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Codey and Aislinn talk about Bugaboo Pocket Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:13: What Have We Been Up To 00:11:26: Game Updates 00:38:43: Bugaboo Pocket Links Doloc Town Early Access Disney Dreamlight Valley “Wonderland Whimsy” Update# Roots of Pacha “1.3” Update Ova Magica “0.9” Update Go-Go Town Online Co-op Sneak Peek Stardew Valley Concert New Dates Contact Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:29) Aislinn: Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. (0:00:33) Aislinn: My name is Aislinn. (0:00:34) Codey: And my name is Cody. (0:00:36) Aislinn: And we are here to talk about cottagecore games. (0:00:39) Codey: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, I’ve been doing the wolf (0:00:39) Aislinn: Woo-hoo! (0:00:42) Aislinn: We got some extra in there. (0:00:46) Codey: one. The wolfish. Oh, oh, oh, I don’t know why. Oh, you know, (0:00:47) Aislinn: Ooh! (0:00:50) Aislinn: All I can offer is just the woo. (0:00:52) Aislinn: I can give a little meow. (0:00:55) Codey: well, you’re the you’re the coup, aren’t you? The (0:00:58) Aislinn: That’s true. I am the coup. (0:00:59) Aislinn: I’m just I’m in I’m in cat my brain is only cats with these (0:01:03) Aislinn: two kittens. The two kitties. I did I did talk about them. I (0:01:04) Codey: kittens. Have you talked about them? Okay, good. (0:01:11) Aislinn: think I mentioned I think yeah, at the time when I record last (0:01:17) Aislinn: recorded with Kevin in for wonder stop. It was pre Yeah, I (0:01:18) Codey: Mm hm. (0:01:23) Aislinn: was pre kittens. We were in the process of like getting them. (0:01:24) Codey: Mm hm. (0:01:26) Codey: Mm hm. (0:01:27) Aislinn: And now we have them. (0:01:29) Aislinn: So if y’all hear any craziness in the background, that’s them having the zoomies because they’re (0:01:34) Aislinn: five months old and don’t know how to relax sometimes. (0:01:43) Aislinn: But today we are talking about Bugaboo Pocket. (0:01:47) Aislinn: It is not to go into it too much, but it is essentially like a bug collecting. (0:01:48) Codey: Woo. (0:01:59) Aislinn: And caring type of game. (0:02:02) Codey: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (0:02:03) Aislinn: It reminds me of Tamagotchi, but bugs. (0:02:08) Aislinn: And we won’t go too much into it, but that’s the general gist of it. (0:02:12) Aislinn: But otherwise, what have you been up to? (0:02:16) Codey: I am still doing a PhD and I’m so close. I did get the approval from my committee that I should be (0:02:22) Aislinn: so close. (0:02:29) Codey: good to defend in the fall as long as I continue to follow my timeline. I’m so close to being a (0:02:31) Aislinn: Yes. Oh my gosh. Oh (0:02:37) Codey: doctor. So weird. (0:02:38) Aislinn: My god, you’re already a doctor in my heart, honestly (0:02:43) Aislinn: I’m out of time and effort and energy and everything you put in you’re you’re already there. It’s just you just need the technicalities of (0:02:50) Codey: that like paper that says that I am. Yeah, basically. So I’m (0:02:52) Aislinn: Exactly (0:02:57) Codey: doing a lot of specimens. But, which is really fun. It’s (0:03:01) Codey: basically like just pouring out vials of dead bugs, we call it (0:03:04) Aislinn: Oh! (0:03:04) Codey: bugs, bug soup. So pouring out bug soup, and then going through (0:03:10) Codey: and identifying it. And I found something super rare the other (0:03:13) Codey: day, and I lost my mind. So there’s this entire order of (0:03:18) Codey: in Sarcs called Strepsipterin. (0:03:20) Codey: It’s actually called Strepsipterin, which is the one that’s in this area. (0:03:25) Codey: And it’s also called Strepsipterin, which is actually called Strepsipterin. (0:03:28) Codey: And it’s this one, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin. (0:03:32) Codey: And it’s also called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this (0:03:36) Codey: one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called (0:03:38) Aislinn: Oh. (0:03:38) Codey: Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, (0:03:41) Codey: which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is (0:03:41) Aislinn: Oh. (0:03:45) Codey: this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one called Strepsipterin, which is this one (0:03:48) Codey: and then like mates with (0:03:50) Codey: her while she’s in the wasp and then she has babies. (0:03:54) Codey: And it’s just, so the female never has wings, but the males (0:03:57) Codey: have wings and they have like, I believe really short flight (0:04:00) Codey: periods. And I caught three males. So like just in the (0:04:03) Aislinn: Oh! (0:04:05) Codey: middle of my bug soup, I was just like, Holy crap, it’s a (0:04:08) Codey: strep septarin. And then I was like, Oh my God, there’s more. (0:04:12) Codey: So it was really cool because the whole, like one of the (0:04:15) Codey: points of my study is to see if there’s one of the three traps (0:04:19) Codey: that I’m testing if one is. (0:04:20) Codey: Better than the other, and these are only caught in that one type of trap. (0:04:21) Aislinn: Oh, so you’re making progress. (0:04:24) Codey: So that’s like, yeah. (0:04:28) Codey: So it’s like, okay, we’ll look at this cool thing that was never, ever caught (0:04:32) Codey: in the other traps, but is all has been caught in, um, this new trap thing. (0:04:37) Codey: So that was cool. (0:04:39) Codey: But other than that, I’ve been playing, I’m still playing Fortnite with my roommate. (0:04:43) Codey: Um, just like something to, we like play a game or two at a time to just like. (0:04:50) Codey: Chill. (0:04:51) Codey: Um, and then I started playing breath of the wild. (0:04:57) Codey: I have never finished it. (0:04:59) Codey: Um, and I barely got into the game, to be honest, like the last times that I’ve (0:05:04) Codey: played it, so I’m playing it now and I’m playing it kind of with Jeff, um, (0:05:10) Codey: because he lives with me now. (0:05:12) Aislinn: Wow! (laughs) (0:05:12) Codey: And so like I play it while we’re both in the same room. (0:05:16) Codey: He’s usually playing like factorial or something. (0:05:20) Codey: We like watch it and play it together. (0:05:22) Codey: So it’s, it’s nice. (0:05:24) Codey: And hopefully having like a second person who’s interested in the story will (0:05:27) Codey: like help me to actually finish it. (0:05:31) Aislinn: I think I have that same exact relationship with Breath of the Wild like I started it and to be (0:05:36) Aislinn: fair I don’t have it anymore because it was part of I think I’ve I feel like I’ve told the story (0:05:38) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:05:41) Aislinn: like a bunch of times so you may or may not have heard it the listeners probably haven’t heard it (0:05:45) Aislinn: but long story short my switch got stolen years ago along with a bunch of games Breath of the Wild (0:05:50) Aislinn: being one of them so I currently don’t own it anymore the idea of buying it I’m just like do (0:05:57) Aislinn: I really need to because I never really got into it in the first place. (0:06:01) Aislinn: For some reason, but like I am interested in it as a whole entire overview. (0:06:07) Aislinn: I just never fully got into it, but I think maybe if Chris and I like sat down (0:06:13) Aislinn: on the couch and try to like play it together, that might encourage me more. (0:06:14) Codey: Yeah, that’s so that’s what I’m doing with Jeff is kind of just like dedicating that time to just sitting down and playing it together and it’s really nice. (0:06:26) Codey: And so, doing that and then the last thing that I’ll mention is that oblivion remastered came out and I am a huge Elder Scrolls fan, but I resisted the temptation, because I need to finish Zelda first I think I need to just like stick with one thing. (0:06:44) Aislinn: I can’t believe the way they dropped it, it was just like a shadow drop, right? (0:06:44) Codey: So I looked at oblivion and I was like, you’ll be here wait for me wait for me. (0:06:54) Codey: It was Yeah, like, I remember like Jeff was like, Oh, babe, they’re really there. They just announced this thing and then like two days later, one of my best friends who I actually played the original oblivion with back when we were in high school, or middle (0:07:12) Codey: maybe even he was like, Oh yeah, I’m playing this. (0:07:14) Codey: And I was bringing up so many memories. (0:07:17) Codey: And I was like, Oh my gosh. (0:07:18) Codey: So yeah, it was like just a straight up shadow drop. (0:07:22) Codey: Um, and it’s fun to see all the memes people are, are saying. (0:07:26) Codey: So, but I am going to wait. (0:07:28) Aislinn: Yeah, that’s, you know, that’s a fair point. (0:07:30) Codey: I’ve played it before I can, it can wait for me. (0:07:34) Aislinn: Breath of the Wild is a new game, new experience, but it’s like, I don’t know, watching the (0:07:40) Aislinn: trailer for Oblivion, I’ve never played anything in that world. (0:07:42) Codey: - Ooh. (0:07:45) Aislinn: But like looking at the trailer and seeing how excited Chris was, because Chris is also (0:07:47) Codey: - Yeah. (0:07:48) Aislinn: a huge Elder Scrolls fan. (0:07:52) Aislinn: He was so badly wanted to drop everything to play it, but he’s like, we have things (0:07:56) Aislinn: we have to do. (0:07:57) Codey: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, the other thing is that like, it’s on game pass. So if folks if they (0:07:58) Aislinn: But it looks amazing, so like, I don’t know how you resist the temptation because I would be tempted to play something that I know I’m going to really really enjoy. (0:08:16) Codey: don’t know, it’s on game pass. And so that was like the biggest temptation is my friend told me (0:08:22) Codey: that it was out. And I was like, Yeah, but I can’t afford that. I can’t even afford $20 game (0:08:26) Codey: little one is 60. (0:08:28) Codey: And then I got on my Xbox and I saw that it was on game pass and I was like, oh, oh, no, oh, no, no. (0:08:34) Aislinn: Yeah. I think when I was streaming earlier this week, he’s like, “Sara, I ended up starting to download it while you just started streaming.” (0:08:44) Aislinn: He’s like, “Did you notice any drops?” I was like, “Oh, no, but okay.” (0:08:44) Codey: I can’t remember if I downloaded it or not. (0:08:49) Aislinn: So he’s all set up ready to go. (0:08:55) Codey: I downloaded Ori and the Blind Forest because I was about to start playing that, too. (0:09:02) Codey: I was playing that on my Switch and then we switched to Jeff’s Switch and Jeff’s Xbox. (0:09:09) Codey: I was playing it on my Xbox and now we’re on Jeff’s Xbox. (0:09:13) Codey: So I was like, Oh, I need to download that again. (0:09:14) Codey: Um, but that I was like, but I need to focus and I, if I’m going to focus on a game right (0:09:21) Codey: now, I want it to be Zelda. (0:09:22) Codey: So all of this to say, uh, mostly Zelda. (0:09:28) Aislinn: I so I will admit that I have been so so so so I think I already said this on the (0:09:29) Codey: What about you? (0:09:30) Codey: What have you been up to? (0:09:31) Codey: What do you mean? (0:09:39) Aislinn: wanders top episode actually no I was in a different I was less busy pre it’s (0:09:45) Aislinn: like pre and post wanders top is a is like a milestone in my mo in my life at (0:09:50) Aislinn: the moment for some reason like pre wanders top I was busy but once I finished (0:09:54) Aislinn: wanders up something? Actually, you know what, what happened was the cats. (0:09:58) Aislinn: The cats came into the picture, and in addition to working, taking care of what feels like (0:10:05) Aislinn: five toddlers simultaneously, even though it’s just two kittens, and wedding, actively (0:10:08) Codey: Yeah. (0:10:13) Aislinn: wedding planning. It’s been like very, very busy. But with that said, with the time that (0:10:19) Aislinn: I do have, I’ve been trying to play as much bugaboo pocket as possible, which I’ve unlocked (0:10:24) Codey: Sweet. (0:10:26) Aislinn: or b- (0:10:28) Aislinn: I made good progress in the story I think, but um I’ve also been playing whenever I can (0:10:28) Codey: Okay. (0:10:30) Codey: Okay. (0:10:40) Aislinn: Persona 3 reload still. I’m a little bit more than halfway through the game and I finally finally (0:10:48) Aislinn: finally finally picked up Fields of Mistria and I want to dedicate my entire life to that game (0:10:51) Codey: Mm hmm. Yeah. (0:10:56) Aislinn: but I’m like, I- (0:10:58) Aislinn: I have to resist, I have to resist ‘cause I’m like, I do like, same with like Oblivion remastered just coming out, I’m like, I want to finish Persona first, but I’m already really really enjoying Fields of Mistria, which is like, it’s been good, everyone has been saying it’s good, and like, yeah, no, it’s good, so, um, that’s primarily what I’ve been doing. (0:11:20) Codey: hmm okay awesome well we will talk more about bugaboo pocket but first there’s news (0:11:23) Aislinn: Yes. (0:11:28) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:11:30) Aislinn: So I actually kind of want to talk a little bit about this (0:11:32) Aislinn: first one. (0:11:34) Aislinn: I don’t know how to pronounce it. (0:11:36) Aislinn: Dolok town, Dolok town. (0:11:37) Codey: that’s that I thought dolok I think that’s right (0:11:40) Aislinn: Either way in my quest for finding something to give me (0:11:46) Aislinn: more energy today because today I’ve just been very low energy (0:11:50) Aislinn: for some reason. (0:11:50) Aislinn: I think because it’s like my first proper day off and I just (0:11:52) Aislinn: don’t know how to function and not be like I don’t know how to (0:11:56) Aislinn: not be busy right now. (0:11:58) Aislinn: It’s just like a blob. (0:11:58) Aislinn: But in my quest to try and like give myself some energy, I (0:12:02) Aislinn: actually downloaded the demo because looking at it for this (0:12:06) Codey: OK. (0:12:06) Aislinn: podcast already caught my interest very quickly. (0:12:10) Aislinn: And it’s really cool so far. (0:12:12) Aislinn: But early access is coming soon. (0:12:16) Aislinn: There’s just a demo. (0:12:18) Aislinn: So if you didn’t know, there is a demo, the demo. (0:12:20) Aislinn: I didn’t play much of the demo, but the demo already is like (0:12:22) Aislinn: pretty cool. (0:12:24) Aislinn: Um, but it is a (0:12:28) Aislinn: farming sim in a way, but it’s a side scroller, which feels (0:12:33) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:12:34) Aislinn: very different from what I’m used to at least, it’s someone (0:12:37) Aislinn: that is very selective about farming games. And there’s, (0:12:42) Aislinn: yeah, there’s crafting, there’s cooking, fishing, farming, of (0:12:47) Aislinn: course. And it looked like there was also like some actual like (0:12:51) Aislinn: platform like platforming that is happening in some capacity. (0:12:56) Aislinn: so it really caught my interest. (0:12:58) Aislinn: I don’t know if you know much about the game as well. (0:13:02) Codey: I, I just looked at the what was on there so the quote that they had for the early access (0:13:11) Codey: is immerse yourself in a rich farming experience with harvesting building crafting cooking (0:13:15) Codey: fishing and more brave extreme weather and make it yours, no idea what that means explore (0:13:22) Aislinn: I don’t know what that means either. (0:13:23) Codey: the vast wasteland and uncover the secrets beneath discover the the charm of Dolok town (0:13:29) Codey: in the story of its people, a customizable drone. (0:13:32) Codey: a companion designed to safeguard you and the wilderness. I’m assuming that means that there is one. (0:13:46) Aislinn: Yeah, I think that’s why I am definitely partial towards anime-esque. (0:13:54) Aislinn: When you’re actually in the game, it’s less more so, it’s definitely more leaning on the (0:13:57) Codey: - Yeah. (0:13:59) Aislinn: pixel aesthetic, but like the art for the game, yeah, has that anime aesthetic. (0:14:04) Aislinn: But it’s nice, like I could definitely see where they’re trying to go with it charm-wise (0:14:10) Aislinn: for the game. (0:14:11) Codey: Mm-hmm this guy (0:14:12) Aislinn: And like right off the gate, there’s already some very interesting dialogue just in the (0:14:16) Aislinn: background. (0:14:18) Aislinn: So it seems like, or it says also over the past few months, the team has been working (0:14:23) Aislinn: hard to refine the game and get it ready for its initial release. (0:14:27) Aislinn: And we’re thrilled to see that it’s only two weeks away. (0:14:30) Codey: Woo! So yeah, that’s the big news, is that the Early Access is coming on May 8th. (0:14:31) Aislinn: So yay! (0:14:36) Aislinn: And also, just because I thought this was really cool, if you join the Discord, you (0:14:40) Codey: Mm-hmm, oh, like a downloadable version? (0:14:41) Aislinn: get the OST on launch, which normally you have to pay for that on Steam. (0:14:46) Aislinn: So, I don’t know exactly, because I don’t talk about how exactly what that process is, (0:14:53) Aislinn: but yeah, you can get the OST for free, it seems like, if you just join the Discord. (0:14:59) Codey: Wow, have you how’s the music? (0:15:01) Aislinn: So that’s pretty cool. (0:15:03) Aislinn: So far, I already really like it. (0:15:04) Codey: Okay (0:15:06) Aislinn: It fits the aesthetic of the game really well. (0:15:08) Codey: Nice (0:15:10) Codey: Yeah, cool and the that early access is gonna have 20 hours of gameplay which is nuts for an early access (0:15:16) Aislinn: Yeah, that’s that’s really good. (0:15:18) Codey: And that that’s only like part of the story (0:15:22) Codey: crazy (0:15:23) Codey: So cool. Well, we will continue to check in with you about Dolan (0:15:29) Codey: You downloaded the demo (0:15:33) Codey: I am the Disney Dreamlight Valley correspondent and here that is (0:15:37) Aislinn: Yes. (0:15:40) Codey: the next (0:15:43) Codey: Sorry, I just was getting a phone call and it cut off my recording so al I’m sorry, there’s two recordings (0:15:51) Codey: Disney Disney Dreamlight Valley has a new update. So they have the Wonderland whimsy update which adds an Alice in Wonderland realm (0:15:59) Codey: Alice and the Cheshire cat as characters (0:16:02) Aislinn: I for some reason I thought there were already characters, but I am I still have yet to play this game (0:16:02) Codey: so (0:16:07) Aislinn: I think like you told me like when we first recorded way back when to play Disney Dreamlight Valley, and I still have not (0:16:07) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:16:12) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:16:15) Codey: Yeah, it’s a lot it’s a lot and there is a poll like I feel the pull to it since (0:16:16) Aislinn: This is a backlog (0:16:22) Codey: Again switched to Jeff’s Xbox. He has a Xbox series s so it’s like a really better one (0:16:29) Codey: And it does not when I played it (0:16:32) Codey: Disney Dreamlight Valley does not have lag on his the way that it did on my Xbox one (0:16:39) Codey: So I I feel the pull for sure (0:16:42) Codey: I don’t know. I’ll have to look at the (0:16:46) Codey: Because usually with these patches they also have like a small (0:16:53) Codey: Gosh, what are they called? (0:16:56) Codey: I’m trying to oh my gosh. Sorry. I was just (0:16:59) Codey: looking at this. Oh, uh, oh, uh, does not include seasonal star path. Oh, that’s something else. (0:17:05) Codey: I’m wondering if they have a star path. Oh yeah, the regard garden of whimsy star path. So the star (0:17:10) Codey: paths are like usually those are time limited. Um, and you can get some really neat items. So maybe (0:17:15) Codey: I’ll jump on this game here, uh, like to later today and see if there’s any good items, um, (0:17:21) Codey: for the star path and see if I’m really like tempted to get anything. Um, (0:17:29) Codey: I don’t know. Did you ever see like the old Alice game? That was like super creepy. (0:17:36) Aislinn: I have like the vague, for whatever reason the way that you phrased it just gave me like the vaguest recollection of it. (0:17:42) Codey: Um hmm. Yeah. So whenever I think of Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat, I think of (0:17:44) Aislinn: Let me see if I look at- Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. (0:17:51) Codey: that one because the round little cuddly Cheshire Cat that’s in, or I think of the one in the (0:17:57) Codey: Johnny Depp films, because when I think of like, when I see this Cheshire Cat, like the (0:18:01) Codey: original Alice in Wonderland Cheshire Cat, I’m like, this looks goofy versus like the (0:18:07) Codey: original horror Alice games, uh, and kind of also the one. (0:18:12) Codey: In the live action is like creepy. Um, and I prefer the Cheshire Cat being creepy. So, uh, (0:18:21) Codey: yeah, so I will look at, look at it and see if there’s anything cool in the star path. Um, (0:18:27) Codey: later today. The other thing, the thing I was laughing about is, uh, (0:18:31) Codey: uncrafting. So there’s now an, there’s now an uncrafting station, which I love it. Uh, so you can (0:18:34) Aislinn: on crafting. (0:18:42) Codey: uncraft non-quest crafted items and recycle the materials. Yeah. There are times like when the (0:18:47) Aislinn: Oh, that’s so good. (0:18:51) Codey: characters like at the end of the quest. So I’m assuming I’m hoping it means like if they are no (0:18:56) Codey: longer needed in the quest, because they’ll be like, Oh, build me this beautiful gondola, (0:19:03) Codey: like saying that I can, then we can get married under or something. And then you build this huge (0:19:09) Codey: thing and then after the the action of it they’re like (0:19:12) Codey: okay here is the here have this and I’m like I don’t want this like I don’t (0:19:20) Codey: actually want this yeah so yeah so you can now do that which is hilarious they (0:19:21) Aislinn: Give me my materials back. (0:19:32) Codey: also have upgradable chests which is amazing so instead of having if you have (0:19:39) Codey: small chest and then you don’t you want to get a large chest you (0:19:42) Codey: have to like build the large chest and then set it next to the small chest and (0:19:47) Codey: then like scooch everything over and it’s just pain in the butt now you can (0:19:50) Codey: just like upgrade the smaller chests instead which is awesome there’s more (0:19:57) Codey: alignment in the sub grid you can make your house bigger just like some basic (0:20:03) Codey: things and then other changes and bug fixes so I’m excited looks cool (0:20:10) Aislinn: I just, the idea, I don’t know why the idea of being able to uncraft something has never (0:20:17) Aislinn: crossed my mind, but now that that idea has been implanted into my brain, now I’m like (0:20:23) Aislinn: why do more games not have this, because this is really cool and I really like that and (0:20:28) Aislinn: that would be very nice. (0:20:29) Codey: Yeah (0:20:30) Codey: To be able to like I mean there are some games that can do that (0:20:34) Codey: I know that I want to say minecraft has one where like a table that you can go take your stuff to and then it’ll (0:20:39) Codey: Like give you the components or something (0:20:41) Aislinn: very cool indeed and I guess with that said do you have anything else that you (0:20:42) Codey: Yeah, it’s not super common so cool (0:20:48) Codey: Yeah (0:20:51) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:20:52) Aislinn: want to touch on with disney dreamlight valley (0:20:54) Codey: No, I was gonna move on let’s move on (0:20:56) Aislinn: okay I guess I so I do you know anything about the roots of pacha (0:21:00) Codey: I played roots of Pacha (0:21:02) Aislinn: - Okay. (laughs) (0:21:03) Codey: Or Pacha. I think I say Pacha (0:21:06) Codey: It is a super cool like it’s basically caveman stardew or prehistoric stardew (0:21:12) Codey: I think is what we used to say so they have a 1.3 update that is out now and it adds two new regions (0:21:18) Codey: so those regions are the (0:21:20) Codey: Mograni mountains and (0:21:23) Codey: the (0:21:25) Codey: to do scroll scroll scroll yaku on islands (0:21:29) Codey: um so I think it just like adds on to what is already in the game like (0:21:34) Codey: different areas that you can just now go to that you previously couldn’t go to (0:21:39) Codey: each area has a decent amount of new characters um but overall there’s 21 new characters uh and two (0:21:48) Codey: of them are romanceable and I just always want to shout out that one of the characters who’s (0:21:54) Codey: romanceable, the mountain guy is older. So he’s got like (0:21:59) Codey: white hair, like gray hair. And I am just as I get into my (0:22:03) Codey: elder years, I am just always so happy. You see that that (0:22:12) Codey: they’re, they’re letting us old people. Old people mean love (0:22:15) Aislinn: No, I agree, I do, I, like, I saw that note and I was like, “That’s really, really awesome.” (0:22:18) Codey: too. Yeah, so that was cool. There’s also new animals. They’ve (0:22:28) Codey: We’ve got like a prehistory. (0:22:29) Codey: For a giraffe thing, they’ve got something that was a precursor to the modern sheep. (0:22:37) Codey: They got a dodo bird because of course, like why wasn’t that in the game already? (0:22:42) Aislinn: Mm-hmm. (0:22:45) Codey: And then they also added modern animals. (0:22:47) Codey: So I don’t, I can’t remember if it’s like something that you can, like one of the ideas (0:22:52) Codey: that you can add on that someone like thinks of like modernizing the animals or whatever, (0:22:57) Codey: but you end up (0:22:59) Codey: like with what you would think are the modern animals from it which is really cool. (0:23:04) Aislinn: Oh, so they’re not like actually modern animals, they’re just what could be modern animals, (0:23:10) Codey: So it’s I think you basically like take the animal from before or the animal that’s in the (0:23:10) Aislinn: like reimagined? (0:23:18) Codey: game already and I think you just like do some weird genetic stuff with it or something like (0:23:23) Codey: that and then it’s suddenly the the modern version. So yeah. (0:23:29) Codey: That is cool. There’s new clothing, decoration, seeds. They also added modern seeds. So I think (0:23:37) Codey: similarly you can update the ones that you have to be like the legit modern seeds instead (0:23:43) Codey: of working with like prehistoric versions. One of the mini games is a music game. So for people (0:23:51) Codey: like Al who I know likes those like rhythm games, there’s one of those where you use the up and down (0:23:56) Aislinn: Yeah, I was looking at that too. It’s cool. I like that. I also like a good rhythm game (0:23:58) Codey: arrows kind of like (0:23:59) Codey: I mean, it looks like basically guitar here, but (0:24:02) Codey: using, yeah, I was a little, I was, I was interested. (0:24:11) Aislinn: or music game. So like my I will revisit on a regular basis Project Diva, which is the (0:24:17) Aislinn: Vocaloid music game. So like, I’m all over rhythm games. So any any inclusion of that (0:24:23) Aislinn: I am so on it. (0:24:25) Codey: Um, and then the final thing was that there is now bug catching with an asterisk. (0:24:32) Aislinn: Whoa. Oh. (0:24:35) Codey: So it’s not, it’s not like what you’d think it’s that there’s like a couple new places (0:24:42) Codey: that you can go to. (0:24:43) Codey: And then you basically like play an instrument and it like calls the bugs to you. (0:24:49) Codey: And then you can catch them from there. (0:24:51) Codey: It’s just, it’s not, it’s not what you’d expect. (0:24:55) Codey: Which I like that they’re doing new things. (0:24:57) Codey: They also have, they had a new way to like tame animals and a new way to fish and all of that. (0:25:02) Codey: Super love the way that they’ve been doing, innovating in that regard. (0:25:07) Codey: But, you know, I want to be able to just go catch bugs the way that I, the way that I do. (0:25:12) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:25:16) Codey: On my hike today, there were a couple of people that came up because I was like flipping logs (0:25:20) Codey: and they were like, what are you doing? What you looking for? And I was like, I mean, (0:25:22) Aislinn: Ah ha. (0:25:25) Codey: anything. I just want to see cool, cool bugs or salamanders or something. (0:25:28) Aislinn: Just anything. (0:25:30) Aislinn: Mm-hmm. (0:25:33) Codey: It’s a little early for that. But yeah, that’s basically, I just want to be able to like find (0:25:36) Codey: cool bugs. And that’s, that’s that update. So that update is out now. If you already own the game, (0:25:36) Aislinn: Mm-hmm. (0:25:38) Aislinn: Well. (0:25:44) Codey: then you just get it. And if you do not own the game, maybe having a little bit more story and (0:25:51) Codey: bug catching and the rhythm game, uh, push you, uh, (0:25:55) Codey: to do it. Maybe that’s something that’s of interest. (0:25:58) Aislinn: Yeah, that all sounds good to me. Will I play it? I don’t know. Again, only so many farming (0:26:06) Aislinn: games I can do. But I like the romanceable older person. That is like one thing that’s (0:26:08) Codey: - Yeah, I. (0:26:14) Aislinn: like a game changer for me. I do like that a lot. (0:26:16) Codey: Yeah, I have it on Windows. (0:26:20) Codey: So if we end up moving my desktop up to my office, (0:26:24) Codey: which is like a blessing and a curse (0:26:27) Codey: because I want this to remain my work office, (0:26:28) Aislinn: Mm-hmm. (0:26:30) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:26:31) Codey: but also like I am not playing my desktop downstairs. (0:26:34) Aislinn: Yeah? [laughs] (0:26:34) Codey: But yeah, I might, I might bring that up and load this game back up and see, see how that (0:26:44) Codey: older guy is. I like his personality or not. (0:26:45) Aislinn: yeah hopefully he’s got good personality I guess with that well not really with (0:26:55) Aislinn: that said it’s not really very good transition but another game that I (0:27:00) Aislinn: unfortunately don’t know much about over magica do you are you familiar oh (0:27:03) Codey: Okay. (0:27:08) Codey: Yeah, yeah, so OvaMagica is the like farming adventure, (0:27:08) Aislinn: perfect wonderful (0:27:15) Codey: whatever creature collector game where all of the creatures (0:27:16) Aislinn: Mmhmm. (0:27:17) Codey: are like these little round boys. (0:27:19) Aislinn: Yeah! (0:27:20) Codey: And so there’s like, and they just kind of like blob (0:27:23) Codey: around behind you, just super cute. (0:27:26) Codey: They have released the 0.9 update that adds some new areas, (0:27:31) Codey: new friendship events with the characters. (0:27:35) Codey: And there’s also a new thing, I can’t remember what it’s (0:27:38) Codey: called, like Ovotron or something, but it’s something (0:27:40) Codey: that allows you to X-ray into a egg before it hatches (0:27:46) Codey: to be able to see what is in the egg, which is super nice. (0:27:51) Codey: Like say that you’re trying to breed for something, (0:27:55) Codey: you’d be able to see kind of like. (0:27:56) Codey: Like expect what is in that egg. (0:27:59) Codey: Um, which is cool. (0:28:03) Codey: And so that zero of one ninth update is out now. (0:28:07) Codey: Um, and the, they also said in this that the 1.0 is coming this year. (0:28:12) Aislinn: Hmm. Oh no. Yeah. I feel like I’ve been seeing it like even though I don’t know much about (0:28:13) Codey: I cannot remember how many years that has been a promise. (0:28:20) Codey: But I feel like it’s been some, it could have just been one. (0:28:23) Codey: They could have just been yet last year. (0:28:24) Codey: I don’t know, but I feel like this is a game we’ve been talking (0:28:26) Codey: for a hot minute, so. (0:28:31) Aislinn: it, I feel like I’ve somehow been like stumbling across it like pretty regularly. Um, so hopefully, (0:28:34) Codey: - Mm-hmm. (0:28:38) Aislinn: - Hopefully, hopefully. (0:28:39) Codey: No, Ms. Chloe. (0:28:41) Codey: Yeah. (0:28:42) Aislinn: - Hopefully, it’s coming, 1.0, this year. (0:28:45) Aislinn: I mean, there’s a lot of this year left, (0:28:47) Aislinn: so fingers crossed, and it looks like it’s mostly, (0:28:50) Aislinn: if not already, just about fully fleshed out game-wise, so. (0:28:54) Codey: Yeah, they don’t have too too much to add to it. So we’ll see where it where it goes (0:29:02) Aislinn: can I just say I love the cow blob in the in like the main photo (0:29:04) Codey: Yeah (0:29:07) Codey: They’re (0:29:08) Codey: They’re all cute. I love the cow blob. I love the fox blob. The bee blob is cute. Like they I have not seen a blob (0:29:13) Aislinn: oh (0:29:16) Codey: I didn’t love so (0:29:18) Aislinn: I like the turtle one too they’re all so cute (0:29:19) Codey: Yeah, they’re they’re all very cute (0:29:23) Aislinn: and shout out to motion sickness settings because that’s a that’s a (0:29:26) Aislinn: that’s a big one for me for a lot of games so anything with that that’s nice (0:29:28) Codey: - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, well, are we three for three? (0:29:34) Codey: Have you heard of a game called GoGo Town? (0:29:36) Aislinn: I know of, literally I only know of Gogotown because of this podcast. (0:29:42) Codey: Okay, cool, we’ll take it away. (0:29:46) Aislinn: A lot of my new game knowledge comes from this podcast, I will not lie. (0:29:55) Aislinn: But it looks like that online co-op is coming soon for Gogotown (0:30:04) Aislinn: and looking at the video earlier that they took. (0:30:06) Aislinn: It looks pretty good. It says that they still have some bugs, but they are working on it, and it’s coming very soon. (0:30:15) Aislinn: And also they do make a note that there will be no split screen for online co-op, just as a general note. (0:30:24) Aislinn: There isn’t much more of an update with that, but they did give a sneak peek. It looks cool. (0:30:35) Codey: I don’t know if we’d seen a video of it before, so that was nice to see. (0:30:36) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:30:40) Codey: And I know people are always interested in like whether or not the co-op is split screen. (0:30:44) Codey: So though I feel like this split screen is so 2000s. (0:30:51) Codey: So I feel like it’s just not like Jeff was Jeff and I were talking about possibly playing Halo. (0:31:00) Codey: And I was like, we’d have to split screen. (0:31:02) Aislinn: yeah it’s so it is so old now that you like just reminding me the halo i’m just like oh yeah that (0:31:08) Aislinn: is like an old thing (0:31:09) Codey: Yeah, like I don’t want to do that ugh (0:31:13) Codey: gross, so (0:31:15) Codey: Yeah (0:31:17) Codey: They’re not gonna have that which is a good thing. But also if you only have one copy of the game that (0:31:22) Aislinn: Yeah, but I guess like general speaking, most people have their own version of the game in some (0:31:27) Aislinn: capacity. So it’s nice that you don’t have to worry about split screen and everyone has their own (0:31:32) Aislinn: screen and you can still do cool. But I think that’s not really all we got on Go Go Town that (0:31:32) Codey: Mm-hmm. Yup, yup, yup. (0:31:39) Aislinn: that blurb from Steam isn’t doesn’t have too much beyond that. So I guess with that said, (0:31:46) Aislinn: we move into Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar. And Cody and I before (0:31:52) Aislinn: we even started recording, we’re both just like, do you know what’s going on? And I’m like, no, (0:31:57) Aislinn: do you know what’s going on? We’re both just like, not really. So I will read whatever I can, (0:32:04) Codey: uh-huh (0:32:04) Aislinn: and then take that as you will. But it looks like 100 crops. So if you really want to be (0:32:08) Codey: Yeah, I (0:32:13) Aislinn: farming? Oh boy, you have a lot of options. (0:32:16) Codey: Yeah, so this next bit like Al wrote it out and I, I think I read this like 10 times, and there’s something about these words that I just like my brain just, they just bounce off my brain, I have a smooth brain when it comes to these words, I don’t understand why. (0:32:37) Codey: And they’re not even hard words. So it just says, this is from Al, it has some stamina system that works differently than normal. (0:32:46) Codey: But was in the original game, you can do more if you jump when doing an action, which is weird, but it costs more stamina, one per usage, six per jump usage, but you’ll get three actions. (0:33:03) Codey: So you’re using up more stamina to save time, but you can still upgrade the tools as well. (0:33:11) Aislinn: See, like, I’m picking up what he’s putting down, Al, but to be fair, I’ve never played (0:33:16) Codey: Yeah, Chloe. (0:33:21) Aislinn: Story of Seasons before, so that is probably a big limiting factor for me. (0:33:27) Aislinn: But if you’ve played Story of Seasons before, this might be appealing to you. (0:33:32) Aislinn: And from my knowledge about farming games in general, being able to use, even if it (0:33:40) Aislinn: sacrifices more salmon. (0:33:41) Aislinn: I just want to say that I’m going to be jumping, like, in farming, like, what am I doing? Am I, like, planting and jumping? Like, I don’t know. Am I jumping across my farm to water all of my 100 crops that I have? (0:33:44) Codey: Okay, but like the logic of it, well, and like if you, so you jump, and it’s more stamina because (0:34:04) Codey: you’re jumping, and that’s like, that’s very intensive, right? But what, but when you jump, (0:34:08) Aislinn: I guess, I mean, that’s what it looks like too, in the screenshot that I’m looking at (0:34:10) Codey: you’re just able to be more efficient. (0:34:14) Codey: Yeah. (0:34:18) Aislinn: on the website. (0:34:20) Aislinn: There’s just a character that’s like doing like a skip type of jump type of motion. (0:34:25) Aislinn: So are you like, I think it’s you’re skipping as you’re farming and you’re getting more (0:34:29) Aislinn: done, but you’re wearing yourself out because you’re skipping. (0:34:32) Aislinn: I mean, skipping is more work, like more body intensive than walking. (0:34:36) Codey: Yeah. You’re right, you’re right. I don’t know. I, that’s how I felt when I read it. (0:34:36) Aislinn: So, you know, it– (0:34:38) Aislinn: this is such a silly conversation. (0:34:46) Codey: I was like, I, and then this website is like fogu.com and I, this website, I was very, (0:34:53) Codey: I was confused. And I, it is not Al. It is not, it is probably just me. I don’t know (0:34:57) Aislinn: No, yeah, well me too, because I’m also… (0:35:03) Codey: of like my ADHD or whatever. (0:35:06) Codey: It was just like, nope, but it was wild. (0:35:11) Codey: So that’s that, uh, I’m sure story of seasons. (0:35:14) Codey: People are probably like, Oh, sick. (0:35:16) Aislinn: But I have no idea, yes, options. (0:35:16) Codey: Like that’s going to be so awesome. (0:35:20) Codey: I’m like, I’m happy for you guys. (0:35:22) Codey: A hundred crops. (0:35:23) Codey: I understand that. (0:35:25) Codey: Uh, he also wrote more than any other story of season game. (0:35:28) Codey: So more crop number go bur. (0:35:34) Aislinn: And it looks like it comes out in, this is probably almost definitely announced at some (0:35:40) Aislinn: point, but looking at the website, it’s coming out August 27th in the states, in North America. (0:35:46) Aislinn: Um, it is, no, it’s already, it’s there, it’s all coming out at the same time. (0:35:46) Codey: I think it’s already out in Japan (0:35:54) Codey: Oh. (0:35:54) Aislinn: So August 27th slash August 28 in Japan, cause of, you know, time zone things and whatnot. (0:35:59) Codey: Okay, cool. (0:36:01) Aislinn: But yeah, we, we’ve, we, we tried our best. (0:36:05) Aislinn: So I, I apologize to all the Storia season fans, it’s the best you’re going to get, but (0:36:05) Codey: Sorry, Al. (0:36:12) Aislinn: I can talk about Stardew Valley. (0:36:14) Codey: Heck yeah, we can. (0:36:16) Aislinn: I tried to get tickets for the Toronto one, and it was just a miserable failure, so I’m happy that they added more dates. (0:36:20) Codey: Okay. (0:36:27) Codey: Yay. (0:36:32) Aislinn: We have not followed up on if we can get tickets for any of the other Toronto ones, or even just somewhere else in Canada, I guess, need be, or in the States or something. (0:36:40) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:36:44) Aislinn: but I (0:36:46) Aislinn: Am happy that they added more dates because trying to get tickets for those has been a wreck (0:36:50) Codey: Yeah, and they added a bunch of dates. So like when I looked at the at the dates like the tour dates just in general (0:36:58) Codey: There are many (0:37:01) Codey: and then all the green ones on the (0:37:05) Codey: The poster are like the new ones, but there’s just they they better like (0:37:12) Codey: Playing that music because my goodness (0:37:15) Aislinn: it’s a lot I i imagine is it all one is it all one what’s the orchestra I was like what’s the (0:37:16) Codey: They are gonna be playing it (0:37:20) Codey: I (0:37:23) Codey: Orchestra, I’m I’m assuming like I don’t think that I wouldn’t think that there’d be like an orchestra at each location (0:37:30) Codey: That’s like I would think that it’s like the one (0:37:34) Codey: Orchestra, that’s just kind of like moving around (0:37:36) Aislinn: Right, I’m just like this is (0:37:37) Codey: Which is probably super cool for people to travel like able to go places, but also this is a lot (0:37:41) Aislinn: Yeah (0:37:45) Aislinn: It is a lot like just looking at the dates in general (0:37:48) Aislinn: It’s like a lot of these dates are like back to back or like same day because of matinee (0:37:52) Codey: Mhmm. But then they’ll be followed by like, they’ll be followed by like, uh, like a, like (0:38:00) Codey: a week off or something. So it’s, it’s, it’s cool, but lots. Yeah. Yeah. So if you have (0:38:02) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:38:05) Aislinn: It’s not like they’re being overworked to an extent, but yeah. (0:38:09) Codey: been wanting tickets and it has been sold out in your area, uh, definitely look, there (0:38:14) Codey: are new dates in US, Canada, and Asia. Um, so new dates, new shows. (0:38:23) Codey: That were already in the some areas, whole new areas too. Um, so yeah, take a look. (0:38:25) Aislinn: Mhm. Yeah. Very, very cool. It’s awesome that they were able to (0:38:33) Aislinn: pull this off. Yeah, I guess that is all the news that we have, (0:38:39) Aislinn: right? Yeah. Woo hoo. So I guess with that said, we can move (0:38:40) Codey: A-woo! (0:38:47) Aislinn: into Bugaboo Pockets, which I am so excited to talk about. (0:38:50) Codey: Yeah (0:38:53) Codey: Yeah, so let’s first talk about what how we played it and how far we are (0:39:00) Codey: so I played it on Mac and I was only able to get the demo and (0:39:07) Codey: So I played what’s on the demo, which is not a lot. I’ll get into that later (0:39:13) Codey: So I don’t have a time. I have like literally like a half an hour (0:39:20) Codey: When payday hits I might be pulling the trigger for this one for sure (0:39:26) Aislinn: - Well, I guess we can get your take after you hear my takes. (0:39:32) Codey: - Mm-hmm, so what have you played? (0:39:33) Aislinn: Since I did buy the game, (0:39:36) Aislinn: I have played it on PC primarily, (0:39:42) Aislinn: which is why I’ve kind of barely played it (0:39:44) Aislinn: because I haven’t really been home so much too much (0:39:46) Aislinn: because of work, (0:39:47) Aislinn: but I did try to play it on my Steam Deck (0:39:50) Aislinn: and it’s technically Steam Deck compatible, (0:39:54) Aislinn: But… eww. (0:39:58) Aislinn: I don’t think… I don’t like it on a Steam Deck because it’s… you could tell it’s a game that’s made for like a mouse. (0:40:10) Aislinn: So like, I’m just running my finger along the Steam Deck screen pretty much, or like along the trackpad. (0:40:16) Aislinn: And I just… if I hooked up a mouse, that’d probably be better. (0:40:20) Aislinn: But like, if you’re playing it just Steam Deck only, nothing else connected to it or anything. (0:40:26) Aislinn: I didn’t like it personally, but on PC it’s great. (0:40:32) Aislinn: And I have… so there are seven bugs total that you could unlock, and I have unlocked four? (0:40:42) Codey: Nice. (0:40:42) Aislinn: Let me double check. Let me go back. (0:40:44) Aislinn: I have the game open in front of me just because of this reason. (0:40:47) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:48) Aislinn: But yeah, so I have the full thing. So I have one, two… no, one, two… (0:40:52) Codey: The full game, yeah. (0:40:56) Aislinn: three, four. Yeah, I have four. Four out of the seven bugs. (0:41:00) Codey: Okay. Cool. Um, so yeah, it’s basically like, to me, it feels (0:41:08) Codey: like bug Tamagotchi. Um, but yeah, but with like a plus, like (0:41:10) Aislinn: Mm hmm. I agree. I agree. Even the UI. (0:41:15) Codey: there’s some extra. So what they say on switch is quote, a (0:41:19) Codey: relaxing semi idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and (0:41:24) Codey: sea players play as a research scientist living in a cabin with (0:41:28) Codey: It’s just your bugs and a pen pal. (0:41:30) Codey: It’s not released yet, I don’t think, based on the website, but it is in the cards. (0:41:54) Aislinn: I don’t know, I really hope that they like make this more, you know, controller friendly. (0:42:04) Codey: - Yeah, well, maybe when they make it controller friendly (0:42:07) Codey: for that, they’ll have some ideas of how to make it (0:42:10) Codey: more controller friendly for the Steam Deck too. (0:42:14) Aislinn: - Yeah, we’ll see, we’ll definitely see. (0:42:19) Codey: So it’s just $20 for the base game, (0:42:21) Codey: or there is a bundle on Steam right now (0:42:24) Codey: called the Celebrate Bugs Bundle. (0:42:27) Codey: And that bundle has webbed, which we have not talked about, (0:42:32) Codey: but it’s basically, it seems like it’s a platform (0:42:35) Codey: and you’re a jumping spider, which is super cute. (0:42:39) Codey: So there’s that, there’s Apico, there’s Buggin’s, (0:42:42) Codey: oh my God, sorry, there’s Buggin’s Seek (0:42:44) Codey: and this game Bugaboo Pocket, and they’re all for $38.22, (0:42:49) Codey: which is a steal given the fact that I think this game (0:42:53) Codey: and Apico are $40 on their own. (0:42:58) Aislinn: Yeah. And I think webbed has been, I realized webbed has been on my wishlist for a hot minute (0:42:59) Codey: So it is like a really good price. (0:43:09) Aislinn: because it looks so incredibly adorable. And then I’ve played AP, APico. Is that how it’s (0:43:14) Codey: Mm hmm. Yeah, so it’s a pico. Yeah. (0:43:14) Aislinn: actually pronounced? Because I’ve been saying APico and I’m like, I never thought that was (0:43:18) Aislinn: right. But I’ve played APico and there’s so much to do in that game. (0:43:28) Aislinn: The price of Bugaboo Pocket, yeah, for that bundle is really good. (0:43:34) Codey: Yeah, um, so yeah, I also really just want to shout out that their (0:43:39) Codey: developer and publisher, it’s the same, same group are called Elytra games. (0:43:45) Codey: Love it. (0:43:45) Codey: 10 out of 10, um, Elytra for people who don’t know are so Elytra are on (0:43:50) Aislinn: I was gonna be like me, I don’t get it. (0:43:55) Codey: Beatles instead of having four wings. (0:43:58) Codey: The front pair of wings have been like, are like kind of replaced by this (0:44:03) Codey: modified. (0:44:04) Codey: I think it’s a really important shell thing. If you imagine a ladybug, and it has those two pieces of shell, and then those kind of move to the side, and then there’s wings underneath of it, those things are called elytra. (0:44:19) Codey: Yeah, so it’s a bug thing. (0:44:19) Aislinn: Oh, that’s so cool to know the name of that all sick. Oh my god. Okay, so (0:44:26) Codey: There are, there’s also elytra in Minecraft, there are basically just, it’s like a (0:44:34) Codey: thing on your back that you wear that gives you the ability to like, not do powered flight, but you can like fall more gracefully. (0:44:45) Codey: Like you basically can glide. So, really loved that. (0:44:47) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:44:48) Aislinn: Oh, that’s so cool. (0:44:49) Aislinn: So more bug games moving forward from Elytra, hopefully. (0:44:55) Codey: I would hope so, yeah. Give me a call if you guys want some free, but it seems like they already know what they’re talking about so (0:45:04) Codey: they probably don’t need a consultant or whatever, but they do hit me up. I will, I will do it for free. (0:45:08) Aislinn: But hey, you know if they do you know who to call (0:45:16) Aislinn: You got a doctor on deck (0:45:20) Codey: So they say that it’s great for people who don’t love bugs yet, or for validating people who already do. (0:45:29) Codey: - What category were you in, Ace? (0:45:32) Aislinn: I love bugs, so I’m having a great time with this game. (0:45:36) Aislinn: I don’t know if I can agree with the great for people who don’t love bugs. (0:45:39) Aislinn: I know there are some options within the game to like, so you can at least like reveal the (0:45:43) Aislinn: species before it hatches or anything so you know what you’re getting into. (0:45:46) Codey: Mm hmm. I mean, I thought so there the species that you first start out with, or at least in (0:45:47) Aislinn: But like, I think it’s really cute. (0:45:49) Aislinn: But I don’t know for certain if like, you don’t like, for example, worms? (0:46:00) Codey: the demo was the rubber ducky ice pod. And I think that that’s great. Like, it’s super cute. (0:46:06) Codey: And they look like rubber duckies when they’re adults, and it’s just so cute. So I thought that (0:46:12) Codey: might be something that would be good for people who might not super be (0:46:16) Codey: into bugs. (0:46:18) Aislinn: I think just because one of the species like does start off basically looking like kind (0:46:22) Aislinn: of like a wax worm and I know for some people that freaks them out so I don’t know how people (0:46:25) Codey: - Yeah, that’s fair. (0:46:28) Aislinn: feel about that so like take that as you will but like if you are okay with at least looking (0:46:33) Aislinn: at bugs I think this game is still cute like they do a really good job of making the bugs (0:46:37) Aislinn: like extra cute so if you like are okay with bugs and you like bugs great game if you hate (0:46:43) Aislinn: bugs? I’m not sure. Hard to say. (0:46:44) Codey: Okay. (0:46:46) Codey: Um, and then I just love the story. (0:46:48) Aislinn: But I do agree with you with the isopods. (0:46:54) Codey: So if they say you play as a research scientist helping a forest recover after a devastating (0:46:59) Codey: fire, discover her story through cut scenes, diagram entries and items, complete your bug (0:47:03) Codey: compendium to unlock secrets and prizes. (0:47:06) Codey: So I screamed when I started playing and it’s basically like in the perspective of this (0:47:14) Codey: research entomologist, um, I think her name is Sylvia. (0:47:20) Codey: Um, cause she says like, when I was hired as an entomologist by the forestry solution, (0:47:24) Codey: which, which is like a company, the forestry solution, I was just like, this is my dream (0:47:30) Codey: job. (0:47:30) Aislinn: Awwww! [laughs] (0:47:31) Codey: Like I, I literally want to be a forest entomologist working on conservation and habitat restoration. (0:47:38) Codey: So this is like, like, oh my gosh. Uh, and then some other things that just popped out. (0:47:44) Codey: Right away. (0:47:46) Codey: Um, basically you’re breeding the insects to repopulate the area that was ruined by (0:47:51) Codey: the fire. (0:47:52) Codey: Um, and your friend is like dropping you off at this like remote cabin. (0:47:56) Codey: And he’s like, are you sure you want to stay here out here all alone? (0:47:59) Codey: And she’s like, yeah, also there’s no rent. (0:48:03) Codey: And I was like, bro. (0:48:08) Aislinn: Yeah, you know what, I got to stay out here all along, all alone with my bugs and no rent. (0:48:14) Codey: with no red excuse. This is not even a question my god. Oh, and (0:48:16) Aislinn: Yeah. (0:48:22) Codey: then the final thing was, he’s like trying to talk to her. And (0:48:26) Codey: then it just says, Sylvia is was too awkward to say anything. And (0:48:31) Codey: I was like, did they just make me like, are they following me? (0:48:36) Codey: Are they? So yeah, that was just like my from the demo. I was, I (0:48:41) Codey: was, I was really enjoying it. So that’s (0:48:43) Aislinn: Okay, so I will say, obviously, the journey of living out on your own and everything from (0:48:44) Codey: my stuff. (0:48:56) Aislinn: the perspective of Sylvia is developed as you continue to allot things in the game. (0:49:02) Aislinn: And the relationship with you and the person that like dropped you off and everything, (0:49:08) Aislinn: They… yeah, their name is EZ and… (0:49:09) Codey: Their name is EZ (0:49:13) Aislinn: that is indeed

