The Techville Game - Help

Aim of the game:

Take a trip through the fantasy town of Techville and discover all about the integrated circuit, invented by Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby in 1958. Your character Maria must learn about the history of the integrated circuit by visiting the Techville museum and a local factory, and even making a trip back in time. You must answer questions and solve problems along the way to complete the game.


1.
The game starts outside the Techville Museum of Science and Technology. Enter the museum.



2.
a) Talk to the lady behind the counter to get hired at the museum.
b) Your first task as a new employee is to talk to the visitors of the museum, two men.
c) One of them is answering a quiz in which the first prize is an old arcade machine. He is obsessed by the quiz and won't let you try it.
Talk to both men to progress in the game.

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3.
a) Now try the quiz yourself. Answer five questions about the museum exhibition. You will find the answers to the questions in the museum exhibition - walk around and read the short texts about "Jack Kilby's chip", "The Computer", "Vacuum tubes"," Moore's law" and more.
If you get at least four answers right, you win the old arcade machine. Store it in your inventory (the inventory icon in the top right-hand corner) for later use.

b) Now you should talk to the lady who hired you to give you a new task. If you try to leave without talking to her, she will talk to you automatically. Your new task is to go to the factory and pick up an ultra modern circuit that's going to be included in the exhibition.

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4.
a) Go out of the museum and follow the path. When you arrive at the factory, you will find the large man from the museum, guarding the entrance. The door is broken and the man won't let you in.
If you look at the wall next to him, you will see an electrical socket. Drag the arcade machine you won at the museum from the inventory and drop it on the socket.

b) The large man will start playing the game instead of guarding the door. Use the door to enter.

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5.
a) In the factory you will find a man who is tied up. Untie him.
b) Talk to him, then go through the portal.

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6.
The portal takes you back in time to Kilby's Lab in the year 1958.

a) When you arrive, you see the old man from the museum. He is casting a spell over Kilby's chair so that it will send Kilby back in time the moment he uses it. Talk to the old man.

b)
You realize that the man is mad and must be dealt with. Pull the carpet he is standing on from under his feet so that he falls onto the chair. When the old man falls onto the chair he is sent back in time. At the same time he drops his bag with magic powder.

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7.
a) The bag is too dangerous to leave behind. Pick up the bag so that you can dispose of it later.
b) Now go back through the portal. You will be transported to the factory in present time.

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8.
a) Talk to the manager twice. Ask him about the chip. The manager is in shock from the incident and isn't sure that he can trust you.
b) Use the computer and solve a puzzle on how an integrated circuit is made to convince him you're a person from the technical museum.
When you have solved the puzzle, the manager says that you can go and pick up the circuit from the clean room.
c) To enter the clean room you need protective clothing. Use the protective "bunny" suit that is hanging near the clean room door.

9.
This will trigger the final scene.

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10.
If you want, you can try the arcade machine from the game at the end.