Teddy Factory is a Puzzle/Cards game.

Assemble teddy bears in a race against time! If you don't help the orphans, who will?

It's always a bear market in the teddy bear industry! To keep the flow of free teddy bears arriving to your orphanage, you're forced to take a second job at the nearby teddy bear factory. Your quick decision-making skills will be put to the test as you frantically assemble toys in a struggle against time. With enough hard work, you might even rise to the top of the corporate ladder? If you don’t help the orphans, who will? Get started now!

It's your first day on the assembly line, and you have to piece together parts of variously colored teddy bears as they come down the assembly line. The assembly line twists and turns as new parts—heads, torsos, legs and arms — are spit out of a teddy-bear-making machine. Clicking on each part lets you piece them together.

In Quest mode, you're working your way up the corporate ladder through a series of levels, each with goals (make this many bears, for example). You start your life as a lowly assembly line worker and eventually wend your way through middle and upper management.

As you make your bears, a robotic claw will pick up the completed teddies and drop them into boxes awaiting shipment. But you'll also see kids on screen with specific requests—a green bear, for example, or a purple one, or a pink one—and it's up to you to meet their needs in the time allotted. Do so, and you'll be awarded extra points. Don't do it, and it'll be counted against you at the end of the round. The kids have short attention spans, alas—yellow highlights around their dialog bubbles (graphically showing you which bear they’ve requested) gradually dissipate — if they reach the end, then the child will walk away broken-hearted that the Teddy Factory wasn't able to fill their order.

Managing to create enough bears in a short enough period of time and failing to disappoint any kids will increase your chances of early promotion and collecting additional awards between levels.

With each level, the assembly line changes its shape, speed and the colors of bears it produces. Before too long, it's quite a logistical effort to put together bears and ship them out before parts hit the end of the line (and the end of the game).

The Trophy Room is an area of the game where you can keep special bears that you've assembled. Every so often, amidst the myriad supply of mundane brown, green, purple, pink, blue and other-colored bear parts, you'll see special ones like a panda, piggy or Elvis-styled bear. Put those together before the end of the level and you'll get that Trophy Bear as a permanent memento to add to your collection.

Teddy Factory's Quest mode plays like a variation on two other time-tested action puzzle game favorites. The actual assembly line manufacturing reminds a bit of Zuma-style games like Luxor and Atlantis, while the need to fill the requirements of kid customers in a limited amount of time plays out a bit like Diner Dash, without the table-waiting part.

Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer file to your desktop. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download.

It's always a bear market in the teddy bear industry! To keep the flow of free teddy bears arriving to your orphanage, you're forced to take a second job at the nearby teddy bear factory. Your quick decision-making skills will be put to the test as you frantically assemble toys in a struggle against time. With enough hard work, you might even rise to the top of the corporate ladder? If you don’t help the orphans, who will? Get started now!

Windows 98/2000/Me/XP. Processor: PII 400 MHz. 64 MB RAM. Free hard drive space: 10 MB. SVGA Video Card. Sound Card