Codey tells Al about the new bee breeding Minecraft mod Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:21: What Have We Been Up To 00:11:55: Should Codey Get A Steamdeck 00:16:50: Game News 00:41:54: New Games 00:50:04: Feed The Bees 01:08:32: Outro Links Botany Manor Playstation Release Grimoire Groves Release Date Sun Haven Release Date Sugardew Island XB and PS4 Release Ova Magica First Major Update Fields of Mistria First Major Update Whimside Honey Grove Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello farmers, and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. (0:00:34) Al: My name is Al, and we’re here today to talk about Cottagecore games. (0:00:36) Codey: and my name is Cody. (0:00:41) Codey: Woo. (0:00:45) Al: A welcome back Cody. It’s been a while. (0:00:47) Codey: Oh, thank you. (0:00:48) Codey: It has really been playing a lot of stuff (0:00:51) Codey: that I haven’t played slash. (0:00:53) Al: Don’t you don’t you don’t you start yet. (0:00:55) Al: That’s not we’re not going into that section yet. We’ll get there. (0:00:58) Al: - Yeah. (0:00:59) Codey: What? (0:01:00) Al: I didn’t ask you what you’ve been up to, hello. (0:01:02) Codey: Well, yeah, I’m just saying that that’s why (0:01:04) Codey: I haven’t been on the pod. (0:01:04) Al: Okay, okay, it sounded like you were introducing that section. You gotta wait, you gotta wait. (0:01:07) Codey: No, no, no, my, my, my horses are held. (0:01:10) Codey: Nah, nah, nah, my horses are held. (0:01:15) Al: They’re heavy. This episode, we are going to talk about Minecraft again. (0:01:22) Codey: Woooo! (0:01:24) Al: Specifically, Cody has been playing a bee-breeding mod in Minecraft. So we’re going to talk about- (0:01:30) Codey: Thank you, Devin, my best friend who I play Minecraft with. (0:01:36) Codey: Who told me, “Hey, I put a mod that you might like on,” and surprise I do. (0:01:42) Al: Lo and behold, it was leaked. (0:01:46) Codey: Correct. (0:01:47) Al: Excellent. (0:01:48) Al: So we’re going to talk about that. (0:01:50) Al: Before that, we have obviously a lot of news. (0:01:53) Al: It’s a decent chunk of news, a decent chunk. (0:01:54) Codey: No, it’s– it seems on the lighter side, I would say. (0:01:56) Al: It’s not like an insane amount of news, but it’s enough news. (0:01:58) Al: It’s not. (0:02:04) Codey: Listeners, after the news section, (0:02:06) Codey: let us know if it’s a light amount of news (0:02:08) Codey: or a lot amount of news. (0:02:08) Al: Look, it all depends on how long it takes, right? (0:02:11) Al: so we’ll be clocking the tape. (0:02:12) Al: But before that, Cody, what have you been up to? (0:02:14) Codey: OK, so I’m not going to say anything (0:02:16) Codey: during the news section because I want to be right. (0:02:24) Codey: - Hello, I have been up to science. (0:02:29) Codey: So I’m getting to that point where, (0:02:32) Codey: whoo, I’m getting to the point where like a year from now, (0:02:35) Codey: I’m hoping to be defending my dissertation (0:02:38) Codey: and that is horrifying. (0:02:41) Codey: For a long time throughout your degree, (0:02:43) Codey: it’s like, oh, like two years from now, (0:02:45) Codey: oh, like, it’s like, you can kind of shove it forward (0:02:48) Codey: in the future. (0:02:50) Codey: And now it’s like, oh, oh shoot, you know. (0:02:54) Codey: Um, I was also just at a conference. (0:02:56) Codey: So the entomological society of America’s conference was in Phoenix, Arizona. (0:03:02) Codey: Um, so we went there and that was a thing that we did. (0:03:06) Codey: I actually, so it was actually, okay. (0:03:09) Codey: So when you go to conferences, like near the end of, of one chapter of your life, (0:03:13) Codey: you’re like, what am I going to do next? (0:03:15) Codey: And it was actually really gratifying because I had a few humans come up to me after like my talk (0:03:19) Codey: or that they just knew of me. (0:03:21) Codey: And they were like, Hey, I want to talk to you. (0:03:24) Codey: And they’re possibly interested in hiring me. (0:03:27) Codey: So that was really interesting. (0:03:30) Codey: One of them was, uh, a department of fisheries and wildlife on the Pacific Northwest, (0:03:34) Codey: which is where exactly where I want to be and exactly the kind of thing I want to do. (0:03:39) Codey: However, uh, government jobs are a little up in the air right now because of things. (0:03:44) Codey: And so, um, I’m kind of like, about that, like, like, Oh no, what do I do? (0:03:52) Codey: but I had someone from like literally (0:03:54) Codey: one of the best institutions for entomology (0:03:57) Codey: within the United States come up to me (0:04:00) Codey: and we were chatting and then he was like, (0:04:01) Codey: “Oh, when are you done? (0:04:02) Codey: Because we’re gonna be hiring a forest entomologist (0:04:04) Codey: here in a year.” (0:04:05) Codey: And I was like, “Holy crap.” (0:04:07) Codey: So that’s cool too. (0:04:09) Codey: So now I’m really, now the fire is under (0:04:13) Codey: the proverbial butt at this point (0:04:15) Codey: because I need to get this stuff finished. (0:04:19) Codey: But more importantly, I finally married Scott (0:04:22) Codey: in Coral Island. (0:04:22) Al: Wooo! You made your decision. (0:04:24) Codey: I also, I made, well, there was no decision to be made. (0:04:28) Codey: I just, he finally accepted my offer. (0:04:30) Codey: They like have, I think you have to go through (0:04:33) Codey: a certain amount of their heart events or whatever. (0:04:34) Al: You do, yeah. I ended up in that same situation with, oh goodness, I’ve forgotten my wife’s name. (0:04:42) Codey: Alice, was it Alice? (0:04:44) Al: Was it Alice? No, it wasn’t Alice. (0:04:47) Codey: It was the computer programmer girl, right, Suki? (0:04:49) Al: Yeah, no, not Suki. Suki’s Alice. (0:04:52) Codey: I don’t remember. (0:04:54) Codey: I also went for Alice for a bit. (0:04:57) Codey: But yeah, so I finally married him. (0:04:58) Codey: He finally got through all of his heart events. (0:05:00) Codey: And I’m happy to say that for a few days of the month, (0:05:04) Codey: at least, he does go to work. (0:05:06) Al: Oh, thanks. (0:05:07) Codey: There’s been a couple times where I see him (0:05:09) Codey: Walking around the town and i’m like who let you out? (0:05:11) Al: It probably doesn’t help that Lily, that’s her name, that I married Lily who, you know, (0:05:12) Codey: Got it. (0:05:22) Al: when she’s not married to you, spends all her time in her house. So that probably doesn’t help. (0:05:26) Codey: Yeah (0:05:28) Al: But the weird thing about it was not necessarily that she was in the house, (0:05:31) Al: because when she’s in her house, she’s like sitting at a computer doing work, (0:05:35) Codey: Yeah (0:05:36) Al: or, you know, in the kitchen. Whereas when she’s in your house, she’s standing next to the bed, (0:05:40) Codey: Yep (0:05:41) Al: staring off into space. (0:05:42) Codey: That’s what Scott does too, and I just feel so bad for him, especially because when you talk to him (0:05:47) Codey: He says cute things like you know people say that marriage changes a man (0:05:51) Codey: And you have changed me in all the most enticing ways. I love you, and I’m just like what the heck (0:05:56) Al: - No! (0:05:57) Codey: Or he’ll be like (0:06:00) Codey: Like babe, I love you so much. Thank you so much for for doing this and I’m like you’re just standing next to me (0:06:06) Codey: Please sometimes he goes outside for morning coffee, which is nice, but (0:06:10) Codey: Yeah, so I finally did that I also finally have unlocked the cave of memories (0:06:15) Codey: Oh, and I finally finished the frickin temple. I did that I did the temple (0:06:16) Al: Oh, nice. (0:06:20) Al: Nice. (0:06:22) Codey: So now I’m just trying to I don’t even remember what I got be honest (0:06:23) Al: “Is all you ever hoped?” (0:06:29) Codey: Yep, nope can’t remember so (0:06:30) Al: I don’t know if there’s like an overall unlock, I think. (0:06:37) Al: There’s different ones for different parts of it. (0:06:40) Codey: - Yeah, yeah, the last thing that I needed (0:06:42) Codey: was an osmium garlic, and I got that. (0:06:47) Codey: I haven’t finished the Cave of Memories 100%. (0:06:49) Codey: I finished enough to bring Gort back to the people. (0:06:56) Codey: He went dark, he was dark is the, yeah. (0:06:56) Al: » Cool. (0:07:02) Codey: So I’m trying to reach the bottom (0:07:03) Codey: of the Cave of Memories now, (0:07:05) Codey: and then just generally hitting that point (0:07:07) Codey: where I’m racking up money with nothing to spend at all. (0:07:10) Codey: But more importantly, Minecraft. (0:07:12) Codey: But I will talk about that later. (0:07:14) Codey: Al, what have you been playing? (0:07:16) Al: I have been playing, obviously, a lot of Pokemon TCG Pocket, I’ve talked about that in a few (0:07:24) Codey: Oh, okay. I mean, so I have been, because of conference and general malaise, I have (0:07:25) Al: previous episodes, but it sounds like you have questions. (0:07:33) Codey: not been up on the pod. I also have not really been listening to ISE very much. So what is (0:07:41) Codey: pocket? Is it good if you have, do you scan in real life cards that you have and that’s (0:07:47) Codey: how you get cards or… (0:07:49) Al: No, no, it’s entirely digital. It is so it is based on the TCG, but it’s some of the cards are (0:08:05) Al: digital equivalents of the real cards. Quite a lot of them are almost the same as physical cards, (0:08:11) Al: but like their attacks are slightly different or their retreat number is slightly different. (0:08:15) Al: And then there’s a few that are exclusive to the app. (0:08:19) Al: And basically, the idea is it’s a daily “you can open two packs of cards a day”. (0:08:20) Codey: Okay. Is it possible to literally just collect cards or do you have to fight people? (0:08:30) Al: Yeah, no, no, you can completely ignore the battles if you want to. (0:08:36) Al: You do get things for the battles, (0:08:36) Codey: BRB downloading this game right now. (0:08:40) Al: but you can just ignore that if you want, which is what I did to start with, (0:08:43) Al: and then I actually accidentally got into the battles. (0:08:46) Codey: It just happened out of nowhere, does it? (0:08:47) Al: oopsie (0:08:50) Al: I know well what they did is they’ve done three events right and uh two of them are event (0:08:56) Al: sorry battle-based events and so I was like well I need to try the battles for these events and (0:09:02) Al: get these exclusive items or whatever and then I enjoyed it and yeah I don’t know if i’ll be (0:09:09) Al: doing it outside of the events uh i’ve nearly finished the second event but um yeah it’s good (0:09:11) Codey: Okay, I’m downloading it. (0:09:18) Al: Fun! I really like it. (0:09:19) Al: And I reopened the other TCG app, the TCG Live, and I was like reminded of just (0:09:26) Al: how bad an app it is, is just so the interface just feels gooey, right? (0:09:33) Al: It doesn’t feel like anything does what you want it to do. (0:09:36) Al: And it’s overly complicated, whereas like you open up Pocket and you see the packs (0:09:43) Al: and you click on it and you open a pack, right? (0:09:46) Al: And if you want to go do other things, (0:09:47) Al: then sure you have to go down other levels but like you open (0:09:49) Al: the gap and the packs are there right in front of you. It’s (0:09:53) Al: really nicely designed in that aspect of things. And it’s like (0:09:57) Al: there’s five tabs along the bottom. And then that’s pretty (0:10:00) Al: much it. Whereas live is just like levels and levels of menus (0:10:06) Al: and it like opens up in this menu where you’re not really (0:10:08) Al: sure what anything is unless you use it regularly. Yeah, I don’t (0:10:12) Al: like him. So yeah, I’ve been enjoying that. I guess not much (0:10:17) Al: changed since I last talked about it it’s just yeah (0:10:19) Al: been going through the events that I talked about last week and i’ve hit the point where (0:10:26) Al: I because I played it during the beta period i’m at the point now where I am close to having (0:10:33) Al: finished the collection but that means that I almost never like I maybe get a new card (0:10:37) Al: every three days or something but I think they’ve said that they’re bringing out new (0:10:44) Al: cards in december so that’ll be fun but yeah it’s (0:10:48) Codey: Okay, I am opening it (0:10:49) Al: it’s nice I like it enjoy don’t get distracted on the podcast never i’ve been playing marvel (0:10:54) Codey: No, of course not (0:10:57) Codey: It’s not gonna happen (0:11:00) Al: snap as well although a little bit less this week because I was doing the battling in pocket but i’m (0:11:05) Al: sure i’ll get back into snap next week once i’ve finished the battles in pocket and i’ve started (0:11:09) Al: playing finally fields of mystery uh um it I have thoughts on the game but i’m gonna save them for (0:11:12) Codey: Whoo (0:11:19) Al: future episode um but it’s yeah I i don’t I definitely don’t hate it and it definitely has (0:11:28) Al: interesting ideas and it’ll be interesting to share my thoughts fully on the podcast (0:11:34) Al: but yeah I have started playing that so we’ll see how that goes I mean the good thing is i’ve (0:11:39) Al: actually been playing it right like sometimes when I play games for the podcast it’s really (0:11:43) Al: hard to get into them um so i’ve gotten over the initial hump and i’m actually like properly (0:11:49) Al: now uh every day so we’ll see how that continues on my steam deck (0:11:51) Codey: Mm-hmm, that’s good. How are you playing it? (0:11:56) Codey: Okay, I also have questions we can talk about this band about a steam deck because I was asked if I want and for Christmas (0:12:04) Al: This is the Steam Deck section. Talk to me. (0:12:09) Codey: So listen listeners if you’re also wondering if you should get a steam deck this section is for you. Hey Al (0:12:17) Codey: Why get a steam deck? (0:12:18) Al: because play games on portable console that aren’t on the Switch. (0:12:24) Al: I mean, realistically, right, like that’s that’s it. (0:12:27) Al: It is also more powerful than the Switch. (0:12:29) Al: Right. So some games will run better on it. (0:12:32) Al: But I mean, the the main reason that you would be doing it is because there’s lots (0:12:36) Al: of games that aren’t on the Switch yet or won’t come to the Switch or, you know, (0:12:41) Al: they are only coming to the Switch a couple of years after their Steam version. (0:12:45) Al: like Steam is still the default for most games. (0:12:46) Codey: Mm hmm. So is it can you play anything that’s PC or Mac on it? (0:12:56) Al: So it is the Steam Deck is Linux based but Valve have put a lot of effort into building (0:13:07) Al: a runtime engine that allows you to run the Windows versions of the games. So if it supports (0:13:14) Al: Linux or if it supports Windows, I don’t think anything just supports Mac, right? (0:13:18) Codey: Mm-hmm, okay. (0:13:20) Al: So I have not come across a game that you just flat out can’t play. There are a few games that (0:13:26) Al: controllers very well and in those cases it’s not great but it’s becoming a lot better now like (0:13:35) Al: most games will either launch with controller support or they will you know add it on if it’s (0:13:42) Al: an early access or whatever. Like Lens Island was one that didn’t have controller support to start (0:13:45) Al: with but it came out like right at the beginning of the Steam Deck so it wasn’t really popular at (0:13:51) Al: that point and they’ve obviously since added controller support. So I think most games have (0:13:55) Al: have controller support. (0:13:56) Codey: Okay, and then my other question is can you play it either like so is it like a switch where you can dock it and (0:14:02) Codey: Play it on your screen or carry it with you (0:14:04) Al: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so you can you can just connect it to a normal it’s just USB-C, right? (0:14:06) Codey: Mmm (0:14:10) Al: So you can just plug in a USB-C dock which you can get ones for like, you know (0:14:14) Al: 10 quid on Amazon or whatever and plug it into a monitor or a TV (0:14:16) Codey: - Mm-hmm, okay. (0:14:21) Codey: Well, to be determined, I probably will get one. (0:14:24) Al: I mean, if someone is offering to buy you one, I would definitely go on that, right? (0:14:30) Al: Like unless you have something else that you would want instead, it’s obviously the big (0:14:35) Al: thing for most people is it’s a lot of money, so you know, you probably wouldn’t be spending (0:14:38) Codey: Yeah. No, I was literally, it’s someone, correct. I would not buy one myself, but someone literally (0:14:41) Al: that money on it yourself. (0:14:45) Al: Yeah, the answer is probably yes. (0:14:45) Codey: saying, “Would you like one?” I’m like, “Wow.” Yeah. (0:14:51) Al: unless there’s like negative things that come from this. (0:14:54) Al: You know, you will owe this person something. But if it’s a friend or a family member who wants (0:14:58) Codey: No. Yeah. No, it’s my part. It’s my partner. So. (0:14:58) Al: to give you a gift, you know, and you don’t feel bad about it, then I would say yeah, absolutely. (0:15:03) Al: It’s great. It’s a bit bigger and chunkier. OK, it’s bigger and chunkier than the Switch, (0:15:09) Al: but personally, for me that actually makes it better. It’s better to hold. The ergonomics (0:15:16) Al: are better, so it less hurts my hands. So there’s that as well. But yeah, no, I really like it. (0:15:21) Codey: Okay. Yeah, I, I almost never play my switch in handheld mode. It’s almost always on the (0:15:27) Al: Interesting. (0:15:28) Codey: on my computer or not my computer, my TV. So, but I could then play that on handheld (0:15:34) Codey: and watch him play Factorio. Cause he’s been playing the Factorio like space age expansion, (0:15:40) Al: Yeah, I think the thing is that, you know, if you have like a gaming PC, gaming PC is (0:15:41) Codey: or maybe I could play the space age expansion on that. I don’t know. We’ll see. (0:15:51) Al: still going to be better, right? Because it’s still portable. But, well, that’s the thing, (0:15:53) Codey: Yeah, I would have to come all the way over here. (0:15:56) Al: right? The portable aspect of things is a massive, massive aspect. And yeah, it’s not (0:16:00) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:16:01) Al: as powerful, but it runs things just fine, right? Like most games will run on it in some (0:16:07) Al: way and because it’s like the bassline (0:16:10) Al: it’s like that’s what games are aiming for like if you can run on the steam deck then you’re fine (0:16:14) Codey: Okay. Final question. If you play something on your Steam Deck, so say I’m like playing (0:16:21) Codey: Lens Island on my Steam Deck, but I’m like, man, I want to play this on my desktop. Can (0:16:25) Codey: I just literally go to my desktop and it’s the same save? Okay. Okay. There. I told my (0:16:28) Al: Assuming that they support Steam and Cloud Save, yes. (0:16:31) Al: Games have to explicitly support that, but most games will. (0:16:38) Codey: partner after talking to Al, I wouldn’t say no to a Steam Deck. And that’s what we’ve (0:16:42) Al: And that’s the Steam Deck section. We’re gonna now talk about some game news. So, interestingly, (0:16:44) Codey: got to do. Whoo. Whoo. (0:16:56) Al: I can’t see any delays this week, which is rare for a November episode, but there we (0:17:01) Al: are. There’s still a lot of delays to come though, because I still see about 25 games (0:17:06) Al: saying 2024. Although some of them are special. (0:17:12) Al: They were like, “Oh, we’re in early access and we’re going to be in early access for (0:17:17) Al: a year.” And that means they’ll come out this year and then they’ve just not said anything (0:17:20) Al: because they never explicitly said they were coming out in 2024, but come on. So, it’s (0:17:24) Codey: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (0:17:28) Al: going to take some time going through that list and double checking if anybody said anything (0:17:31) Al: that I’ve missed. Anyway, Botany Manor have announced that they’re coming out on PlayStation. (0:17:33) Codey: - Yep. (0:17:38) Codey: - Mm-hmm. (0:17:38) Al: So I think they’re already out on… (0:17:42) Al: PC and Switch? (0:17:43) Codey: - I played it on Xbox Game Pass. (0:17:48) Al: Oh, yes. (0:17:52) Al: I probably should have double checked this. (0:17:53) Al: So they’re definitely on Steam. (0:17:55) Al: Yeah, they’re on Xbox, (0:17:57) Al: including Game Pass. (0:17:59) Al: They are also on Switch. (0:18:01) Al: So yeah, this is… (0:18:02) Codey: I was gonna say I think that Aislinn had played it on (0:18:04) Al: Yeah, so this is completing the standard list (0:18:08) Al: coming to PlayStation. (0:18:09) Al: they are releasing on the 17th. (0:18:12) Al: And that’s for both PS4 and PS5. (0:18:13) Codey: Woo. (0:18:14) Codey: Woo! (0:18:19) Al: Speaking of releases, (0:18:21) Al: Grimoire Groves is coming out. (0:18:26) Al: They have announced that their release date is the 6th of March next year. (0:18:32) Al: That feels like the length of time that I feel like is suspicious, right? (0:18:40) Al: Like when something says, oh, we’re going to. (0:18:42) Al: To come out on this date in two years, you know, it’s never going to happen. (0:18:45) Al: If they say we’re coming out on this date in a month, you’re like, okay, (0:18:47) Al: the game is ready and they’re just like making sure that they’re ready for (0:18:50) Al: release and, you know, getting all the release plans out. (0:18:53) Al: Like they’re not working on the game. (0:18:54) Al: Now they’re just ready to go. (0:18:56) Codey: Okay. (0:18:56) Al: But when they say four months away, I’m suspicious because that makes me sound (0:19:02) Al: feel like the game is not finished yet and they’re wanting to finish it. (0:19:05) Al: And they’re like, this is the point that we think we can get it done by, but (0:19:09) Al: something will probably go wrong. (0:19:12) Codey: Okay, are you making a prediction then? (0:19:12) Al: No, never, never make a prediction. (0:19:17) Codey: Okay, okay (0:19:18) Al: Never say you’re going to come out on a date. (0:19:22) Al: Do you see what I mean? (0:19:22) Al: No, it’s like, it’s a suspicious time frame. (0:19:24) Codey: Yeah, no I get it though, there’s also (0:19:26) Al: Like I’m not saying they don’t want to come out then, but I’m saying (0:19:29) Al: there’s a high probability that it gets delayed by a month. (0:19:33) Codey: Yeah, that’s fair. I detect no lies (0:19:38) Al: Good. (0:19:40) Al: I’m glad. (0:19:42) Al: Um, yeah, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll see. (0:19:45) Al: Will this be one of my 2025 games? (0:19:45) Codey: Correct. (0:19:48) Al: Maybe you don’t want to play this one. (0:19:49) Codey: It’s all you. (0:19:52) Codey: Um, I like how it looks, but I am over the witch aesthetic, personally. (0:19:57) Al: Oh, interesting. (0:19:58) Codey: So. (0:19:59) Al: I feel like we haven’t had many which games actually come out though. (0:20:01) Codey: No, I guess I just don’t I’ve never liked. (0:20:06) Al: Fair, fair. (0:20:07) Codey: So, yep. (0:20:10) Al: Uh, next we have Sunday. (0:20:12) Al: A release date for Switch. (0:20:16) Al: In the Americas. (0:20:18) Al: And only the Americas. (0:20:18) Codey: Bum. Bum. Bum. It is curious why it’s only the Americas. I know that they’re trying to do it (0:20:26) Codey: worldwide and they said that they’re encountering some “issues” or whatever with doing it. I mean, (0:20:33) Codey: it’s difficult, but I’m not entirely sure why because it’s not just the US. They have a bunch (0:20:38) Codey: in South America as well that it is coming out for. Correct, correct. (0:20:40) Al: Yes, yes. I did say Americas, to be fair. So it’s specifically coming to United States, (0:20:47) Al: Canada, Mexico. It sounds like the beginning. No, no, no. No, no, it’s not. It’s not. United (0:20:49) Codey: Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Republic Dominican. (0:20:55) Al: States, Canada, big pause, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. So I’m (0:21:05) Al: I’m guessing that it’s just that those are the only countries in the Americas that… (0:21:10) Al: the switch eShop is available in, and it’s not that they’re specifically saying you’re not allowed in Venezuela. (0:21:17) Codey: I am all four countries coming out in the order of that song. (0:21:23) Codey: And not just because the United States is the first one. (0:21:25) Al: Well, so my reason why I’m saying that I think it’s just those are the only… (0:21:29) Al: Because I don’t think you can do it on a country by country basis. (0:21:33) Al: I think you can only do it on a region by region basis. (0:21:36) Al: And there’s the Americas region. (0:21:38) Al: There’s– (0:21:40) Al: Europe and Africa, I think, and then there’s Japan, and then– (0:21:46) Al: Oh, sorry, Europe, Africa, and Australia are the same one, and then there’s Japan, and I don’t know what else there is. (0:21:50) Codey: interesting. Other countries. But yeah, so that’s coming out. And I really yeah, and they were really (0:21:58) Al: Oh yeah, we didn’t say the date, 29th of November. (0:22:02) Codey: wanting to try and make sure that the switch release did not was not like a version behind (0:22:08) Codey: or whatever. So it’s going to be released at the same version that it is, wherever else it’s (0:22:15) Codey: it’s released, except no multiplayer yet. (0:22:20) Al: Yes, that is the weird. It’s very not weird. It’s not weird. (0:22:24) Al: It makes sense. Multiple is difficult. (0:22:27) Al: But it is interesting that there earlier on in the announcement, they say (0:22:33) Al: essentially, and then in bold, zero content differences between the two platforms. (0:22:38) Al: So the thing you read because it’s like (0:22:40) Codey: Yep. (0:22:40) Al: in bold is zero content differences between the two platforms. (0:22:43) Al: But there is a word before which is essentially very sneaky. (0:22:46) Codey: Gotta look for that modifier. (0:22:48) Codey: Yep. (0:22:50) Al: And yeah, so no multiplayer. (0:22:52) Codey: Yep. Eventually. (0:22:52) Al: Yeah, I find it interesting why they’re doing because someone on I think it was (0:22:58) Al: the Kickstarter suggested it could be an issue with (0:23:04) Al: you know, some some law that something specific in the game isn’t (0:23:09) Al: covering, but it’s out on Steam world worldwide. (0:23:14) Al: So I don’t think that can be the case. (0:23:16) Codey: Hmm (0:23:18) Al: I suspect… (0:23:20) Al: This is a big theory, here’s my theory, my hypothesis. (0:23:25) Al: They didn’t know there were multiple eShop regions initially. (0:23:29) Al: And they went on, they set it all up, and then they realized, oh wait, this is just (0:23:34) Al: coming out in the Americas, and of course it takes a long time to get this stuff done (0:23:36) Codey: Yep. (0:23:36) Codey: Yeah. (0:23:38) Al: by Nintendo. (0:23:40) Al: Because who was it? (0:23:41) Al: There was another game that had a similar thing where they only gave eShop codes to people (0:23:46) Al: in the Americas. And they were like, Oh, we can’t we’re not these (0:23:50) Al: are the only codes we’re able to get. And everyone was like, but every game gets codes (0:23:53) Al: for the other regions. Why are you, why are you specifically not able to get ones for (0:23:57) Al: Europe and Japan, et cetera? And then yeah, then suddenly two weeks later, Oh, look, we (0:24:00) Codey: And then it’s ‘cause they had only applied for it. (0:24:05) Al: have the Europe codes now. It’s like, Hmm, funny that. So very suspicious. Maybe I’m (0:24:08) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:24:11) Al: being a bit unfair, but that is my theory. And we’ll probably never find out why. But (0:24:18) Al: I think if it’s like. (0:24:20) Al: A month later, or, you know, if it’s before the end of the year, I think that’s all it (0:24:23) Al: is. (0:24:24) Al: Because I don’t know what they could have been doing that was, I don’t know what else (0:24:27) Al: would have gotten their way because there’s no technical differences between the games, (0:24:32) Al: between the consoles. (0:24:33) Al: Right. (0:24:34) Al: Like I can, I can, I can create, and I have an American account on my switch as well. (0:24:38) Al: And I have a Japanese account. (0:24:39) Al: You can just download the games. (0:24:40) Al: There’s no content locking. (0:24:41) Al: The only content locking is the shop itself, which is based on your account, not your console. (0:24:47) Al: So I can’t imagine there would be a technical issue there. (0:24:50) Al: Only thinking is that it’s because they didn’t realise that there were multiple console, multiple (0:24:53) Codey: I mean, to be fair, that is weird. (0:24:53) Al: regions. (0:24:54) Al: What, that there’s multiple regions? (0:24:57) Codey: Like, yeah, like you would think that it wouldn’t be that there’s different shops, (0:24:59) Al: Ah, yeah. (0:25:04) Codey: just that there’s, it’s like, instead of Switch making, excuse me, all of these different shops, (0:25:11) Codey: different regions, they’re just, you just have one shop and then they would just choose what region (0:25:16) Codey: within the shop to sell it to. But that, but that makes too much sense. So they wouldn’t do that. (0:25:18) Al: I mean, it’s essentially the same thing, right? Like, it’s just a different way of doing it (0:25:23) Codey: Yeah. (0:25:25) Al: technically, right? Like, it doesn’t make any difference to users, right? It’s the same thing (0:25:30) Al: to them. But yeah, I don’t know. That’s my theory. Who knows? We’ll probably never know, but hey, (0:25:38) Codey: Yep. (0:25:38) Al: there we are. Sugardew Island. They’ve announced that they’re coming to Xbox and PS4. They were (0:25:46) Al: we’re already coming to PS5. (0:25:48) Al: Uh, this is, I don’t think I talked about this. (0:25:52) Al: They had posted this on Kickstarter like a month ago, and they were like, (0:25:55) Al: “We’re going to publicly talk about this later this month.” (0:25:58) Al: And I was like, “That’s really weird.” (0:26:00) Al: So I now have this information. (0:26:01) Al: I need to decide whether I’m sharing it or not. (0:26:03) Al: Cause they haven’t explicitly said, “Don’t share it.” (0:26:03) Codey: hmm okay oh is it up (0:26:05) Al: And I haven’t agreed to not share it, but also it’s like only pop- (0:26:09) Al: No, this one’s fine. (0:26:10) Al: It was the pre, like it’s now on Steam. (0:26:12) Al: Like they publicly said it now, but I was like, “Do I not share it?” (0:26:16) Al: because they’ve said we’re not (0:26:18) Al: there’s no like public version of it. (0:26:20) Codey: Yeah. (0:26:21) Al: Like I can’t cite my source because my source is a backer only Kickstarter post. (0:26:26) Codey: Yeah. (0:26:27) Al: I may as well say this now, the other reason they said this is one of the reasons on the (0:26:31) Al: Kickstarter, they said this is one of the reasons they put the delay in, (0:26:35) Al: because they got a grant to Xbox as well. (0:26:41) Al: But the other reason that they haven’t said publicly yet, but I’ve decided just to say it, (0:26:46) Al: is that they’re adding romance to the game. (0:26:48) Al: Um, which I’m not a huge fan of them delaying to add romance, but whatever. (0:26:50) Codey: Was. Yeah. Yeah. (0:26:55) Al: It is what it is. (0:26:56) Al: They haven’t said that publicly, so, um, I can’t prove it, but you’ll see (0:27:02) Al: in a couple of weeks, they’ll announce that they’re, they’re bringing romance (0:27:05) Al: to the game, um, lucky. (0:27:08) Codey: I also was laughing as I was looking at it that they titled themselves as the coziest (0:27:14) Al: which is a lot of a lot of technicalities there (0:27:15) Codey: farm shop game ever. (0:27:19) Codey: Yeah, like the coziest of not that many. (0:27:26) Codey: They also have a new trailer in it and I’m not, I watched the new trailer, but I’m not (0:27:29) Codey: really sure what in the trailer is new. (0:27:33) Codey: I did like, so they, they showed you like managing your shop. (0:27:38) Codey: And there was a point where like someone came up and they were (0:27:40) Codey: like, Oh, I only wanted this many, or I, I wanted this different. (0:27:45) Codey: I don’t know. (0:27:46) Codey: Someone was complaining. (0:27:48) Codey: And one of the things you could do is like offer a discount. (0:27:51) Codey: Um, so I don’t know. (0:27:55) Codey: I would never offer a discount. (0:27:56) Codey: I’ve worked retail before people can, people can follow the rules. (0:27:57) Al: They can they can buy it or they can not yeah (0:28:02) Codey: Yeah. (0:28:03) Codey: I’m not holding a gun to your head and saying you have to buy it or not. (0:28:06) Codey: like this. (0:28:08) Codey: Get out of here if you’re unhappy with the price. (0:28:12) Al: Yeah yeah I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again I don’t I just don’t think (0:28:12) Codey: But yeah, and this is still coming out in early 2025. (0:28:22) Al: that shops are fun gameplay experience and maybe this one will be the game (0:28:27) Al: that makes it happen but I highly doubt it based on what we’ve seen in the (0:28:30) Al: trailer it looks like every other game that has a shop ever which is where you (0:28:34) Al: put things out and then you have to stand there while people come and buy (0:28:38) Al: from you. And it’s like, this is not fun. Why would I? Why would I? (0:28:38) Codey: I mean, you could also do, uh, so Sims did it, they had a shop like where you could buy (0:28:42) Al: I don’t care about this, right? (0:28:43) Al: Um. (0:28:49) Codey: a business by a shop and then you have to run it, but you could hire people to like (0:28:54) Codey: greet or to run the register or to like schmooze with people. Um, but then you had to do whatever (0:29:04) Al: Yeah, and then it’s a management sim, and it’s like, that’s fine, those are games that (0:29:05) Codey: or else it is. (0:29:10) Al: people enjoy, but that is not what I want, and that is not, in my opinion, Cottagecore. (0:29:14) Codey: Yeah. Well, that’s the Sims for you. But yeah. So yeah, I don’t know. I mean, it reminds (0:29:14) Al: That is much more stressful. (0:29:16) Al: Well, exactly. (0:29:18) Al: There’s a reason I don’t play The Sims anymore. (0:29:28) Codey: me a little bit. We played, gosh, what is that? Galaxy Paws, Galactic Paws, something (0:29:34) Codey: Paws, Garden Paws, Garden Paws. There’s a store in that. Yeah. There’s a store in that. (0:29:37) Al: Garden Paws, there we go. (0:29:40) Al: Just put two generic words together, you’ve probably got a game. (0:29:45) Codey: That was really fun. (0:29:47) Al: Okay, I will correct myself. (0:29:49) Al: There was one game where running a shop was fun, and that was, of course, (0:29:52) Al: Meneko’s Night Market. (0:29:54) Al: But that was fun because of how very specifically curated it was. (0:30:00) Al: It was like one scene every in-game week, and you could still, you know, (0:30:05) Al: get money other ways at this (0:30:07) Al: was just the best way to get money, right? You got the most money if you sold things this way. (0:30:12) Al: So it, that one was fun, but these games where it’s just like every day you go to the shop, (0:30:16) Al: you put stuff up and you have to stand there. (0:30:20) Codey: Yeah. Garden Paws, you could just open your store and then walk away, but then if something like ran out or whatever. (0:30:28) Al: Well, this is the thing, they’re all just more annoying ways of doing the thing that (0:30:34) Al: in farming games we’ve had forever, which is you throw everything in a box and you get (0:30:38) Al: the money, right? Why would I want more complications to that? That’s not what I’m here for. I’m (0:30:45) Al: here for the farming, and for the living, and for the people sometimes. I doubt I’ll (0:30:51) Al: be here for the people in this game. I might be wrong, and I will admit when I’m wrong (0:30:55) Al: if it changes, but I suspect the- (0:30:56) Codey: if you’re wrong. Yeah. (0:30:58) Al: people will have no personalities. (0:31:01) Al: It’s going to be Faith Arm all over again, (0:31:03) Al: where there’s some nice stuff about the game, (0:31:05) Al: but overall the people are just boring. (0:31:08) Codey: Okay, you heard it here, heard it here first. Boring. (0:31:11) Al: Well, I mean, to be fair, I think I’ve said it multiple times. (0:31:16) Al: I will play this game, right? (0:31:17) Al: I need to play this game because it is getting so much buzz. (0:31:21) Al: Like people seem to really like the idea of this game, (0:31:24) Al: even though I don’t understand why. (0:31:26) Codey: Because it starts with an “S” and ends with “Dew Island”. (0:31:28) Al: » Oh man. I cry. I cry. What have we got next? We have OVA Magica. They’ve announced (0:31:29) Codey: And it starts with an “S” and ends with an “E” and ends with an “S” and ends with an “E”. (0:31:40) Al: that their first major update is out now. