• Click Play BizWiz to begin the game, wait for the game to load, it may take a few minutes depending upon your internet connection. 

Starting Play

• After the program loads, double click Start to go to the “introductory” page
• After reading the intro, right click arrow in the lower right corner
• Enter your company name then move the cursor to the box to enter your product name, click consumer goods then click the arrow in the lower right corner
• After reading the next page, click “OK”

Pause/Resume

• Once the city map appears, click the pause button, lower left (two vertical parallel lines) between the “½” button (half speed) and the x2 (double speed) (note: 1 second = 1day in the game).  You can change the speed of the game at any time and pause at any time.
• During pause, the two vertical lines convert to an arrow, click on the arrow to resume.

Familiarization

• While on pause, move the cursor over the map, highlighting different buildings.
• Click on a highlighted building during the game play to get information about it and how your business activity may be having an economic impact, e.g., hospital, law firm, fire department, city hall.
• Click “OK” to hide text.

Menus (drop-down menus)

• The "?" drop-down menu will expose words or terms that you may click on to read definitions for trademarks, copyrights, etc.
• The Compete, Protect and Enforce menus are actions YOU choose to take that will affect your company’s performance.
• Actions that may be taken are represented in the darkened text; light gray text is not an option.
• Ongoing indicates an action chosen that lasts for a month or two (1 month = 30 seconds).
• Some actions can be taken repeatedly and are indicated by a “+” in the box to be clicked, e.g., improving product design.

“Production Information” Gauges performance

• The production information in the right column is dependent upon the actions taken under the Compete, Protect, and Enforce menus.
• The player should keep track of Production rate, Price, Sale, Income, Market Share, Expenses, Taxes, Materials, Profits
• Click on one of the colored “boxes”, for example “expenses” will highlight the money flow, click in the box to hide the flow.
• Market share, click on the pie chart or graph to enlarge, click again to minimize.
• Price, click on the “+” and “-“ to raise or lower the price of the product
• Pie Chart, click on pie chart to enlarge to view market share vis-à-vis competitors, click again to minimize
• Graphs: the wavy lines in the small boxes may be clicked to view graphs, click a second time to minimize