use 1-5 to change rooms. You aim is to keep his mood high (that is a good thing). Then try to keep everything else high as well, like his fitness and cleverness. Then you must try to talk to some friends and increase you relationship with them. The it is basically like the sims. THis game stating out really good, but then it started to get really slow, and I had to delete most of the stuff I had worked so hard on.