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, like, this is the sort of (0:31:44) Codey: - Yep. (0:31:45) Codey: It just… (0:31:49) Al: thing where it’s like, if you’re playing this game, you’ll be really excited about the updates (0:31:52) Al: in this. And if you’re not, you probably don’t care that there are new blobs, new blob worlds, (0:31:57) Codey: Yeah, but there’s new cosmetic. (0:31:58) Al: new events. It’s the wrong one. It’s in early access. I don’t think they’ve announced when… (0:32:00) Codey: Oh, nope, this is the wrong game. (0:32:02) Codey: Just kidding. (0:32:04) Codey: Yeah, that’s it. (0:32:05) Codey: When is this coming out? (0:32:09) Codey: No, this podcast. (0:32:11) Al: Oh, this episode. (0:32:13) Codey: If you are listening to this on release day, (0:32:17) Codey: if you are one of the cool kids, (0:32:19) Codey: you can get this game for 20% off right now on Steam. (0:32:24) Codey: But only for people, 20 on 20, (0:32:27) Codey: if you’re on the 21st, no 20. (0:32:30) Codey: No 20 for you. (0:32:31) Al: This is an example of one that will definitely not hit its time frame that it said in the Early Access. They said “Over Magic has currently planned to be in Early Access for roughly eight to 10 months with regular content updates leaving up to the 1.0 full release.” (0:32:31) Codey: That’s it, that’s all I have. (0:32:46) Al: The first version of this came out in July, and this is their first content update. So that’s what? Is that four months? (0:32:52) Codey: Yep. July is seven. This is, yeah, this, yes, four months. (0:33:02) Al: Which is fine, I’m not saying they have to rush it out, but they always underestimate it. (0:33:07) Codey: What if they’re not doing it regular? What if it’s like, here’s one update, and then here’s another one, here’s another one, here’s another one, and it’s released. (0:33:15) Al: Well, I mean, they did say regular, they did the best, but they use that word regular. (0:33:18) Codey: Oh, fair. They did. (0:33:22) Codey: Nevermind. (0:33:24) Al: You’re like, what if they don’t you mean this word that they used in the sentence? (0:33:27) Codey: That they literally say. (0:33:30) Codey: I tried, I tried to give them some grace. It did not work. (0:33:34) Codey: work. (0:33:35) Al: We’re not here for grace, we’re here for content. (0:33:38) Codey: Content, bam, bam, bam, bam. (0:33:41) Al: No, I actually, this is the problem with covering indie games. (0:33:45) Al: I actually really liked the developer of Emajica. She seems like a really nice person, (0:33:48) Codey: - Yeah. (0:33:50) Al: and I don’t want to be too harsh. So. (0:33:52) Codey: Yeah. (0:33:54) Codey: Well, and it’s all in good fun. (0:33:55) Codey: I mean, like I basically, (0:33:57) Codey: we joked about this at the conference that I was just at (0:33:59) Codey: that this is the third year in a row (0:34:01) Codey: that we’ve wanted to have a symposium about neurodiversions, (0:34:04) Codey: but all of the people who are trying to make the symposium (0:34:08) Codey: have ADHD. (0:34:11) Codey: And so it never happens because we all have ADHD. (0:34:15) Codey: And I’m at the point now where I’m like, (0:34:18) Codey: I’m not going to accept symposia ideas (0:34:21) Codey: or whatever until like March, (0:34:22) Codey: but I kind of want to start it right now (0:34:25) Codey: and just have it done (0:34:27) Codey: because I really want this to happen. (0:34:28) Al: Yeah, yeah, it’s why, yeah, I was talking to someone, a friend who’s been diagnosed (0:34:35) Al: with ADHD recently, and I was just asking, you know, what to expect if I end up looking (0:34:41) Al: for a diagnosis. And I was like, it’s really ironic that the way to start an ADHD diagnosis (0:34:46) Codey: Yeah, I saw this recently, it was like, people who have a thing that cripples their ability (0:34:47) Al: is to make an appointment. It’s like, what do you expect here? (0:35:01) Codey: to do small menial tasks and make appointments have to have three phone calls and make two (0:35:07) Codey: appointments and like all this stuff. (0:35:11) Codey: But that means that if you get through it all, you must really care. (0:35:14) Al: Well this is the thing is because she actually got the diagnosis because she, like someone (0:35:16) Codey: You don’t care enough. (0:35:25) Al: was noticing while she was postpartum, she’d just had a baby, and so they were like “I (0:35:29) Codey: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (0:35:31) Al: think we need to do this” and she was like “Great” so she didn’t even need to do that (0:35:35) Al: first step, like that’s the best way to get diagnosis when someone notices and does something (0:35:39) Al: about it, but most people don’t get that. (0:35:40) Codey: Yep. That’s pretty I had been going to doctors for a long (0:35:45) Codey: time. And then finally, one of them was like, oh my gosh, you’ve (0:35:48) Codey: been coming here for so long. Why don’t I just send you to (0:35:50) Codey: this other place? And the first person that saw me at that other (0:35:53) Codey: place was like, Oh, yeah, you have it. Like she didn’t even (0:35:56) Codey: have to take me through the test. But yeah, all of that to (0:36:01) Codey: say, our chiding is gentle, we please over magica human take (0:36:07) Codey: your time. We can’t do things. (0:36:08) Al: I mean, she probably doesn’t listen to the podcast anyway, you know. (0:36:10) Codey: Please, Claudia. We can’t do things on a timeline either, but if she does, you take (0:36:19) Codey: your time. We’re still here. We still are excited about your game. They’re cute. I want (0:36:23) Al: Your blobs are cute. (0:36:24) Al: I want your, I was just about to say I want your blobs, but that sounds really bad. (0:36:29) Codey: your blobs. One of the ones in the new trailer was a fox. That’s pretty cute. Yeah. I think (0:36:34) Al: Blob. You can, I’m pretty sure you can crossbreed the blobs as well. So could you make a Fox (0:36:41) Codey: it was a fox. I was thinking more fox B, but okay. (0:36:42) Al: cow blob? Ooh, Fox bee. Would that be like black and orange straighten? That’s too similar (0:36:51) Al: to be orange and yellow stripes. (0:36:54) Codey: I would yeah I would think it’s an orange and white striped bee that has a fox tail. (0:37:02) Codey: And maybe with like uh little fox ears too little white tipped ears could be cute. (0:37:08) Al: Interesting. Speaking of first major content update after an early access release. (0:37:16) Al: We have fields of mystery have also announced their first major content update, and that is out now as you’re listening comes out in the 18th of November, which is in the past now listeners. (0:37:32) Al: Similarly to the previous update, you probably don’t care about most of this stuff if you don’t play the game. (0:37:38) Al: It adds a bunch of stuff that will probably be really interesting to you. (0:37:42) Codey: This is the one that adds cosmetic things. (0:37:42) Al: So it does add cosmetic. (0:37:46) Codey: You can change how you look. (0:37:47) Codey: You can change how your pets look. (0:37:49) Codey: You can get new drops from the monsters in the dungeons (0:37:52) Codey: because surprise, there are new monsters in the dungeon. (0:37:54) Codey: Mines, it’s mines. (0:37:56) Codey: I said dungeon, I meant mines. (0:37:58) Codey: New heart events, new skill perks, a new festival, mounts. (0:38:02) Codey: I’m excited about the mounts. (0:38:02) Al: I don’t know, never say never. You know the fun thing about one thing I really like about (0:38:05) Codey: I’m never gonna play this game, (0:38:06) Codey: but I was excited about that. (0:38:13) Al: Fields of Mystery, just seeing as how we’re talking about it. I’ll talk more about this (0:38:15) Al: in the main episode that we talk about it in. But you can change everything about yourself (0:38:21) Al: after the initial thing, except your birthday. And that includes your pronouns, your name, (0:38:28) Codey: That’s cool (0:38:30) Al: your look, et cetera. (0:38:31) Codey: That’s cool (0:38:33) Al: Yeah, the number of times I’ve heard my trans friends say that they started a game (0:38:38) Al: pre-transition, and then they’re like, don’t want to play the game now because I’m pre-transitioning (0:38:43) Al: the game. Well, there you go in Fields of Mystery, you can just change. If only it was as simple as (0:38:46) Codey: In the real world, womp, womp, it is becoming more obvious, I guess. (0:38:48) Al: that. [LAUGHTER] (0:38:57) Codey: I’ve had a couple people, I don’t know if I’ve said this on the pod or not, but I have (0:39:01) Codey: decided to expand my pronouns to she/they, so anything she/her or they/them are acceptable. (0:39:10) Codey: This happened because I’m pretty sure my tattoo artist thought I was non-binary and they called (0:39:14) Codey: me think, for a really long time. (0:39:16) Codey: And I was like, you know what, that doesn’t sound wrong. (0:39:20) Codey: That does not sound wrong, but he does. (0:39:24) Codey: I do not identify as he/him. (0:39:26) Codey: So I am… (0:39:28) Al: Either you’re going to say “I do not identify as a he” or a him, a he or a him, either of (0:39:28) Codey: Yeah, or as… No, I don’t. (0:39:33) Codey: So yeah, I’m she/they. (0:39:35) Codey: Or him. Or his. None of those things. (0:39:36) Al: them. Or a his. Well, I don’t know. Well, I mean, it depends how traditionally possessive (0:39:39) Codey: So yeah. (0:39:46) Al: about relationships you want to go, because I presume your partner, does your partner (0:39:50) Al: go by he/him. Okay, but you could arguably say you are his. (0:39:51) Codey: Um, I think he’s also he they, but he Ooh, you, you’re right. (0:39:58) Al: But then I know that, you know, obviously there are negative connotations to the patriarchal (0:40:05) Al: view of relationships like that. Well, yes. Yeah, OK. Of course. Of course. I’m just saying (0:40:08) Codey: I mean, but he’s mine, so it’s not a one-way thing. (0:40:13) Al: that the idea of being owned by a man is obviously historically… What’s the word I’m looking (0:40:16) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:20) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:21) Al: for… “ablimatic” is the word, but yeah, it works. (0:40:22) Codey: Ick? (0:40:25) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:26) Codey: No, so all of this is to say like, (0:40:28) Codey: that is something that I have, (0:40:30) Codey: that’s recently occurred in my life, (0:40:31) Codey: but it’s kind of been like under the radar. (0:40:33) Codey: I didn’t have like a big, hey, this is happening now. (0:40:36) Codey: And I’ve had at least three humans (0:40:38) Codey: week reach out to me independently and say, (0:40:41) Codey: hey, may I ask what your pronouns are? (0:40:44) Codey: ‘Cause I think they’ve changed. (0:40:46) Codey: And I was like, wow, they have, thank you. (0:40:47) Codey: Thank you for confirming. (0:40:51) Codey: So it is, though, again, (0:40:53) Codey: I’m in a very liberal, progressive life. (0:40:57) Codey: But people are becoming more accepting of it. (0:41:01) Codey: I feel like in the general. (0:41:03) Al: the people you want to spend time with anyway. (0:41:05) Al: » [LAUGH] (0:41:06) Codey: Yeah. (0:41:07) Codey: Well, and it’s funny because (0:41:08) Codey: because of things in life right now, uh, there are those who are in hide (0:41:13) Codey: mode who are trying to protect themselves, which is 100% valid. (0:41:14) Al: Mm-hmm (0:41:17) Codey: Um, I’m in fight mode. (0:41:19) Codey: So both in my institution, uh, but also in my politics, I am not going to go (0:41:27) Codey: quietly into that good night. (0:41:28) Codey: I’m, I’m ready to fight. (0:41:30) Codey: Um, and I’ve told all of my friends that if they need someone to fight for them, (0:41:33) Codey: hit me up because I’m in fight mode right now, not flight. (0:41:38) Al: Fair enough. It’s fine, I’ll cut it. It doesn’t need to go in. Yeah, so a bunch of stuff. (0:41:39) Codey: Uh, that was a weird aside. (0:41:40) Codey: Anyway, we have a couple new games. (0:41:45) Codey: You don’t have to cut it. (0:41:46) Codey: It’s fine. (0:41:50) Codey: Mm hmm. (0:41:51) Codey: Woo! (0:41:54) Al: That’s all of the game news, but we also have new games. Two new games to talk about. (0:42:00) Al: The first is Whimsied, a creature collection game that sits at the bottom of your screen (0:42:07) Al: and fits easily into your… (0:42:08) Al: routine. Whether you’re working, studying, or relaxing, Whimsight is always ready to offer you cozy (0:42:15) Al: pauses, capture creatures, create new species, and decorate your whimsical space in this soothing (0:42:20) Al: adventure. So we’re finishing the trilogy of, we’re going to call them rusty retirement likes. (0:42:28) Codey: Yeah, that was a I said, Oh, no, what did Rusty’s retirement do? (0:42:34) Codey: Because they really opened up a a worm of cans. (0:42:38) Al: this feels like the most dangerous one to me (0:42:39) Codey: But yeah, I think it’s. (0:42:43) Codey: Yeah, yeah, because it’s it’s creature collection. (0:42:47) Codey: It’s also you breed things together and you create new things. (0:42:50) Codey: I also really like that the little creatures are 2D, like, (0:42:54) Codey: and when they turn themselves, they just turn they’re like a little plane of paper (0:42:58) Al: Like, yeah, people are mad at you, ask. (0:43:00) Codey: I don’t know. Yeah, very paper Mario esque and that was really cute. (0:43:05) Codey: Yeah. Oh, heck, I am. (0:43:09) Codey: My all my dollar bucks are going to go away for this. (0:43:12) Al: Oh, they call them winlings. (0:43:13) Codey: So, yeah. Yeah, they’re windlings. (0:43:20) Codey: Yep, it looks really cute. (0:43:21) Codey: The release date is currently to be determined, but you can (0:43:25) Codey: support the person, I think, on some way. (0:43:28) Codey: That I saw pre pre down. (0:43:32) Codey: I don’t know. You can do something to support them that one. (0:43:34) Al: Go add it to your wishlist. (0:43:37) Al: That’s always the best thing before games are out, (0:43:41) Al: because it pushes them up the charts when they do come out. (0:43:44) Codey: Oh, I didn’t know that. (0:43:46) Codey: The more you know. (0:43:48) Codey: Um, yeah, very cute. Are you are you are you going to get that one.&

Codey and Jonnie talk about how much they hate marriage in games. Also who their favourite marriage candidates are. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:51: What Have We Been Up To 00:11:13: News 00:26:55: Marriage Candidates 01:18:41: Outro Links Fabledom Release Date APICO 4.0 Stardew Valley 1.6.4 Fae Farm Languages Lonesome Village on iOS and Android Disney Dreamlight Valley Update 10 Collectors Cove Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Codey: Hello and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Cody and (0:00:36) Jonnie: and my name is Jonny. (0:00:37) Codey: We’re here today to talk about cottagecore games (0:00:40) Jonnie: Whoooo! (0:00:42) Codey: That’s a good whoo that was a simultaneous whoo (0:00:47) Codey: As always transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website (0:00:52) Codey: And today we’re talking about (0:00:54) Codey: marriage candidates again Bye! (0:00:58) Jonnie: Whoo! Apparently it’s marriage month here at The Harvest. (0:00:58) Codey: - Whee! (0:00:59) Codey: you (0:01:01) Codey: I guess it is, I guess it is. So the idea was that we did, not we but Al and Kev did an episode recently talking about marriage candidates and midway through the episode they were like we’re only mentioning female marriage candidates we should get someone who might choose a guy and then also on top of that it was also or someone who can talk about why like marriage candidates at all like why Why do marriage candidate? (0:01:31) Codey: So this is gonna be more of like the philosophy episode about marriage candidate candidacy in games (0:01:40) Codey: Plus plus like who we would choose or why we choose what we choose blah blah blah blah (0:01:47) Codey: So that’s going to be the main topic we do have a small bit of news, but before that Johnny, what have you been up to? (0:01:55) Jonnie: What have I been up to? So if you’re on the internet, you might get an advertisement for this game called AFK Journey. It’s a terrible gacha game, I’m playing it. No further comments. (0:02:07) Codey: That is that that’s all you’re doing (0:02:12) Jonnie: Game-wise, yeah, that’s about all I’m doing at the moment. It’s a mobile game, (0:02:16) Codey: Okay, okay (0:02:16) Jonnie: it’s kind of mindless, it’s a thing you can do in the background. I wish I had time this past week to play other things, but I have no idea. (0:02:25) Jonnie: I feel good about it. I don’t recommend it to other people who play it. (0:02:27) Codey: You’ve… you’ve prioritized brain rot. (0:02:29) Jonnie: It’s a mobile gacha game, right? Like, it exists to try and take your money. (0:02:33) Codey: Heh. (0:02:34) Jonnie: That’s its whole reason for being. The problem is now, in that phase, (0:02:39) Jonnie: where even the games that are designed to take your money are actually pretty okay games, (0:02:44) Jonnie: which is concerning. (0:02:46) Jonnie: So, I think that’s a good thing. (0:02:48) Jonnie: So, in that phase, I think that’s a good thing. (0:02:55) Jonnie: It’s not just concerning, because they’re no longer just terrible. (0:02:57) Jonnie: Like, this is actually a pretty good game. (0:03:01) Jonnie: It’s just not one that I would ever recommend another human being play. (0:03:06) Codey: Okay, um, yeah, I mean I have negative money right now, so (0:03:15) Codey: Yeah, I wouldn’t I don’t need any gotcha games (0:03:20) Jonnie: Yeah. (0:03:21) Codey: Yeah, that’s that’s all you’re playing (0:03:24) Jonnie: That’s- that’s literally all I’m playing. What have you been up to, Cody? (0:03:28) Codey: So I have again, I think I mentioned this in the last podcast that Tetris is dead Tetris is dead to me (0:03:36) Codey: So I’m not whoo, bye Tetris as in do not goodbye Tetris do not do not consume the Tetris media (0:03:46) Codey: So what I have been playing is (0:03:49) Codey: So my grandma got me on this game called cross touch world. I think I’ve mentioned it on the pod before (0:03:53) Codey: It’s actually Just like kind of like a color by number game. It’s on it can be on your phone It can be on a iPad. It can be on whatever you want it to be (0:04:02) Codey: It’s basically like a Facebook affiliated game (0:04:06) Codey: and I actually have been playing a decent amount of that because it helps me focus. So it’s one of my like (0:04:14) Codey: ADHD tactics I guess for staying in the moment in during like a (0:04:20) Codey: Zoom meeting or you know want to brain rot and watch a new movie But I don’t want to get distracted by the by anything in the new movies So I want to like really it’s funny because it looks like I’m not paying attention to things but I am (0:04:33) Codey: Like it helps me to pay attention because it turns off the part of my brain that tries to wander. (0:04:39) Codey: So I’ve been playing that. (0:04:40) Codey: Um, and then I’ve also been playing a lot of (0:04:46) Codey: Disney Dreamlight Valley. (0:04:49) Codey: So I’ve like jumped back into it. (0:04:51) Codey: I hit credits and now I’m trying to five star or not 10, five star, 10, level 10, like max out all of my people. (0:05:00) Codey: Um, I now have every character except for Prince Eric. (0:05:06) Codey: Who I’m pretty sure I’m going to get at the end of one of the other characters lines, um, like one of their quest lines. (0:05:15) Codey: Um, I’m trying to get all of the menu, all of the recipes and trying to get a bunch of the achievements and I am seriously considering buying rift in time. (0:05:30) Codey: Um, I think it’s like $25. (0:05:33) Codey: Um… (0:05:34) Jonnie: And what do you get out of Riftonton? (0:05:36) Codey: So Rift in Time has kind of like three acts to it. (0:05:42) Codey: So think of kind of think of like Scarlet and Violet, where you buy the DLC and then you have like two phases of the DLC. (0:05:51) Codey: It’s the same, same, same. (0:05:52) Codey: So you get three different phases of this paid content. (0:05:58) Codey: And it adds a new tool. (0:06:01) Codey: It adds like new things that you can do, new islands that you go to. (0:06:06) Codey: It adds Gaston and Eve, and I believe another character. (0:06:10) Codey: Oh, probably it says a mystery character or whatever, but I’m pretty sure it’s an Atlantean. (0:06:15) Codey: So I think it’s like Milo, Thatcher, whatever. (0:06:19) Codey: I did also, after I played, after I mentioned this on the last podcast, (0:06:23) Codey: I went, if you like go into, in Disney Dreamlight Valley, (0:06:27) Codey: if you go into like furniture or if you’re trying to like sort something by either. (0:06:36) Codey: like is it cool? is it cute? is it from this realm? is it from that realm? it shows you like all of the realms that are going to come. it has like a super long list. it includes things like hocus pocus or Atlantis is on there. hilariously the Beauty and the Beast from 2017 is separate from the 1997 one. (0:07:01) Codey: or whatever it is um so there’s (0:07:06) Codey: a lot of content coming in that in that game and I’m also I don’t know it’s something I’m just like I do every day I log on the characters I don’t have to level 10 I see what their favorite gifts are for the day and I get all of them and and I’ve paid forever I’ve upgraded everything so money is useless to me now but I still am getting a lot of it (0:07:30) Jonnie: Do you think, um, because they’re adding a lot of content to the game and obviously I’ve done a couple of episodes on Disney Dreamlight Valley, (0:07:37) Jonnie: um, and I also hit credits and kind of bounced off when I was trying to level 10 all of the characters, (0:07:43) Jonnie: because I kind of felt like while they were adding content in terms of new characters, (0:07:50) Jonnie: um, there wasn’t much being added that made the game more interesting, right? Like a lot of the quests were just, (0:07:57) Jonnie: This character wants you to go and collect 10. (0:08:00) Jonnie: Who’s a what’s it and build a thing and that’s you know like it was just a loop that kind of I got bored of eventually are they are they making it more is it more diversity of gameplay or is it just more characters but the core gameplay loop is still very. (0:08:18) Codey: Um, so I think it’s definitely that the, the gameplay loop is the same. (0:08:23) Codey: Like once you’ve maxed out a character and completed all of their storyline or whatever, they just don’t have any requests for you. (0:08:30) Codey: Um, and you won’t get the random quests where they’re like, I need you to go get 10 who’s a what’s it’s, um, they just won’t have those anymore. (0:08:39) Codey: They do have them for, uh, seasonal things. (0:08:42) Codey: So there was just an Easter event and Wally wanted me to help him make a (0:08:48) Codey: K but it was the, like, it was a daily thing. (0:08:51) Codey: Like he wanted me to do it every day and you got these like eggs from it, (0:08:55) Codey: like Easter eggs and there’s really no purpose for them. (0:09:00) Codey: So I didn’t really like in, I don’t know, there wasn’t really a, a drive (0:09:07) Codey: for me to do that, uh, for very long. (0:09:11) Codey: They do also have like, they just had an event that was called, I think the lovely monsters, and it was a Monsters Incorporated. (0:09:18) Codey: Moon, I don’t know what they’re, what exactly they’re called, but it was like one of the ones that you can use the in-game currency to like pay for things and get, get different items from Monsters Incorporated. (0:09:35) Codey: I have a ton of the in-game currency. (0:09:38) Codey: You actually get a decent amount just from playing. (0:09:41) Codey: I have not had to pay for anything or put any money into this game at all. (0:09:47) Codey: So I’m going to go ahead and do a little bit of a quick tour of the city. (0:09:48) Codey: I definitely like that, but if one of those events aren’t going on, once you’ve maxed everyone and if you don’t give a crap about the achievements, I don’t really know what (0:10:02) Jonnie: Okay, yeah, and that’s it’s a bit unfortunate because I think that game has a lot of potential and it’s already fun, right? (0:10:08) Jonnie: I would still highly recommend people go and and to play it but as as sort of that (0:10:14) Jonnie: Live service, you know daily play in game. I just wish there’s a little bit more variety in terms of what you could do day-to-day (0:10:22) Codey: Yeah, yeah, once you’ve maxed out a character, there’s really, like all of the characters, (0:10:27) Codey: there’s not as much of a reason, so, and that’s my plan is like max out all the characters, (0:10:32) Codey: go through all the story stuff, get the achievements that I care about, and then probably just put it down until more content comes. (0:10:43) Codey: They did say, oh, later in the news there will be, talk about something. (0:10:52) Codey: We’ll hear about something in the news. (0:10:55) Codey: I guess we can just get to the news to talk more about DTV, but the other thing that I’ve been doing is fox crafting. (0:11:03) Codey: The fox’s tail is almost complete and writing a manuscript and submitting manuscripts. (0:11:08) Codey: Woo! (0:11:09) Codey: PhD. (0:11:10) Codey: And I have failed season starting next week. (0:11:14) Codey: Woo! (0:11:15) Codey: Okay, I was gonna say speaking of next week, I was gonna try and do a transition, but it’s It’s actually a couple weeks away. (0:11:23) Codey: Fabledom, jumping into the news, (0:11:25) Codey: Fabledom is coming out of early access. (0:11:28) Codey: So it’s coming into 1.0 on the 13th of May. (0:11:32) Codey: This is the cottage core-esque city builder. (0:11:39) Codey: And there’s, for some reason, a flying pig that’s flying all over the screen in the trailer. (0:11:45) Codey: I don’t know if you choose to farm pigs or something. (0:11:51) Codey: I haven’t played it. (0:11:52) Codey: Clearly because it’s in early access, but uh, have you looked at this? (0:11:52) Jonnie: I have talked about it on a few episodes as it’s been sort of getting ready, fabled in like a city builders probably aren’t super my thing I think if they were gonna be a thing this is this is one that would be quite interesting to me I just like the sort of more laid back vibes so yeah if if you like the concept of a city builder I think it’s definitely worth (0:12:22) Jonnie: it looks good do we know how much it’s gonna be (0:12:26) Codey: uh if I believe if I remember correctly I think it’s $20 $21 they just increased the yeah they said that they had increased the price um it originally was a lower price but then after all the content or after all the like changes that they made to it and stuff they change they increase the price uh up by five dollars which is it’s definitely worth $21 um so yeah for people who who have $21. (0:12:44) Jonnie: Yeah, I mean, it looks very- it looks very pretty, right? Like, it’s a great art style. (0:12:53) Jonnie: Yeah. Actually, it’s one of those things, right, where I’m like, “It’s not my vibe, (0:12:56) Jonnie: but at the price point,” I’m like, “Maybe I will buy it and just give it a go.” (0:12:58) Codey: There you go. (0:12:59) Jonnie: Um, so, who knows? Watch this, baby. (0:13:00) Codey: Yeah, future episode perhaps. (0:13:04) Codey: We’re not promising anything. (0:13:08) Codey: Apico, everyone’s favorite bee simulation, beekeeping simulation game, (0:13:12) Codey: but also butterfly and solitary bee conservation game, (0:13:18) Codey: is about to have a 4.0. (0:13:20) Codey: So this is the third free content update. (0:13:26) Codey: And Elle, the developer, has said that it is the final free content update. (0:13:30) Codey: But Al has a comment saying, yeah, you know who else has said that multiple times? (0:13:36) Codey: Concerned eight. (0:13:38) Codey: So I think he’s pointing at the fact that final, final version, whatever. (0:13:46) Codey: There might be more updates in the future, is what Al is trying to say. (0:13:52) Codey: save but it sounds like Elle is saying that it’s this is a (0:13:57) Codey: And it adds a bunch of cute little mechanics (0:14:03) Codey: So it adds automation (0:14:06) Codey: Automation so things like hoppers (0:14:08) Codey: and sprinklers and (0:14:11) Codey: It looked on the screen. It looked pretty cool like how there was a beehive and then there was just like a (0:14:19) Codey: frame full of honey just like hopping over to (0:14:22) Codey: To get the honey extracted and and then the honey extracted (0:14:26) Codey: comb was like hop to something else and so it looks like you could really do some crazy things with automation here. (0:14:36) Codey: Different honey core mechanics. So that’s the kind of like an ore in the in the world. It says cute pets but there’s no images of the pets so we don’t know what pets are gonna come out. There is there is like in the trailer a little bee or a butterfly following you. (0:14:57) Codey: Um, did you watch the trailer at all, John? (0:14:59) Jonnie: I don’t know, like for me, Epico is too much crafting, so my interpretation of this update is if you are really into Epico, I think all of this stuff sounds awesome, but if you’re not into Epico, I don’t know that this will change that significantly. (0:15:01) Codey: Okay. (0:15:20) Codey: I mean the automation definitely might bring in some people who because the one of the biggest complaints of people is that this is basically like menu uh menu management simulator because there’s a lot of menus that you can pull up there’s a lot of different pieces which as as a scientist is really cool because that’s true of beekeeping like when you do beekeeping they’re like you take the frame to the uncapping and then after you’ve uncapped it then you move it to the (0:15:50) Codey: do all this stuff and then you have to clean it and then you have to so like it makes sense to me (0:15:54) Codey: um and for some people it’s gonna uh scratch that itch but not for everyone for sure um (0:16:02) Codey: and so yeah I get that uh cute pets there’s also seasonal events um so the two that are mentioned which are probably the two that there are are hivemas and hallow bean love it love the puns (0:16:20) Codey: um so they’ll trigger in real life like hivemas will be all the month of december and hallow bean will be I think it’s like october 27th to november 7th or something like that um so if you’re playing during those times they’ll trigger but you can also just toggle it on or off through the accessibility menu um a bunch of new decorations new music new bees new butts um butts being butterflies um yeah big ol content I tried to read through the patch notes (0:16:50) Codey: and it was long so um very interesting uh speaking of patch notes that are super long um (0:16:58) Codey: starting valley uh 1.6.4 is out now because there’s never never enough apparently is what concerned ape says um there’s new alternate mine and volcano layouts so it said like when you reach the base of the mine there’s like a new layout down there or something um (0:17:19) Jonnie: So once you’ve reached the base of the mine, I think it unlocks these new mine layouts to appear. (0:17:25) Codey: okay interesting I don’t understand what that means like so then if you go back to 25 it might look different okay cool we also have fish frenzies which I was not sure what that meant so I pulled a quote quote fish frenzies in Stardew Valley air a new random event where several of the same fish spawn all at at once, which is pretty interesting. (0:17:26) Jonnie: That was my interpretation. (0:17:31) Jonnie: Ah, so like… (0:17:35) Jonnie: Correct. (0:17:56) Codey: Cat in the slack calling you out cat (0:17:59) Codey: Just said as of like a I guess this was a lot earlier, but I just saw it (0:18:05) Codey: Quote I got a fish frenzy. It was neat I don’t know if I’d go out of my way forward a lot though, but cool for early game (0:18:11) Codey: Pretty cool. If you’re wanting a certain fish or if there’s a certain fish that costs that sells a lot of money That might be a good thing to do (0:18:20) Codey: And if you have been playing and you’re like, oh my gosh, I don’t want any more mom (0:18:25) Codey: I don’t want moss on my trees anymore (0:18:29) Codey: Concerned Dave heard heard you and you can now put vinegar on your trees and that will make no more moss on your trees (0:18:38) Codey: Have you been playing 1.6? (0:18:40) Jonnie: Yeah, so Alan and I did the initial episode on 1.6, I think I added a bunch of cool stuff. (0:18:50) Jonnie: I know that there’s a lot in this 1.6 update, but it’s all to me in the very small, not even quality of life, it’s almost just a random brain dump of stuff that concern Dave needed to get out of their brain into the game. (0:19:05) Codey: Okay. (0:19:05) Jonnie: none of it I really look at it go like oh this is gonna pull me back in it’s (0:19:05) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:19:10) Jonnie: Like it’s all it’s all stuff and there’s a lot of the stuff (0:19:14) Jonnie: But yeah, I don’t know there’s anything super exciting in here (0:19:19) Codey: uh i’m just so far out of stardew valley that i’m kind of I think al mentioned this in that episode he’s like what is a 1.6 thing versus a 1.5 thing like if I were to play now i’d be like wow this this there’s this new thing and someone might be like yeah that was like a year ago and i’d be like oh um I just I burnt myself out on that game and I need to get it’s in timeout um speaking of being in time out, Fey Farm, um, I think is in (0:19:49) Codey: some people’s times out, right? You’re one of the people who did Fey Farm? Or you like– (0:19:54) Jonnie: Uh, I like the… mechanically, I like what Fei Fan is trying to do. (0:19:58) Jonnie: Um… (0:20:00) Jonnie: But the surrounding narrative aspect of the game is severely lacking. (0:20:06) Codey: so it’s in timeout. But it is also now available in Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. (0:20:13) Codey: Very interesting that it’s Hong Kong specific. Not going to get into politics. So you can check out (0:20:21) Codey: the free demo if you are in any of those places and you’re like not really sure if you want to play the game or not. You can check out the free demo on Steam or Nintendo Switch. (0:20:36) Codey: Definitely on Nintendo Switch because I’m seeing it on the tweet. But you can check out the free demo and if you end up really liking it, you can port that demo save to your real save. (0:20:50) Codey: Which I love when places do this because I hate playing all the intro stuff and then having to play the intro stuff again. Big sad when you have to do that. (0:21:06) Codey: Steam getting ported to new things or just up increasing what platforms it’s on is Lonesome Village. It is now available on iOS and Android. It looks real cute but I can’t. I can’t do it on mobile. (0:21:23) Jonnie: Yeah, I (0:21:25) Jonnie: Like I like Lonesome Village actually think a port to mobile makes a lot of sense for (0:21:30) Jonnie: what that games trying to do like there was some controller weirdness with it that I think a (0:21:36) Jonnie: Mobile interaction would actually lend itself better to so I think it’s a good port for the sort of game and (0:21:43) Jonnie: It’s mostly sort of puzzle based (0:21:46) Jonnie: So I can see that being being pretty good (0:21:50) Codey: Yeah, and it is $5.99, I just checked, on IOS, decent price. (0:22:00) Codey: We’ve made it back to Disney Dreamlight Valley, here we are. (0:22:05) Codey: Adding to what you were talking about, about character needing more reasons to play on a daily or whatever, (0:22:14) Codey: villagers are going to start sending you things in the mail. (0:22:17) Codey: A lot of people in the comments on Twitter– (0:22:19) Codey: Just post it on Twitter. (0:22:21) Codey: Um, a lot of people said like, Oh my gosh, this is a lot. (0:22:25) Codey: Like, uh, if it’s a lot, if it is a lot like, um, animal crossing, (0:22:30) Codey: that’ll be really cute. (0:22:31) Codey: So, and I would love to see what Wally would send you. (0:22:35) Codey: And like, if there’s a letter with it and Wally just like wrote his name a million times or like, you know, the, the, cause he doesn’t say real words, like if the the letter had just like Wally speak and then it’s (0:22:50) Codey: just like a a plane. (0:22:54) Jonnie: Yeah, that would be great. (0:22:57) Jonnie: I am interested in exclusively receiving– (0:23:00) Jonnie: I want to receive gifts from Wally and from Ariel. (0:23:02) Jonnie: I think that they’re new, too. (0:23:04) Codey: Which is funny ‘cause they interact at one point. (0:23:07) Codey: ‘Cause they both love collecting things. (0:23:07) Jonnie: Yeah, their interaction is one of my favorite things (0:23:09) Codey: Yeah, they both get so excited because they both love collecting human objects. (0:23:18) Codey: Super cute. (0:23:19) Codey: I was trying to think of other characters I might want to get mail from. (0:23:24) Codey: And honestly, a lot of the like Mickey Mouse and Friend characters, (0:23:28) Codey: I just want them to go away. (0:23:32) Jonnie: - Yup. (0:23:33) Codey: I would love to receive mail from them. (0:23:33) Jonnie: They’re not interesting. (0:23:34) Codey: If I can banish them from the valley and then I only receive mail from them and that’s it. (0:23:40) Codey: Because I don’t care about Mickey or Minnie or Donald or Goofy and I only care about Scrooge because he has a store. Yeah so they’re gonna start sending you mail in update 10 which is coming quote unquote spring. Spring is here. Spring is almost gone. So where it at? There (0:23:46) Jonnie: I am right there with you (0:24:04) Codey: interesting very exciting. I’m excited to see how that game changes because it’s already changed so much and there’s so much possibility in it. So excited to continue to see what happens there. (0:24:21) Codey: And then we do have one new game that we’re talking about today called Collector’s Cove. (0:24:29) Codey: so this game is currently has a steam page and on the steam page it says (0:24:34) Codey: “Set sail on a cozy farming adventure aboard your boat in Collector’s Cove. Explore diverse climate zones with your animal companion and discover a multitude of rare crops and fish. (0:24:46) Codey: Enjoy cozy solitude while completing your collector’s compendium and rise to the rank of a named collector.” What’d you think of this trick? (0:24:57) Jonnie: I like the idea of traveling around on a giant Lapras. That, to me, is cool. (0:25:08) Jonnie: The trailer showed, like, yeah, there’s cozy elements to the game. (0:25:13) Jonnie: I need to see more about, like, what the angle is. Like, I like the idea of collecting. (0:25:20) Jonnie: But, to me, this game, my interest in it will be entirely dependent on seeing more of the action. (0:25:27) Jonnie: The trailer’s relatively light on that, which is fine, right? It’s the announcement trailer. (0:25:32) Jonnie: It has me interested, but not. Like, I just want to see more. (0:25:38) Codey: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean that’s how I feel too, like, you’re basically, so it says, just from like, (0:25:46) Codey: I highly recommend people go watch the trailer, because just from reading that blurb, it doesn’t convey the fact that your boat is basically either is the back of a laparous or is on the back of a laparous. It doesn’t seem like you are steering the boat so much as you are living on the back of… (0:26:08) Codey: And we’re saying Lapras. It’s clearly not Lapras because it is not a Pokemon game, but it’s a Lapras. It looks exactly like a Lapras. (0:26:20) Codey: And I need more information about this thing. (0:26:27) Codey: They barely mention it, barely comment about it. (0:26:31) Codey: I wasn’t sold on the trailer until you fish something up and then you throw it to your (0:26:39) Codey: animal companion and it eats it and catches it and eats it. I was like, “That is adorable actually.” (0:26:46) Codey: So yeah, I’m definitely gonna be waiting for more information about this game and we’ll see what happens. (0:26:54) Codey: I’m not sold. (0:26:56) Codey: So that is the end of the news. So on to the main topic, which is (0:27:02) Codey: our favorite marriage candidates, but before we get to who we (0:27:08) Codey: are as a marriage candidate or whatever, and some of the games that we’ve played, we have some discussion to have. (0:27:16) Codey: So Al has slotted… (0:27:19) Codey: I made some of these other sections, but Al specifically put section for Johnny to complain about marriage candidates. (0:27:26) Codey: So Johnny, here’s your floor. Take it away. (0:27:30) Jonnie: my problem with marriage candidates right and like it’s been like I like doing these sorts of episodes because it actually makes me think more about like why do I feel the way that I feel and in large part like I think I talked about this when we did fishing month and apparently we just do months based on mechanics that I actively dislike but for me a lot of it is like the cottage core genre suffers from I think a lot of developers copy and pasting the mechanics because there is (0:28:00) Jonnie: this perception that a Cottagecore game has to have fishing and has to have marriage candidates and it has to have, you know, growing crops and all of these sorts of things that they absolutely do not have to have but they copy them because they think that’s the standard and there’s no intentionality behind why it exists in the game. And so we now live in a state where marriage candidates or romance or whatever version you want to put exists in these games where it really (0:28:30) Jonnie: exists, right? And for me, I think that the biggest example of this at the moment is Coral Island. You know, you get married in that game and your partner stands in the house and does nothing. Like getting married actively makes the character worse, which to me is just so (0:28:49) Jonnie: much of a signal that the people making that game had no real concept behind why marriage is supposed to exist. (0:29:00) Jonnie: And like Stardew does it well, not amazingly, but pretty good, right, that the whole concept of that game is you are frustrated with your corporate life, you move to a small town, (0:29:10) Jonnie: you integrate yourself into a community, which ultimately ends in you marrying one of the people that’s part of that community, they move in with you, they help out around the farm, you know, the end, right? (0:29:24) Jonnie: Is it the best story? (0:29:25) Jonnie: No. (0:29:26) Jonnie: Is it a story that makes sense in the context of the game? (0:29:28) Jonnie: Absolutely. (0:29:30) Jonnie: So many of these games now, it’s like, hey, we’ve got marriage candidates, they exist, (0:29:34) Jonnie: you should marry one of them, and they do literally nothing, right? (0:29:38) Jonnie: Fae Farm, which we talked about earlier, horrendous dating system, it just shouldn’t be in that game. (0:29:45) Jonnie: That game is about, like, dealing with theories and magical lands, like, I don’t need to date anyone in that game for that story to be told, and then the fact that the marriage candidates just have like bland generic dialogue, zero personality. (0:30:00) Jonnie: It’s just not something that needs to exist, and so I really have come to dislike it in most games because it’s not done with any intentionality. (0:30:10) Jonnie: And I think with this feature in particular, it’s very off-putting to a lot of people, right? (0:30:16) Jonnie: A lot of people, like dating sims as a game genre, are not something that a lot of people want to play. (0:30:22) Jonnie: And I know a couple of people that avoided playing Stardew Valley for a long time because they thought it was a dating game. (0:30:30) Jonnie: And they did not want to play a game, like they didn’t want to have to do that, and the perception was that it was something that had to be done. (0:30:30) Codey: Oh no. (0:30:40) Jonnie: And eventually they tried it, and they were like, “Oh, I didn’t realise that you could, despite being told that it wasn’t really a part of the game.” (0:30:48) Jonnie: And they were like, “Oh, I didn’t realise that you could literally ignore it, and it wouldn’t really lock anything out for you, or it doesn’t lock anything important out for you.” (0:30:56) Jonnie: Um, so I I just kind of wish that (0:31:00) Jonnie: it was something that was approached with a lot more thoughtfulness behind it, other than just it’s now (0:31:09) Codey: yeah I mean I agree I think that I only dislike my major dislike of the cons like whether a game has one or not is if you get something from the marriage system that you wouldn’t otherwise get (0:31:26) Codey: so like I think isn’t it in stardew that you if you don’t complete a certain if you after like a certain time if you haven’t gotten married you don’t you’re not going to be able to (0:31:40) Jonnie: I think getting married does count towards your grandfather’s rating, but I don’t believe there’s a time for it So it might be that if you want to do if you want to do it by the first time grandpa gives you his rating (0:31:44) Codey: Okay. (0:31:55) Jonnie: That I guess technically yes, but there’s no real time lockout on that (0:32:00) Codey: Okay, but still I mean and I think that that’s that’s true of of real life (0:32:09) Codey: Which is like not what I want in my games that I’m gonna disappoint someone if I don’t do XYZ like if I don’t have kids if I don’t have a (0:32:19) Codey: Marriage partner like that some like a family member is gonna be disappointed (0:32:26) Codey: It’s it’s less about like (0:32:28) Codey: you being happy (0:32:30) Codey: and it’s more about like fitting the mold of society and what people think that you should be doing and I think like a lot of the time it perpetuates that and people say like, “oh well who did– what marriage candidate did you pick because you have to pick one, right?” (0:32:48) Codey: and it’s like, “I don’t– I have some big ADHD like– I don’t remember what it’s called but like when people tell me to do something, I’m like, “well now I’m not gonna do it.” (0:33:00) Codey: I can’t make me do Amy. (0:33:04) Codey: But like I see it as a bonus but not like it’s something– it’s like an extra feature that you can do but it’s when you feel like you have to or– or that’s when I’m like, “eh, it’s– it misses me a little bit.” (0:33:22) Jonnie: Yeah, and I mean, there’s a really great example of that, right? Which is in Stardew, the summer festival, the spring dance, right? I think. (0:33:34) Jonnie: Is that what it’s called? The flower dance. (0:33:36) Jonnie: And the fact that that’s like the first one. And I get why, right? Like you’re new to the town, so you don’t have a partner to dance with. (0:33:44) Jonnie: But like, it’s not the greatest feeling in the world when it’s like, yeah, no one here really likes you enough to like, you know, dance with you in this very important way. (0:33:52) Jonnie: Town event, right? Like it’s a little bit of like a, you know, because it does sort of put that like, by the time it rolls around next year, you don’t want to have that that feel bad moment where no one wants to dance. (0:33:53) Codey: Yeah. (0:34:05) Codey: Yeah Yeah, it’s not great (0:34:09) Codey: so I guess like the main takeaway from that would be from that whole like part of the conversation is it’s not necessary in games and (0:34:19) Codey: Even if it isn’t a game it shouldn’t be necessary for you to do or I (0:34:26) Codey: Guess I don’t which I guess it’s not but I don’t I don’t like (0:34:31) Codey: And I thought about this like the the other day cuz I was like (0:34:35) Codey: what other games have I like married people in and legit like the only game I can think of is The Sims. When I would literally make me and whatever person I was interested in at the time I would make us sim characters and then I would get us married within like five minutes of playing the game because like I know how to like talk so that you have enough friendship so that you can flirt so that you can kiss so that you can do other things. (0:35:05) Codey: so that you can get married and it’s just like I just get it out of the way like I don’t care about any of this just get it out of the way it’s just not a part that it’s not something that everyone is interested in so I’m (0:35:22) Jonnie: Yeah, but you’re right, it’s not something that everyone is interested in, and I think this would be a good time to talk about maybe one of the big reasons that everyone is not interested in it is because there’s maybe not a huge diversity in marriage candidates it gives. (0:35:39) Codey: - Yeah. (0:35:42) Codey: Yeah, and that was my next point is that all marriage candidates in games, for the most part, (0:35:48) Codey: but some newer games are getting away from it and I am happy about it. (0:35:52) Codey: But they’re usually young, they’re usually attractive, (0:35:56) Codey: they’ve usually never had a relationship so that they’ll say like, “Oh, you’re my first girlfriend,” (0:36:02) Codey: or “Oh, you know, this is all new for me,” or whatever. (0:36:08) Codey: Like it’s. (0:36:09) Codey: Doesn’t seem like a lot of them have history, like sometimes they’ll have, you’ll have characters like I think we were talking about, was it Clint and Emily? Who’s the other character that Clint likes? (0:36:22) Jonnie: Yeah, Molly, yep. (0:36:23) Codey: How like, you know that he has a crush on her. And so you know that like there is the potential there, but that they aren’t dating. They’re they don’t have history. They’re just friends. And one of them hasn’t has (0:36:39) Codey: Is interested, but won’t speak up. (0:36:43) Codey: So (0:36:44) Jonnie: We can say it. Clintus friggin’ loser. Clintus. (0:36:47) Codey: Don’t be a Clint. (0:36:51) Codey: I mean, and I get like being cautious, but you just you have to shoot your shot. Just get it out there. (0:36:59) Codey: Yeah, I remember listening to that episode and being like, oh wow, Clint actually reminds me a lot of one of my exes who didn’t make a move. (0:37:08) Codey: and it sucked. (0:37:10) Codey: Don’t do that. Don’t do it. (0:37:12) Codey: Especially Disney say, like, “I guess you