Tiny Tower may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but that hasn’t stopped me from obsessing over it and playing it way too much in the past week. In that time, I’ve encountered a couple of tricks to make my tower run like a well-oiled machine.

Tiny Tower is a business simulation video game developed by NimbleBit for iOS and Android devices. In Tiny Tower, the player manages an expanding tower filled with virtual people, who are referred to as “bitizens”. The goal of the game is to build the tallest of towers, which will attract bitizens to move in and work in any floor the player designates.

Reception has generally been positive, receiving 4.5/5 on Apple’s App store and being awarded iPhone Game of the Year by Apple in 2011.

On iOS, Tiny Tower is integrated with Apple’s social gaming network, Game Center. Game Center provides achievements (such as “Build 100 floors”), leaderboards (based on the number of floors players have) and challenges sent by others. It also allows the player to compare with their Game Center friends’ towers.