal, for example:

Every­thing is rotat­able in the game

You know how some games don’t let you rotate any­thing at all while oth­ers let you rotate only some of the items so you often have no choice but to align all your items in a cer­tain way. Well, that’s cer­tainly not the case here! You’re free to rotate every­thing in the game so how you want to arrange all your build­ings and roads are entirely down to YOU.

To rotate a build­ing in your town, fol­low the sim­ple steps below:

click on the Move tool

hover over the build­ing you want to rotate and click on the rotate button

or, you can click on the build­ing to pick it up, then press SPACE bar to rotate

Res­i­den­tial build­ings are paintable

Yup, you heard right, you can PAINT the res­i­den­tial build­ings in the game :-) Try it, it’s easy!

click on the Paint tool

click on the res­i­den­tial build­ing you want to paint to bring up the Paint screen

choose what colour you want for the Walls, Roof and Accent

Cus­tomiza­tion Ideas

Whilst the game pro­vides you with some cus­tomiza­tion tools, you’re cer­tainly not lim­ited to what is pos­si­ble with those tolls alone, all you have to do is to think out­side of the box!

Com­bine Exist­ing Items

There are many items in the game that can be com­bined or arranged in a cer­tain way to give them a com­pletely dif­fer­ent look. Take the ‘Round Plaza’ for instance, here are just two sim­ple com­bi­na­tions you can use to spice things up a little ;-)

You can put 4 of them together and form a circle

You can put two of them into a semi-circle to put some deco around them

Another build­ing which leads itself par­tic­u­larly well to being com­bined in the same way is the ‘City Col­lege’, though at 128K coins and a pub­lic work (which only serves as the key to unlock level 35) it’s a rather expen­sive way to customize..

Putting the Deco in the Art

Another thing you can do to add some per­sonal touch to your town is to sim­ply put some dec­o­ra­tions around some spe­cial units to make them stand out a lit­tle more. I find this works bet­ter when used spar­ingly on build­ings that I only have one of in my town – pub­lic works are gen­er­ally good can­di­dates in this case. Have a look at the two pic­tures below to see how a cou­ple of sim­ple dec­o­ra­tions can bring to life an oth­er­wise sta­tic hospital.

Before

After

Plant Trees

In my per­sonal opin­ion every town can do with a park, and what bet­ter way to build one than to build it around the won­der­ful Boat­ing Lake. Sim­ple and effec­tive, it’s one of my favourite units in the game and per­fect for build­ing a cen­tral park in your town!

Mind The View!

One of the things you will no doubt notice as you play the game is that some build­ings are HUGE! Espe­cially the res­i­den­tial units you can build later on in the game such as the Sky­scaper or Mega­Tower.

These tall units can have a huge impact on the look of your town as they have the poten­tial to severely limit the vis­i­bil­ity of other build­ings sit­u­ated behind them.

Take the image on the left for exam­ple, the tow­er­ing build­ings have blocked my view of every­thing I had behind them mak­ing it dif­fi­cult for me to do any­thing with those build­ings now that they’re not vis­i­ble on screen.

You can get around these prob­lems eas­ily by strate­gi­cally plac­ing those tall build­ings along the North and West edge of your town (see pic­tures below).

That way they will not obstruct the view of other build­ings as you are always look­ing into your town from the South-East cor­ner and the tall build­ings are always fur­thest away from you.

What Oth­ers Have Done

Curi­ous as to what other peo­ple have done with their town? Here’s a short col­lec­tion of the things that have caught my eye when I vis­ited my friends’ towns!

Other Parts in the Super­Fun­Town Guide:

Part 1 – The Basics

Part 2 – Mak­ing Coins

Part 3 – Growth