won. Like, if you start dating her.” That’s disgusting. (0:37:16) Jonnie: Yes, that’s the like a lot of a lot of his initial traits are like understandable, right? (0:37:21) Jonnie: Like it’s fine to have anxiety or fear or uncertainty about it (0:37:26) Jonnie: But like the the treating it like it’s a competition (0:37:30) Jonnie: with a prize is (0:37:32) Jonnie: Gross and pathetic (0:37:36) Codey: um yeah so but they’re all I mean i’m glad that there are flawed characters but like they don’t (0:37:45) Codey: they’re just all kind of a carbon copy it’s like how would a young hot jock look like what would a young hot computer nerd look like what would a young like insert career here (0:37:59) Codey: and then what would they look like you know what maybe this one would have a fun hair color maybe let’s give this one heterochrome. (0:38:06) Codey: you know for giggles like it just there’s like you were saying intention there needs to be intention behind some of these characters and their back stories which as I’ve said some some games are getting good at but for a long time like it just seemed like it was based on like who you think is hot but yeah I guess before we move on to like why people choose marriage candidates (0:38:36) Codey: step of that did you have anything to say about like the lack of diversity in marriage candidates or anything specific (0:38:44) Jonnie: Yeah, I think there’s a few things and like I totally support like, yeah, everyone is (0:38:51) Jonnie: like too young and too attractive, which is kind of like already like a bit odd, (0:38:56) Jonnie: right? Because these are video game characters, they’re not real people, they’re often like pixel art. So doing diversity should be way easier. But also like, gamers are getting older, right? (0:39:11) Jonnie: like I’m I’m sure a lot of people’s parents (0:39:14) Jonnie: at this point try to start you valley right um divorce is surprisingly common right why are there no older characters that can you know be um the marriage candidates like it’s just a lot of you know yeah like you said it’s it’s kind of like as you were talking I was like it kind of reminds me of like really old pro wrestling right where everyone’s gimmick was like you are a wrestler and a dentist or a wrestler and a garbage man and it’s just (0:39:44) Jonnie: like that that feels like the era we’re in for marriage candidates it’s like you are (0:39:49) Jonnie: a nurse and also young and hot and single and all of the all of the old gross people they’re all married so don’t worry about them (0:39:53) Codey: Yeah (0:39:58) Codey: Yeah, or they’re (0:40:01) Codey: not available (0:40:03) Codey: like and someone mentioned to me Harvey, so there’s probably a bunch of people yelling that Harvey (0:40:09) Codey: It’s probably not your traditionally attractive human or whatever (0:40:15) Codey: But I’m gonna be honest I didn’t realize for a very long time that he was a marriage candidate (0:40:21) Codey: Because again, they go with the old (0:40:24) Codey: Or sorry the youngs and so if there’s anyone who looks like they might be a little bit older or someone who is more (0:40:31) Codey: Like progressed into their life because he’s like the whole the whole doctor thing like I (0:40:37) Codey: Do not even I’m like, oh, that’s not one of them because it’s not the young one (0:40:43) Codey: And I will say Stardew Valley is not the one that like started this I’m actually not entirely sure who started started it, but I do (0:40:50) Codey: remember in a (0:40:54) Codey: Which I did play and I also went for Celia like Kev did (0:40:59) Codey: They were all the just the young women in the town (0:41:02) Codey: It’s like do you want the one that helps run the farm the one that helps run the tavern or the rich one? (0:41:10) Codey: That is in the house. And then there was another one that I don’t even remember but yeah (0:41:14) Jonnie: Yeah, and this actually just reminded me of another frustration that I have around (0:41:20) Jonnie: marriage candidates in gaming. It’s actually just like the process of going through it, (0:41:23) Jonnie: right? Because it’s all primarily driven off of giving people gifts, (0:41:29) Jonnie: which is like super lame and super uninspired and kind of super reductive about how, you know, (0:41:36) Jonnie: relationships work, you know, like whether they’re like, you know, romantic or just friendship-based, (0:41:41) Jonnie: how they work in general. (0:41:43) Jonnie: I think there needs to be… (0:41:44) Jonnie: more waiting in these systems towards interacting with the characters in any form, right? (0:41:50) Jonnie: Because occasionally in some games you’ll get a small boost for just talking to them from a friendship point perspective. (0:41:56) Jonnie: But why can’t it be? (0:41:58) Jonnie: If I go to Clint’s shop every day and have him crack open geodes, I don’t know. (0:42:06) Jonnie: I feel like our relationship would improve. (0:42:08) Jonnie: I have a relationship with the people at my local coffee store because I go there every day. (0:42:12) Jonnie: I see them every day, and it’s not like (0:42:14) Jonnie: you know we’re not probably above two hearts but you know we have a rapport right so um I kind of wish that was that there was more diversity in not just the candidates themselves but also (0:42:27) Jonnie: what it was required to form bonds with these people you know um even with uh i’ll stick with stardew because it’s like no one right like a character like leah or elliot they’re very artistic driven characters, maybe you have to have lots of art in you. (0:42:44) Jonnie: It’s something common and that can make you play the game in an actual different way. (0:42:57) Codey: I really like that idea because it is one-sided. It’s like, here are the people you get to pick from, and it doesn’t matter if you’re their type, or you are someone that they would be interested in. (0:43:14) Codey: Like, what if Clint became more interested in you because you clearly mined a lot, and they were like, “Wow, you really like mining, don’t you?” (0:43:24) Codey: like someone you’d fish a lot. (0:43:27) Codey: and you’d go and talk to someone and they’d be like “wow you smell like fish I actually don’t like fishing” (0:43:31) Codey: and so like you almost have to like change… well like I guess like change who you… (0:43:39) Codey: how you play the game to be attractive to those people. (0:43:42) Codey: That would be really interesting. (0:43:45) Codey: Kind of reminds me of… there’s a show… do you watch Love is Blind? (0:43:49) Codey: in the first episode of the most recent season in the American one. (0:43:57) Codey: there’s a person who asks… he has got like a piece of paper and he asks a question of a woman and she says “well what do you think? like what’s your answer?” and he was like “oh I didn’t realize this goes both ways” (0:44:08) Codey: he’s like “I honestly haven’t even thought about my answer” and it’s like “are you kidding me right now?” (0:44:13) Codey: like you thought you were just coming into these pods and talking to these people and that was it? (0:44:13) Jonnie: Wow, that’s amazing. (0:44:18) Codey: like getting there and then you get to pick like that. (0:44:22) Codey: that you also need to this is a two-way street by guy um (0:44:27) Codey: yeah no I think like if it was like that where you know how you play the game what you do in the game maybe decisions you make in the game like if you go the jojo route like someone is like (0:44:38) Codey: automatically like nope not interested in you um that would be really interesting um (0:44:44) Jonnie: Yeah, I agree. And if you do go to the JoJo route, all of a sudden Shane’s like, “Yo, what up? It’s me, Shane.” (0:44:49) Codey: yeah exactly he notices you more so I asked this is actually transitions around (0:44:50) Jonnie: laughs Ahhh. (0:44:57) Codey: really well into the next part that I wanted to talk about which is how people why people choose the marriage candidates that they do like what what makes you choose whoever you chose blah blah um and I asked this I was I was recording I was researching for this podcast like looking at different marriage candidates for different games and like trying to figure out which ones I thought were the most compelling um and I was in a room of other entomology graduate students And someone like looked over at my screen and they’re like, wait, start without. (0:45:28) Codey: And everyone was like, starting Valley. (0:45:30) Codey: And so I was like, Hey guys, like, I actually have a question for you. (0:45:33) Codey: Why do you choose the people that you choose? (0:45:36) Codey: Um, and some of the answers that I got were, um, things like if they have a compelling backstory or, uh, vibes, um, like he just looks magical talking about Elliott, um, perfect gentlemen, um, seems nice. (0:45:52) Codey: Someone said that they’ve never chosen anyone. (0:45:54) Codey: They’ve played the game for five years, and… (0:45:57) Codey: They have just never done the marriage. (0:46:00) Codey: And actually multiple people were like, “I’ve just not done it. (0:46:03) Codey: Not interested.” (0:46:04) Codey: Which was really interesting to me, that there are, you know, I always, from playing the game and talking to people, I always feel like a lot of other, like the majority of people are choosing people and doing the whole marriage route, but it’s from that discussion with 20 entomology students, I was surprised. (0:46:27) Codey: So, yeah, I guess like, Johnny, do you know, before I like kind of talk about what I, why I think people choose marriage candidates, do you have any, like, like, why would you go after, you know, now that we’ve gone through, okay, marriage candidacy exists, okay, they’re all young and hot, they shouldn’t be, but like, past all of that and assuming that all of that is true and knowing all of that is true, like, how do you choose someone in these games? (0:46:53) Jonnie: So I feel like the way I choose someone in this game is based off of like if someone who knows me walked in and saw me playing and would be like oh you chose that character I want them to say that makes sense right like so it’s more about how I think other people see me and kind of just picking someone that’s like yeah that makes sense like I could see that you would pick that right so like this aren’t you like most people when I have this conversation they’re Like, you obviously picked Larry, and I’m like… (0:47:08) Codey: Okay. (0:47:13) Codey: My gosh. (0:47:23) Jonnie: Yes, you are correct. Like, right? (0:47:27) Codey: So is that because she aligns with who you would go for in the real? (0:47:31) Jonnie: I think it aligns with people’s perception of who I would go for in the real. (0:47:35) Jonnie: Which, there’s different overlap, right? (0:47:37) Jonnie: Like, of my preference, but it’s the reductive sort of, you know, version, right? (0:47:44) Jonnie: So, like, and part of it’s like, I’m not interested in using a game like this for me personally to explore uh, why I may or may not. (0:47:53) Jonnie: I might be interested in certain types, right, of people, like that’s, for me, that’s something that I do in the real world so it’s kind of like a little bit of like a path of least resistance, you know, yeah. (0:47:55) Codey: Yeah. (0:48:00) Codey: Yeah. (0:48:05) Codey: Okay. (0:48:06) Codey: Yeah, I think that that’s so that’s what it seems to boil down to for like people that I talked to and also just thinking about it then then hearing people talk about it is it’s either people are either trying like if they do are choosing a marriage candidate they’re not being that group of well I don’t want to even have Choose a marriage candidate. They usually either (0:48:25) Codey: are going for someone that they would go for in the real. (0:48:31) Codey: Someone who might be similar to their partner if they have one. (0:48:36) Codey: I know, you know, Al had talked about how he has Rona. (0:48:39) Codey: Like he was already married to Rona when he started playing the game. (0:48:44) Codey: I actually don’t remember if he talked about if Hailey is similar to Rona or the other person that Emily, I don’t remember if either of those are similar to Rona. (0:48:55) Codey: I found that like for me, for some games, like I go for someone and then I realize, oh my gosh, this is my partner actually. (0:49:03) Codey: Now that I’m starting to get to know this person more, like I gravitated towards them, but, um, and then I’ve also had it be like, Oh, this is like the classic. (0:49:11) Codey: Again, like you’re saying, like people would be like, this is who you went for. (0:49:14) Codey: Right. (0:49:14) Codey: And I was like, yes, you’re right. (0:49:17) Codey: Um, there are people, I mean, there’s definitely people cause this is an escapism game who might go for something completely wild. (0:49:25) Codey: Um, or fantastical, you know, like go for the person that they wouldn’t normally go for, maybe not to see how it would work out in real cause this is not real life. (0:49:34) Codey: Um, but it might, for me at least it did inform, it did make me look inward and be like, dear God, why am I making the choices that I’m making? (0:49:46) Codey: And I need to reevaluate myself. (0:49:47) Codey: Um, so, huh? (0:49:48) Jonnie: But that’s just all choices in your life, right? (0:49:51) Jonnie: That’s just all choices, you’re like, “Why? Why am I making these?” (0:49:55) Codey: Correct. (0:49:56) Codey: Um, yeah. (0:49:59) Codey: Uh, so yeah, I guess, well, I’d say here, I will tell, I will tell the anecdote of, (0:50:01) Jonnie: Just getting the date cuts in. (0:50:06) Codey: so as similar to you, as I was researching this, I realized I I’ve been doing this subconscious thing, um, for a really long time that I didn’t even realize I was doing, where I am. (0:50:25) Codey: kind of judging everyone based on the Stardew candidate that I chose and didn’t like in real life. (0:50:35) Codey: And why, thinking about why I chose them. (0:50:38) Codey: So when I first played this game, many moons ago, I was younger then. (0:50:45) Codey: I went in Stardew for Sebastian. (0:50:51) Codey: I didn’t care a hoot about his story. (0:50:54) Codey: I was just like, oh my god. (0:50:55) Codey: gosh, there’s an emo boy. (0:50:57) Codey: I want to date the emo boy, which was very much me in real life. (0:51:02) Codey: I always went for the more alternative looking guys, the more– (0:51:08) Codey: and I say guys, but I am pan. (0:51:13) Codey: But I am too shy to go for women and have not been single in a time where I would be dating a not- (0:51:25) Codey: binary human though I have crushes on a couple non-binary people but I am happily in a relationship but we’re getting off track so I went for Sebastian because I was like oh my gosh it’s an emo boy I can be with an emo boy that’s amazing and then as you talk to him like he’s really kind of dismissive like very one-word answers to you in the beginning of your guys’s conversations And honestly it rung true. I was like I always (0:51:55) Codey: in the real in real like in high school I would go for like the alternative looking guys and they would drip feed me like social interactions and I would just take it and be like “he smiled at me when I gave him something oh my gosh” (0:52:12) Codey: and it’s like has nothing to do with it like doesn’t mean he likes me but I was just like oh my gosh this person that I want to be with like blah blah blah Meanwhile, I had people who were genuinely good. (0:52:25) Codey: And then I ended up, you know, as you, as you progress in Sebastian’s story, I get spoilers for Sebastian’s story, um, he ends up marrying you or you end up marrying him and then, and I also like remember him being like really into the city and really into motorcycles and I was like, well, I don’t want to live in the city and I don’t like motorcycles, but this is, but this is the alternative guy. (0:52:51) Codey: This is, but this is the alternative guy. (0:52:55) Codey: into him who he actually was. (0:52:57) Codey: It’s just into the fact that he was the alternative guy. (0:53:00) Codey: And then you marry him. (0:53:02) Codey: And I remember going home. (0:53:03) Codey: First of all, it’s like very similar where he’s just in the house all day. (0:53:07) Codey: Kind of like you were saying about Coral Island, (0:53:09) Codey: which makes me very sad about Coral Island. (0:53:11) Codey: And I came home and I got this text. (0:53:14) Codey: And I went through all of his like dialogue to find this. (0:53:19) Codey: And he said, “I did some work on the laptop today. (0:53:21) Codey: I was actually brainstorming some ideas a game I want to make. (0:53:25) Codey: If you’re farming income, I can afford to do what I want with my life. (0:53:28) Codey: It’s pretty amazing. (0:53:29) Codey: Thank you. (0:53:30) Codey: And I read this and I was like, this freeloading piece of poop, like, are you serious? (0:53:36) Codey: He’s not doing anything? (0:53:38) Codey: And I don’t, I don’t think he actually helps you on the farm at all. (0:53:42) Codey: There are some things that he says to you that are really like encouraging or he’s like, (0:53:46) Codey: you’re doing so good. (0:53:47) Codey: I love you. (0:53:48) Codey: Like you’re awesome. (0:53:49) Codey: But like, he doesn’t, he just becomes a bum. (0:53:52) Codey: He just becomes a bum in your house. (0:53:55) Codey: - Which I guess is just what happens to all of these people, but I just thought, (0:53:59) Codey: I was just like, I just thought it was Sebastian. (0:54:03) Codey: So then I looked at it, I like looked internally in my brain, in my heart and was like, (0:54:11) Codey: that makes sense actually. (0:54:12) Codey: Like it makes sense to me that people in real li

Al and Codey talk about Coral Island Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:24: What Have We Been Up To 00:12:15: News 00:40:54: Coral Island 01:22:03: Outro Links Previous Coral Island Episode Research Story 0.7 Update Len’s Island Companions and Languages Update Song of the Prairie 0.7 Update Snacko Accessibility Settings Update Sancko Roadmap Paleo Pines 1.2.28 Update To Pixelia Alpha Update Ova Magica End of year Update Super Raft Boy Together x Turnip Boy Stadew Valley New Year Screenshot Piczel Cross: Story of Seasons Tales of Seikyu on Steam Tales of Seikyu on Kickstarter Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al (0:00:36) Codey: And my name is Cody! (0:00:38) Al: and we’re here today to talk about farming games. (0:00:42) Codey: Woo! (0:00:43) Al: Ah, hey Cody, we’re we’re gonna talk about… (0:00:51) Al: I don’t know whether it’s just Discord is is really out of sync or not, (0:00:54) Codey: Get it (0:00:54) Al: but I feel like you’re as delayed as Johnny is just now. (0:00:57) Al: Okay. (0:00:57) Codey: No, I I definitely am responding right after you say it (0:01:00) Al: Fair enough, well, we’re experimenting with new ways of doing things, listeners. (0:01:03) Codey: So there’s just a delay (0:01:07) Al: So we’ll see how that goes, but it appears that the current way we’re doing it is very delayed. (0:01:19) Al: So this is going to be the second harvest of Coral Island. (0:01:24) Al: So we did an episode, I think, quite early on in the early access. (0:01:28) Codey: Mm-hmm, you had Bev on. (0:01:29) Al: I can’t even remember who that was. (0:01:33) Al: Okay, it was me and Bev, that’s fine. (0:01:37) Al: So obviously now it is in 1.0, so we wanted to revisit it. (0:01:44) Al: And obviously, I have some different thoughts on it. (0:01:49) Al: Obviously, people know my overall thoughts if they listen to the Game of the Year episode. (0:01:55) Al: But we wanted to get in a bit more detail about some of the specific things. (0:01:59) Al: and Cordy has no play to do as well. (0:02:00) Al: Not as much as me, but I suspect that’s most people haven’t played it as much as me. (0:02:05) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:02:06) Al: So we’ll see how that goes. (0:02:09) Codey: Mm-hmm, I I feel like it it was robbed like it should have been (0:02:13) Al: Oh, interesting. (0:02:16) Al: Well, I agree, but what can you do? (0:02:22) Al: Before that, we have some news, quite a bit of news. (0:02:25) Al: But first of all, Cordy, what have you been up to? (0:02:28) Codey: Um, I have been up to the holiday break from my PhD, but I’ve actually been doing a lot of work during the holiday break, um, because I’m going to Oregon, which is where I’m from. (0:02:43) Codey: I’m going there for two weeks, um, here in about a week. (0:02:48) Codey: So I was just trying to get a lot of work done so that I can go home and just relax, (0:02:52) Codey: which is nice. (0:02:53) Codey: Um, but I have been playing Coral Island, surprise, surprise. (0:02:58) Codey: Um, and Palia, which I’m really enjoying, uh, the initial thoughts are good and, uh, (0:03:02) Al: Hmm. Do you want to share any initial thoughts on Palia or do you want to general? (0:03:10) Codey: I’m excited to possibly, I don’t know, may have talk about it sometime soon. (0:03:15) Al: What? I don’t know what you’re talking about. (0:03:21) Codey: Yeah. (0:03:21) Codey: What, what about you? (0:03:22) Codey: I’ll, what have you been up to? (0:03:23) Al: Yeah, I have also been up to, you know, Christmas and stuff, but now back at work and kids are back at school. It feels weird because I’ve not podcasted in quite a while, despite there being episodes every week. It was before Christmas that we did the last episode recording. That was the one that I slept through. (0:03:39) Codey: Which you didn’t mention in the podcast itself. (0:03:45) Al: Of course, I didn’t mention that. I wasn’t going to mention that. I was already, I was still grumpy about it. We were meant to be recording for the listeners. We were meant to be recording at 5am my time and I set an alarm for 4.45 and I was like, “Do I need multiple?” I normally set multiple alarms and then I always wake up with the first alarm. So, I’m not going to set multiple alarms this time because it’s just pointless. And then I woke up without an alarm and went, “Uh-oh, (0:04:15) Al: I’ve woken up naturally. There is no way I haven’t missed this podcast recording if I’m waking up naturally.” And I looked at the time and it was, of course, 7am. So, I had missed entirely the time that we were meant to be recording. So, I got back on and, of course, Cody had gone to bed because it was 2am Cody time. So, of course, you had gone to bed. Johnny was still up, though, because he is on the other side of the world. And then I was like, “Oh, do we try and rearrange?” Because this This was what the 23rd 22nd? (0:04:21) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:04:45) Al: 22nd of December? (0:04:47) Al: Like it was basically our last chance to record before Christmas. (0:04:50) Al: And then after Christmas, Johnny was going away on holiday. (0:04:53) Al: And like, obviously it’s the time between Christmas and New Year is not a good time to be recording a podcast. (0:04:59) Al: So I was like, well, let’s just do it, Johnny. (0:05:01) Al: Let’s just record. (0:05:02) Al: So I recorded that episode just before work and it was very much time boxed because I had my morning meeting, which we had to get done, obviously. (0:05:12) Al: So I think we had like an hour and a half at the absolute most. (0:05:15) Al: For both the main and greenhouse recording. (0:05:18) Codey: Well, you got it done. Yeah, I tried to stay up. It was almost one o’clock here. And I was so tired. And Johnny was trying to ask me questions about Palia because we were talking about Palia at that time. But my brain was just so like it just kept stuttering. And like I couldn’t form words. (0:05:38) Codey: And I was like, even if Al were to show up right now, I don’t think I could do this. So I was like, (0:05:46) Codey: Either you guys just record or Al can read. (0:05:48) Codey: I’m gonna go bed. I woke up and saw that y’all had recorded it. But… I mean the… (0:06:01) Al: So, apologies listeners for the lack of a Cody episode, but we’re making up for it (0:06:08) Codey: Well the games that I was excited about were mostly Palia and then also Tales of the Shire which I’m doing a second harvest on. I’m putting it here first. I’m back! (0:06:16) Al: Hmm. (0:06:18) Codey: I gave it a second harvest. So… whoever else wants to do the second harvest with me can fight for it because… (0:06:28) Al: I think we know it’s Bev, right? Bev’s already bagged that one as well. I don’t think we have had a game where we’ve had four people fighting over the episode for that game. (0:06:31) Codey: Yeah. (0:06:35) Codey: Oh okay cool. Yeah. (0:06:43) Codey: So I was doing dishes when I was listening to the episode and like I heard… (0:06:48) Codey: you say like “I’m doing it” and then clearly Johnny’s doing it because he’s like from New Zealand. He’s friends with the developer etc etc and I like heard you say that you’re bagging it and I like was like “No!” and I like started washing my hand like drying my hands off furiously so I could text furiously on the slack and then like as I’m like washing my hands and grabbing my phone you’re like “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know other people are probably really excited to do that game (0:07:16) Codey: but I’m calling it and I was just like… (0:07:18) Codey: so grumpy. It was so fun though. (0:07:21) Codey: I’m excited to play that game and hear about it. (0:07:24) Al: I mean, maybe we should try and do our first four-person episode, what do you think? (0:07:31) Codey: That would be a thing, wouldn’t it? (0:07:38) Al: Yeah. (0:07:38) Codey: Or just have two simultaneous episodes. (0:07:42) Al: Mm-hmm. (0:07:42) Codey: Have the greenhouse be other two people. (0:07:46) Codey: Anyway, yeah. (0:07:48) Al: Just record two separate middle sections and stick them together. (0:07:49) Codey: Anyway, I’ll… what have you been up to? (0:07:54) Al: That sounds like it would either be an amazing idea or an absolutely dreadful idea. (0:08:00) Al: Did we not do something a while ago which was just like everybody recorded like a 10 minute thing on something and I smooshed them all together? (0:08:06) Codey: Yeah, wasn’t that… (0:08:08) Al: It kind of worked but it was also so much work. (0:08:10) Codey: Yeah, I was gonna say wasn’t that not fun to record? (0:08:13) Al: I think it was fine to record because everybody was doing it individually. (0:08:16) Codey: Right, sorry edit. I mean edit. Wasn’t it not fun to edit? (0:08:18) Al: Yeah. (0:08:21) Al: It was definitely the longest, the most amount of time I’ve spent editing an episode and considering the episode was less than an hour long and I’ve edited three hour long episodes, (0:08:33) Al: That’s, you know, that’s a lot, that’s impressive. (0:08:34) Codey: Yeah. (0:08:37) Codey: Yikes. (0:08:38) Al: All right, anyway, we’re gonna talk about some news. (0:08:40) Codey: Wonder what, yeah, what, yeah. (0:08:40) Al: Wait, I didn’t actually say what I’ve been playing. (0:08:42) Al: I’ve been playing Super Mario RPG, which turns out I don’t like. (0:08:49) Al: I think I figured out that I’m not a fan of games anymore where combat, (0:08:55) Al: like you go from the overworld to another place to battle. (0:09:00) Al: Because I don’t even like that in Pokémon anymore. (0:09:02) Al: It just annoys me, like just taking you out of the… (0:09:05) Al: It feels like - I know it’s not, because it’s - (0:09:08) Al: It’s still the game, but it feels like it’s taking me out of the game into another game at that point. (0:09:12) Al: And it just - I feel like I’m just at the point where I’m like, I don’t like that anymore, and I don’t want that. (0:09:18) Al: And therefore, I don’t think I like turn-based games anymore, because I don’t think it’s possible to do a turn-based game without doing that. (0:09:26) Codey: Yeah, I don’t think I’d like that either. (0:09:30) Codey: I also don’t really like turn-based games. (0:09:33) Al: Well, I used to say I only like turn-based games, right? Because like Pokemon was my thing and that was all it was. But I think at this point, I just, I don’t, I don’t want to like, I don’t want battles like that, right? And I like action adventure games where your battle is like joined into the overworld experience and you can just run away if you want. You don’t have to like get into this separate (0:10:03) Al: weird world that exists. Yeah, I don’t have to add whatever. I feel like I’ve explained that enough. I’m not a huge fan of it. So I’m not going to finish that. But I also playing Luigi’s Mansion 3, which I am enjoying. That is a very good game. (0:10:06) Codey: Yeah. Yep. (0:10:17) Codey: I couldn’t, so I tried to play the first Luigi’s Mansion and I did not get very far because I remember getting stuck on something and just being really grumpy about it. (0:10:26) Al: Hmm. Hmm. I’ve gotten to the point where with games, because I mean it’s essentially a puzzle game, right? I’ve gotten to the point where with puzzle games, if I’m annoyed with something, (0:10:27) Codey: But I could see how it could be a good game. (0:10:30) Codey: Right. (0:10:31) Codey: Yeah. (0:10:32) Codey: I’m sorry. (0:10:39) Al: just just just Google it. Right? Like I’m I’m if I’m enjoying the game in general, (0:10:45) Al: and there’s a specific thing that I’m stuck on, and I’m annoyed by it. What’s the point in continuing like the three options one continue to be annoyed to quit the game three Google it. (0:10:56) Al: And continue enjoying the game that you’re actually enjoying like it’s a no brainer to me now. (0:11:02) Codey: Yeah, I try. (0:11:04) Codey: So like there are some people though. (0:11:06) Codey: So there are some people that do that play games and they Google it immediately. (0:11:10) Codey: They like just, they’re like, (0:11:11) Codey: I don’t know where to find this. (0:11:12) Codey: And I’m like, you’re not even trying. (0:11:14) Codey: Like you’re not even trying to explore the world. (0:11:17) Codey: You’re not, you don’t look at the quest log where the quest log says exactly where the thing is. (0:11:22) Codey: This is something I’ve seen in Palia, (0:11:24) Codey: that people like on the, (0:11:24) Al: - Wow, just goodness me. (0:11:27) Codey: yeah, some people like on the MMO, like chat will be like, (0:11:31) Codey: where is this thing? (0:11:32) Codey: And I’m like, it’s literally in the quest log. (0:11:34) Codey: It tells you where to go. (0:11:36) Codey: So, but I agree. (0:11:37) Codey: Like I, if I can’t figure something out, (0:11:38) Al: Just say my name next time, Cody. (0:11:44) Codey: if I, if I like, (0:11:47) Codey: cannot, genuinely cannot figure it out, (0:11:49) Codey: that’s when I’ll Google it. (0:11:51) Codey: But other than that, (0:11:52) Codey: I’m not just gonna Google it immediately. (0:11:54) Al: Yeah, I think there’s different kind of tolerance levels, I would say, for these things, and do what you will. (0:12:04) Al: Whatever. (0:12:05) Al: Right. (0:12:06) Al: We’re on the same page. (0:12:08) Al: All great. (0:12:09) Al: Fantastic. (0:12:09) Codey: Yay! (0:12:10) Al: Lovely. (0:12:10) Codey: Woo! (0:12:11) Al: Right. (0:12:11) Codey: Woo! (0:12:12) Al: That’s what we’ve been up to. (0:12:13) Al: Shall we talk about some news? (0:12:13) Codey: Woo! (0:12:14) Codey: Woo! (0:12:17) Al: This is the first one’s Yours Cody research story. (0:12:21) Al: The 0.7 creatures and caves update. (0:12:23) Al: Have you looked into this? (0:12:24) Codey: Uh, other than this click, like clicking this link, no. (0:12:30) Codey: So the big issue that I have with some of these games when they’re, when they’re on steam or whatever is if they’re windows only, like in order to play them, I have to come into this very specific room of my house, which is the podcast recording room as well, which is fine, but it’s a room that I don’t cut, like it’s because of my ADHD, it’s like out of sight, out of mind. (0:12:51) Codey: Like I pass it every day, but I never go into it. (0:12:53) Codey: It has a lot of specimens. (0:12:54) Codey: It’s a lot of stuff that I’m trying to avoid, so I don’t come here very often. (0:12:59) Codey: I haven’t really been playing any games that require Windows specific on Steam, unfortunately. (0:13:06) Codey: This is really cute. This update looks really cute. (0:13:10) Codey: It has new things that you can research. (0:13:13) Codey: I think it was four creatures and some plants and some fish. (0:13:17) Codey: A new festival and they said that there’s a new creature behavior. (0:13:24) Codey: I blurbed this part that says, “During certain behaviors such as foraging and hiding, creatures will not be interested in players’ feed bowls. (0:13:35) Codey: Wait for the creature to start wandering again before attempting to tame them.” (0:13:38) Codey: That makes sense. If they’re foraging or if they’re scared and they’re hiding, they’re not going to be interested in what you’re trying to bait them with. (0:13:49) Codey: I think that’s really cool because it’s true to life as well. (0:13:56) Codey: I literally have a paper coming out about this, about how if you put out an attractive trap when there’s a lot of flowers, you’re not going to catch very much. (0:14:07) Codey: They don’t give a crap about your trap. There’s flowers everywhere. They’re not coming to you. (0:14:11) Codey: This is about bees. I like that. I like that a lot. (0:14:17) Al: Isn’t everything? (0:14:18) Codey: What about you? Have you done anything with research stories? (0:14:23) Al: No, no, I don’t. I don’t own it. I was going to say, Cody, there is a solution to your problem with needing to go on to your Windows computer. (0:14:31) Al: It is a solution that costs money, but that is by a steam debt. (0:14:34) Codey: Well, if the podcast wants to send me a Steam Deck, I will, I will, if a, if a listener wants to buy me a Steam Deck, then I will play these on the couch forever and I will cover anything people want me to cover. (0:14:42) Al: The podcast can’t even afford to buy me a steam deck. I had to buy that myself. You’re waiting quite a while. (0:15:01) Codey: Yeah, so I mean. (0:15:04) Codey: Research story cool. It’s cool to see that they’re continuing. (0:15:06) Al: Feels like a dangerous thing to say, Cody. (0:15:07) Codey: I know it’s cool that they’re like continuing to develop it and it’s continues to be something that we talk about. (0:15:15) Codey: I really like that. (0:15:16) Codey: There are some games that I was excited about or have covered before that just kind of drop off the radar, but this is cool to see. (0:15:22) Codey: Bye. (0:15:22) Al: Yep, awesome sauce. So if you’re enjoying that go, go play it. Go download the update. (0:15:28) Codey: Do it. (0:15:30) Al: Speaking of games that you have played, Cody, that have updates, here’s Lens Island as well with the companions and languages update. We did know about this update before. We knew there was adding a bunch of languages, but we had absolutely no idea what the companions part of that was. But we now know that you can have pet companions, including dogs, cats, (0:15:38) Codey: Mhm. (0:15:48) Al: wolves and tigers. (0:15:50) Codey: Mm-hmm. I also still am continuously wanting clarity on Simplified Chinese. (0:15:58) Codey: Um, because of what you discussed last time, like I don’t really know what they mean by that, (0:16:05) Codey: but it’s whatever. Uh, the companions are really cool. I’m really excited to play this again. This is a game that I have on my, uh, Mac. And since I’m going on holiday for two weeks, (0:16:15) Codey: this is something that is on our, this and Palia are the two things that are on my radar to (0:16:20) Codey: pick up again and get caught back up with. Um, the pet companions are really cool. So yeah, (0:16:25) Codey: dog, cat, wolf, and tiger. And, um, each of them are findable or tame-able during different times of the game. So like, for example, they mentioned that the dog is, uh, unlocked after you defeat the first dungeon, which is really cool. And they also have purposes. So it’s not just, um, (0:16:43) Codey: aesthetic. Uh, they’ll actually do things. So like dogs and cats can retrieve items for you. (0:16:48) Codey: Um, thank you. (0:16:50) Codey: They mentioned that the wolf and the tiger will like fight with you. (0:16:52) Codey: Like they’ll just be a part of your attack team. (0:16:56) Codey: Um, so yeah, I, I liked that a lot. (0:16:59) Codey: Uh, I am curious to know if you can customize the skin of the dog or the cat, because I do want to make my dog in every game. (0:17:09) Codey: So yeah. (0:17:12) Codey: Have you played lens Island at all? (0:17:13) Al: Fair enough. I played Lens Island for about 10 minutes, right when it first released, (0:17:13) Codey: Yeah. (0:17:14) Codey: Yeah. (0:17:14) Codey: Yeah. (0:17:20) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:17:20) Al: when it had no controller support, and I tried to use like a mapping to the mouse and keyboard sort of stuff, and it did not work really well. And I went, “I will come back to this when they add controller support.” And they now have controller support, but I’ve still not gone back yet. So I do plan to play it again at some point. I feel like it’s forever in the list of games. (0:17:43) Al: Is that we want to cover a– (0:17:45) Al: did we cover it eventually, or did we not? (0:17:46) Codey: We covered it once, so Bev and I talked about it once, (0:17:51) Codey: like right when it came out, (0:17:52) Codey: and it had the bare minimum at that point. (0:17:55) Codey: So it has come so far since then. (0:17:58) Codey: There’s so much more to it. (0:17:59) Codey: I haven’t played since all of that stuff changed, (0:18:01) Codey: so I’m really excited to rejoin the game and see all of the different things that they’ve added to it, (0:18:07) Codey: because I think when I did it, (0:18:09) Codey: there was only like three or four different crops that you could plant, and it was really simple, (0:18:13) Codey: And there was just the one dungeon. (0:18:16) Codey: And I mean, I was pretty far in it, but I hadn’t even fully explored that yet. (0:18:22) Codey: Um, there, it was just so simple and now it’s a lot more built out. (0:18:28) Codey: So I’m really excited to play it again. (0:18:31) Codey: So we should cover it again. (0:18:32) Al: Yeah, so it looks like it’s start… Yeah, definitely. It looks like it came out in early access in 2021. So it’s over two years now since it went into early access. Now, to be fair, their early access stuff, which they had to put up at the beginning, does say it will come out of early access between late 2023 and early 2024. So they aren’t late based on their own schedule. But I haven’t seen anything about whether that’s still the schedule or not, because that would assume it’s happening in the next few months. (0:18:52) Codey: Mm-hmm, yeah. (0:19:02) Al: And I haven’t seen anything about that. (0:19:02) Codey: I mean they’re still putting stuff out. (0:19:04) Al: Oh wait, no, no, no, I did. I did. (0:19:07) Al: They put the roadmap up. (0:19:09) Al: We talked about this last year. (0:19:11) Al: The roadmap says the final release will come out in July. (0:19:14) Codey: There you go, that’s that’s probably when we’ll cover it then cool (0:19:18) Al: Yeah. (0:19:19) Al: I can’t recover too much stuff that I just forget about these things. (0:19:23) Codey: Yeah (0:19:24) Al: Also, no, don’t say that, Cody. (0:19:25) Al: That’s not… (0:19:26) Al: We’re not saying that’s when we’ll cover it. (0:19:27) Al: I’m not promising that. (0:19:29) Codey: We’ll cover it sometime after July (0:19:32) Al: This is a dangerous time. (0:19:33) Codey: After July, I’m sure we’ll cover it at some point (0:19:35) Al: Maybe. (0:19:37) Al: Maybe. (0:19:40) Al: So I have Googled and some Chinese people have said that generally when people say Chinese, (0:19:47) Al: they’re referring to Mandarin, not Cantonese. (0:19:48) Codey: Okay. Okay. (0:19:50) Codey: Okay. (0:19:50) Al: So when they say simplified Chinese, what they’re meaning is Mandarin in simplified character. (0:19:56) Al: But I just, I feel like stop saying Chinese because like that’s not a language. (0:20:02) Codey: okay grumble grumble grumble (0:20:03) Al: Grumble, grumble. (0:20:07) Al: Song of the Prairie. (0:20:09) Al: Speaking of updates with 0.7 updates. (0:20:12) Al: No, speaking of games with 0.7 updates. (0:20:15) Al: Don’t know why this is the 0.7 update episode. (0:20:19) Al: But there we go. (0:20:21) Al: Song of the Prairie have a 0.7 update out. (0:20:23) Al: I didn’t actually read through this, did I? (0:20:25) Al: Added sec… (0:20:27) Al: Oh yes, yes. (0:20:28) Al: Yes. Yeah. So it’s mostly like small stuff, but they’ve added what they’ve called. (0:20:32) Al: The second homeland, which interestingly is like the 18th thing they mentioned on this list, right? (0:20:38) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:20:39) Al: The first seven are bugs. The next 10 are adjustments and optimizations. And then they finally talk about the fact that they’ve added a whole new area in the game as the 18th thing on the list. (0:20:52) Codey: Yeah, got to get those bugs out though, got to like mention what you’ve been working on and what you’ve been fixing before you can talk about what you’ve added. (0:20:59) Al: It’s just like some of these are like such random tiny things as well and you’re like maybe put the fact that you’ve added a whole new whole new region up at the top. (0:21:10) Codey: No, no, no priorities (0:21:12) Al: Dear, I’ve not played this game, you’ve not played this game. (0:21:21) Codey: Nope (0:21:22) Al: There’s a bunch of extra stuff, I don’t know, do we care about the extra stuff? (0:21:24) Codey: I just Like literally glanced through it and was like I see haircuts. I see a water balloon festival. I see romantic events cool (0:21:32) Al: Oh well, but a game I will play, and I suspect most people will play, is Snacko. They have come out with a, I mean, let’s, okay, so let’s start out with, they are absolutely smashing through updates. Like, I’m pretty sure I saw that they released an update on Christmas day, right? Like, their updates are coming thick and fast all over the place. So I think We certainly know what they’re– (0:21:33) Codey: Like I’m still not gonna play it. So [laughs] (0:22:02) Al: their plan is. (0:22:02) Al: But yeah, so there’s two things that most of it is like, here’s a new update with some bug fixes, right, fine, okay. (0:22:13) Al: But they have two specific ones I want to call out. (0:22:15) Al: The first is they had an update with some more accessibility settings, which is good. (0:22:21) Al: So this is just an example of how you can listen to people and actually change things based on their things. (0:22:28) Al: So they’ve added an ability to change the. (0:22:32) Al: Like saturation and contrast in the game. (0:22:35) Al: So if you have some eyesight issues and this helps, that’s great. (0:22:41) Al: Um, and secondly, they’ve released a roadmap, um, with, so they’ve said that these are roughly in the order. (0:22:50) Al: They will release them in, but not certain, but they’ve kind of given four (0:22:55) Al: updates that are going to come out. (0:22:57) Al: one of which is the gamepad support update which is (0:23:02) Al: obviously one that I’m very much looking forward to the progression update which includes house upgrades and tool upgrades the feature update which includes a bunch of stuff including the mines and festivals but also new shrines and buildables and marriage or which they’re calling bonding and the final one is the optimization improving stability improving performance. So I think assuming that that is the– (0:23:32) Al: or do they come out? That’s a good order for them to come out because we talked about this last year sometime where I was like, so often in early access, they leave the final update with this massive feature coming out that nobody has ever tested. And so they still end up in a situation where their 1.0 version is buggy. And it doesn’t sound like they’re going to be doing that. (0:23:52) Codey: I saw three things that I really liked in this news point. (0:23:58) Codey: So my first one is that the accessibility update is 0.9.05284, love that. (0:24:08) Codey: It’s great, that’s a great version number. (0:24:12) Codey: And then I loved how they said, (0:24:15) Codey: meow low in the roadmap post, that was very cute. (0:24:21) Codey: and then on the road map. (0:24:22) Codey: Sure, that pie looks really good, but no, I think this all looks sounds really good. (0:24:28) Al: Okay. (0:24:30) Codey: No, I think this all sounds really good. So, so similar to so similar to like House in Song of the Prairie. It’s like, cool, they’re adding stuff doesn’t matter. Not going to play it. (0:24:39) Codey: This is the opposite where I’m like, cool, they’re adding stuff. I’m still going to play it. Like, (0:24:44) Codey: this changes. Not much. Like, I’m like, uh-huh, just take your time. This looks good. (0:24:51) Codey: Excited for the final. (0:24:52) Codey: Good job, Eloise. (0:24:56) Codey: No wait, Arisa. It’s Arisa. (0:25:00) Al: Yup, mixing up your indie farming game devs. (0:25:04) Codey: I did. Eloise is lemon cake. Right? Cozy Bee Games. Yeah. Cool. (0:25:10) Al: Correct. (0:25:13) Codey: I know all, I mean, we just know all these people by name. I mean, there’s also Elle from Apico. (0:25:19) Codey: I mean, they’re all, I just know them all by their first name. They just get them all mixed up. (0:25:23) Codey: Because they all start with E. Okay, that’s it. I’m done. (0:25:28) Al: I feel like I need to talk about the version number thing because I’m about to complain about Paleopine’s version number so fine sure I’ll complain. Snacko feels so close to being like a good numbering system because clearly what they’ve done right is they’ve taken their build number 5284 and they’ve put that in the version number. Great. Why have we got this random 0.9.0 at the beginning? That has been the same for all of their versions so far. The first version that came out, (0:25:53) Al: Let me just double check the exact number just to make sure that I’m not giving you incorrect. (0:25:58) Al: Well, possibly. I’m not guaranteeing that, right? I bet it’s going to be 0.9.0 or some number. (0:26:07) Codey: But you bet it started with 0.9. (0:26:19) Codey: I love the underscore. I love how there’s points and then underscores. That’s just I love that chef’s kiss (0:26:24) Al: you just love it because it annoys me yeah I can’t see any other very (0:26:28) Al: person over before zero point nine point zero underscore four nine five six so snacko sort out your version numbers just use the if you just just use the build number right it’s fine like I don’t know why I don’t I don’t know (0:26:38) Codey: No, no, no. You do what you like. (0:26:45) Codey: You do what works for you, Arisa. (0:26:47) Al: I don’t know so like at the at the very least put it zero point nine point build number right why is there the zero there that is unnecessary because the whole point of that one. (0:26:58) Al: It’s because it’s like a patch update, but your patch updates you’re using as the build number after the underscore. (0:27:04) Al: I wasn’t going to mention it, and then you brought it up. (0:27:06) Al: I was obviously just so riled up. (0:27:08) Codey: We’ll continue to be riled up out because these next two news items also have version number issues. Let’s go (0:27:15) Al: Paleo Pines! (0:27:18) Al: It’s a major version update, why are they releasing it as 1.2.28? (0:27:22) Al: It’s just silly. (0:27:24) Codey: I mean what like I guess I don’t understand like what is there two two eight? (0:27:30) Codey: Let me let me go back. Let me look at what their other (0:27:34) Codey: Like it was the last one two seven. Nope the last one was (0:27:36) Al: This is now version number of the podcast. (0:27:40) Codey: Their last one was two two one point two point two three. Why have they gone up by five? (0:27:47) Al: Yeah, and that was like a bug fix update. (0:27:50) Al: This one is a content update. (0:27:52) Al: Why are they doing this to me? (0:27:54) Codey: They’re doing it by fives. Mmm. Nope. Nope. They did it by eight last time Ah. (0:28:00) Codey: Ah. (0:28:01) Al: I want to die. (0:28:03) Al: New dino colors. There you go. (0:28:06) Al: They’ve also added a nice looking feature, (0:28:10) Al: Seasoned Rancher Start, they’re calling it, which is basically just a new game plus. (0:28:14) Al: So after you’ve played the game the first (0:28:17) Al: new save and skip the first five days of the game, which is the tutorial. (0:28:21) Al: So this is good. More games should do. (0:28:24) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:28:26) Al: Cody’s like, I don’t really care. (0:28:27) Codey: No, I’m I was getting lost in the in the comments section of the update and I was like (0:28:34) Codey: Contemplating if I wanted to go down that rabbit hole, but I have chosen no, so (0:28:39) Codey: to pick Celia (0:28:40) Al: The 2px Elliot alpha is out now (0:28:44) Al: It’s only for Kickstarter backers who used who backed the alpha level (0:28:50) Al: So you have to get it through Kickstarter itself. It’s not on Steam or anything I wrote don’t version no no mention the version number, but I’ve not actually I can’t remember what that was cuz I didn’t actually Write it down (0:29:01) Codey: Cool. (0:29:03) Codey: Don’t blink it out of your mind. (0:29:04) Codey: Keep it, keep it. (0:29:06) Codey: The alpha’s out now. (0:29:07) Codey: If you back to pixelia, (0:29:08) Al: No, I need to find out now (0:29:12) Codey: if you back to pixelia, (0:29:14) Codey: you’re probably getting an email or something from Kickstarter to get your, (0:29:18) Codey: your code or whatever, but. (0:29:22) Al: if you backed it to at that level. I’m sorry I need to find this. What was I talking about? (0:29:24) Codey: Yeah. (0:29:28) Codey: You are fine. (0:29:31) Al: I can’t find it anywhere! (0:29:37) Codey: It doesn’t exist. (0:29:37) Al: What was I talking about? Did I write that or did you write that? I know it’s in my colour but (0:29:39) Codey: You wrote that. (0:29:41) Codey: You wrote that. (0:29:42) Al: I’m so confused. There’s no version number written anywhere. (0:29:45) Codey: Well, they knew that it was gonna bother you and so they deleted it from the world. (0:29:52) Al: This does feel like that a little bit, right? (0:29:55) Codey: It’s a little bit like a, (0:29:58) Codey: la moustache. (0:29:59) Codey: Have you ever heard of la moustache, the movie? (0:30:02) Codey: It’s a movie, it’s a French movie about a man that has a mustache and he decides to shave his mustache off and no one makes a big deal of it and he just had one for so long. (0:30:10) Codey: So he’s like, oh, I’m gonna really like, (0:30:11) Codey: I’m gonna get my friends. (0:30:12) Codey: It’s gonna be awesome. (0:30:13) Codey: So he shaves his mustache off and like no one reacts at all. (0:30:17) Codey: Like, and his wife doesn’t react. (0:30:18) Codey: And then finally when he just like explodes at her and it’s like, you haven’t mentioned my mustache. (0:30:23) Codey: I was so like, I did this. (0:30:24) Codey: And she’s like, what are you talking about? (0:30:25) Codey: You’ve never had a mustache. (0:30:28) Codey: And then it’s like, the whole rest of the movie is him. (0:30:31) Codey: Like, is he crazy? (0:30:32) Codey: Is it a plot? (0:30:34) Codey: Is he just delulu? (0:30:36) Codey: That’s you with this version number. (0:30:38) Al: Yeah, I do feel a little bit like it. I can’t see anything anywhere on the internet about this version number. Right, I’m just gonna move on and I’m sure it’ll keep me up at night. (0:30:46) Codey: And look it up later. (0:30:48) Al: No, definitely not. I’m not like scrolling there. (0:30:55) Codey: Did you back it on Kickstarter? (0:30:58) Codey: Maybe you wrote that or you put that in (0:30:59) Al: Yeah, but not alpha, so I won’t have I don’t have. (0:31:05) Codey: because you had mentioned the version numbers of the ones before. (0:31:09) Codey: So you were just like, we’re not gonna talk about it. (0:31:12) Al: I don’t know. Maybe that… I bet. Did I accidentally put that in the wrong thing? Was that meant to be in the Snacko one or something? I bet it was something like that. Anyway, moving on. OVA Magica. They have released their last update of 2023 and said that 2024 will, and This is a quote, “100% be the release year.” (0:31:24) Codey: Maybe. (0:31:40) Codey: Uh-huh. (0:31:42) Al: Look forward to Overmagica coming out in 2025. (0:31:44) Codey: Woo! (0:31:45) Al: It just feels like that was a mistake to say. (0:31:53) Al: Just put an eye out there. (0:31:56) Codey: but yeah, not much to say about that. (0:31:57) Al: They’ve also said that it probably won’t be before mid-2024. (0:32:04) Al: So there you go. (0:32:05) Al: That’s all we’ve got on that one. (0:32:09) Al: we have turn it by crossed. (0:32:12) Al: with super raft boat together. (0:32:15) Al: So there’s a game apparently called super raft boats together. (0:32:19) Al: I have not. This is not a farming game. (0:32:22) Al: But it does look quite crazy. (0:32:25) Al: And there’s a new level of it with turn it by. (0:32:29) Codey: You haven’t played either of these games, so cool. (0:32:32) Codey: Thumbs up. (0:32:36) Al: Yeah, I don’t really know what to say about it. (0:32:38) Al: I like turn it by. (0:32:40) Al: It’s an interesting crossover. (0:32:42) Al: I can see why they did it because it does seem like a turn it by kind of game. (0:32:47) Al: Like I could see myself playing this game at some point, (0:32:52) Al: but I also have too many games to play. (0:32:57) Al: Stardew Valley, that game. (0:33:00) Al: Concerned Ape has posted a screenshot, (0:33:04) Al: which has a lot of stuff in it, (0:33:07) Al: but it’s showing a new year festival, (0:33:10) Al: which honestly I’m surprised we didn’t. (0:33:12) Al: have a new year festival before. Did we not have something? (0:33:16) Codey: I don’t think so. I also don’t know. I think I’ve only ever gotten into the second year in Stode Valley once. So I don’t… I’m not surprised that I didn’t know that this was a thing. Or if it was a thing. This one looks cool. It talks about like fortune. People in the comments are absolutely losing their minds because they’re heart shaped fireworks. (0:33:41) Codey: But people always lose their mind every time Concerned Ape drops a screenshot so that’s (0:33:46) Codey: all. So I don’t know. It looks good. Excited that he’s still… mhm. He’s still pumping (0:33:48) Al: Yeah, he knows exactly what he’s doing. (0:33:53) Al: The other thing I found interesting about this is, so you look like you’re looking at a little card and it says “Good fortune to you in the coming year” and I wonder whether because obviously Stardew Valley, you might not know listeners, but Stardew Valley has a luck system. So each day you have like a certain luck number and that defines a bunch of things including how often you find ore in the mines. That’s kind of the biggest one. (0:34:18) Al: I wonder whether this will affect luck at all. Like, is this saying “Good fortune to you in the coming year”? Is that going to actually increase your luck for the next year by a bit? And if you get a negative one, is that going to… Or am I just reading into this too much and it’s just a random card that everybody gets? (0:34:34) Codey: Who knows at this point. It also has a cow on it, so I wonder if it’s whatever’s in the middle of the card, like what if there’s a good fortune to you in the coming year and the middle is like a fruit? (0:34:50) Codey: Like, is this luck for the cows? Is it? (0:34:56) Al: Well, so, I mean, luck is just luck in the game unless he’s completely changed it so that luck is different for each different thing. (0:35:02) Al: That would be a lot of unnecessary work, I think. (0:35:06) Al: Who knows? (0:35:07) Codey: I really think he posted he posted it on on Happy New Year what if it is literally just him posting something that shows him it’s him saying Happy New Year 12 a.m. January 1st yeah what if it’s just him saying Happy New Year there’s nothing (0:35:07) Al: It also doesn’t look like any (0:35:20) Al: Well, that’s a good point. That was at midnight in Eastern time, right? Yeah. Because I didn’t notice that because it was 5am my time, so I obviously didn’t notice that. But yeah, (0:35:36) Al: that’s midnight Eastern time. Well, great. So yeah, another concern to eat to talk about for an unnecessary amount of time. (0:35:48) Al: Next! (0:35:50) Al: We have Pixel Cross, Story of Seasons, and this is, I mean it’s like Picross, but obviously it’s not branded Picross, but it’s that kind of game. (0:36:05) Al: But Stardew, no Stardew, Story of Seasons version, so yeah, that’s a thing. (0:36:11) Codey: Yep, you know Micah’s gonna play this. (0:36:15) Codey: I really like Picross, but I don’t know if I would play like a Story of Seasons specific one or anything. (0:36:22) Codey: I usually just play the ones that are free on like that I can download and play and I’ll play it for like three weeks straight and just play a heck ton of it and then that’s it and then I’m done. (0:36:35) Codey: But this looks cute. (0:36:36) Codey: I’m sure other people will like it. (0:36:38) Codey: I know Michael will like it and it’s coming on the 27th of (0:36:44) Al: I sent Micah a message with just the link to the video that will be in the show notes on the 23rd of December and then on Christmas day he replied to me and said, “I passed out when I saw this and only just recovered in time to say Merry Christmas.” (0:37:01) Al: So I think he’s excited. (0:37:03) Codey: He might be excited. (0:37:08) Al: That is coming in on the 27th of February this year. (0:37:12) Al: Pokemon D. (0:37:15) Al: That’s me just double-checking. Yes it is February correct, that is. (0:37:18) Codey: I was just gonna go with it. (0:37:21) Al: And our final news update of the episode is another new game called Tales of Saikyu. (0:37:33) Codey: Psych psych you yeah, I mean you’re right sick you thank you (0:37:38) Al: We’ll go with that Saikyu. So this is coming to Kickstarter soon. There is a Steam page up. (0:37:44) Al: But obviously it’s not released yet. They’re planning to release apparently this year, (0:37:49) Al: which is interesting. So I wonder if this is just a get it over the money for the Kickstarter being marketing or whatever. Or maybe it’s just the 2024 is there under the access, who knows. (0:38:01) Al: Anyway, so the blurb for this is embark on Saikyu, a fantasy farming adventure amidst Yokai legends. Can you restore a countryside into its former glory? (0:38:14) Al: Forge connections with extraordinary characters and uncover the hidden wonders of this magical world. (0:38:19) Al: So it’s farming and it’s yokai. So what more could you want? (0:38:23) Codey: Nah. (0:38:27) Al: Wow. (0:38:29) Codey: I’m sure some people will like it. (0:38:31) Al: Okay. (0:38:34) Codey: I Uh. (0:38:35) Al: Um, it looks like, so it looks, it looks like the yokai bit is you (0:38:40) Al: shapeshift into other creatures and you can be those creatures. (0:38:44) Al: when you play the game. (0:38:49) Codey: I’m just not, I don’t know, I’m not into it, but no. (0:38:53) Al: still not interested. Fair enough. I think it looks interesting. It’s a 3d adventure game. It looks really cool like I just there’s a bit where like he runs jumps off a cliff and transforms into a flying creature and just flies around and then he’s on the farm and he transforms into like a boar type thing and tells the ground. It’s kind of like paleo pines right where you use the dinosaurs for things but you are the creatures. (0:38:54) Codey: No. (laughs) (0:39:23) Al: You’re transforming into them. (0:39:24) Codey: Mm-hmm. I look forward to seeing more of it. (0:39:25) Al: I think it’s cool. (0:39:28) Al: I think this has got the best fishing in any game as well because they literally, they transform into like this little water creature, jump into the water, see a fish and literally just suck it up. (0:39:38) Al: They just, I got it now. (0:39:41) Codey: The kirby-it. (0:39:43) Codey: I will say I loved the… (0:39:45) Al: Yeah, yeah, look, can’t be a fish. (0:39:53) Codey: My favorite thing was you doing the second noise and then saying, “I’ve got it now,” (0:39:58) Codey: but with like, “Your mouth is full.” (0:40:03) Codey: I got right now. (0:40:06) Codey: Oh, we’re off the rails. (0:40:08) Codey: That was lovely. (0:40:09) Codey: Yeah, I think I need to see more. (0:40:10) Al: I just… I… I don’t want to eat a fish that somebody has curbed. That’s all I’m saying. (0:40:18) Codey: But it’s a fish that you have kirby’d. (0:40:20) Al: Well, yeah, but surely the fish aren’t just like (0:40:23) Al: presumably I’m selling the fish, right? (0:40:26) Codey: But how are they gonna know? They’re not gonna know. (0:40:30) Al: They’re not gonna know. How are they gonna know? (0:40:32) Codey: How are they gonna know? They’re not gonna know. How would they know? Kirby that fish. Oh, oh did you? (0:40:36) Al: No. No car being fish and then selling them. It’s bad. (0:40:45) Al: So the Kickstarter launch is on the 12th of January, so presumably we’ll get more information. (0:40:51) Codey: Cool. Sounds good. (0:40:53) Al: » All right, that’s the news. (0:40:57) Al: We’re now gonna talk about Carl Island. (0:41:00) Al: So a little bit of housekeeping around this. (0:41:05) Al: Obviously, we did have a previous episode about that, (0:41:08) Al: which it sounds like Cody listened to again in preparation for this. (0:41:11) Al: I did not, I thought I should, but I didn’t. (0:41:14) Al: I will link that in the show notes if you wanna go have a re-listen to that. (0:41:19) Al: Was it probably around the end of 2022? (0:41:22) Codey: Ooh, I don’t remember, um, I just, let’s see who can find it. (0:41:28) Al: Yes. Oh, no, no. No, apparently May 23. Wow. That took a long time. Yeah. Why so long? (0:41:31) Codey: Okay. (0:41:33) Codey: Wow. (0:41:35) Codey: Uh, well. (0:41:37) Codey: I don’t know. (0:41:40) Codey: But it’s still, yeah, you, you had thoughts and now it’s out for real reals and so we can discuss that. (0:41:48) Codey: Um… (0:41:48) Al: Yeah, yeah, so I wanted first of all to get Cody, you’ve not been on an episode of a card island yet. You’ve given a little bit of like you think it was obviously good. Do you think it was robbed from its game of the year position? So give us a quick rundown of what you think about the game. We obviously don’t want to go into too much detail about specifics. We can get into that later, but yeah. (0:41:52) Codey: Mm-mm. (0:42:08) Codey: I mean, everything that you said on the Game of the Year episode, I echo the fact that I think that it does everything that Stardew does, but better, it does things that Stardew doesn’t do. (0:42:17) Codey: So like the museum is like it has, it has the quote unquote community center, which is the temple, but then it also has like a huge museum that you can use. (0:42:30) Codey: And so it has that that that’s really cool. (0:42:34) Codey: All of the characters are attractive. (0:42:36) Codey: I can’t find… (0:42:38) Codey: Can someone be a real human, please? (0:42:44) Codey: But I like the bug catching mechanic. It’s really cool. (0:42:54) Codey: Some of them are really fast, some of them are really slow. (0:43:00) Codey: Some you do get to creep up on and some you have to just yeet yourself at. (0:43:04) Codey: Um, like that the mines are more expanded. (0:43:08) Codey: Um, so I will say I am in, I think I’m on like the second or third day of my first summer. (0:43:17) Codey: So I’m not far in the game, but I am enjoying the level of automation, um, where. (0:43:28) Codey: So I just have a heck ton of sprinklers and they all do like the surrounding eight tiles. (0:43:34) Codey: So I just like the first day of the month, I… (0:43:38) Codey: …set up all these sprinklers and hoe everything and plant seeds and then I never have to worry about it again. (0:43:46) Codey: I just walk away and I do other things and I really like that. (0:43:50) Codey: And they’re not difficult to make. I felt like in Stardew they were a lot more difficult to make. (0:43:54) Codey: But yeah, so I think that’s like my general summary is I like it. It is largely positive. (0:44:04) Codey: I can’t really think of anything that’s negative, honestly. (0:44:08) Codey: Because I think I just need to play more. (0:44:12) Codey: Yeah, that’s where I’m at. So yeah, those are my thoughts. What about you, Al? (0:44:18) Codey: Okay. (0:44:20) Al: So let’s, I want to talk about the automation first thing, because you brought that up, right? (0:44:23) Al: Because I think, I think it’s fantastic, right? And I think it’s so much better than it was as well. So you’re right in that you’ve got the, you know, your standard, what they call sprinklers, (0:44:37) Al: and you can just use them as normal sprinklers, but they also got, first of all, they have like the nine by nine level of sprinkler. Interestingly, in the game of the year episode, I was like, (0:44:48) Al: Like they’ve got a five by five spring. (0:44:50) Al: I didn’t mean to say five by five, of course they have a five by five, Stargia has a five by five. (0:44:54) Al: My point is they have a nine by nine. Right. And that’s fantastic. Nine by nine. Amazing. (0:45:00) Al: Eighty one squares, eighty squares if you’ve got, if you’ve got your sprinkler. It’s eighty squares of automated farming. (0:45:08) Al: And not only does it automate your watering, but also you can get this additional thing. (0:45:14) Al: I don’t know if you’ve had this yet. Have you had the additions to the sprinkler? Yeah. (0:45:18) Codey: So the only addition that I’ve had is the fertilizing one. (0:45:20) Al: Okay. Yeah, cool. I mean, that’s good. Let’s get in and of itself. But let me tell you, when you upgrade to the highest level of addition to the sprinkler, (0:45:30) Al: this thing will sow your seeds. It will fertilize your seeds. It will water your seeds. It will harvest your seeds. Right. (0:45:38) Al: So now what I’m doing at the beginning of a season is I’m just buying a thousand seeds and a thousand fertilizer. (0:45:48) Al: I go put them in the machine. (0:45:50) Al: And then I never have to think about it again until the first day of the next season, and it harvests everything. (0:45:56) Al: It’s amazing. I absolutely love it. (0:45:58) Al: And obviously, it’s one of these things where I know some people enjoy the manual labor part of that. (0:46:04) Al: But I’m very much a progression kind of person in these games. (0:46:08) Al: Like, that’s fine to do to start with, and that’s kind of the monotonous nature of that part is fine to start with. (0:46:14) Al: But I want to see improvements on that, and this has automation everywhere. (0:46:20) Al: It’s absolutely ridiculous the level of this author. (0:46:22) Codey: How much money do you have? (0:46:24) Al: Oh goodness, I haven’t opened the game in a few weeks. (0:46:28) Al: Thanks. (0:46:28) Codey: Because like I have not gone more than like… (0:46:32) Codey: I think that at one point I had like 3,000 or 4,000 but then I ended up upgrading something so that I was back down to 1,000. (0:46:39) Codey: But each seed is like 20 or 30 monies. (0:46:43) Codey: So it would be like 20 or 30,000 if you’re buying a thousand seeds. (0:46:48) Codey: That’s bananas. (0:46:50) Al: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I have quite a lot of money, double check what my deal is, but yeah, it is crazy and I love it. It’s fantastic. I think being able to do all that, because like, I think maybe like half of my farm is now just plots of land with these automated things. Like it’s amazing. I love it. It’s fantastic. The game’s updating so I can’t actually check just now. (0:47:18) Al: Um, okay, cool. (0:47:20) Al: Automation, I don’t think there’s like, I think that that is what it is, right? (0:47:23) Al: If you like automation and farming games, the automation, this game is fantastic. (0:47:27) Al: Could they add more? (0:47:28) Al: Yeah, they probably could, but it’s still great because they’ve also put like some thought into the, what I find really annoying is when you’ve got like, Oh, (0:47:38) Al: here’s a sprinkler that does this many plots of land and there’s this, that has this many, and then the scarecrow does this, but it doesn’t really overlap in a right way. If you have everything maximum (0:47:50) Al: you’ve got the nine by nine sprinkler. You can have four of them completely contained within the biggest scarecrow. So you’ll have obviously one line through that that isn’t covered and stuff, but I use that for a path. But the four of those will fit perfectly inside a scarecrow, right? There’s no off by one or annoyances in terms of like how you lay out your farm, which I really appreciate. (0:48:19) Al: Obviously, there are still… (0:48:20) Al: I think it’s 3x3 and then 5x5, and then it goes up to 9x9. (0:48:26) Codey: There’s starts with three by three. I haven’t gotten there yet (0:48:40) Codey: Five by five seems right (0:48:43) Codey: So five five five five seems right. I think that’s what you and Bev were talking about when y’all were on the (0:48:50) Al: The 9x9 didn’t exist at that point, though. (0:48:54) Al: Most of the top level of things didn’t exist at that point, and almost all the automation stuff d

Al talks about Sprout Valley Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:48: What Have We Been Up To 00:21:54: News 00:44:42: Sprout Valley 01:09:13: Outro Links Disney Dreamlight Valley Enchanted Adventure Update Above Snakes 1.3.0 Update APICO 3.0 Update Everdream Valley Roadmap Coral Island Charity DLC 2 Moonstone Island Collectors Edition Spirittea Dev Update Ooblets Plushes Eastward Octopia Japanese Rural Life Simulator Sprout Valley on Steam Sprout Valley on Switch Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:26.700] This video is made using the [00:30.400 –> 00:37.840] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al. I’m Kevin [00:37.840 –> 00:45.280] and we are here today to talk about cottagecore games. Before we get into it, [00:45.280 –> 00:50.280] transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website. Get them if you want them. [00:50.280 –> 00:59.400] Kevin, how you doing? Yeah, I’m doing okay. Well, I mean, this is probably where, [00:59.400 –> 01:05.140] where we mentioned that we had just recorded a greenhouse episode before this. So if this is [01:05.140 –> 01:10.000] low energy, that was much longer than we were. I was like, this is going to be like a 20 minute [01:10.000 –> 01:14.960] episode. And then 20 minutes, 20 minutes in, we were just stopping talking about Spiderman. [01:14.960 –> 01:23.040] Yeah, there’s some real dumb stuff in that greenhouse. But that’s okay, I’m hyping myself, [01:23.040 –> 01:27.680] I’m bringing plenty of dumb stuff to this podcast episode recording too. [01:27.680 –> 01:32.720] All right, so in this episode, I am going to talk about Sprout Valley because I have [01:32.720 –> 01:36.440] been playing that and presumably Kevin will have some dumb questions for me. [01:36.440 –> 01:37.760] Yeah, I will. [01:37.760 –> 01:43.520] Yeah, so we’re gonna talk about that and there’s a whole bunch of news. Most of [01:43.560 –> 01:47.640] reasonably small pieces of news, but there’s some chunky stuff as well. We’ll get into that. [01:47.640 –> 01:50.760] But first of all, Kevin, what have you been up to? [01:50.760 –> 01:58.520] Oh, okay. Actually, nothing too interesting this week. The usual. Snap is good. Tears [01:58.520 –> 02:05.200] of the Kingdom is good. Oh, I beat the end of the Koga arc. I love Koga. He’s probably [02:05.200 –> 02:06.320] my favorite character in that game. [02:06.320 –> 02:10.880] That is a really good arc in Tears of the Kingdom. I did that before I did like any [02:10.960 –> 02:15.400] of the other big story things because it was, I was fun just to like follow him around there. [02:15.400 –> 02:20.680] Yes, it was. I happened to run into him before I even got a horse. [02:20.680 –> 02:24.880] Who needs a horse in this game? Come on. [02:24.880 –> 02:31.520] Yeah, you’re right. The one thing that I do love about the whole Koga thing, [02:31.520 –> 02:37.360] I think an absolute stroke of genius. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, [02:37.480 –> 02:42.360] they’d already been thinking about Tears of the Kingdom back then, but the fact that they [02:42.360 –> 02:47.400] turned the ending of Koga where he falls into the hole and just tie it into his new story. [02:47.400 –> 02:55.680] Oh, that was genius. Oh, it was beautiful. But yeah, Eagle Clan, it’s really fun. I love it. [02:55.680 –> 03:04.280] Master Koga is great. Aside from that, the only thing of some note is I’ve hit year five in [03:05.280 –> 03:14.280] Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life. You only have six years before you hit credits. [03:14.280 –> 03:20.960] Yes. Well, the main credits. There are other credits. Don’t forget about the other credits. [03:20.960 –> 03:25.840] Yeah. I mean, I already hit credits because you just say not the beginning. [03:25.840 –> 03:31.000] That’s the first credits. You’ve got to do that before you do anything else if you’re [03:31.000 –> 03:36.240] going to hit everything. Yeah, I already did that. So I’m going to hit the credits again. [03:36.240 –> 03:40.640] I love that they kept that in the game, by the way. They could have easily removed that. [03:40.640 –> 03:48.160] But no, they kept it in. It’s good fun. Yeah, it’s great. So the only, I mean, [03:48.160 –> 03:53.920] my kid’s now like an adult roughly the age you were when the game started, which is interesting [03:53.920 –> 04:00.000] to see. I’m going through faux parenthood here and it’s weird. I mean, parenthood is weird. [04:01.000 –> 04:05.880] Well, yes, but I’m genuinely worrying if my kid’s going to want to inherit my farm or not. [04:08.280 –> 04:20.520] Anyways, the one super notable thing that they do something just brutal to you. So I can’t [04:20.520 –> 04:25.960] remember if it’s year four or year four. No, in year four, all the character’s hair starts to [04:26.080 –> 04:31.480] gray. Like you start seeing everyone starts getting the salt and pepper gray hairs in there. [04:31.480 –> 04:39.760] Year five, you’re getting older, so they take away permanently an amount of your stamina. Your [04:39.760 –> 04:47.360] stamina bar goes down like a good chunk, too, because you are getting up in your years. You [04:47.360 –> 04:54.160] can’t take it anymore. Oh, that’s it’s getting too real. But yeah, so hopefully soon I’ll actually [04:54.200 –> 04:59.400] be able to hit credits of this game for once and I can report back on it. Although I don’t think [04:59.400 –> 05:05.360] anything will ever top what I did for that episode. But that’s that’s all I’ve been up to. Oh, what [05:05.360 –> 05:10.040] about you? What’s going on? I obviously have been playing Spirit Valley the last wee while. [05:10.040 –> 05:24.080] And I’ve also been playing Hades. That’s a good game. Kind of. Yeah, it is. Look, I mean, [05:24.080 –> 05:30.960] I’m going to do a proper discussion with this later. Probably for a greenhouse episode with [05:30.960 –> 05:38.280] someone else. But like, I mean, my overall thoughts are probably going to be the same as [05:38.320 –> 05:44.960] most roguelites, which is I like the combat. I like the primary loop. And I hate everything [05:44.960 –> 05:51.960] else about the game. Well, hold on. What do you mean everything else? Because like, characters [05:51.960 –> 05:56.800] are really good. Okay, the character stuff is fine, right? Like, but it’s not. I mean, [05:56.800 –> 06:08.440] it’s weird in like, the story. It’s not a story. It’s more just like snippets from to [06:08.440 –> 06:16.480] this world building, right? Like there isn’t a story as such, as there is snippets of characters [06:16.480 –> 06:24.600] and kind of giving you some backstory and stuff like that. But there’s no like the story is you [06:24.600 –> 06:30.400] escaping. Right? Like, that’s the story. And there’s nothing really to tell about that. So [06:30.400 –> 06:36.320] they spend the rest of the time giving you these little, little bits and pieces as you go from [06:36.320 –> 06:44.680] different people. Okay, fine. I don’t dislike that. But how do you think you’re going to stick [06:44.680 –> 06:48.680] with it? Because I can comment on something here. But if you’re going to stick with it, [06:48.680 –> 06:54.680] I won’t comment on probably going to stick with it. Okay. All right, then. Well, well, [06:54.680 –> 07:01.280] I got so close to beating the first boss the other day, so close, frustratingly close. And [07:01.280 –> 07:07.800] the thing that I really dislike about it is like, all of the things that I did, essentially [07:07.800 –> 07:13.040] disappear, right? Sure. Fine. There’s stuff you get that can build up other things later on, [07:13.040 –> 07:16.920] right? Fine. But the problem is, if you don’t get a huge amount of that each run, [07:16.920 –> 07:22.440] it just feels like so demoralizing to go like, I was so close, because of these specific power [07:22.440 –> 07:27.360] ups I got on this specific run. And the chances of me getting all those power ups again, very, [07:27.360 –> 07:34.040] very slim. It’s just that I just don’t find that fun. Okay. I mean, all right. Yeah, no, I mean, [07:34.040 –> 07:39.760] that’s, that’s your prerogative. You know, that’s subjective. That’s can’t argue. Absolutely. It’s [07:39.760 –> 07:45.800] definitely subjective. And like, I, you know, I know that I know the reason why people like [07:45.800 –> 07:48.880] these games. And I know the reason that this game is why it is, but that doesn’t mean that [07:48.880 –> 07:57.280] I have to enjoy that. You know, I think that still, we’ve still, despite the number of rogue [07:57.280 –> 08:02.120] lights that I’ve played, still the only one that I actively enjoyed playing was Cult of the Lamb. [08:02.120 –> 08:13.480] Okay, it’s, see, that’s interesting, because Cult of the Lamb, very, well, at least gameplay combat [08:13.480 –> 08:18.360] wise, that the stuff we’re talking about where the stuff doesn’t matter when you die, that feels [08:18.360 –> 08:28.000] very, Cult of the Lamb feels very Hades-lite in that sense. But the kicker is, Cult of the Lamb [08:28.000 –> 08:33.880] runs take what, five minutes? A Hades run can last you a half hour. Exactly. So this is the thing, [08:33.880 –> 08:40.080] this is the difference for me, right? So Hades, yeah, sure, you have some kind of small base [08:40.080 –> 08:44.600] building, right, in your home, right? But it’s not really, right? It’s basically the place that [08:44.600 –> 08:50.520] you go to after you fail, to get ready to go and fail again, right? Whereas the point in Cult of, [08:50.520 –> 08:54.920] because the point of Hades is get to the end of the course, right? The point- Have you unlocked [08:54.920 –> 08:58.680] the mirror? Let me ask you that. Yes, I have unlocked the mirror. Okay, I’m just making sure. [08:58.680 –> 09:02.360] You get that really early. I don’t remember, so that’s a mess. I think you get, I think it tells [09:02.360 –> 09:06.560] you to use it, like, immediately after your first death. Okay, because that mirror makes a [09:06.560 –> 09:09.440] difference. It does, you know, it absolutely does. And I’m not saying that it doesn’t build [09:09.440 –> 09:13.680] anything up. There is obviously that building up of the stuff that you do, but I feel like [09:13.680 –> 09:19.440] this power-ups you get when you’re out on the run are just so much more powerful than any of the [09:19.440 –> 09:24.980] stuff that you’re building up in the base. But anyway, the reason why I think the Cult of the [09:24.980 –> 09:30.440] Lamb is different and why I enjoy it is the point of Cult of the Lamb is your base. That’s the point, [09:30.440 –> 09:36.240] right? And you go out on runs to gather resources, and if you fail on gathering resources, you just [09:36.240 –> 09:42.400] don’t get more resources. Yeah. And you can just try again. Okay. Whereas the point of Hades is [09:42.400 –> 09:46.400] getting to the end of the course, and if you don’t get to the end of the course, you’ve failed. Yeah, [09:46.400 –> 09:51.800] all right, that’s fair. That’s the difference, I find. Okay, yeah, that’s a very good point, [09:51.800 –> 09:59.640] and you’re right, because, yeah, the Cult of the Lamb, the base is half the game, absolutely. I’d [09:59.640 –> 10:07.000] say it’s more than half the game. Well, maybe. I guess it depends how you define half the game, [10:07.000 –> 10:10.600] right? Because different people will play different ways. So if you’re thinking in terms [10:10.600 –> 10:17.200] of like amount of time played, then it depends on how you play. I went out on runs when I needed to [10:17.200 –> 10:23.080] to get stuff, right? But I much more enjoyed being on the base. Anyway, so that’s my Hades. I’ll talk [10:23.080 –> 10:28.520] more about it in the future. I’m not going to immediately stop playing it, but I’m not playing [10:28.520 –> 10:35.000] it right now, because all my game time is currently taken up by the Scarlet and Violet [10:35.000 –> 10:44.360] Pokemon DLC. So I, okay, I have not played it. I have seen things about it, like I’ve seen the [10:44.360 –> 10:51.000] things I care about, and I’ll probably get it at some point, but the consensus I’m hearing is that [10:51.000 –> 10:56.480] it is more Scarlet and Violet. So I think it depends on what you think about that. So like, [10:57.440 –> 11:00.800] this is the thing is like, people are like, is it better? And it’s like, it depends what you mean [11:00.800 –> 11:04.640] by that. If you mean, have they fixed the performance issues? No, of course they’ve not. [11:04.640 –> 11:09.800] They were never going to do that. I said that 10 months ago, they were never going to fix these [11:09.800 –> 11:15.000] performance issues, right? They made things better over time. It is definitely a better game now than [11:15.000 –> 11:20.320] it was at release. A hundred percent, there are improvements in the performance, but to say that [11:20.320 –> 11:25.080] they would be gone, they’ve definitely still improved, right? They’re not perfect, but they’re [11:25.080 –> 11:30.840] definitely better than they were. I used to get stuck in the menus every single raid. That never [11:30.840 –> 11:37.040] happens for me now. Now I’m not saying they’re perfect, but it has definitely improved. I’m not [11:37.040 –> 11:41.880] saying it doesn’t happen at all. What I’m saying is it has improved. It is definitely better than [11:41.880 –> 11:47.320] it was. So this is the thing is like, I need to know what people are expecting out of the question [11:47.320 –> 11:53.520] to give them an answer. So if your question is, have they made the game perfect? Then obviously [11:53.520 –> 11:57.080] the answer is no. If the question is, have they made the performance better? The answer is not [11:57.080 –> 12:04.600] really no. Not since the last update. And that’s such a loaded question, right? And you say that [12:04.600 –> 12:09.360] knowing it’s a loaded question, right? Because I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve had in this game [12:09.360 –> 12:13.040] because it’s a lot, right? Like I wouldn’t put the amount of time into this game if I wasn’t actually [12:13.040 –> 12:18.800] enjoying myself. Are you sure? Absolutely. And I’m not trying to tell anybody that they should be [12:18.800 –> 12:27.720] enjoying this game, but fun means different things for different people. I’ve put a lot of game time into that new Animal Crossing. What I would say is there are, I don’t think there are [12:27.720 –> 12:31.880] more trainers in this area than there were in the last one, which I know is one of your kind of like, [12:31.880 –> 12:36.240] there aren’t more people in the, in the area than there were in the last one, which I know is one [12:36.240 –> 12:40.400] of your issues. It’s not the only issue I know, but that is certainly one issue that I don’t think [12:40.400 –> 12:47.640] has been addressed. There is, it still feels empty of people. What I will say is that I think, and [12:47.680 –> 12:55.320] this is my personal opinion, I think this area compared to Paldea, I think Kitakami is a better [12:55.320 –> 13:03.920] designed area and it feels as a whole more filled out. I feel like there are, there are very, [13:03.920 –> 13:10.040] there’s not really any areas where you look and you go, there’s nothing here at all. Okay. There [13:10.040 –> 13:16.760] are more landmarks per square mile, I think. Okay. I think that’s already an improvement. Yeah. The [13:16.760 –> 13:22.720] storyline is, I think, so probably on par with the storylines in the, in the main one. I mean, [13:22.720 –> 13:28.520] I mean, that’s just Pokemon. This is the thing, right? I think, I think that we generally agreed [13:28.520 –> 13:32.840] that the stories were better than previous games, right? Cause it’s not just like, Oh, [13:32.840 –> 13:39.080] the end of the world and Oh no, we’ve saved the world. I don’t, I mean, that’s not my opinion. [13:39.080 –> 13:46.520] Okay. Lots of people have, prefer the stories in Scarlet and Violet to some previous stories [13:46.520 –> 13:52.880] because they’re more personal. And I think that has continued. So yes. So in terms of like story, [13:52.880 –> 13:58.480] I think it continues to be more Scarlet and Violet in terms of lack of people, it continues to be [13:58.480 –> 14:06.080] a story in Scarlet and Violet in terms of how the world feels personally, I feel like it has improved [14:06.080 –> 14:11.780] in terms of how the game plays. It is the same because it’s still the same game. Obviously they [14:11.780 –> 14:16.500] have not massively improved performance. The boxes are a bit better, but they’re still not [14:16.500 –> 14:22.940] amazing. Um, and obviously they have not changed how the movement across the world works, which is [14:22.940 –> 14:30.820] obviously in my opinion, it’s biggest problem. One of them. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Here’s a [14:30.820 –> 14:38.380] question that I think can be somewhat objectively measured. Are there things to do? And it sounds, [14:38.540 –> 14:43.780] it’s a very broad, dumb way of saying, but like in Scarlet and Violet, once you’ve caught all the [14:43.780 –> 14:49.900] Pokemon, you, there isn’t that much left to, you know, clear the stories, caught all, filled your [14:49.900 –> 14:56.020] decks. There’s not much left to do. It’s raids, right? That’s what they want you to do is raids. [14:56.020 –> 15:01.500] Yes. Um, I don’t know, cause I’ve not got that far and I’ve not really been Googling for things. [15:01.500 –> 15:10.820] So I’m, I’m in the midst of the story. All right. Well, that’s fine. Um, okay. I’ll update you on [15:10.820 –> 15:16.980] that when I get further. Um, but yeah, I mean, I really, I, and I like some of the new areas in, [15:16.980 –> 15:25.220] in this are really nicely designed areas I feel, um, uh, which is, is fun. Um, but yeah, I mean, [15:25.220 –> 15:30.860] you know, if you absolutely hated Scarlet and Violet, obviously don’t buy this, right? Like [15:30.900 –> 15:36.580] it just depends on what aspects you didn’t like and which aspects you do. And for me, I just, [15:36.580 –> 15:42.500] I like playing the game. I like catching the Pokemon, you know, obviously cause that’s like, [15:42.500 –> 15:48.460] you have to like catching the Pokemon to, you know, play a professional challenge. Um, I like, [15:48.460 –> 15:54.180] yeah, I like lots of aspects of this game. I definitely want it to be better, but yes, [15:54.180 –> 15:59.580] it is more of that, but I liked that in the first place. Okay. [15:59.580 –> 16:12.260] All right. I, I, yeah. Okay. I get the gist of it. Um, it kills me. It absolutely kills me that [16:12.260 –> 16:21.380] I will probably get this largely because of one new thing that I, I mean, I won’t know, [16:21.380 –> 16:26.060] don’t know what you know, or I usually leaks guys. You probably know, but the listeners don’t know. [16:26.060 –> 16:31.820] As I said with the original, the base Scarlet Violet, Pokemon is good at Pokemon. That whole [16:31.820 –> 16:37.260] Dex, I like those Pokemon. I like seeing them. And all of the new Pokemon I like as well. Yeah, [16:37.260 –> 16:42.440] I do too. I don’t think all of them are some of the best, but I think some of them are some of [16:42.440 –> 16:48.060] the best they’ve done. Sure. They’re enjoyable. And it kills me. It kills me that I want, [16:48.060 –> 16:54.860] the only reason I want the DLC is to see those new Pokemon. Yeah. You can always try trading [16:54.860 –> 17:00.500] because you can get them in the base. I like, I know I can’t, but just, and that’s, and this is [17:00.500 –> 17:05.420] the thing, this is what I actually like how they’ve done DLC, both with sword and shield and [17:05.420 –> 17:09.420] Scarlet and violet. They don’t make you buy it to get the new Pokemon. Yeah. It’s not right. You [17:09.420 –> 17:13.180] have to, you have to buy it if you want to get them yourself, but you can always trade for them. [17:13.180 –> 17:20.180] And, you know, in my experience, you put up any shiny Pokemon on the GTS asking for any legendary [17:20.260 –> 17:25.700] and you will get that legendary, right? You can get any Pokemon if you have a good selection of [17:25.700 –> 17:32.380] spare shinies. Right. It’s, it’s so easy, um, to do like, like even, uh, Oh, what’s it called? [17:32.380 –> 17:39.540] What’s the one from legends? Uh, the, the genie, the, the, the, Oh, an amorous or whatever. Yeah. [17:39.540 –> 17:43.820] And amorous, even an amorous, I’ve had multiple and amorous just from random shiny. That’s nuts. [17:43.820 –> 17:49.340] You know, like people will trade anything for shiny Pokemon. Dang. I mean, legends is a great [17:49.340 –> 17:55.220] game and all, but that’s, that’s a track to getting an amorous. Um, Oh, wow. I will give [17:55.220 –> 18:02.140] props to the DLC for, Oh, okay. Here’s a big question. And so one of the biggest selling [18:02.140 –> 18:09.500] points for me as a Scarlet player, especially I can get out of those hideous orange shorts. Um, [18:09.500 –> 18:17.460] can I bring my you cuts or whatever to the pal day? Uh, the main area. That is a good question. [18:17.460 –> 18:22.020] Oh no, you don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Cause like I’ve just been spending all [18:22.020 –> 18:27.380] my time in the new area. Let me tell you, let me, let me, let me, let me live. Tell you, [18:27.380 –> 18:31.100] it’s going to happen. Here we go. Cause I was playing some Mario Kart with Craig earlier. [18:31.100 –> 18:39.740] So let me just beat the game. Oh, so how big is the, the, the map? Good question. It’s hard to [18:39.740 –> 18:44.860] know because on in the game, when you like switch between the maps, it shows them different scales, [18:44.900 –> 18:53.980] right? So it looks like they’re the same size, but they’re not. It feels maybe like crown [18:53.980 –> 18:59.860] tundra sized. Okay. That’s decent. Yeah. So like I think bigger than Isle of armor, [18:59.860 –> 19:10.580] but not, but not as big as the, obviously mean, right. Let me check. Right. Game is booted up. [19:11.420 –> 19:19.580] Let me travel over to Paldera. Let’s just go to Mazagoza because that’s my only travel point [19:19.580 –> 19:25.460] because I’ve not got far in this version. Oh, I’m on a plane apparently because a little, [19:25.460 –> 19:30.740] oh, that’s fun. Little animation of a plane and a Dragonite flying next to it. Oh, that’s cool. [19:30.740 –> 19:35.620] Dragonite flies off. And here we go. We’ve touched down and I am still in my clothes from [19:35.620 –> 19:44.380] Kitagami. There we go. All right. Day’s saved. Okay. DLC is worth it for that alone. It really [19:44.380 –> 19:50.380] is much better to not be in school uniform. It’s still white wild to me that they did that. Right. [19:50.380 –> 19:54.580] Like I get why they wanted to do it, but like just force you back into those clothes for like [19:54.580 –> 20:02.900] the specific cut scenes. If you really want that. Yes. Like, yes, it’s, you can also like the extra [20:02.900 –> 20:08.380] things that you can buy, you can just buy in Paldera as well. Um, the, cause they give you [20:08.380 –> 20:14.100] a style card, right? And that gives you the ability to buy them in. Oh, that’s cool. That’s [20:14.100 –> 20:19.540] nice. You don’t have to go to the new area to buy the stuff. That’s, that’s nice. This place [20:19.540 –> 20:24.660] is only selling glasses, hats and gloves. So I need to find a place that’s selling more than [20:24.660 –> 20:28.540] that. No, I didn’t mean to walk back in. This is the thing that really annoys me about these games. [20:28.540 –> 20:35.580] When you walk out of a shop, it has you facing the shop. Oh yeah. So it has you facing away from [20:35.580 –> 20:40.020] the shop, right? You came up to it facing the shop. So I automatically think, Oh, I need to [20:40.020 –> 20:45.220] go backwards because I was facing forwards and I don’t want to go forwards cause that’s me facing [20:45.220 –> 20:50.220] towards the shop. But then you go backwards, you go straight back into the shop. Oh, it’s bags. [20:50.220 –> 20:55.860] This one is. Ooh. Right. Let’s see what these bags. It’s definitely a different style of bag. [20:55.860 –> 21:03.020] It’s one, one different style of bag. Anyway. Uh, yeah. So you can definitely leave without, [21:03.020 –> 21:07.100] you can definitely go to Pildea without the school uniform. So. All right. That’s good. [21:07.100 –> 21:13.900] That’s a big plus. But yeah, I am enjoying it. And, um, as we mentioned in the greenhouse episode [21:13.900 –> 21:18.180] that hopefully has already come out, but I don’t know when I’m going to edit it. So it might not [21:18.180 –> 21:23.340] be out yet. It might come out on Saturday. Um, I am considering doing another Professor Oak [21:23.340 –> 21:33.060] challenge because why not? Well, I can answer why not, but let’s not get into that. I think [21:33.060 –> 21:41.900] that’s everything that we’ve been up to. That’s cool. Look, I’m just, it’s fine that I’m in, [21:41.900 –> 21:49.380] I’m, I’m winding down because 10 days of this recording, you know, what’s coming begins the, [21:49.500 –> 21:55.900] the Maneco Geddon begins. Goodbye the world. Oh yeah. All right. What, [21:55.900 –> 22:02.140] what non Maneco things are supposedly coming out? Let’s talk about some news. So we have Disney [22:02.140 –> 22:08.980] Dreamlight Valley. The enchanted adventure update is out now. This is the update with Belle. Um, so [22:08.980 –> 22:18.460] the Beauty and the Beast realm and the storyline there. Um, and a lot of other things like there’s [22:18.460 –> 22:23.020] a big long list. If you play this game, you probably have already looked at the list to see [22:23.020 –> 22:28.260] if what you care about. So I’m not going to go over all that just now, but it is out now. Um, [22:28.260 –> 22:34.660] and I am still convinced that the next update will be the either final early access update [22:34.660 –> 22:40.340] or the one final update. That is what I’m convinced of. Oh snap. There’s Jack Skellington [22:40.340 –> 22:45.420] outfits in this. Look, there’s everything. There’s everything in this game. This is like, [22:45.660 –> 22:51.020] this is the everything game. Well, I mean, I don’t cause you know, [22:51.020 –> 23:00.140] nightmare before Christmas is a little, you know, not, I mean it is Disney, but like they don’t [23:00.140 –> 23:05.780] usually lump it in with the princesses and the Mickey’s and whatever. Right. Usually all kind [23:05.780 –> 23:10.140] of its own corner. Some surprise it made it in. Yeah. I look, I look forward to when they start [23:10.140 –> 23:17.380] bringing the Marvel and the star Wars and oh goodness. No, no. Whatever. Bell’s cool. She’s [23:17.380 –> 23:21.260] my second favorite princess. Um, well, you’re going to have to see who your first is then. [23:21.260 –> 23:32.660] It’s Rapunzel because she’s incredible. She’s the best. Not Moana. I like Moana. You don’t [23:32.660 –> 23:38.980] Moana. No, there’s nothing wrong with Moana. Moana is great. Just Rapunzel set the bar real [23:38.980 –> 23:44.460] high and I don’t know. I’m just, Bell’s just pure nostalgia, like beauty and the beast. That’s a [23:44.460 –> 23:49.980] good one. Fair enough. I just have real problems with that storyline. So I struggle to connect. [23:49.980 –> 23:58.860] There are, there are a lot of problems with that storyline. Gaston might be the hero if you think [23:58.860 –> 24:07.060] about it. You look at it from his point of view. No, except the, the thing he did with his dad, [24:07.060 –> 24:12.540] but other than that. Yeah, well sure. He’s not a good guy. Right. Let’s not pretend he’s a good [24:12.540 –> 24:16.580] guy. Yeah. He’s not a good guy. That’s not what we’re trying to say here. Not a good guy. But he [24:16.580 –> 24:27.460] wasn’t irrational. Yeah. Uh, okay. Anyway, above snakes, they has a 1.3 update is out now as well. [24:27.860 –> 24:34.780] This includes a photo mode plus a bunch of other content, some furniture and the piano. I don’t [24:34.780 –> 24:40.180] know why they specifically mentioned the piano. I don’t know. Piano. If you want a piano, there’s [24:40.180 –> 24:47.180] always playable. Oh goodness. Right. Okay. I missed that. If you want a playable piano in [24:47.180 –> 24:53.900] this game, there you go. And it’s on discount right now for, I don’t know how, 20% off. There [24:53.900 –> 25:01.580] you go. All right. Um, then we have Apico has its 3.0 update, which is coming out on the 26th of [25:01.580 –> 25:18.660] September. Oh, special silly September day. Oh, Apico. Um, it’s Maneco day. It is. So we’re back [25:18.660 –> 25:24.340] up. We’re back up to fish. We’re back up. Yes. Yeah. It says underwater bees right there. You [25:24.340 –> 25:29.300] get fish. I think we talked about this a little bit, right? Yeah. So you can fish in the game. [25:29.300 –> 25:38.060] Yeah. But also there’s underwater bees. Yeah. For some reason. Fish. Um, one thing I want to [25:38.060 –> 25:44.700] note that I didn’t catch before Cody, her, they, it’s Cody, Matt. I don’t know if it’s Matt, [25:44.940 –> 25:51.940] Mathive or Mathive, but they changed her name from, from her last name to put hive in it. I [25:51.940 –> 25:59.460] love that. I missed that. Yeah. All right. Go anyways. Yeah. So a bunch of water stuff in, [25:59.460 –> 26:06.460] in Apico. Go, go restore coral reefs. They’re called the highs of the, the sea for a reason. [26:06.460 –> 26:17.380] Um, ever dream Valley have released a roadmap. So they have a big update coming in October, [26:17.380 –> 26:24.180] a Halloween event coming in October as well as every game has to have, obviously. And, uh, their [26:24.180 –> 26:32.020] multiplayer beta is coming out in December. Cool. I’m going to get annoyed. Ah, there’s this thing [26:32.020 –> 26:35.780] that some games do, right? Where they go, Oh, this is the beta of multiplayer, but it’s like [26:35.820 –> 26:42.140] baked into a release of the game, right? It’s not, it’s not like a thing that you can’t like, [26:42.140 –> 26:46.780] you choose to update to because you’re on the beta branch, right? Don’t call something beta. [26:46.780 –> 26:53.420] If the game is not a beta, right? Like you can’t add a feature into your game and call it beta. [26:53.420 –> 26:59.900] Like it means anything. Your game is released. Act like your game is released. What are you doing? [27:00.740 –> 27:08.900] Nothing matters in game dev talk. Nothing matters. It’s just the first version of multiplayer. Just [27:08.900 –> 27:14.020] call it that. I forgot how this game looked. It was looking at that’s cute game. Yeah, [27:14.020 –> 27:22.260] there’s a pig. Oh yeah. I’ve never really looked too much into this game. I haven’t either because [27:22.260 –> 27:28.580] there’s nothing really kind of like stuck out to me, but yeah, it just keeps rolling. It’s in [27:28.620 –> 27:35.900] that filing cabinet Al has of we need an episode game when we need an episode and we have a week [27:35.900 –> 27:41.420] where we can actually play a game because that’s the other key point, right? Like it’s great when [27:41.420 –> 27:45.580] we have time to do it, but when we say we’ve got an episode next week, we don’t have a topic for [27:45.580 –> 27:54.300] and everybody’s busy playing something. All right. Time to have random topics. Mica and the [27:54.300 –> 28:02.060] witch’s mountain will all be playing that and not ever dream when it comes out. Sadly, [28:02.700 –> 28:11.980] it’s been delayed to early 2024. That’s fine. That’s fine. You take your time. Mika. I have [28:11.980 –> 28:19.660] Maneko on my plate that I need to get through. Yeah. They’d never given an exact date, but I [28:19.660 –> 28:26.380] think the kickstarter had said October 2023. I think they’ve been pretty good at releasing [28:26.380 –> 28:32.220] things roughly on schedule. So I think their last game was like two months late or something like [28:32.220 –> 28:40.540] that, which for a kickstarter game is basically on time, you know? Yeah, it really is. Yeah. So [28:40.540 –> 28:47.660] Mika said October 2023. That’s what it said. And, uh, oh, in fact, Koa and the five pirates [28:47.660 –> 28:53.020] said September 2023 and I think actually came out in August. So I actually did come out. Oh, [28:53.020 –> 29:01.180] dang. So that’s something. And Summer and Mara said, oh, so that said September 2019 [29:01.180 –> 29:06.940] and I think came out March 2020. So it was a few months late, that one. Um, but, um, it’s pretty [29:06.940 –> 29:13.580] good. It’s pretty good. Considering, considering I have, considering I have multiple kickstarters [29:13.580 –> 29:21.340] that are currently two years late. Um, I mean, and that’s not to mention the bidet that I, [29:21.340 –> 29:28.380] that I’m, that I kickstarted that was meant to come out in December 2020 still hasn’t come out. [29:29.820 –> 29:36.940] Okay. What was special about it? Why was it a kickstarter? It’s a portable bidet. Okay. [29:36.940 –> 29:42.460] So you take it with you. Like it’s handheld thing. Okay. Like it’s like a little, [29:43.100 –> 29:47.820] it looks kind of like a big, a big torch, big flash. What, what? [29:49.500 –> 29:53.100] With a little spray nozzle on the side. Okay. So it’s, [29:54.940 –> 30:00.540] what are you connecting to? Or just has it. So you pour the water into it from attack. Okay. [30:01.260 –> 30:10.780] Okay. Okay. And, and it just, all right, ready to go. Yep. I mean, okay. Like I’m, I’m, [30:10.780 –> 30:17.900] I’m just trying to imagine designing this thing, like to achieve that functionality. [30:17.900 –> 30:23.740] Yeah. I’m still not sure. I’m still not sure. It’s not a scam. Right. [30:25.100 –> 30:30.140] Well, look, you can say that about a lot of kickstarters. Three years late. Three years [30:30.140 –> 30:35.340] late. Three legends came out and I’m still wondering. So the last update we got on this [30:35.340 –> 30:42.940] was in March and they said, we’re ready to, ready to, to deliver. And eventually we still haven’t. [30:42.940 –> 30:51.900] That was March. So look, I’m just, I’ve, I’m there. Okay. I’ve never used a bidet personally. [30:51.900 –> 30:57.740] Okay. Like they’re not common in the area of states where I live or whatever. I’ve never [30:57.740 –> 31:05.180] seen one in person. So I’m just like, if you care that much about having a bidet, [31:06.060 –> 31:10.860] like, is it, is not a spray bottle good enough? [31:14.700 –> 31:20.060] We don’t need to get into this, right? 2020 was a weird time, Kevin. Let’s not, we don’t judge, [31:20.060 –> 31:26.220] we don’t judge what anybody did in 2020. Assuming you obviously didn’t like actually harm people, [31:26.220 –> 31:29.100] right? We don’t judge the weird decisions we made in 2020. [31:29.900 –> 31:39.340] No, I’m, I’m, I’m just, I’m just wondering like how many back this fascinates me. Like [31:39.980 –> 31:46.060] Coral Island, their new charity DLC is now out. So we’ll link to that in the show notes. [31:47.020 –> 31:52.460] I have already bought it. We’ll do it. We’ll do a greenhouse episode on it. [31:53.020 –> 31:56.060] Yeah. If you really want to talk more about my portable bidet. [32:00.700 –> 32:03.420] Oh no, we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re obviously going to do another episode of [32:03.420 –> 32:07.100] Coral Island when it’s one year old. Yeah. Yeah. Charity. Okay. For real, [32:07.100 –> 32:10.780] go save the real coral race with that. It’s cool. [32:10.780 –> 32:15.340] It’s a cool DLC. I got the last one as well. They’re both cool. Get, [32:15.340 –> 32:17.420] you can’t get the first one, but you can get the second one. [32:17.420 –> 32:23.580] I, I haven’t played Coral Island yet, but boy, do I like the ocean, [32:23.580 –> 32:27.820] the real one and the real coral reef. So yay for helping. [32:30.060 –> 32:36.380] Moonstone Island have announced a collector’s edition, which is like two quid more than the [32:36.380 –> 32:44.380] main one and gets you not a lot. It is not a lot because what it gets you is a full color art book. [32:45.340 –> 32:50.460] The download of the original soundtrack and some exclusive decor in game. [32:52.220 –> 32:56.940] So that feels like a no brainer to me. Yeah. If you like Moonstone Island, [32:56.940 –> 33:02.780] that’s the no brainer boy. The, the lo-fi girl is just super popular [33:03.900 –> 33:08.620] because that’s what they have here. Yeah. Okay. All right. [33:09.260 –> 33:18.460] Uh, what else? So this is an interesting one. So this is an interesting one, right? Okay. So I, [33:18.460 –> 33:24.300] I want to preface this with, I don’t normally cover like random little features that are on [33:24.300 –> 33:28.700] games before they release. Right. Cause we’d be here all day if we were covering stuff like that. [33:30.060 –> 33:35.660] But I think this one is interesting enough that it feels like I want to talk about it. Okay. [33:36.220 –> 33:41.260] And that is Spirit Tea doesn’t force you to sleep at specific times of the day. [33:41.900 –> 33:47.260] You can choose when you’re sleeping. They just require you to get a certain amount of sleep [33:47.260 –> 33:51.980] and you can choose when that is. So if you want to be like out all night and sleep during the day, [33:51.980 –> 33:56.620] you can do that in this game. That is very interesting. [33:56.620 –> 34:03.980] I know. Right. That’s a cool idea. Um, yeah, yeah, no, good on that. Like obviously, [34:04.540 –> 34:07.900] presumably the nighttime will be worth staying up for. [34:08.460 –> 34:14.380] Yeah. So it says that some characters are, are, are like, it doesn’t say nocturnal. It says night [34:14.380 –> 34:20.220] hours, but yeah, like there’ll be people that will be out either only at night or mostly at night, [34:20.220 –> 34:25.900] um, and stuff like that. So, uh, yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how it goes. [34:26.540 –> 34:31.420] Yeah. That’s, that’s an interesting way to go about it. Um, [34:31.420 –> 34:35.660] yes, I think at this point we’re at the it’s interesting stage and we’ll see whether it’s [34:35.660 –> 34:42.140] good or not later. Um, once we’ve actually got to play this game. Other games probably could [34:42.140 –> 34:46.300] benefit from that for sure, but okay. Yeah, cool. Yeah. I feel like it’s the sort of thing that [34:46.300 –> 34:51.660] couldn’t be actively bad. Um, it might be something that we don’t use very much, but like giving you [34:52.300 –> 34:57.980] the option feels like a good thing in and of itself. It is. Sure. Yeah. But anyway, [34:57.980 –> 35:02.060] it’s not a huge thing. I just felt like it would be interesting to at least mention that. [35:02.940 –> 35:10.380] Ooblets plushies. I played smooshy come home. There aren’t a lot of names in smooshy [35:10.380 –> 35:14.460] granted, but you know, one’s called smooshy. There’s another guy called chunky [35:15.260 –> 35:21.100] and I still think the name Shrumbo is dumb. Clumper and Glanter. [35:21.100 –> 35:28.380] These are, look at those faces though. Let me, let me look at the face. I’m just looking at [35:28.380 –> 35:35.500] the names. What’s a Shrumbo that feels like a fake Mon that they put on the Simpsons on the TV. [35:37.500 –> 35:43.820] Good old, uh, little Shrumbo. Oh, Shrumbo is pretty cute though. Actually Shrumbo would fit [35:43.820 –> 35:49.420] right in smooshy world. So I’m not going to complain. So Shrumbo plushie is available now [35:49.420 –> 35:55.980] in the US and it’s coming soon in the EU. I’m sorry in Europe. I don’t know why I wrote EU. [35:56.540 –> 36:02.780] Coming soon in Europe. I have requested to get a notification when we can buy it here. [36:03.980 –> 36:09.020] And clumper and Glanter are coming soon. They’re not on the Europe site. Interestingly. I don’t [36:09.020 –> 36:13.740] know whether they’re not coming or whether they’re just not up on the site yet, but Shrumbo is up on [36:14.300 –> 36:20.940] the Europe site. So he’s a big, big squishy boy. All of them. I don’t know what you’re talking [36:20.940 –> 36:26.460] about, but they all Shrumbo specifically. Yeah, he is. He really looks like he’d fit in smooshy [36:26.460 –> 36:35.100] with the name and all. All right. Let’s talk about Eastward Octopia. It was in the Nintendo Direct, [36:36.220 –> 36:41.660] which I thought, I thought I’d managed to get out of this direct. Um, uh, talking about it on [36:41.660 –> 36:45.420] this podcast. Um, I’m just talking about in the greenhouse cause I was like, there are no farming [36:45.420 –> 36:51.820] games. And then I looked closer at this game and realize this is a farming game. Very, very clearly. [36:51.820 –> 36:55.500] Yeah. Like I don’t know how I missed it when we were watching. I just went Eastward. Oh, [36:55.500 –> 36:58.780] that’s a game I don’t really care about. Let’s ignore what’s happening here. [36:58.780 –> 37:06.060] I didn’t realize this is a DLC to Eastward, right? Which is coming soon. No release date yet. A DLC [37:06.060 –> 37:14.540] to Eastward that you don’t need to play Eastward to play. Yup. Right. It’s like a whole separate [37:14.540 –> 37:20.300] game. Yeah. And it’s a whole completely different game. The graphics are the same. Presumably the [37:20.300 –> 37:26.860] controls are very similar, but it is a farming game and Eastward is an adventure game. These [37:26.860 –> 37:38.380] are not the same thing. I mean, not an adventure. No, this is a weird thing to happen. Like what, [37:38.380 –> 37:45.500] why is this a DLC and not another game? First of all, weird. Well, that’s that. Now that is [37:45.500 –> 37:52.380] a good question. Um, so what, here’s an interesting point. I just, I was watching the, the, the farming [37:52.380 –> 37:57.740] animation and um, when they’re watering, they’re just like walking along the line of crops, [37:57.740 –> 38:03.340] pouring water. They’re not like, take a walk, water, take a walk, water. They’re just walking [38:03.340 –> 38:08.860] along and they’re, the animation for watering is continuous. That’s so nice. Isn’t it? [38:10.460 –> 38:16.220] Why is this not a thing in other games? I hate, I hate slash love when a game does this and they’re [38:16.220 –> 38:21.980] like, here’s a thing that you never would have thought of, but now that it exists, every other [38:21.980 –> 38:28.220] game that doesn’t do this is going to annoy you. It’s all ruined now. Like I never want to see a [38:28.220 –> 38:37.820] farming square again. Just make it all continue. Oh man. Oh, so this is interesting. I don’t know [38:37.820 –> 38:44.860] what I’m going to do with this because I had no interest to play Eastward ever. Right. I still, [38:44.860 –> 38:50.540] and you still don’t have to buy it though, but I have to buy the game, [38:51.340 –> 38:54.300] but it doesn’t seem too expensive. So that is good. Um, [38:56.540 –> 39:00.620] but yeah, it’s like welcome to the charming world of Eastward population declining journey [39:00.620 –> 39:05.420] through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strain creatures [39:05.420 –> 39:11.980] and even stranger people. We are a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into an [39:11.980 –> 39:20.140] unknown. And then this is Sam and John return in an all new adventure. Remember this, remember this [39:20.140 –> 39:26.940] is a DLC in this heartwarming story driven farming sim players can grow crops, tend livestock [39:26.940 –> 39:31.100] and turn an abandoned fairground into a thriving village with the help of the weird and wonderful [39:31.100 –> 39:38.220] cast of beloved Eastward characters in a parallel universe where time and space have collided. [39:38.220 –> 39:43.420] Sam and John moved to a peaceful corner of the globe. I’m sorry, a parallel universe. [39:44.140 –> 39:51.500] Well, there you go. That solves all the problem. What? What? We’re doing multi travel in Eastward [39:51.500 –> 39:58.460] now. This is a large DLC for Eastward with a brand new story in an all new farming game mode. [39:58.460 –> 40:06.300] Eastward is required to play the Eastward Octopia DLC. Eastward and the multiverse of cottagecore. [40:06.940 –> 40:15.260] This is weird. It’s weird, but they got us. It might be good weird. I’m not 100% sure. [40:16.860 –> 40:23.820] I don’t know. Their update on it is announcing Octopia a new farming DLC coming Eastward. [40:23.820 –> 40:28.140] I bet you didn’t see that coming. They start off. You’re right about that. [40:29.580 –> 40:35.820] So the Eastward Octopia DLC will be accessible straight from Eastward start menu and suitable [40:35.900 –> 40:38.940] for brand new players and Eastward completionists alike. [40:40.700 –> 40:46.860] Why is this a DLC? The more I think about it, the more the more I’m on board with this [40:47.500 –> 40:57.580] general idea of of totally separate different DLC. This is weird. Like, oh man, [40:58.460 –> 41:02.620] I’m trying to think of a good example of a wild one. Well, I was going to make a joke [41:02.620 –> 41:08.220] about Final Fantasy or something, right? Having like a random addition that adds farming. [41:08.220 –> 41:09.900] Those are already in Final Fantasy. [41:09.900 –> 41:15.740] I realized they did that. They did that in Final Fantasy 14. Not only that, it’s on the moon. [41:16.780 –> 41:21.660] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Final Fantasy has those baked in. [41:21.660 –> 41:27.340] There’s no joke you can make about Final Fantasy, but it’s something they’ve probably already done. [41:27.340 –> 41:36.380] No, I mean, it’s like Mario Wonder gets a DLC that’s, I don’t know. [41:38.060 –> 41:44.300] Oh, it’s like, you know, it’s like they did Mario 3D World and they just added on a whole [41:44.940 –> 41:48.140] new game onto it. There was an open world 3D platformer. [41:48.700 –> 41:51.020] Yeah. Oh, wait, they did. [41:53.020 –> 41:54.060] Yeah, they did. [41:57.340 –> 42:01.580] I still need to play that one. All right. Interesting looking. [42:01.580 –> 42:07.660] Did you look at the fishing minigame? Oh, I remember looking at it. I remember, [42:07.660 –> 42:11.340] I don’t remember what it is right now, but I remember noting it in my brain. [42:11.340 –> 42:16.380] Weird. Also, is that flying flying cows and pigs? Why are they flying? [42:17.020 –> 42:22.620] I don’t know. Yeah. Okay. That looks a little like, what’s it called? [42:24.060 –> 42:28.700] Well, I mean, the circle roots of Pacha. But yeah, that fishing actually looks interesting. [42:29.740 –> 42:36.700] It looks dynamic. I appreciate a dynamic minigame. All right. Whatever. I mean, [42:37.980 –> 42:41.260] it’s crazy, right? Because if this were a standalone game, this would be like, [42:41.260 –> 42:44.940] for sure. Just like, yeah, I’m down for that. But the fact that it’s DLC. [42:45.740 –> 42:50.540] Octopia is a weird name. I haven’t played Eastward, so probably maybe it means something. [42:50.540 –> 42:56.700] I don’t know. Wait, can we get a DLC where the universe is collide? [43:00.460 –> 43:04.460] Japanese rural life simulator talking of weird things. [43:05.180 –> 43:12.940] Yeah, this. Okay, so this is an Apple arcade game. I’m going to guess that at some point [43:12.940 –> 43:18.860] it’ll come to Android because their previous games are on Android. This is a Japanese developer [43:19.740 –> 43:28.060] that has released this game. And it’s about living in rural Japan. View the cherry blossoms in the [43:28.060 –> 43:33.340] spring, attend the festival in the summer, eat roasted sweet potatoes in the fall, hear the [43:33.340 –> 43:37.820] temple bell ring in winter, and then it’s time for the first shrine

Kev interviews Wylde Flowers voice actor Ray Chase. Also, Al and Kev go through the news of the week. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:03:27: What Have We Been Up To 00:12:55: News 00:49:49: Plugs 00:55:47: Intro To Interview 01:00:53: Ray Chase Interview 01:41:34: Outro Links APICO 3.0 Steamworld Build Release Date My Time at Sandrock Delay Research Story 0.4 Update One Lonely Outpost Update and Roadmap Fae Farm New Trailer Disney Dreamlight Valley Belle Teaser Slime Rancher Movie Bungie Life Sim Pumpkin Panic Mobberville Chronomon Rainbow Road Radio on Twitter Ray Chase on Twitter Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:05.840] [music] [00:30.720 –> 00:38.880] hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season my name is al i’m kevin [00:38.880 –> 00:44.000] and we are here today to talk about cottagecore games that’s what it is that we do isn’t it [00:44.640 –> 00:53.920] well hold it hold it hold it hold it before that uh happy birthday al cue the music um for [00:53.920 –> 00:58.880] dear listeners al’s birthday was just a few days ago well at the time of this recording probably [00:58.880 –> 01:05.360] went about almost a week since yeah then this episode comes out um but uh yes wishing you a [01:05.360 –> 01:14.640] very happy birthday post birthday whatever um and in honor of your birthday al i am bringing you [01:15.280 –> 01:19.600] the best gift i can think of another episode about wildflowers [01:19.680 –> 01:29.520] so many so we are on wildflowers episode is it four or is it five i feel like it’s five at least [01:29.520 –> 01:35.920] uh let me check my list because i have a list i can search through my list i did a solo episode [01:36.480 –> 01:46.560] we did one together there was the uh interview uh so this is the fourth main episode but there’s [01:46.560 –> 01:51.200] also there was a greenhouse as well ah there you go so you did the characters the characters one [01:51.200 –> 01:56.720] you did as your greenhouse episode the premium episode the best bit is kevin it’s just me and [01:56.720 –> 02:03.040] you they’ve been doing all of it i know no we’re not letting anyone else on this train nope um [02:04.160 –> 02:10.880] yeah no that’s because well at least half the episodes i don’t think you even expected i sprung [02:10.880 –> 02:15.840] them on you yeah i mean look i’m not complaining when you come to me and say here’s an episode [02:15.840 –> 02:24.080] and i’ve done most of it i’m like great sounds amazing let’s do it um so just before we get into [02:24.080 –> 02:31.920] that uh transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website as per usual um the [02:31.920 –> 02:39.120] and yeah as kevin mentioned we are going to do this so this is the second interview of a um [02:40.000 –> 02:47.440] uh voice actor that’s the term i’m looking for a voice actor from wildflowers um which will [02:47.440 –> 02:51.200] detail a little bit more later if you want to listen if you don’t care about anything [02:51.200 –> 02:54.960] else and you’re just here for this for the interview part of the podcast there should [02:54.960 –> 02:59.440] be times in the show notes you can click on that and and get straight to that if that’s what you [02:59.440 –> 03:03.040] really want i would recommend listening though we’ve got loads of interesting news coming up [03:03.120 –> 03:10.560] i’ll say before well i will say just to hook them that it is the interviewee is uh one mr [03:10.560 –> 03:18.320] ray chase who is a prolific voice actor uh far beyond wildflower so um i suggest you guys look [03:18.320 –> 03:23.200] them up i’ll get into that later but anyways go ahead al all right what’s up what are we doing [03:23.200 –> 03:26.560] so yeah before that we’re gonna have a whole bunch of exciting news [03:27.200 –> 03:29.360] but first of all kevin what have you been up to [03:31.680 –> 03:36.080] it’s been a minute since i’ve been on so i’m trying to think um it’s been a minute yet i [03:36.080 –> 03:41.840] feel like yeah the gradually episode is your last one yeah um tears of the kingdom i’m not [03:41.840 –> 03:48.000] done with it but i have i don’t remember if i had it when i last recorded but i’ve i’m going [03:48.000 –> 03:54.320] through that it’s guess what it’s a good game um shock the lightning temple is the best part of the [03:54.320 –> 03:59.840] game thus far i haven’t done the fire temple i will say but uh man i really like the lightning [03:59.840 –> 04:09.280] temple it’s a pyramid in a desert it’s it’s a good thing um let’s see aside from um that [04:10.240 –> 04:16.240] marvel snap continues to eat away at my life um i hit uh infinite last season that’s like top of [04:16.240 –> 04:22.240] the top i finally caught up with johnny um and i am trying to claw my way back up there slowly but [04:22.240 –> 04:29.760] unsurely um aside from that uh but but all that’s a little that’s all that’s a little old news [04:29.760 –> 04:38.560] what’s eaten my life this week aquarium odyssey deal sea forts let’s make a zoo whatever it’s [04:38.560 –> 04:44.320] called the zoo game i’m playing that i’m back in nice let’s build a zoo whatever [04:45.280 –> 04:53.840] yeah what abomination of nature have you are you most excited by so as the name applies is [04:53.840 –> 04:58.800] aquarium odyssey it’s all your fish and whatnot right so yeah i’m probably gonna work on like a [04:58.800 –> 05:03.520] puffer fish and a blue whale because that just sounds funny just stick the head on the blue whale [05:03.520 –> 05:11.840] nice tiny little puffer fish head um but um i mean it’s good you know go back to the episode we [05:11.840 –> 05:17.520] talked about that game it’s still good it’s great value go go get it let’s build a zoo um [05:18.560 –> 05:25.360] what about you al what have you been up to nice um let’s see so i’ve started i’ve started playing [05:25.360 –> 05:34.240] the original harvest moon on my switch oh so that is interesting i’ll talk more about that later [05:34.880 –> 05:41.840] ah some other did you have a question no no actually that does make me uh i should point [05:41.840 –> 05:46.880] out i’ve also i’ve actually kept up with story of seasons uh wonderful life um as a you know [05:46.880 –> 05:53.920] comparison point since that is the yeah the grand pappy of that game um so i am curious to see how [05:53.920 –> 05:59.120] that uh that compares because that game uh i’m still enjoying it but uh but i guess we’ll hear [05:59.120 –> 06:04.320] about that some other time maybe uh i don’t know what it’s not like i’m saving it for a future [06:04.320 –> 06:10.640] episode or anything like that definitely no no why would we do that on this platform why are we [06:10.640 –> 06:15.120] talking about harvest moon on the harvest season no that doesn’t make sense but yeah it’s it’s [06:15.120 –> 06:18.800] interesting i’ll say that at this point it’s interesting because i never played the original [06:18.800 –> 06:22.720] did you you never played the original did you i wonder if it was your first yeah that’s correct [06:23.040 –> 06:31.120] yeah so it’s interesting to go back and see where it all began and um what was a staple back then [06:31.120 –> 06:36.560] and what has changed since then it’s been very interesting i’m not sure it’s the sort of game [06:36.560 –> 06:42.000] i’m going to play for months right like it’s not sure but i’m sure it shows a little age just a [06:42.000 –> 06:47.920] little maybe yeah but at least for a bit to see what it’s like because you know history is is [06:47.920 –> 06:53.920] interesting context is good for things yeah usually i have also [06:55.520 –> 07:01.360] i’ve been doing a bunch of raids in pokemon to get ready for mewtwo which is i think coming on [07:01.360 –> 07:10.800] this friday um so looking forward to getting a mewtwo with the remark enjoying that [07:11.520 –> 07:15.520] i haven’t been disliking it i mean i feel like the raids are one of the better bits of the game [07:15.520 –> 07:21.520] i feel like it’s the work one of the worst i just i really like i’ve really been enjoying [07:21.520 –> 07:26.160] the blissy ones because it’s like you go in there and you absolutely take it down and then it heals [07:26.160 –> 07:30.400] you and you’re like oh great thanks and then you get loads of rewards for it i’ve been enjoying [07:30.400 –> 07:36.560] that oh sure i guess that if you’re grinding out the easy mindless ones yeah that that makes sense [07:36.640 –> 07:47.280] like i yeah okay and that’s fair like i i’m on many tangents here but um i play with my brother [07:47.280 –> 07:54.000] calvin and a lot of times we even do not even online just like next to each other couch local [07:54.000 –> 08:01.200] co-op type yeah situation where he has his switch i have mine and we’re uh where we’ll be doing a [08:01.200 –> 08:05.280] raid together whatever right and and that’s good because hey the person i’m coordinating with is [08:05.280 –> 08:11.600] like right next to me we can actually just talk and and coordinate stuff but yeah it also being [08:11.600 –> 08:19.440] able to see each other’s screens more or less shows how insanely broken the raids can be [08:20.480 –> 08:24.880] um that might not be the case at lower easier raids where you clear them out into a second [08:24.880 –> 08:33.520] but yeah like the raid will be finished on one of our screens like a good at least 30 seconds [08:33.520 –> 08:43.120] before the other person it’s wild wild um but um you know and and that’s all technical like [08:43.120 –> 08:48.880] shenanigans but um even from a non-technical like more subjective i don’t particularly [08:48.880 –> 08:54.560] like the design of them i much prefer the sword shield once yeah but we don’t need to get into [08:54.560 –> 09:01.280] that bit again yeah i don’t know do yeah no i don’t all right that’s fine but yeah go ahead [09:01.280 –> 09:07.600] so that and uh i’ve got loads of games that i’m kind of ongoing but not really done a huge amount [09:07.600 –> 09:13.120] i’ve still not managed to push past the bunch of tutorials at the beginning of pikmin 4 they are [09:13.120 –> 09:21.040] really not fun um i’m not about the full game but i can tell just from the demo that it’s bad it’s [09:21.040 –> 09:27.200] real bad my problem with is right you get into the game and it starts you off on this little kind of [09:27.200 –> 09:33.200] mini tutorial level where you’re playing with with olimar and um you’ve got all your powers [09:33.200 –> 09:36.880] and everything and that’s that’s actually a really good tutorial really fun tutorial [09:36.880 –> 09:40.960] and i was having loads of fun during that and then you finish it and you go into the actual [09:40.960 –> 09:45.280] start of the game and they put you into a new tutorial which is just walk 10 steps get talked [09:45.280 –> 09:49.600] at for five minutes walk 10 steps get talked out for five minutes and i’m like why are we doing [09:49.600 –> 09:53.680] this so i’m really hoping we get back to what it was at the very beginning and i would actually [09:53.680 –> 09:59.520] enjoy it but i’m not enjoying it right now so i’ve not been playing it a lot it’s wild because [09:59.520 –> 10:08.080] this is you know the fourth entry in the pikmin series and i will say like i have never once [10:08.080 –> 10:18.640] associated dialogue with the pikmin series and yeah we love that story it’s and so it’s just [10:18.640 –> 10:26.080] it’s it’s wild to see the pivot they took from like no dialogue to oh we’re just gonna throw [10:26.640 –> 10:33.600] every as much dialogue as humanly possible as we can into this it’s insane bizarre [10:34.960 –> 10:38.080] and i need to at some point go back and finish off hollow knight but i’ve just not had the [10:39.520 –> 10:45.360] the brain space for that but i mean that requires a lot of brain space i don’t want to blame you and [10:45.360 –> 10:49.760] i did just get a bunch of games for my birthday so that’s gonna make things busy so oh you’ll like [10:49.760 –> 10:58.880] this so i got what did we get uh i got i’m trying to remember the one that wasn’t sonic related [10:58.880 –> 11:06.960] that i got uh oh yeah i got louise’s luigi’s mansion 3 oh that’s that’s a good one and then [11:06.960 –> 11:14.560] i got uh two sonic games because apparently the two sonic games and a sonic lego set because [11:14.560 –> 11:19.840] apparently this was the sonic birthday i don’t even know how that happened oh so i got every [11:19.840 –> 11:24.880] birthday is the sonic birthday i got the new sonic set um you know the one without the ball [11:24.880 –> 11:30.960] that sonic goes in yeah yeah and the the um the thing that speeds it along so i got that [11:30.960 –> 11:36.960] which i’m excited to build yeah and then i got sonic forces which i had never played [11:37.760 –> 11:45.360] oh oh that um that’s a game with highs and lows it’ll be interesting to see [11:46.480 –> 11:52.560] i got that for switch and i got i think you might actually like it though i’m hoping so i’m hoping [11:52.560 –> 11:59.440] so because there’s there’s yeah the levels are short i’ll say that that’s good that’s good yeah [11:59.440 –> 12:09.520] and i got sonic frontiers for ps5 ah now we’re now that’s a good one did you did you think you [12:09.520 –> 12:15.680] could play sonic in breath of the wild i didn’t think so but apparently you can and it’s enjoyable [12:15.680 –> 12:21.040] i am excited to to play it um all the all the extra updates they’re all free aren’t they there’s [12:21.040 –> 12:27.520] no like paid dlc for that isn’t it i yeah i’ve not heard of any paid dlc yeah because they just [12:27.520 –> 12:32.560] announced their last um update for that game yeah dude do you not remember we had this conversation [12:32.560 –> 12:37.760] about sonic direct like two months ago yeah we had the birthday dlc is that still going on [12:37.760 –> 12:44.000] no there was uh there was another thing they’ve announced anyway i don’t remember whatever so i [12:44.000 –> 12:49.840] got that’s what i got i’ve not played any of them yet but uh they’re on my list so lots of games [12:50.480 –> 12:57.040] lots of stuff i think that’s what we’ve been up to all right should we talk about some news i [12:57.120 –> 13:06.000] guess contractually obliged to all right so first of all we’ve got apico 3.0 uh is coming out soon [13:06.000 –> 13:13.840] so it’s the new apico update um it has a bunch of new areas some newbies some new quests and [13:13.840 –> 13:18.640] fishing mechanic so if you felt one thing that was missing from apico is fishing [13:18.640 –> 13:28.320] no it’s got it do we get cody in a fishing hat you see the fishing tutorial no she is not [13:28.880 –> 13:34.400] wouldn’t that be something look if i mean basically fish are the bees of the sea right [13:37.680 –> 13:46.080] i ooh that’s that’s it sure i’ll say yes just just to aggravate cody so it also looks like [13:46.640 –> 13:51.760] wait i feel like they’ve taken this really in a really weird direction because i’m just watching [13:51.760 –> 13:57.600] the the trailer for the update and it looks like you can dive underground not underground dive [13:57.600 –> 14:06.160] under the water whoa and get water bees is that a thing yes you can get bees in the water no i [14:06.160 –> 14:15.200] know in the game is that a thing in real life oh probably not bees in water water bees bees cannot [14:15.200 –> 14:20.000] swim that’s the first thing that cannot breathe underwater but they can be submerged [14:20.000 –> 14:22.000] for up to five minutes [14:24.080 –> 14:29.840] gotta pollinate wait scientists just discovered there are bees in the oceans [14:29.840 –> 14:39.680] bees is in quotes oh they’re pollinators oh we’ll paint it okay here we go all right then um [14:40.400 –> 14:49.440] okay that’s well okay but all right i’m just see this is how wild this apico update is yeah [14:50.400 –> 15:00.880] you know you love cbs we got a new whole fishing month now we got an episode to throw in there [15:01.200 –> 15:03.280] get cody in there [15:05.760 –> 15:12.480] anyway that is coming soon speaking of coming soon we got a release date for steam world build [15:13.200 –> 15:20.080] and that is the first of december kevin you’re excited about this surely yes build your own [15:20.080 –> 15:25.200] online video game front shop that’s what it is right that’s that’s what steam world is [15:25.760 –> 15:31.840] what is steam world it’s uh it’s a city builder okay i’ve heard the name but i’ve never actually [15:31.840 –> 15:36.480] bothered to look what steam world is because the steam world dig right yeah so steam world [15:36.480 –> 15:41.520] have a bunch of different games in different genres and steam world build is their [15:43.120 –> 15:49.760] city builder one and it’s their new game oh it’s got it’s ooh it reminds me of dragon quest [15:49.760 –> 15:56.720] builders got that that square grid system i like it yeah it looks great it looks quite cool um i [15:56.720 –> 16:02.080] might give it a try at some point oh that looks like combat like actual combat sort of thing okay [16:02.080 –> 16:08.480] that’s interesting huh all right yeah i’m wondering whether it’s um so it’s definitely not like first [16:08.480 –> 16:15.840] person i’m pretty sure it’s kind of terror defense combat that’s what it sure looks like so i mean [16:15.840 –> 16:21.360] that’s good i like terror defense i do too i do yeah all right this looks pretty good online [16:21.360 –> 16:30.320] december 1st december 1st coming to windows windows playstation xbox and switch and it’s like [16:31.360 –> 16:39.200] ps5 and 4 and it’s xbox series s and x and xbox one it’s like it’s on all the things [16:39.440 –> 16:45.600] everything that matters except mac i stand by my state [16:47.600 –> 16:53.120] wow oh kevin [16:56.000 –> 16:59.760] kevin i can’t wait to get the plugs in so people can send their hate mail [17:00.960 –> 17:05.360] kevin i think that my time at sandrock is scared of the necos night market [17:05.360 –> 17:11.280] i most things should be i’m scared of the necos night market because i’m so excited for it [17:12.000 –> 17:18.240] it’s going to consume my life for context they have delayed their 1.0 release so that was meant [17:18.240 –> 17:22.640] to be coming out the same day as mannequins night market on the 26th of september they have taken [17:22.640 –> 17:29.600] the very sensible decision to delay until the 2nd of november yeah some room between them and [17:29.600 –> 17:38.320] mannequins night market yep that’s that’s the move i mean yeah i can’t i can’t think of any [17:38.320 –> 17:43.680] game well that’s not true there’s probably some games but it’s a that’s a tough time to come out [17:43.680 –> 17:51.120] um yeah i don’t blame you i’d run away i love them they probably have no idea right like it’s [17:51.120 –> 17:55.440] probably just any more time but i love the idea that they’re like actively like having a meeting [17:55.440 –> 17:59.760] like oh no we’re just releasing the same day as mannequins night market we need to we need to [17:59.760 –> 18:05.760] change we’re gonna we’re not gonna nobody’s gonna play our game there are okay i don’t know about [18:05.760 –> 18:14.320] sandrock but that absolutely happens i’m positive oh sure red dead redemption 2 you bet it moved [18:14.320 –> 18:19.840] because breath of the wild came out on the same day week whatever sure sure but but we are talking [18:19.840 –> 18:25.600] about mannequins night market right it’s not exactly uh is it is it are you gonna regret this [18:25.600 –> 18:34.560] statement al look i think we are living in a bubble let me put it that way well a pro manneco [18:35.120 –> 18:40.080] bubble i suspect most people have never even heard of the game well if then we’re not doing our jobs [18:40.800 –> 18:49.360] because we are not pr people yeah i am i’m a chill i’m gonna shill so hard for like [18:49.360 –> 18:53.680] i’m not a pr person until they like offer to pay me money then who knows [18:55.440 –> 18:57.440] hashtag not an ad but it could be [18:59.920 –> 19:01.920] yes definitely not an ad yet [19:06.720 –> 19:14.720] research story um their 0.4 update is out now and it brings the spring and summer festivals [19:14.720 –> 19:20.480] and a lot of smaller stuff that most people don’t care about if you play the game you might [19:20.480 –> 19:26.640] care about there’s a link in the show notes these researchers have very very vivid lives i’ve got to [19:26.640 –> 19:39.440] say cody do you have spring and summer festivals who doesn’t know at her job i mean totally [19:39.600 –> 19:40.160] i don’t know [19:44.400 –> 19:46.880] one lonely outposts have released a road map [19:48.240 –> 19:53.040] and their first update the customization and controller update is out now [19:54.880 –> 20:00.240] so if you wanted to play it with controller support you can play it now if you were refusing [20:00.240 –> 20:06.960] to play this game until there was character customization good luck no not good luck good news [20:07.840 –> 20:16.480] no it’s there now good luck still good news is there now also they implemented the calendar i [20:16.480 –> 20:23.280] don’t know how they didn’t have a calendar in uh in a farming game that’s wild i’ll say roots [20:23.280 –> 20:29.520] apache didn’t have a calendar but that’s because you had to invent the calendar um yeah but um [20:30.800 –> 20:35.120] is this is this game actually out has anyone checked it are they just are they just bluffing [20:37.120 –> 20:41.840] well it’s in my library i own it and it’s downloaded on my steam deck apparently but [20:41.840 –> 20:49.120] i haven’t okay download without your knowledge it’s like malware i think i kickstarted this [20:49.120 –> 20:56.880] game i i really don’t know i lose track right this is okay all right um [20:59.680 –> 21:05.680] yeah so they’ve got a roadmap for the rest of their updates as well so there’s one coming fall [21:05.680 –> 21:15.920] 2023 there’s one coming winter 2023 one coming early 2024 and one coming 2024 presumably not [21:15.920 –> 21:24.240] early uh so if you are interested in what’s upcoming that will be in the show notes as well [21:24.240 –> 21:31.600] speaking of things coming soon we’ve got fae farm which i think comes out and yeah it comes [21:31.600 –> 21:37.280] on the 8th of september oh that’s real soon that’s like when people hear this that’ll be [21:37.280 –> 21:42.960] like a week yep yep yep yep um they have released a new trailer their launch trailer [21:44.080 –> 21:49.760] and they’ve also announced the deluxe edition so if you had previously pre-ordered the game [21:50.560 –> 21:55.120] you are you now have pre-ordered the deluxe edition they’re just kind of upgrading everybody [21:55.120 –> 22:00.160] to that version oh yo that’s nice um if you haven’t you can choose between the standard [22:00.240 –> 22:06.800] of the deluxe edition the deluxe edition includes a copy of the soundtrack and two [22:06.800 –> 22:14.000] content packs that will be coming before the end of june 2024 okay and whichever one you buy if [22:14.000 –> 22:21.760] you if you buy it before release date you will get the cozy cabin variety pack which includes [22:21.760 –> 22:31.760] a cozy casual farmer’s outfit and a bunch of stuff like a birdhouse and a bench and stuff [22:32.480 –> 22:40.000] like there you go it’s i’m interested see i feel like fae farm has actually [22:40.000 –> 22:48.000] been getting push um from my kendo yeah yeah so i’m interested to see if this actually becomes [22:48.720 –> 22:56.800] a thing and the whole mmo aspect like it’s it’s i’m applauding them for trying this it’s it’s [22:56.800 –> 23:04.080] it’s a bold idea um i’m not fan i’m not a fan of the character designs but other than that the [23:04.080 –> 23:11.040] animations and the visuals in general look very nice um yeah yeah this guy chopping trees and [23:11.040 –> 23:18.080] he’s going full like haymaker circles with his axe it’s crazy um all right fae farm well i mean [23:18.080 –> 23:26.560] soon enough we’ll find out get ready for the the harvest season guild and fae farm and we’ll see [23:27.200 –> 23:35.600] i have no idea i really don’t we’ll see disney dreamlight valley this is a very small piece of [23:35.600 –> 23:42.480] news they’ve teased bell bell’s coming to the game is that small to you good sir yes yes it is [23:42.480 –> 23:52.960] bell yep it’s the best i love i love image descriptions on the internet so have you [23:52.960 –> 24:00.240] read the image description on this tweet no i haven’t it says bell sits on a bench by a pond [24:00.240 –> 24:06.400] reading a book in a screenshot from disney dream life valley i mean it’s very descriptive that’s [24:06.400 –> 24:14.880] correct and you know what and that’s all i need yeah i’ll i’ll i’m excited to just sit on a bench [24:14.880 –> 24:22.560] with bell and talk about books that was awesome so if you’ve really if if the one character you’ve [24:22.560 –> 24:29.520] been waiting for is bell those people exist oh and i am a hundred percent sure there are like [24:29.520 –> 24:34.800] and i and i’m sure there there are quite a few of them right like it’s not going to be one you know [24:34.800 –> 24:41.280] i’m sure there are i’m not personally excited for bell but that’s just me that’s fine i’m not [24:41.280 –> 24:52.240] judging anybody i’m judging i like bell all right what’s wait what slime rancher they’re making a [24:52.240 –> 25:00.080] movie i know for slime rancher what so slime rancher that game where you are ranching [25:00.080 –> 25:06.160] ranching and so what is the what would be the verb you would you’re you’re raising on line [25:06.160 –> 25:12.560] no ranching’s good ranch you’re ranching slimes we’re not talking about this the hot in stardew [25:12.560 –> 25:20.880] valley no no no we’re talking about the game um they’re they’re making a a movie about it um [25:22.240 –> 25:29.280] is there a story in this game i’ve not actually played it look gran turismo got a movie anything [25:29.280 –> 25:35.360] is possible right but it wasn’t about the game this is the thing it wasn’t like animal crossing [25:35.360 –> 25:45.840] got a movie what oh yeah you didn’t know that professor latin has a movie well actually professor [25:45.840 –> 25:52.720] latin is plot driven so that kind of makes more sense but oh yeah a 2006 japanese animated film [25:52.720 –> 25:57.440] based on the animal crossing video game series oh yeah i’m not i’m not even going to try and [25:57.440 –> 26:01.920] pronounce what the title it looks like it wasn’t it’s what it’s the animal crossing movie that’s [26:01.920 –> 26:06.640] all you need that’s all you need to look it up it was not released outside of japan it was not but [26:06.640 –> 26:13.440] you can watch it subtitles i don’t know what to say i mean i would watch an animal crossing movie [26:13.440 –> 26:19.280] if it was um released in in english i don’t really i’m not in the mood for [26:22.160 –> 26:26.960] just no anyway uh it’s like you’re gonna go watch this slime rancher movie [26:27.600 –> 26:35.200] well okay what is story kitchen hold on i’m trying to see which one’s what story kitchen [26:35.200 –> 26:39.200] yes story kitchen what are you talking about i’m sorry i’m reading the article [26:40.160 –> 26:45.200] linked story kitchen is working together with game developer manomi park oh what is story [26:45.200 –> 26:55.760] kitchen presumably they’re a filmmaker well i mean well let’s see like are they gonna i want to [26:55.760 –> 27:04.800] here i i’m curious because like what can i expect company can i expect um you know [27:05.760 –> 27:12.720] i go robbie to join this this cast they are apparently making a seafood film as well [27:12.720 –> 27:19.040] what they are seafood kitchen are yeah see see actually seafood would be great for a movie [27:20.000 –> 27:30.160] um this is wild oh interesting so right okay you’re this is this is wild right story kitchen [27:30.880 –> 27:35.360] is a combination of the writer creator of the john wick franchise [27:35.360 –> 27:42.800] what the producer of the sonic the hedgehog movie and some rich dude um [27:44.480 –> 27:52.640] this is actually not a bad pedigree man alive john wick sonic the hedgehog what’s not to love [27:53.520 –> 28:00.480] okay oh no apparently so i’m wrong this this this this the third person is a is a commentator [28:00.480 –> 28:06.400] apparently oh that’s very different from a rich person yeah well i just he was in a suit and i [28:06.400 –> 28:11.200] didn’t recognize him i didn’t say what he was so i just assumed he was just a random rich dude [28:11.200 –> 28:20.240] but apparently he is a an american play-by-play commentator okay like well i mean i don’t [28:20.800 –> 28:27.600] yeah this is that’s those are like some decent credits actually to have on your pedigree [28:28.800 –> 28:37.920] and i will say keanu reeves being in this movie is is more possible than zero now [28:41.920 –> 28:49.280] oh my word it’s just going to be like john wick but with slimes love it love it that’d be amazing [28:51.200 –> 29:00.480] this is this is why this is why he’s ranching slimes to avenge the the pet that died [29:02.320 –> 29:09.840] i just i don’t know what to say oh i’m getting more excited about this oh yeah this is [29:12.880 –> 29:15.520] sifu’s a lot like john wick too actually [29:15.520 –> 29:25.360] oh they are also making a vampire survivors film oh they’re the guys doing the vampire [29:25.360 –> 29:31.520] they’re doing the vampire survivors film oh okay i won’t lie i’m excited about this now what game [29:31.520 –> 29:39.760] are they not basing something on now that’s oh i i don’t think we’ve actually seen one of their [29:39.760 –> 29:44.320] projects come to fruition but no they’re pretty new so it looks like it was last year they found [29:44.320 –> 29:50.160] this company so yeah it’s going to be a wee bit before any of them release but but but i’m i won’t [29:50.160 –> 29:58.880] lie i’m i’m excited like i why there will pro they will probably be better than other video game [29:58.880 –> 30:05.200] movies i will say that yeah well that’s not that’s not a high bar but what i find what i find really [30:05.200 –> 30:15.920] interesting is the three that they’ve decided to to do are sifu vampire survivors and slime rancher [30:18.000 –> 30:23.200] one of these things is not like the others um it’s not the one you think actually [30:27.440 –> 30:33.280] well it’s gonna be better than the assassin’s creed movie i can tell you that i never even [30:33.280 –> 30:38.320] watched that that’s fine that’s fine look as if as long as it’s better than [30:39.520 –> 30:44.960] oh what was that one with tom holland oh um uncharted yeah uncharted that was [30:46.240 –> 30:50.320] meh that was probably on the level of assassin’s creed i can tell just by looking [30:52.000 –> 31:00.240] it was fine but it was not great just like assassin’s creed those were two hours i spent [31:00.320 –> 31:03.360] and i guess i spent those two hours watching a movie [31:05.360 –> 31:11.600] that’s my review that’s quite exciting for the slime rancher movie well i’m gonna watch it [31:12.160 –> 31:17.200] let’s not pretend yo for sure i’m probably gonna watch all three of these at some point [31:18.480 –> 31:27.040] um but okay so sifu one thousand percent could be live i mean do you know what sifu is [31:27.120 –> 31:31.440] the sifu one is live action yeah okay yes because that’s just kung fu [31:31.440 –> 31:36.320] mood the mood it’s a kung fu mood that’s all it is i believe the vampire survivors one is animated [31:36.320 –> 31:42.560] uh i don’t know but it could be live action my point i’m trying to make here slime rancher how [31:42.560 –> 31:49.360] would you do that live action what did that mean yeah the vampire survivors one is animated and [31:49.360 –> 31:57.520] the sifu one is live action this is one that is both shockingly uh i don’t it doesn’t yeah it [31:57.520 –> 32:02.160] doesn’t say it doesn’t say it’s probably gonna be animated i’m i’m just messing it’s probably [32:02.160 –> 32:10.000] gonna be animated um i’d be i don’t know i think it could be either how would you well you you [32:10.000 –> 32:15.840] okay you’re gonna cgn all the slime i understand that but like what what does it look like because [32:15.840 –> 32:20.640] slime right i hold on let me double check slime rancher is like cutesy isn’t it yeah it is they [32:20.640 –> 32:25.600] look like the juveniles or whatever so you could you could have quite a weird contrast between the [32:25.600 –> 32:31.120] the the surroundings and the the person the player character that ends up being in the game [32:31.120 –> 32:37.600] and then there’s the cg cutesy slime bouncing around this realistic environment it would be [32:37.600 –> 32:45.120] weird but i love it or do they just lean into it and make them like serious like faceless [32:45.120 –> 32:52.960] monstrosities oh no it’s the um the is it the thing is that the no the blob the blob the blob [32:52.960 –> 32:59.280] oh the blob the blob that’s a very different thing like come on i just the blob is what i’m [32:59.280 –> 33:03.520] thinking no no i’m just saying that would be oh that’d be something to make the movie with that [33:05.200 –> 33:12.000] with the oh my goodness wait hold on i’m talking about slime ranch but i don’t remember the last [33:12.000 –> 33:18.720] time i actually looked at it this thing’s a first-person shooter yeah okay oh well okay [33:18.720 –> 33:23.440] makes more sense well shoot you’re not really shooting i think the the thing you’re holding [33:23.440 –> 33:31.920] like moves this the slimes around it’s a vacuum gun yeah well that’ll well hey it’s like a tractor [33:32.800 –> 33:37.600] yeah this will be interesting to see um [33:39.920 –> 33:46.320] i didn’t wow i didn’t think we’d cover a movie on this show well wow this is wild i love it [33:47.360 –> 33:54.400] speaking of wild things you didn’t expect you’d see bungee are apparently making a life sim game [33:54.400 –> 34:06.560] okay so do with that what you want i you know bungee bungee the um the the destiny yeah they’re [34:06.560 –> 34:12.000] the destiny and halo some of the halos did they take over halo they didn’t do the first halos did [34:12.000 –> 34:17.120] they did halo 3 i think i don’t i don’t i never i’ve never played any of these games anyway they [34:17.120 –> 34:21.280] have they have released a bunch of information about a bunch of their games in incubation and [34:21.360 –> 34:26.640] he said one of our favorite incubation projects is a team-based action game inspired by several [34:26.640 –> 34:33.440] genres in a brand new science fantasy universe it draws inspiration from right this is a crazy list [34:33.440 –> 34:41.520] oh my goodness fighting games platformers mobas life sims and frog type games wrapped up in a [34:41.520 –> 34:47.200] light-hearted comedic world i think like frogger that’s what i assume but who calls it a frog type [34:47.760 –> 34:54.880] i guess not to get sued by the frogger people what well it’s either that or maybe it’s like a [34:55.680 –> 35:02.240] typing game with frogs i’m okay i’m trying to think what these categories what they add up to be [35:03.280 –> 35:09.200] it’s like you’re crossing a road but it’s 3d so there’s vertical platforms too [35:10.240 –> 35:16.480] but it’s also heavily combat because it’s a moba i’ve come across i searched for frog type on [35:16.480 –> 35:22.080] google to see if anybody had any idea of what that means and there’s a games radar article [35:22.080 –> 35:27.360] which is bungee’s next secret game is finally out in the open it’s team-based sci-fi and whatever [35:27.360 –> 35:41.040] frog type means oh oh they are definitely um is this frog fractions too i think they must mean [35:41.040 –> 35:47.120] frogger that’s that’s what i’m assuming like but i don’t know how that builds into everything how [35:47.120 –> 35:56.240] does that work like none of this though it could be for a life sim platformer frogger game like [35:56.240 –> 36:02.720] i don’t ever i can kind of actually make a game with the other ones until you throw life sim [36:02.720 –> 36:08.720] i don’t i just i i really look forward to seeing what what on earth they’re talking about right [36:08.720 –> 36:17.440] and we’re just this is wild it’s a team-based game so you’re you’re what life sim games are [36:17.440 –> 36:26.080] team-based unless they mean life sim like spore where you’re generating life no i mean they are [36:26.080 –> 36:33.200] specifically saying like life sim is a pretty standard term like and i know i mean my only [36:33.200 –> 36:41.520] thinking is maybe like maybe these are these maybe these aren’t all the same thing at the [36:41.520 –> 36:48.560] same time so it’s like you know how you you would describe say um it’s just cult of the lamb well [36:48.560 –> 36:53.280] this is what i’m thinking so cult of the lamb right when you initially talk about what it is [36:53.280 –> 36:58.080] makes no sense until you think about the fact that it’s essentially two different parts of a game [36:58.080 –> 37:04.480] yes there are two games since well well it’s well it’s two concepts of games put really nicely [37:04.480 –> 37:12.880] together it somehow works but makes no sense when you think about it sure so let’s do the same so [37:12.880 –> 37:18.800] it’s not presumably it’s not going to be life sim frogger at the same time right like it’s not going [37:18.800 –> 37:23.600] to be the same screen and you’re playing a life sim game in the style of frogger that’s not going [37:23.600 –> 37:32.960] to happen you don’t you don’t know look no you’re right i don’t know i i have no idea i’m just [37:32.960 –> 37:41.200] trying to figure out like the rest of the world and the part that just it’s bungee who’s making [37:41.200 –> 37:46.880] this the destiny people what will it look like yep this is what i’m this is what i’m like is it [37:46.880 –> 37:52.320] is it going to be like because the frogger would imply it’s top down the the moba would imply it’s [37:52.320 –> 37:58.080] kind of top downness as well like the the fighting game you don’t really tend to get like [37:58.080 –> 38:03.840] top down fighting games though do you platformer would imply at least side on or if it’s 3d you [38:03.840 –> 38:08.720] know that you certainly wouldn’t expect top down for a platformer like i don’t know what’s happening [38:08.720 –> 38:16.880] here light-hearted comedic world i can bungee do that is there anything in their portfolio that [38:16.880 –> 38:23.120] shows they know what that looks like i’m super excited to see what this is oh my gosh between [38:23.120 –> 38:31.200] this and the slime rancher movie oh my for me we’ve lost the reins on on not just this episode [38:31.200 –> 38:40.720] on the genre what on earth is going on well let’s go to something a little bit more sane is it [38:41.440 –> 38:49.040] pumpkin panic this is a new game it’s out now explore this little farm in the middle of the [38:49.040 –> 38:56.560] forest plant crops you’re already oh i’m in take take care of the plants go fishing or whatever [38:56.560 –> 39:02.720] you prefer but have a good time but be careful they say that strange things are happening in [39:02.720 –> 39:15.600] the area i mean like it’s your character is looks like the horror villain serial killer guy you’re [39:15.600 –> 39:23.920] wearing a pumpkin mask is that a mask or is it a face i i don’t know either way and everything’s [39:23.920 –> 39:36.320] like this dusk lighting sort of thing and you it’s i don’t oh oh gosh this clearly like they’re [39:36.320 –> 39:40.720] showing only cutesy images but there’s clearly something horrifying that will happen in this game [39:40.720 –> 39:46.720] oh yeah somebody let kelly know she’s gonna love this oh she already knows we’re talking about it [39:46.720 –> 39:52.000] don’t don’t you worry we’re talking about it hey i’m feeling what we’re i know we’re gonna talk [39:52.000 –> 39:58.800] about this year for halloween don’t don’t don’t you be assuming things don’t you be assuming [39:58.800 –> 40:05.600] things um also you it’s out and you can just get it for whatever you want question mark price they [40:05.600 –> 40:13.520] say name your price yeah it’s right there it is website it is name your price on itch go go give [40:13.520 –> 40:21.440] that creator money if you can’t afford it go go play it and and and uh share it it looks wild [40:21.440 –> 40:27.040] the average play time is 40 to 60 minutes it says so you don’t need weeks to play this game [40:28.000 –> 40:39.040] and it has controller support okay i’m watching this trailer like i there’s the shift like i mean [40:39.040 –> 40:46.800] it’s what you expect but they that shift goes hard the tone shift i mean like you first of all [40:46.800 –> 40:52.800] you’re holding the red balloon from it it’s clearly the red balloon from it and then it [40:52.800 –> 40:59.440] ends with the shadowy person but like crawling like golem chasing you it’s oh yeah i love how [40:59.440 –> 41:04.560] i love how you’re like walking around your farm in the dark with your little lantern as well yeah [41:05.200 –> 41:12.800] like i yeah no it’s great oh this this feels like real scary game oh i’m not i don’t like it [41:12.960 –> 41:20.480] um oh that create that shadowy creature oh my word it’s just and it’s because they change [41:20.480 –> 41:25.600] uh first it has like some music like yeah all right that’s music and then they cut to like [41:25.600 –> 41:32.800] staticky sound and it’s it’s not great i don’t like it oh this is definitely cottage gore um [41:32.800 –> 41:42.640] oh yeah oh yeah wow wow what a this is gonna be more saying it does not look more sick [41:43.680 –> 41:52.480] oh okay so shall we continue the wildness of this episode i see the name okay i just want to say the [41:52.480 –> 41:58.960] name of the next entry is called mobberville and my new reaction at the the rate we’re going i [41:58.960 –> 42:10.000] thought this was some sort of mafia wrong kind of wrong kind of mob all right unfortunately no no [42:10.000 –> 42:17.520] no no not unfortunately so this is mob as in like you know like the villains and games [42:18.240 –> 42:27.280] yeah the so help the mobs rebuild their homes so this is presumably like after [42:28.880 –> 42:34.960] after someone has gone through this that the hero has gone through and destroyed everything you’re [42:34.960 –> 42:43.120] trying to help the monsters rebuild their village i like this idea i’m looking at the video though [42:43.120 –> 42:52.960] i’m not particularly fond of the execution yeah and i’m not see if i saw this trailer [42:52.960 –> 42:57.600] that you tell me the description i thought oh this looks like a nice little farming s game [42:57.600 –> 43:02.240] because you’re farming and building things my biggest complaint is the the guy doesn’t look [43:02.240 –> 43:08.320] like a mob he just looks like a guy yeah your your player character looks pretty generic and [43:08.320 –> 43:11.600] i wonder whether there might be character customization at some point to look like [43:11.600 –> 43:18.160] different there is the trailer shows you can like get little goblin ears or you can get a wheelchair [43:19.040 –> 43:23.520] so there is some type of customization but just when when you say mob you know like [43:24.400 –> 43:32.160] again creeper like minecraft that’s probably one of the most uh prolific uses of the word [43:32.640 –> 43:40.320] where all the things that aren’t uh the character called mobs the villagers the yes minecraft so [43:40.320 –> 43:48.240] eudex the creepers the whatever so you’d expect something that looks not maybe human or yeah or [43:48.240 –> 43:52.960] i don’t know something more like oh this is clearly a monster guy or whatever anyways [43:52.960 –> 43:59.040] um but that said uh the game actually looks nice once you get over um past that disconnect i’m [43:59.040 –> 44:07.200] having um it’s an interesting stat it’s unlike it it’s an interesting mix of like some things [44:07.200 –> 44:14.640] look kind of realistic some things don’t there’s some parts are kind of like very samey colors [44:14.640 –> 44:20.400] some parts are quite vibrant it’s an interesting mix of things i’m yes unsure of how i feel about [44:20.400 –> 44:29.360] it all it almost looks cell shaded at times i would say yeah i like it i don’t know it’s [44:29.360 –> 44:37.280] interesting i guess people look at it i i’m fond of the again the main character design not the [44:37.280 –> 44:45.840] notwithstanding i like the look of this game a lot actually um but work with me here just imagine [44:45.840 –> 44:53.520] this game same premise but you’re in the mafia i’m telling you there’s there’s something there [44:53.520 –> 45:02.880] life sim mafia game is that what you’re saying i mean yeah you’re the you’re in the mob but [45:02.880 –> 45:08.640] you’re not like one of the the you’re not one of the goons you’re the guy who who like runs the [45:08.640 –> 45:12.880] office you’re there you gotta feed the mob [45:16.720 –> 45:18.960] why are we talking about a digimon next now [45:21.520 –> 45:28.320] chronomon this is our final news item for the episode thank goodness for that chronomon [45:28.320 –> 45:34.320] a monster taming rpg farm sim you guys think i’m joking but google it there is a digimon named [45:34.320 –> 45:44.480] chronomon chronomon a monster catching rpg sim on your pc slash mobile slash wear os smartwatch [45:44.480 –> 45:52.640] a truly cross-platform game you can get this on my tesla in my tesla while not driving i kid you [45:52.640 –> 46:04.080] not they have a version of this game for android watches oh yeah i just saw it look anytime you [46:04.080 –> 46:08.000] talk monster catching right like of course you’re gonna look at the monster designs i just saw [46:08.000 –> 46:14.800] dragonair that was just a dragon that was a pokemon i haven’t looked i still haven’t looked [46:14.800 –> 46:20.560] at it despite you saying it let’s have a look but the trick the trick is you can make them very close [46:20.560 –> 46:25.680] to pokemon because when you’re playing on your apple watch or your android watch whatever you [46:25.680 –> 46:32.960] can’t actually see they’re too small that’s how they get you yeah oh wow that’s just pokemon grass [46:32.960 –> 46:37.440] that is just pokemon grass i mean how different can you make grass look let’s be honest [46:38.16

Al and Codey talk about their favourite games from 2019-2022 Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:05:41: What Have We Been Up To 00:15:03: Game Of The Podcast Year Discussion 00:16:51: Nominations 00:46:27: Winner 00:53:57: Outro Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:14.000] do [00:30.320 –> 00:36.160] hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season my name is al and my [00:36.160 –> 00:40.560] name is cody and we’re here today to talk to you about cottagecore games [00:44.720 –> 00:46.880] should we start doing it like a roller coaster like [00:50.080 –> 00:52.560] oh man this is going to be a dreadful episode to level [00:53.920 –> 00:58.000] it’s okay every time i get loud i move away from the mic isn’t that we’re supposed to do [00:58.000 –> 01:05.040] yeah okay sure i’m being a good noodle hi cody how you doing i’m good i [01:06.080 –> 01:14.800] passed my comps whoo that means that i have no more tests no more anything for at least two [01:14.800 –> 01:20.240] years and that they’ve acknowledged that i’m a good noodle and then i can get the stuff done [01:20.240 –> 01:25.680] oh so this isn’t the phd finished no this is the middle this is basically me like showing so i [01:25.680 –> 01:32.800] basically in my program comps is show your committee what you’re planning to do and they [01:34.080 –> 01:40.640] ask you a heck ton of questions to make sure that you understand what you’re doing yeah um and ask [01:40.640 –> 01:47.280] you a ton of questions to like make sure that you are a good a good noodle so some people if you do [01:47.280 –> 01:53.520] not pass your comps they’ll just say hey just get a master’s instead like you’re not at the level [01:54.160 –> 02:00.160] to be able to get a phd um but i am at that level and they said that i did a great job [02:00.160 –> 02:05.760] and that i am all set and if i do everything the way that i’ve outlined it in my proposal [02:06.640 –> 02:11.440] i will pass with flying colors yeah so now they can leave me alone and i can get stuff done for [02:11.440 –> 02:17.120] the next two years and i don’t have to prove myself anymore so this is when the real work [02:17.120 –> 02:22.560] begins that’s what you’re saying yeah this is when i like nose to the grindstone but it’s working [02:22.560 –> 02:27.360] with a lot of specimens and i really like working with mine how are you uh i am i’m doing doing [02:27.360 –> 02:33.120] all right yeah um at least i currently am uh who knows what i’ll be like in two months when this [02:33.120 –> 02:36.880] episode comes out yeah when this episode comes out you’ll be in the middle of vacation right [02:36.880 –> 02:40.720] your holiday and no i’ll actually this one this one’s coming out when i’m when i’m back [02:41.440 –> 02:47.040] but i didn’t really want to record and release an episode in two days so that’s fair that’s fair [02:47.360 –> 02:53.920] uh yeah so i mean that’s good that’s uh i’m you know current owl not currently recording but [02:53.920 –> 02:59.120] current in the in the time that this is out is probably very hopefully but also very like [03:00.000 –> 03:06.320] uh i’m not ready to come back to work yet great uh uh we forgot to mention that transcripts are [03:06.320 –> 03:11.520] available in the show notes and on the website um you’re trying to take over my job a little bit [03:11.920 –> 03:19.360] a little bit uh this um we’ve just i hope you enjoyed fishing month and fishing month is now [03:19.360 –> 03:26.800] over but i thought i would end my holiday with an episode um which is i’m calling game of the [03:26.800 –> 03:34.720] podcast year so every year we do a game of the year episode um but because this is a farming game [03:35.440 –> 03:42.000] what’s the word i’m looking for podcast and the games that we generally play [03:42.960 –> 03:48.000] generally have years that last the four months and then each season of this podcast [03:48.000 –> 03:55.840] is 26 episodes and is a month well not a month a season we have had well now this is we’ve actually [03:55.840 –> 04:01.520] had five seasons but when i thought this up we had had four seasons therefore a full year therefore [04:01.520 –> 04:07.200] we’re going to talk about our favorite game of the podcast year as in in this case four years [04:07.200 –> 04:13.600] man that was so much more complicated than it needed to be okay so basically like in 2019 when [04:13.600 –> 04:20.160] the episode when the podcast started that would have been spring yeah 2020 was summer yeah very [04:20.160 –> 04:27.120] bad summer 2021 would have been fall and then 2022 would have been winter so we are now in 2023 so it [04:27.120 –> 04:36.160] is now time for us to look back on the last quote year but it’s actually four years and it’s not [04:36.160 –> 04:42.320] actually the last year it’s delayed it’s delayed by nearly eight months well we needed some time [04:42.320 –> 04:46.720] to like think about it you know let’s not pretend like we would be thinking about it [04:49.040 –> 04:52.080] we went what games do we like these games great [04:53.040 –> 04:54.800] we will talk about that in a few minutes [04:56.640 –> 05:02.960] um oh my word i need a holiday so this episode has no news because obviously we are recording [05:02.960 –> 05:07.840] out of time because i’m on holiday uh it’s not quite two months because we delayed the recording [05:07.840 –> 05:12.720] it’s like a month and a half so about a month and a half out of date so if we’ve not mentioned any [05:12.720 –> 05:17.680] ridiculously interesting news don’t worry it will be in the next episode the next episode will be [05:17.680 –> 05:24.400] a live not live episode it’ll be an in-time episode we’ll cover some news in the next [05:24.400 –> 05:28.320] that’s all we’ll cover the next episode will just be news right i’m not i’m not doing anything else [05:28.320 –> 05:36.640] for life i cannot believe that that one game producer did that one thing it’s news that’s [05:36.640 –> 05:44.000] gonna happen so we’re just gonna talk about that except first of all cody what have you been up to [05:44.960 –> 05:51.440] annoying the crap out of you man what have you had been up to i have had been up to um [05:52.560 –> 06:03.600] so back it back in june the now recording but the months ago um i uh defended or oh my gosh [06:03.600 –> 06:08.400] passed my comms which i already talked about and now i’m like nose to the grindstones i’m [06:08.400 –> 06:13.520] going to be doing a lot of specimen work um but also that kind of like frees up time to [06:13.520 –> 06:20.000] play video games which i’m super excited about so i just got game pass so i want to play uh [06:20.000 –> 06:25.360] farming simulator i want to play disney dreamlight valley there’s another game that like it popped up [06:25.360 –> 06:28.720] it was like will you suggest this game for you and i was like oh yeah i want to play that but i [06:28.720 –> 06:33.360] can’t remember for the life of me right now also remember remember this episode is coming out after [06:33.360 –> 06:38.320] all the other episodes so you can refer to episodes that will have already been out by [06:38.320 –> 06:42.320] this point okay so you can talk about the fact that you’re doing a film farming simulator one [06:42.320 –> 06:45.760] yet because it’s already happened that’s i mean that’s the only one i mean i wanted to i want to [06:45.760 –> 06:50.320] talk about disney dreamlight valley but we’ll wait for that for one for the 1.0 release which [06:50.320 –> 06:55.040] was at some point in the maybe that’ll be one of the news items we talk about next week [06:57.520 –> 07:01.360] and then we can have that on the thing so we could do a second harvest of disney dreamlight valley [07:01.360 –> 07:09.440] and i’ll have played that um yeah that that’s oh i got i really got into this tetris game on my phone [07:10.560 –> 07:16.800] that i mentioned um i think in the last episode it’s literally just the tetris game like it’s [07:16.800 –> 07:24.000] just called like tetris um oh by by the tetris company like there’s there’s no it’s not it’s [07:24.000 –> 07:30.000] not like a second hand thing or whatever but you can earn points that you can then put towards like [07:30.000 –> 07:36.720] in real life rewards the rewards are really like few and far between so it’s it’s like this one [07:36.720 –> 07:45.120] high-end restaurant lets you have free beignets for 20 000 points or something and it takes you [07:45.120 –> 07:49.600] like four days to get 20 000 points if you’re like playing or even longer than that probably [07:49.600 –> 07:56.720] i’ve been playing for like two weeks and i only have like 30 000 but al if i save up a million [07:56.720 –> 08:03.520] points i could go to on a cruise to alaska for free we’re not talking about a real [08:03.520 –> 08:09.440] cruise it’s a real cruise it’s a real life cruise but i have to save up a million points [08:10.240 –> 08:13.840] and after playing for two weeks straight and getting all the points i can get every single [08:13.840 –> 08:20.560] day i’m at like 30 000 points i mean that doesn’t that feels achievable like is there a time limit [08:20.560 –> 08:28.000] for this like that feels like a dangerous thing for them to do the alaskan cruise is um you have [08:28.000 –> 08:35.040] to like submit you have to like redeem it or whatever by august mid-august okay but i think [08:35.040 –> 08:39.280] like they just have another they’ll just have another one after that i’m pretty sure i put [08:39.280 –> 08:48.640] an entry in to win a two-person trip on a cruise to the middle east or the caribbean or whatever [08:48.640 –> 08:54.480] i don’t remember what how they phrase it but i just put like one entry in so it wasn’t like [08:54.480 –> 09:00.240] a guaranteed thing but it’s a you read all the rules for it and everything it’s like two days [09:00.240 –> 09:06.320] or two people for eight days and it’s everything it just feels like the time that pepsi had a [09:06.320 –> 09:13.760] competition to win a fighter jet and then they got into a whole bunch of legal trouble because [09:13.760 –> 09:18.160] they never thought anybody would ever actually manage to get that many points so someone sued [09:18.240 –> 09:24.000] them over because they wouldn’t get them a jet yeah i also remember there was a radio station [09:24.640 –> 09:32.320] uh doing when i was like 11 there’s a radio station doing this like do x amount of things [09:32.320 –> 09:38.320] or like earn i don’t remember something like like collect box tops or collect straws or something [09:38.320 –> 09:43.600] yeah really dumb the radio station was trying to get people to do and it said oh if you do that [09:43.600 –> 09:53.360] then you get um you get a toyota and someone did it and she like went hard on it for like a month [09:53.360 –> 10:00.480] to win this thing and they gave her a toy of the star wars character yoda close enough it [10:00.480 –> 10:09.600] was a toyota yeah and she sued them she got a car um but yeah i mean it says on it on the thing it [10:09.600 –> 10:20.400] says it’s a norwegian norwegian cruise lines trip to uh to alaska so i don’t think i’m gonna i [10:20.400 –> 10:26.400] i’m mostly memeing like i don’t think i’ll ever get it um yeah do we need to do we need to talk [10:26.400 –> 10:32.880] about the environmental impact of cruises maybe yeah i have one trip for the norwegian cruise [10:32.880 –> 10:39.200] line middle east cruise giveaway you go to dubai and it’s a seven day cruise for two [10:39.200 –> 10:45.840] plus airfare to get there a cruise to dubai oh that’s very different there’s an overnight [10:45.840 –> 10:50.400] stay in abu dhabi yeah i mean this is the one that you only have to pay a thousand to like win [10:50.400 –> 10:55.920] an entry to get it where’s the other which means you’re not winning correct like i’m not expecting [10:55.920 –> 11:01.600] to win that one but i could but there’s another there’s like the one that you can actually just [11:01.600 –> 11:09.840] straight up buy oh i gotta like scroll all the way over oh you can win for like 45 you can get [11:09.840 –> 11:16.960] like half off a night at a hotel um i’m being blind i can’t see i can’t see dubai on the map [11:16.960 –> 11:27.440] it must why am i why am i blind i can see saudi abra uh-huh oh that’s why [11:27.440 –> 11:36.960] it’s a new e oh such an idiot right oh yeah i can get one complimentary night at mandalay bay [11:37.520 –> 11:43.360] where does the cruise go from the dubai one yeah this is the news people really want it [11:44.160 –> 11:52.000] well yeah what is this episode um during your overnight stay in abu dhabi explore blah blah [11:52.320 –> 11:59.920] we go to you go to barain it wants me to go to a website okay it doesn’t matter i just it’s like [12:01.040 –> 12:05.760] that would be a lot like depending on where it goes from that could be a very long cruise because [12:05.760 –> 12:13.440] it’s like it’s only seven days okay yeah you must be flying set sail out of dubai on december 13th [12:13.440 –> 12:20.240] right okay from dubai from dubai and then probably goes back i don’t know but like it goes you stop [12:20.240 –> 12:26.720] in abidabi you stop in barain you stop in daman um this is just right just riding the persian [12:26.720 –> 12:32.480] persian golf then yeah just a norwegian cruise line cruise i’ve never been on a cruise neither [12:32.480 –> 12:37.360] have i and i might i might win you know what i’m gonna rub this in your face al i’m not really [12:37.360 –> 12:42.560] sure you would be rubbing it in my face because i don’t like boats anyway anything else you’ve been [12:42.560 –> 12:48.400] up to no just i mean not i’m just gonna be playing i’ll probably not even be playing this tetris game [12:48.400 –> 12:54.160] anymore in two months let’s be honest what have you been up to alec where where are you what’s [12:54.160 –> 12:58.240] your vacation have you talked about that on the pod yet oh it’s just my usual going to the hell of [12:58.240 –> 13:05.200] man um you have like a house on that uh no i i don’t know it’s really complicated so there’s [13:05.200 –> 13:10.640] a charity that i do stuff for they own a building that they use for a bunch of things and we stay [13:10.640 –> 13:17.680] there so i i no i’m not i’m not that kind of rich that’s not that complicated and it was really [13:17.680 –> 13:21.840] complicated and i was like that’s pretty easy i said i simplified it okay i mean that’s it makes [13:21.840 –> 13:27.280] sense um yeah i’ve not been i mean as of recording i’ve not been playing much because my switch is [13:27.280 –> 13:32.320] still with nintendo getting fixed oh yeah and listeners will be fed up hearing that because [13:32.320 –> 13:39.120] i feel like i’ve said that about seven times in the last two weeks um but uh hopefully by the [13:39.120 –> 13:44.320] time you’re listening to this i’ll have it you’ll have it back i just oh yes that’s the one that [13:44.320 –> 13:51.920] had all your pokemon saves on it right it is yeah yeah i just yesterday ordered nope today [13:52.560 –> 13:57.920] i just today ordered uh story seasons a wonderful life so that should be coming in the next couple [13:57.920 –> 14:04.240] days and i’m sure i’ll play it in a couple of weeks and i also i had a voucher for a shop [14:04.960 –> 14:13.280] and ordered pigmen four so i will have that by the time this comes out and i just got [14:14.480 –> 14:20.400] one lonely outpost uh so i might be playing that who knows we’ll see what i actually end up playing [14:20.400 –> 14:24.800] um i also want to play the original harvest moon at some point because that is now on switch as [14:24.800 –> 14:31.840] well yeah so cool well uh other than that just being kind of watching some stuff and and doing [14:31.840 –> 14:36.480] some stuff and yeah nothing in particular this is the problem with doing so many podcasts in a [14:36.480 –> 14:41.760] couple of weeks is there’s not much to to say about what i’ve been up to because people heard [14:41.840 –> 14:50.160] it either one week ago or six weeks ago depending on which because yeah i’m about to record [14:51.200 –> 14:55.280] another podcast and i’m going to probably talk about my comp song it’s fine at least there so [14:55.280 –> 15:00.240] that that is a good chunk away from each other right like next week compared to a month and a [15:00.240 –> 15:06.080] half away so i think i think we’ll be good with that um awesome should we talk about our game of [15:06.080 –> 15:12.320] the podcast year okay so just to summarize what’s happening again so there there have been [15:12.320 –> 15:20.720] excluding the current year 2023 there were four years of the podcast up till now 2019 2020 2021 [15:20.720 –> 15:28.320] and 2022 and we are going to decide amongst us what the game of the podcast year is basically [15:28.320 –> 15:34.320] the game of those four years um so i’m not going to read out the whole list but what i did just [15:34.320 –> 15:38.400] realizes should probably read out the four individual game of the years that we that we [15:38.400 –> 15:42.400] gave i say we were you actually involved in any of those you were involved at least one of them [15:42.400 –> 15:50.400] i was involved in one of them and you guys snubbed apico uh we did um at that point so 2019 um we [15:50.400 –> 15:56.320] gave doraemon story of seasons the game of year and 2020 we gave summer and mara game of the year [15:56.320 –> 16:04.240] in 2021 we gave oh yeah that was the that was the one that we gave spirit fairer too even though [16:04.240 –> 16:09.120] it came out the year before um because it came out really late in the year so that’s why i was [16:09.120 –> 16:17.040] excusing that and in 2020 we gave ooblets the game of the year so yeah um i mean any any the [16:17.040 –> 16:25.840] rule basically is any game that came out in those four years and i don’t i was allowing early access [16:25.840 –> 16:31.040] but not demos but i believe there’s only three games that came out in early access that haven’t [16:31.040 –> 16:36.800] then also released their 1.0 since then because obviously four years is a long time um and all [16:36.800 –> 16:44.320] three of them released last year so yeah i guess let’s shall we alternate for what we what we want [16:44.320 –> 16:50.320] because we’ve both chosen our top five ish do we want to alternate do you want to go first [16:51.280 –> 16:59.680] yeah um i will start off top with apico um and i’m not biased here [17:01.920 –> 17:05.680] i just really like do you get to choose a game that you’re in does that count [17:07.120 –> 17:13.440] i wasn’t in the original and to be honest i haven’t played the part where i’m in yet [17:13.440 –> 17:19.600] i’ve still not had the time um but it’s just such a cute little game and i always really like when [17:19.600 –> 17:28.160] a developer has used real like real world stuff and real science to try and um educate and empower [17:28.160 –> 17:35.040] people um and l did an amazing job with that with apico um and the game it was another really good [17:35.840 –> 17:40.480] the game is also a really good example of community feedback and a developer working with [17:40.640 –> 17:47.120] feedback and a developer working with the community because um not only uh [17:48.560 –> 17:54.640] of l meeting me and then asking me about solitary views and then coming up with a whole [17:54.640 –> 17:59.360] you know uh dlc that has that or i guess it’s not a dlc because you don’t well [17:59.920 –> 18:07.680] you don’t have to pay for it it’s just let’s not do that debate um but like not only that of you [18:07.680 –> 18:14.320] know him reaching out to people that that study things and and working with his community in that [18:14.320 –> 18:20.480] way but also like if someone has an issue and they talk about it on the discord um he’s really [18:20.480 –> 18:27.680] receptive to that as well so um i really like apica that was one of my top five just for uh [18:28.320 –> 18:35.120] yeah for it being a good game fun game a good a good developer a good community yeah no i i it’s [18:35.120 –> 18:42.720] not on my list um purely because that’s not my it’s not my favorite kind of game um but it [18:42.720 –> 18:49.600] definitely has the quality um and definitely it has the care put into it um that is absolutely [18:49.600 –> 18:57.600] all true and i totally understand why you would choose that yeah where are you l uh my let’s start [18:57.600 –> 19:05.120] off with summer and mara okay um so i i mean this was this was the game of year in 2020 and [19:05.120 –> 19:12.400] i i think it has held up pretty well um it’s not a perfect game by any means um there were some [19:12.400 –> 19:18.800] kind of issues but the the kind of the love and care throughout the game felt like it was really [19:18.800 –> 19:25.360] there um it just felt like it was such a happy game it really it covered well happy sad game [19:25.360 –> 19:33.520] right um it really felt like it covered the feelings of cottagecore for me and the um it [19:33.520 –> 19:39.360] was a lovely balance of exploration but not too explorationary right you didn’t feel like the [19:39.360 –> 19:45.120] world was too massive to explore everything um that i really like when you’ve got here’s a big [19:45.120 –> 19:50.400] world and it’s a bunch of islands because that is very clearly like oh i know i’ve explored [19:50.400 –> 19:54.480] everything because i’ve been to every island and i know that i’ve looked on everywhere on every [19:54.480 –> 20:01.360] island whereas a massive world that isn’t islands you’re like oh where have i been like you know [20:01.360 –> 20:06.320] down what paths have i been you know what mountains have i been into what caves etc [20:06.320 –> 20:12.080] whereas the the island aspect of things really works well so i think it was the first farming [20:12.080 –> 20:16.640] exploration game that i actually liked because the balance of all that was really well done cool [20:17.520 –> 20:22.160] yes you’re a newbie at a farming game so yeah sure [20:27.040 –> 20:30.880] compared to people who started playing uh like a wonderful life yeah [20:30.880 –> 20:36.480] but i mean it was 2017 so it wasn’t like two years ago it was when the podcast started sure [20:37.120 –> 20:45.200] yeah no i’ve i’ve not been i’ve not gotten into that game yet so i can’t what’s next uh i will do [20:46.080 –> 20:53.840] one of the ones that is on both of our lists uh animal crossing new horizon this is one of the [20:53.840 –> 21:01.920] ones one of the first ones that you guys talked about and that it was just so long awaited um it [21:01.920 –> 21:09.120] had been a long time since it felt like a long i actually got a switch specifically for new horizons [21:09.680 –> 21:20.000] um yeah i was pretty stoked um and i played pretty regularly for like three or four months [21:21.440 –> 21:28.560] um but i oh no it came out in 2020 didn’t it yeah i got my i got my switch for it in 2019 [21:28.560 –> 21:32.720] because i thought it was going to come out in the in the winter it was it was meant to be delayed [21:32.720 –> 21:42.720] yeah um but yeah so it’s that was a really fun game um you know the classic you’re a villager [21:42.720 –> 21:53.600] and you’ve got um other animals living on your farm or on your um island and uh some of the new [21:53.600 –> 21:58.000] i really love some of the new characters that they put in i love i can’t i can never remember her [21:58.000 –> 22:05.280] name but i call her bisexual galaxy bear um oh um judy yeah yeah yeah judy i like judy and i like [22:05.280 –> 22:13.280] raymond uh david bowie cat so um i still am on the quest for david bowie cat i have not found him [22:13.280 –> 22:19.600] judy’s on my island you know just ended up buying the uh no the amiibo card trying to find him [22:20.400 –> 22:26.800] um playing it on hard mode but i think my favorite thing about new horizons compared to other games [22:26.800 –> 22:34.400] was the that museum felt so immersive especially like the fossil collection and like it’s like [22:34.400 –> 22:40.720] you’re walking through the evolutionary history i really enjoyed that it’s funny because like you [22:40.720 –> 22:46.000] see you can you can look back at many of these games and go like that’s the point where this [22:46.000 –> 22:52.560] thing became a standard right and so many of those things come from stardew valley right like um [22:53.360 –> 22:58.480] the idea of having a museum in the first place right like that it wasn’t standard until like [22:58.480 –> 23:03.920] the stardew made that the standard um i’m not saying nothing had it before but i feel like [23:03.920 –> 23:09.120] that was the point where everything had to have a had to have a museum i’m not saying it was good [23:09.120 –> 23:14.560] it definitely wasn’t a good museum it was a terrible museum but in terms of like find a [23:14.560 –> 23:19.920] farming game after that that doesn’t have a museum but anyway that’s not the point the point isn’t [23:20.160 –> 23:24.160] specific to that right like there’s loads of things that stardew did there like that is kind [23:24.160 –> 23:32.480] of when this became standard um like sprinklers for example um and i think animal crossings museum [23:33.040 –> 23:39.280] was that for good museums shall we say so it was the point where people went oh this can be [23:40.400 –> 23:47.200] good this can be enjoyable this can be fancy um and it’s just kind of like the it’s the thing [23:47.840 –> 23:54.560] to do in farming games now is to make your fancy museum you know um and like coral island took [23:54.560 –> 24:02.080] that to a new level by having two different ones um like it’s just it’s it it’s almost like nobody [24:02.080 –> 24:06.480] ever thought that it would be something that you could put some time and effort into curating [24:07.120 –> 24:11.600] ironically considering that’s the point of a museum i do think the first museum the first [24:11.600 –> 24:18.080] animal crossing which was released in 2001 uh had a museum and they did it really well and then [24:18.080 –> 24:24.000] they’ve up increased it and stuff but yeah i do think that like what you’re saying like i don’t [24:24.000 –> 24:28.800] think that because animal crossing had it everyone started having museums i do think stardew valley [24:28.800 –> 24:34.880] was probably the the freak yeah yeah and i think i think new horizons was the point where it was [24:34.880 –> 24:41.360] like it can now be like fancy right and yeah an attraction in and of itself and not just a [24:41.360 –> 24:47.200] checklist essentially yeah new leaf it was okay a new leaf especially the aquarium side of it [24:47.840 –> 24:55.760] um but the fossil side always just felt like not very immersive and sometimes the insects [24:55.760 –> 25:02.080] but it really does a new horizon yeah yeah yeah do you know what i was um a bit surprised didn’t [25:02.080 –> 25:07.360] become a standard after new horizons because i know we’re we’re still only we’re only three [25:07.360 –> 25:13.600] years since it but i feel like we we’re seeing things now as impacted by it quite a bit um [25:13.600 –> 25:19.360] terraforming i feel like that’s become not it’s not become common there’s a few games that have [25:19.360 –> 25:24.880] it but it’s not very common i mean maybe because it’s complicated and difficult right i did talk [25:24.880 –> 25:32.320] about it with bev on a episode a long time ago a couple months ago now um i think it was garden [25:32.320 –> 25:38.720] galaxy it has some terraforming aspects to it i mean that’s a whole concept yeah yeah it was one [25:38.720 –> 25:44.320] of those things like i saw it in that game and i was like oh wow like this is this is a lot like [25:44.320 –> 25:50.400] animal crossing um but not a lot of people do it like like you’re saying um little wood has it [25:50.400 –> 25:54.880] really finicky little wood has it and a couple of other games that are coming out in the next [25:54.880 –> 26:01.120] couple of years have it but it’s yeah there’s not it’s not standard by any means um but yeah i think [26:02.160 –> 26:07.040] despite everybody’s kind of issues with it is still definitely one of the best games of the [26:07.040 –> 26:12.880] last four years um definitely um i don’t think i i as you say it was on my list as well i don’t [26:12.880 –> 26:19.520] think i would say i i wouldn’t be arguing for it to be the top yeah um i purely because like it [26:19.520 –> 26:25.600] never there was just always something about it that meant that i was feeling it was lacking [26:25.600 –> 26:29.920] and i don’t think it was the character stuff that a lot of people had and i totally understand that [26:29.920 –> 26:35.520] issue i i still can’t figure out what it was but there was still something about it that made me [26:35.520 –> 26:40.320] just not as enthusiastic about it as some of the other games on this list yeah it’s an all right [26:40.320 –> 26:45.440] game though it’s something that i go back and play it every now and then because i am missing [26:45.440 –> 26:51.520] yeah yeah yeah i mean i i wish i could go back but it’s just not my style of playing games yeah [26:51.520 –> 26:56.560] but um i look forward to you know when the next game comes out seeing the you know when we saw [26:56.560 –> 27:03.440] with new leaf where it was like oh my grandma’s had like three thousand hours on new leaf or [27:03.440 –> 27:09.200] whatever um seeing that with new horizons yeah and and of course the big thing about it was that it [27:09.200 –> 27:17.200] was just popular right like in terms of sales it was insane we all there was a plague and we all [27:20.400 –> 27:25.840] like it was literally like right after the world shut down the animal crossing like within a week [27:25.840 –> 27:31.360] animal crossing came out and so but it’s everyone it’s yeah i mean and obviously a lot of that is to [27:31.360 –> 27:36.720] do with that but i don’t think it can be entirely due to that because if you think like the numbers [27:36.720 –> 27:41.680] are just insane right so the total number of sales of animal crossing games is 77 million [27:41.680 –> 27:51.280] right 77 million total new horizons 42 million yeah right like it’s just it’s it that’s more [27:51.280 –> 27:57.680] than half that’s significantly more than half of all animal crossing sales are the new or that one [27:57.680 –> 28:05.280] game it was three times as many sales as new leaf right like it’s just it’s yes absolutely the the [28:06.240 –> 28:09.760] released on literally the week that lots of countries shut down [28:11.200 –> 28:16.880] like it literally it could not be any closer right it came out on the 20th of march 2020 [28:16.880 –> 28:22.800] the last day i ever worked in an office was the 13th of march 2020 yeah exactly a week before it [28:22.800 –> 28:29.200] right like obviously that has a massive thing but it i think it just did so much perfect and also [28:29.200 –> 28:35.760] the fact that it was on the switch right like the switch in and of itself has caused many games to [28:35.760 –> 28:41.280] be popular all right that’s that one what’s your next one i will choose the other one that we’ve [28:41.280 –> 28:51.680] both put on our lists and that is spirit fairer my heart so with this game i struggle to point out [28:51.680 –> 29:00.160] faults um yeah i mean that how i’ve said so much about spirit fader over the years it’s [29:00.160 –> 29:08.000] hard to say more it is as close to a perfect game as you can get um i mean some people won’t like [29:08.000 –> 29:13.200] it but if you don’t like it it’s because you don’t like that kind of game no you know it’s not [29:14.080 –> 29:22.320] i do it’s really hard to explain how good a game spirit fairer is yeah right like it is [29:22.320 –> 29:30.000] both heart-wrenching and heartwarming at the same time the controls are great the platforming is [29:30.000 –> 29:37.680] good the the boat is just such a fun place to to move around it does the beautiful thing of [29:37.680 –> 29:42.800] you’re exploring but you’re exploring with your house so there’s like almost no stakes for [29:42.800 –> 29:47.920] anything you can just go to bed right like the worst the furthest away you are from your boat [29:47.920 –> 29:52.240] is when you’re on an island and you’re at the far end of the island right like there’s just there’s [29:52.240 –> 29:59.040] so much about this the characters are great the art is great every single mechanic is is at least [29:59.040 –> 30:05.840] good if not great um and even the ones that are frustrating are frustrating by design right to [30:05.840 –> 30:11.440] give you a little bit of a challenge there’s there’s always some small level of stakes but [30:11.440 –> 30:16.160] never a huge amount of stakes like with cooking if you leave it too long it burns but you have [30:16.160 –> 30:23.440] to live it quite a long time yeah so it’s like everything is just like slightly the fishing as [30:23.440 –> 30:30.320] will have been discussed in the previous episode is an incredibly good fishing mini game everything [30:30.320 –> 30:38.640] about it is just such a good game the fishing at first for me was a little frustrating um because [30:38.640 –> 30:44.320] you have to like you tap like some of the fish are really hard to catch and i would break the [30:44.320 –> 30:48.240] line every single time and i didn’t know what i was doing wrong but then i googled it because [30:48.240 –> 30:52.160] i was like i’ve tried this so many times and every single time i met yeah okay there we go we’ve got [30:52.160 –> 30:58.960] the flaw the flaw is no no the flaw is that they didn’t explain it properly the flaw is buck [31:01.280 –> 31:06.880] my one problem well i also don’t really like but but the thing is right it’s not about whether you [31:06.880 –> 31:10.400] like the characters or not because the the characters are doing something even if you [31:10.400 –> 31:16.800] don’t like them yeah right i guess i just don’t really like like i’ve found all the other [31:16.800 –> 31:21.520] characters i was so invested in their story and so invested in helping them and with buck i’m like [31:21.520 –> 31:27.760] okay shut up how late how late did you get buck like the last i i couldn’t even find him for a [31:27.840 –> 31:33.760] while that’s that i think i’ve generally found that the people characters that people like least [31:33.760 –> 31:39.040] are the ones they get later on yeah and you just at that point you’re just like i just i’m at the [31:39.040 –> 31:44.160] point where i just want to finish the game um and i think yeah so like i was the same i can’t even [31:44.160 –> 31:49.360] remember who was that i had last the other flaw is that my heart hurt a lot that’s not a flaw [31:49.360 –> 31:56.560] that’s a that’s a that’s a feature that’s the thing like there are not many games that make [31:56.560 –> 32:06.320] me cry i love right it’s a feature i want it like listed in the features there’s farming there’s [32:06.320 –> 32:15.840] animals you can cry not in the game like you you really like in real life cry um yeah my poor [32:15.840 –> 32:23.200] roommate she was concerned for my mental health because the other thing is i’d get like sucked in [32:23.200 –> 32:28.080] and i’d play for like eight hours straight and then she’d come downstairs and i would just be [32:28.080 –> 32:32.160] bawling because someone just i just took someone to the ever door [32:34.240 –> 32:41.280] just like maybe that’s enough and i was like i’m sad so yeah yeah no i agree like i can’t [32:41.280 –> 32:48.000] i really can’t it’s the the quote-unquote flaws are really just being nitpicky yeah no absolutely [32:48.000 –> 32:53.040] yeah and i don’t want people to say that that um bring up all that there are obviously flaws [32:53.040 –> 32:57.200] i’m not actually trying to say it’s a flawless game it’s not no game is perfect i really can’t [32:57.200 –> 33:03.920] think they’re all they’re all really small yeah you know it’s a it’s like oh i didn’t like the [33:03.920 –> 33:07.440] wood chopping game yeah of course you didn’t it’s meant to be annoying yeah [33:08.960 –> 33:13.840] they’re meant to be different it’s yeah you try making 10 different mini games [33:14.320 –> 33:21.440] yeah and having them all be unique yeah like they didn’t none of them really felt the same [33:22.480 –> 33:29.840] yeah um okay well that’s hard to follow but um should i left that to last that’s the problem [33:30.960 –> 33:38.400] um gosh okay so it’s time to make a decision come on i already made the decision it was [33:38.400 –> 33:44.960] so but so i’ll mention i guess i’ll leave an honorable mention for the end so i i will mention [33:45.600 –> 33:52.080] maybe you should have done that at the beginning my next my next in my top five is lens island [33:53.040 –> 34:00.960] interesting this is one that i covered with bev um before it was in 1.0 and when i covered it [34:00.960 –> 34:08.160] it was pretty sparse like there wasn’t a lot going on in the game so yeah lens island um played it [34:08.160 –> 34:14.720] with bev uh played it before it was fully released and so there’s actually a lot that [34:14.720 –> 34:19.600] i haven’t played that i see um that i’ve seen like on their twitter and stuff and every single time [34:19.600 –> 34:26.160] i’m like oh i need to go back to that game and play it um but even playing the limited not limited [34:26.160 –> 34:32.560] edition like it is special but like the no i know what you mean the the early access the early access [34:32.560 –> 34:39.200] game that was limited in features uh was just really fun and it was a fun little exploration [34:39.920 –> 34:44.080] like you explored the island this it was only a small island at the time they have way more [34:44.080 –> 34:49.040] that you can explore now you can kind of build up your house which a lot of people got really crazy [34:49.040 –> 34:59.360] it with um and then build up like your um you can get like a really good sword and then you can go [34:59.360 –> 35:06.800] into the mines and the mines uh there’s like some crazy spawners that reminded me a lot of gauntlet [35:06.800 –> 35:13.680] i don’t know if you ever played gauntlet um but it’s a game that used to be like a arcade style [35:13.680 –> 35:20.160] like literally stand up and like have like an arcade machine um where there’s four classes [35:20.160 –> 35:26.000] there’s these like spawners that spawn monsters until you destroy the spawner also happens in [35:26.000 –> 35:32.640] minecraft but the way that they did it reminded and like a lot of the um visuals of the game [35:32.640 –> 35:40.880] reminded me a lot of gauntlet which was very nostalgic for me um they didn’t have too much [35:40.880 –> 35:46.080] farming i think they have more of it now but it was just kind of a cool little exploration game and [35:46.080 –> 35:52.640] um and i just really enjoyed it and i really want to get back into it but when looking at the list [35:52.720 –> 35:58.720] of the the four lists from these games from these years that we did um i was like oh man i love that [35:58.720 –> 36:04.560] game and that’s a game that i want to continue playing that’s why it’s on my top yeah cool you [36:04.560 –> 36:11.200] you never played it right i’ve i i still haven’t played it no um it’s it’s it’s still on my list [36:11.200 –> 36:16.160] to play at some point i tried picking up at one point and it didn’t really when i got my steam [36:16.160 –> 36:21.360] deck and i didn’t really support the steam deck at that point um so i was just a bit in there um [36:21.360 –> 36:27.120] so it yeah it’s on my list to play at some point but uh yeah not yet cool what’s your um [36:28.320 –> 36:35.520] i’m gonna go for ooblets next ooblets i understand why some people don’t like [36:36.720 –> 36:43.520] the silly names i understand all right you don’t need to you don’t you don’t need to tell me again [36:43.520 –> 36:47.600] at the end after this episode listeners right i know but i know something you don’t like the [36:47.600 –> 36:54.720] silly silly there are silly names i know i know but what i will say is they make it abundantly [36:54.720 –> 37:03.440] clear that there are silly names yeah it is its whole thing is silly names so if you go into that [37:03.440 –> 37:10.880] game not expecting silly names i’m sorry did you read anything so um i i i love ooblets so much [37:10.880 –> 37:20.320] it’s so adorable and just like it’s just pure ridiculousness [37:21.600 –> 37:27.840] and fun and there’s nothing else it’s not spirit failure it doesn’t bring you in with the fun and [37:27.840 –> 37:32.640] then shoot you right in the heart no yeah the story is not complicated the story is not [37:33.520 –> 37:40.560] convoluted the story doesn’t tug at your heartstrings um it is as i discussed on the [37:40.560 –> 37:44.720] last ooblets episode with johnny it is an anti-capitalist story but that’s about it [37:44.720 –> 37:50.480] it is only just an anti-capitalist story right like it that is the most it goes to is oh this [37:50.480 –> 37:58.880] corporation’s bad right like that that’s it um but everything about it is fun right like the [37:59.440 –> 38:06.080] characters are fun the the ooblets themselves are fun the battles are fun [38:06.080 –> 38:14.080] the farming is fun the animations are ridiculous and fun how i i like the names the names are [38:14.080 –> 38:20.640] ridiculous and stupid and fun right like i think everything about it is just about being stupid [38:20.640 –> 38:31.040] and silly and fun and i like it yeah i um i haven’t played it but it’s definitely i know [38:32.640 –> 38:37.600] it was yeah um i think i was waiting for it to come to switch and then when it [38:38.160 –> 38:46.560] finally came to switch i was broke so um yeah that was my issue there [38:47.520 –> 38:55.120] uh but hopefully here in the next few months um after i get another roommate i’ll be able to [38:55.120 –> 39:02.000] afford things again and be able to play it because i knew i know we need to second harvest it we’ve [39:02.000 –> 39:07.040] already second harvested third harvest second second harvest in fact have we just done two [39:07.040 –> 39:13.680] or have we done three yeah okay just two wait no three no it is three because we did early access [39:13.760 –> 39:18.560] we did 1.0 and then we did a second harvest oh my gosh story of season friends of mineral town [39:18.560 –> 39:24.880] digital edition is about to be on sorry i’m looking up the things that are going to be on [39:24.880 –> 39:34.240] game pass you go get that 2020 game 2021 i can’t remember city skylines okay sorry um story of [39:34.240 –> 39:43.120] seasons friends of maritime uh 20 2019 2019 not even 2020 my word that was the first year oh my [39:43.120 –> 39:51.920] word does that feel like just yesterday i just yeah all right what’s next ruin factory for [39:51.920 –> 40:00.000] special is also on this but not that’s not on my list uh my so i guess this is my fifth pick [40:00.000 –> 40:05.040] but then i also will mention my special mention well do you want to go do you want to just mention [40:05.040 –> 40:08.160] your honorable mention just now because i don’t i don’t want us to mention honorable mention after [40:08.160 –> 40:12.640] we announce the winner okay right like he was like here’s the winner and here’s the other one [40:12.640 –> 40:19.760] well yeah okay so my honorable mention is alba um a wildlife tale a wildlife adventure [40:19.760 –> 40:25.600] wildlife adventure thank you where you play as a young girl named alba who um is running around [40:25.600 –> 40:31.680] on an island and you are helping the wildlife on the island and you’re taking pictures of all of [40:31.680 –> 40:38.240] them but basically there’s a wildlife refuge and um it is currently run down but you go around and [40:38.240 –> 40:45.280] you build it up better and you document the wildlife on your um island and you end up um [40:46.560 –> 40:54.400] stopping your evil mayor person or whomever it is i can’t remember um from creating a skyscraper [40:55.040 –> 41:02.880] a hotel um because they were going to tear down the wildlife refuge and make a and build a hotel [41:02.880 –> 41:09.680] and you and your friend stop that from happening uh it was just a really cute game a fun game i was [41:09.680 –> 41:17.200] able to beat it in like two days i played it on arcade apple arcade um and i mean it’s visually [41:17.200 –> 41:23.120] gorgeous it was had a lot of really good animals in it um i think my biggest qualms i would have [41:23.120 –> 41:29.200] liked insects but whatever i get it um but it was just a really fun game and i super recommend it if [41:29.200 –> 41:34.320] you have um apple arcade or um so that was my honorable mention do you want me to do my fifth [41:34.320 –> 41:38.240] one or do you well i’m gonna i’ve got to talk about alba as well don’t i right like it’s great [41:38.240 –> 41:42.960] game played it you played it as well oh absolutely but we don’t do the episode together we probably [41:42.960 –> 41:48.560] did yes it’s a great game and it was definitely it was definitely one of my one of the top games [41:48.560 –> 41:54.160] of 2020 it was really good yeah i was gonna say that was a long time ago it was it was 2020 i [41:54.160 –> 42:03.120] really liked it um it was a fun short game like it wasn’t very long which i like um but yeah it [42:03.120 –> 42:11.440] definitely felt like the story this story was pretty uh easy to predict let’s not pretend [42:12.000 –> 42:19.280] but it was still fun um it’s a cliched story but cliches exist for a reason [42:19.840 –> 42:28.160] yeah yeah no it was fun the gameplay was fun it was good to have like as far as i can tell [42:28.160 –> 42:33.440] it was reasonably accurate in what it was showing you and telling you in terms of the animals um [42:34.160 –> 42:41.680] yeah yeah good game i agree thank you thank you for telling me my opinion is correct [42:41.680 –> 42:43.440] is why i was on my honorable mention [42:45.840 –> 42:50.640] uh so you want to do your last one and i’ll do my last one uh yeah my last one is duriam on [42:50.640 –> 42:56.880] story of seasons not the second one the first one very specifically didn’t like the second [42:56.880 –> 43:02.160] one as much but you played the first one you did that one with or you did this one with mica right [43:02.800 –> 43:09.040] uh so the first one i think it was me and rachel and mica i think all three of us were on that one [43:09.760 –> 43:16.080] and the second one it was me and mica um yeah no i really like it i think it’s a very i think it [43:16.080 –> 43:22.720] brought a lot of interesting ideas to farming games that i hadn’t seen elsewhere and i think [43:22.720 –> 43:29.040] places other games need to look at it more for inspiration i think the things that i was doing [43:29.040 –> 43:34.000] that are different are things that other games should be doing and i think maybe just enough [43:34.000 –> 43:39.280] people haven’t played it i don’t know um i still find it odd that we got a second game in this [43:39.280 –> 43:48.720] series um yeah it’s a good game i like it um gorgeous looking fun little weird crossover [43:49.360 –> 43:56.880] loads of really interesting mechanics that were new to farming games yeah fun i did not yeah i [43:56.880 –> 44:03.440] feel like most people didn’t thank you i even played i even played the japanese only demo of it [44:04.640 –> 44:05.280] because why not [44:07.920 –> 44:13.680] what’s your last one translations oh let me tell you playing a game through my phone screen because [44:13.680 –> 44:22.320] i’m using google translate not the best way to play a play a game yep uh would not do that uh [44:23.360 –> 44:32.800] my last one is uh bear and breakfast so this is um the one that came out last year where you are [44:32.800 –> 44:38.880] a bear and you run a bed and breakfast and you end up running like a couple different ones and [44:38.880 –> 44:46.160] it’s really it was just such a cute game so like heartwarming we played it right on release um and [44:46.160 –> 44:51.360] i only got to play it for a couple days because um we wanted to record like pretty close after release [44:51.360 –> 44:58.560] or maybe maybe it might have been one that i procrastinated on let me actually redact that [44:58.560 –> 45:07.600] um but it was really fun um and it’s such a beautiful game uh it’s kind of like a management [45:07.600 –> 45:13.120] game where you have um you know people come in and they want specific room types and so you [45:13.120 –> 45:17.840] want to make sure that you have what they want um and if you’re not wearing pants people get [45:17.840 –> 45:21.440] scared of you and they run away because they recognize that you&

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Bev and Codey talk about Capybara Spa Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:04: What Have We Been Up To 00:06:41: News 00:47:59: Capybara Spa 01:06:28: Outro Links Everdream Valley Flutter Away Parkasaurus DLC Lightyear Frontier Mossfield Origins Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Garden Galaxy Update Steamworld Build Mineko’s Night Market Spirittea Sprout Valley 33 Immortals The Palace on a Hill Capybara Spa Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:35.000] Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. [00:35.000 –> 00:36.000] My name is Cody. [00:36.000 –> 00:37.000] And my name is Bev. [00:37.000 –> 00:41.000] And we’re here today to talk about Cottagecore games. [00:41.000 –> 00:43.000] Woo! [00:43.000 –> 00:45.000] Capybara games. [00:45.000 –> 00:46.000] And spas. [00:46.000 –> 00:47.000] And spas. [00:47.000 –> 00:50.000] There’s actually another Capybara game in the news. It’s crazy. [00:50.000 –> 00:52.000] Capybaras are on the rise. [00:52.000 –> 00:54.000] They are. [00:54.000 –> 00:58.000] As always, transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website. [00:58.000 –> 01:03.000] And, as we’ve already mentioned, we are talking today about the game Capybara Spa. [01:03.000 –> 01:06.000] Which has been on our list for a long time. [01:06.000 –> 01:13.000] It’s just kind of like a small, cute little game made by Cozy Beat Games, who also made Lemon Cake. [01:13.000 –> 01:15.000] Which is very fun. [01:15.000 –> 01:22.000] But before we dive into spas for Capybaras, we have some news. [01:22.000 –> 01:24.000] Actually, a decent amount of news. [01:24.000 –> 01:25.000] Thanks, Al. [01:25.000 –> 01:27.000] No, I’m kidding. [01:27.000 –> 01:30.000] Wait, are we doing what we’re put up to first? [01:30.000 –> 01:35.000] But before we get to the news… [01:35.000 –> 01:37.000] It’s early, farmers. [01:37.000 –> 01:38.000] Farmers, give us a break. [01:38.000 –> 01:40.000] We have some coffee. [01:40.000 –> 01:46.000] I actually considered having it be part of the intro where I’m like, [01:46.000 –> 01:50.000] Good morning, farmers. [01:50.000 –> 01:55.000] That could be after the credits. [01:55.000 –> 01:57.000] It’s true. [01:57.000 –> 02:05.000] Yeah, go to the end of the credits for me, for my goofiness. [02:05.000 –> 02:09.000] Yeah, what are the events? [02:09.000 –> 02:13.000] I love how in the show notes you just have work, work, work, work. [02:13.000 –> 02:15.000] And so I put work, work, work, work as well. [02:15.000 –> 02:18.000] Because I feel like that’s all I’ve been up to. [02:18.000 –> 02:23.000] I have a huge conference next week and stressing out about that. [02:23.000 –> 02:27.000] But I guess what I’m trying to not think about work and trying to [02:27.000 –> 02:31.000] de-stress, I’ve surprisingly have gone back into Clash of Clans for [02:31.000 –> 02:32.000] whatever reason. [02:32.000 –> 02:33.000] I don’t know why. [02:33.000 –> 02:34.000] Wow. [02:34.000 –> 02:36.000] But I’m all in. [02:36.000 –> 02:40.000] I feel like I’ve been building up my town hall. [02:40.000 –> 02:42.000] I got up to a town hall 10. [02:42.000 –> 02:43.000] Now I have a second all to count. [02:43.000 –> 02:45.000] I don’t know why. [02:45.000 –> 02:49.000] So I’ve been doing a lot of that. [02:49.000 –> 02:54.000] I’m occasionally playing, what am I playing? [02:54.000 –> 02:55.000] Oh, goodness. [02:55.000 –> 02:58.000] The one, Cora Island, that one. [02:58.000 –> 02:59.000] Oh, yeah. [02:59.000 –> 03:00.000] Uh-huh. [03:00.000 –> 03:03.000] And I also got Fire Emblem engaged last weekend. [03:03.000 –> 03:09.000] So I’ve been also trying to put some time in a minute a day or so, as [03:09.000 –> 03:11.000] I do in that. [03:11.000 –> 03:12.000] Yeah. [03:12.000 –> 03:14.000] How about you? [03:14.000 –> 03:17.000] Work, work, work, work, work. [03:18.000 –> 03:24.000] So I am about to do my comprehensive exam, which is basically in my [03:24.000 –> 03:27.000] university, it’s different at every university, but at my university in my [03:27.000 –> 03:31.000] department, it’s basically where I stand in front of my committee of five [03:31.000 –> 03:35.000] people and say, this is what I want to do my research on. [03:35.000 –> 03:39.000] And it’s funny because it’s like, here are two, excuse me, here are two [03:39.000 –> 03:43.000] chapters that I’ve already finished. [03:43.000 –> 03:47.000] So you can’t tell me I can’t do that because I already did it. [03:47.000 –> 03:52.000] And then here are two chapters that I have made that I have an idea of [03:52.000 –> 03:53.000] what I’m going to do. [03:53.000 –> 03:56.000] One of them is in progress, so I think if anything, they would just be [03:56.000 –> 04:00.000] like change how you’re asking the questions. [04:00.000 –> 04:03.000] And then the other one is kind of like this offshoot from that. [04:03.000 –> 04:07.000] And so basically the question is like, is that enough? [04:07.000 –> 04:11.000] This is the exam where they are like, wow, look at all the things you’re [04:11.000 –> 04:15.000] doing, but it’s not enough for PhD. [04:15.000 –> 04:22.000] And then you have a chance to like add to it and redo it later. [04:22.000 –> 04:26.000] Or they could just be like, you good, looks great. [04:26.000 –> 04:28.000] Like get her done, you know? [04:28.000 –> 04:30.000] So we’ll see. [04:30.000 –> 04:33.000] But that’s in like a week and a half. [04:33.000 –> 04:37.000] So that’s exciting question mark. [04:37.000 –> 04:42.000] But like after that, I don’t have anything until my defense, which will [04:42.000 –> 04:46.000] be in like October of 2025. [04:46.000 –> 04:52.000] So I literally would just be collecting my insects, identifying them, [04:52.000 –> 04:56.000] going to conferences, writing my papers, like all of that, like getting [04:56.000 –> 05:02.000] all of that stuff done, likely doing any extra chapters that come along [05:02.000 –> 05:07.000] because every single time I collect field work data, I like. [05:07.000 –> 05:11.000] Well, I talked to my, I talked to like my collaborator and my advisor [05:11.000 –> 05:13.000] and I’m like, Oh wow, I found this cool thing. [05:13.000 –> 05:14.000] And they’re like, let’s write a paper about it. [05:14.000 –> 05:17.000] And I’m like, no, please. [05:17.000 –> 05:19.000] So yeah, I’ve been doing that. [05:19.000 –> 05:24.000] I haven’t really been playing games, but I’ve been in like that nostalgic, [05:24.000 –> 05:29.000] like rewatch movie series that you’ve watched a billion times. [05:29.000 –> 05:33.000] I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. [05:33.000 –> 05:39.000] So that’s, that’s kind of my, Oh, I did, I did download like Tetris on my phone. [05:39.000 –> 05:43.000] There’s this Tetris app that you can get on your phone and you earn like [05:43.000 –> 05:49.000] these VIP points and if you get 4 million VIP points, which is like ridiculous. [05:49.000 –> 05:54.000] But if you get 4 million VIP points, you get an eight day cruise to Alaska. [05:54.000 –> 05:55.000] Amazing. [05:55.000 –> 05:56.000] You can like turn them in. [05:56.000 –> 05:58.000] Like you can turn in all these points for like legit things. [05:58.000 –> 06:05.000] Like if you live in, if you live in that one place where people gamble, Vegas. [06:05.000 –> 06:07.000] That one place. [06:07.000 –> 06:12.000] There’s like, you can get like a free night in MGM or, you know, [06:12.000 –> 06:16.000] with a very small amount of points, you can get 15% off your thing [06:16.000 –> 06:17.000] and you don’t ever have to pay. [06:17.000 –> 06:20.000] You just like watch the dumb ads in between a Tetris game. [06:20.000 –> 06:21.000] But like, I don’t care. [06:21.000 –> 06:24.000] I just put my phone down and play with my dog and then I’m like, Oh, cool. [06:24.000 –> 06:25.000] The ad’s done. [06:25.000 –> 06:27.000] Yeah, yeah, exactly. [06:27.000 –> 06:29.000] I’ve been joined with a cat. [06:29.000 –> 06:33.000] So if you hear any purring, that’s her. [06:33.000 –> 06:35.000] I just thought you were purring. [06:35.000 –> 06:36.000] No. [06:36.000 –> 06:37.000] Yes. [06:37.000 –> 06:38.000] Yes. [06:38.000 –> 06:40.000] No, I’m also a cat. [06:40.000 –> 06:41.000] I have it. [06:41.000 –> 06:42.000] I have it. [06:42.000 –> 06:47.000] OK, so we can get into the news. [06:47.000 –> 06:49.000] OK, so first bit of news here. [06:49.000 –> 06:56.000] Everdream Valley is going to release on the switch on June 23rd. [06:57.000 –> 06:58.000] I’m trying to think. [06:58.000 –> 07:02.000] I think that by the time this is out, it’ll be it’ll be up. [07:02.000 –> 07:04.000] You can you can play the game. [07:04.000 –> 07:05.000] You can do the time. [07:05.000 –> 07:07.000] The time is real. [07:07.000 –> 07:08.000] Yes. [07:09.000 –> 07:10.000] This looks super cute. [07:10.000 –> 07:12.000] It’s like a little farming. [07:12.000 –> 07:17.000] I mean, it says like that farming is its main one of its main things. [07:17.000 –> 07:19.000] But you’re like a small child. [07:19.000 –> 07:25.000] The look of the child makes me think that you like is abandoned on this island. [07:25.000 –> 07:29.000] And I’m like, why is he the one doing all of this stuff? [07:29.000 –> 07:33.000] But I feel like this gives me like someone more like vibes. [07:33.000 –> 07:34.000] Uh huh. [07:34.000 –> 07:35.000] OK. [07:35.000 –> 07:40.000] Like just a small child living by herself on a island, taking care of her a little. [07:40.000 –> 07:41.000] Oh, yeah. [07:41.000 –> 07:42.000] That’s what it feels like. [07:42.000 –> 07:44.000] I’m just like, what? [07:44.000 –> 07:45.000] Get it like find parents. [07:45.000 –> 07:47.000] What are you doing? [07:47.000 –> 07:50.000] What an industrious child, though. [07:50.000 –> 07:55.000] Um, I watched the trailer and the beekeeping looks great. [07:55.000 –> 08:05.000] And by that, I mean, it showed it showed the like a really big close up of the hives and it just had bees all over the screen. [08:05.000 –> 08:09.000] Like I was like, yeah, that’s how it feels. [08:09.000 –> 08:13.000] And you collect bugs, which is always fun. [08:13.000 –> 08:14.000] I’m in. [08:14.000 –> 08:17.000] I feel like the name is a little unfortunate. [08:17.000 –> 08:24.000] Like if they came up with this name like two to three years ago and then Dreamlight Valley came out. [08:24.000 –> 08:27.000] Yeah, that’s true. [08:27.000 –> 08:31.000] Also, ever dream valley makes me think that he’s like in a coma. [08:31.000 –> 08:32.000] Oh, my goodness. [08:32.000 –> 08:34.000] And this is all a hallucination. [08:34.000 –> 08:35.000] Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. [08:35.000 –> 08:36.000] It does. [08:36.000 –> 08:38.000] It should end. [08:38.000 –> 08:41.000] You beat the game and zoom out. [08:41.000 –> 08:43.000] He’s not actually doing like child like labor. [08:43.000 –> 08:44.000] Oh, my gosh. [08:44.000 –> 08:46.000] I mean, better. [08:46.000 –> 08:47.000] No, no, not better. [08:47.000 –> 08:48.000] Not better. [08:48.000 –> 08:51.000] Um, God, we are unhinged. [08:51.000 –> 08:56.000] Okay, so that is ever dream valley coming to switch on the 23rd of June. [08:56.000 –> 08:57.000] The next one is flutter away. [08:57.000 –> 09:00.000] This is capybara game number two. [09:00.000 –> 09:06.000] Yes, capybara game number one will always forever in our hearts be capybara spa. [09:06.000 –> 09:23.000] Um, but flutter away is quote pulled this from the steam enjoy the serenity of the Amazon rainforest and this cozy short nature exploration game as a butterfly researcher on a five day camping trip explored nearby tracks take photos me animal friends and journal journal [09:23.000 –> 09:36.000] the discoveries found along the way, and quote, if you eagle eyed eagle eared listeners could hear me pause after a butterfly research. [09:36.000 –> 09:42.000] As I like was like, I know I saw this on the which McCall at the wholesome game. [09:43.000 –> 09:53.000] And I was like, I need to be a researcher in my virtual life, as well as well I’m not research IRL but I need. [09:53.000 –> 10:06.000] So I’m here for it. But like, it looked so cool because like you put a stick out that I’m assuming has some kind of like thing that attracts butterflies on it and like nectar or something. [10:06.000 –> 10:13.000] And then you have to like pull it really really slowly towards you if you pull it too fast and they’re like what the heck and they like fly away. [10:13.000 –> 10:21.000] But you’re basically like what from the trailer it looked like you’re trying to figure out like the diversity of butterflies in this area. [10:21.000 –> 10:26.000] And you and you have a capybara friend. [10:27.000 –> 10:28.000] Okay. [10:28.000 –> 10:46.000] I’m speaking of capybaras I just remember this. I saw a video yesterday that said that capybaras can swim five kilometers an hour underwater, like, they literally just like walk along the bottom of me or whatever and they just like kick off and zoom by you it’s Holy Holy [10:46.000 –> 10:57.000] Hekaru. They are very, very fast little sprightly things that are very fast little rodents, or big rodents, big rodents, biggest rodents Yes, correct. [10:57.000 –> 11:09.000] Um, I don’t think that they’re going to be swimming in this game but flutter away releases on steam and switch on the third of August, maybe they will be flying in this game. [11:09.000 –> 11:12.000] Man flutter away on switch. [11:12.000 –> 11:15.000] Ow. [11:15.000 –> 11:22.000] Let me cover the motherling game. Um, are we just going to cover like all the research like games. [11:22.000 –> 11:34.000] I feel like we’re obligated. I feel like we are, and I’m not not upset about that. I’m not either, um, a research game that I don’t feel obligated transitions on point. [11:34.000 –> 11:40.000] Parkasaurus prehistoric wonders DLC. So I think we’ve already covered Parkasaurus on the pod. [11:40.000 –> 11:55.000] So this is just a DLC and it’s out now and it just gives you 10 new animals and the animals are the American lion mammoth saber tooth mega theorem, Eastern Puma giant capybara Oh my gosh, I didn’t even goodness. [11:55.000 –> 11:57.000] They’re everywhere. [11:57.000 –> 12:01.000] Year of copy bar. [12:01.000 –> 12:04.000] Name, that’s gonna be the title of the year. [12:04.000 –> 12:07.000] Yes. [12:07.000 –> 12:16.000] Uh, short faced bear dodo direwolf and dwarf pronghorn. So they looked really dumb. [12:16.000 –> 12:21.000] I mean, not like the game did not make them dumb. [12:21.000 –> 12:24.000] They’re just dumb. [12:24.000 –> 12:31.000] As the owner of two chickens I feel like I can very much say confidently this is a dumb bird. [12:31.000 –> 12:33.000] Yeah. [12:33.000 –> 12:39.000] So yeah, if you have Parkasaurus or if you’ve been wanting a dodo and Parkasaurus. [12:39.000 –> 12:44.000] And that’s why you haven’t played it. Do it now. Good. [12:44.000 –> 12:47.000] Okay, light your frontier. [12:47.000 –> 12:55.000] Um, I, I like. Okay, I guess let’s just let’s take a look under the hood. [12:55.000 –> 12:57.000] Cody. [12:57.000 –> 13:00.000] I don’t remember games. [13:01.000 –> 13:05.000] I’m gonna record this podcast and I’m out. [13:05.000 –> 13:11.000] All that knowledge is gone. So every time there’s a news article about a game. [13:11.000 –> 13:24.000] I like the night before or right before whatever I put like these little blurbs of what they are and for this one last night I wrote Ark survival evolved but you have mech suits. [13:24.000 –> 13:29.000] I don’t really know that you’re doing your homework, because I am not. [13:29.000 –> 13:37.000] I just like to know what I’m talking about, but, um, I can’t, I’m not good at riffing I feel like when I riff and like I go rogue. [13:37.000 –> 13:45.000] I don’t know. I’m just at the stage of like, I don’t care anymore. I’m just flying by the seat of my pants. [13:45.000 –> 13:49.000] The listeners love you anyway so. [13:49.000 –> 13:56.000] Whereas my anxiety is like they will hate you. [13:56.000 –> 14:05.000] So yeah, that was my note for light your frontiers Ark survival, but you have mech suits because that’s what it looks like he’s like mech suits. [14:05.000 –> 14:10.000] And they have updated the release window for this game and it’s coming early 2024. [14:10.000 –> 14:22.000] I’m like, intrigue I kind of don’t like the first person like aspect of it and it’s weird to do so in a forum but yeah, this also gives me a slime rancher like but like steampunk vibes. [14:22.000 –> 14:32.000] And that’s also a game that I want to play so who knows maybe I will. It’s just so interesting that like, because you can use the suits to like farm instead of him remember. [14:32.000 –> 14:46.000] So it’s like, yeah, it feels like fulfills people’s Gundam desire. Exactly like I want to like have a cottagecore like vibe, but I want to shoot water out of my gun. [14:46.000 –> 14:59.000] And then if you, I don’t know if this happens in this game or not but if you if you’re watering your plants and you have your water gun. And then a baddie is coming for your crops, you can go. [14:59.000 –> 15:02.000] And then switch to your regular gun. [15:02.000 –> 15:04.000] And then you go. [15:04.000 –> 15:07.000] That’s what happens in the comic ops. [15:07.000 –> 15:11.000] Which is a stress. Well, with that sound effect. Oh my god. [15:11.000 –> 15:20.000] Well, no, but okay good. Your, your water is also your weapon. I thought it was original. [15:20.000 –> 15:29.000] The sound effect was supposed to be the water gun going back in the, in the arm and then the real gun coming out. Beautiful. I love it. It was so good. [15:29.000 –> 15:32.000] Thanks. [15:32.000 –> 15:36.000] Next up we have Mossfield origins. [15:36.000 –> 15:49.000] So quote. This is a small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation. Take your time build a sustainable community for your residents, sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game with no time pressure [15:49.000 –> 15:51.000] or external forces. [15:51.000 –> 15:57.000] Yeah, upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space. [15:57.000 –> 16:07.000] Um, let me tell you, that’s the end quote. Let me tell you, so as someone with ADHD I need time pressure. [16:07.000 –> 16:22.000] Or else nothing’s getting done. I know I maybe that’s something we’ll talk about where we actually get into the game but yeah, I also feel that, but also at the same time, I, it’s like, like I want it but also I don’t because stress. [16:22.000 –> 16:34.000] Yeah, but I guess it depends on how they like roll it out like if it’s like starting like yes there is time pressure but I’m not stressed out about it. So, yeah, gotta do it right. [16:34.000 –> 16:37.000] It looks really cute. [16:37.000 –> 16:45.000] The animation style looks really interesting and I really like I don’t really like the sepia tones. [16:46.000 –> 16:52.000] Okay, cool. Mm hmm. Like it’s very other like worldly and. [16:52.000 –> 16:55.000] That’s true. Yeah, yeah, sorry. [16:55.000 –> 17:02.000] Are you like on like a different planet like you’re kind of looks like you’re wearing a space suit, space suit. [17:02.000 –> 17:06.000] I’m assuming that’s why it’s like a weird like different environment. [17:06.000 –> 17:09.000] It’s just a different atmosphere, I don’t know. [17:09.000 –> 17:18.000] But I can, I feel like I could probably get into this like I’m not in a very creative space right now so I don’t want to have to figure out where to put buildings. [17:18.000 –> 17:22.000] I’m very anti like creativity in my game right now. Yeah. [17:22.000 –> 17:29.000] So I could see me not wanting to play that but at the same time, I also enjoy like city building so we’ll see. Yeah. [17:29.000 –> 17:34.000] Yeah, we’ll see. I, that’ll be a you game. [17:35.000 –> 17:42.000] So the roadmap and the release date are quote unquote coming soon. Love that, love that for us. [17:42.000 –> 17:49.000] But we’ll get more information right now. One blurb from their, gosh, what is this their blog. [17:49.000 –> 17:54.000] All events Mossfield Origins, I think this is a blog. [17:54.000 –> 18:01.000] Quote one of the artistic goals of Mossfield Origins is to reflect a healthier relationship that’s possible between humans and the world we live on. [18:01.000 –> 18:06.000] Worlds. Oh, worlds. Okay, confirmed. Yikes. Okay. [18:06.000 –> 18:12.000] We live on depicting a more sustainable approach to life and our habitation. [18:12.000 –> 18:23.000] So, um, yeah, I think it. The vibe is right but I need, I need someone telling me what to do. Yeah, or else isn’t it she not getting done so. [18:23.000 –> 18:29.000] Hopefully they have a really good quest system because that. Oh, if they have achievements. Yeah, yeah, exactly. [18:29.000 –> 18:37.000] Then you have goals. Like if it’s just like go in there and like mine Minecraft and like no, no, no thank you. [18:37.000 –> 18:47.000] Every time I play Minecraft, I literally do the exact same thing and that is go down to the, well, it used to be go down to level 11 but now there’s negative levels. [18:47.000 –> 18:57.000] Oh no. So I go down to like negative 40 or something like that and I just make a strip mine and put everything in, in chests. [18:57.000 –> 19:02.000] And so they organize chests. They are organized. [19:02.000 –> 19:07.000] So everyone that’s playing with me because like I play on these, these like community servers when I do. [19:07.000 –> 19:19.000] And so that they, they can be like, oh wow look a chest that has four stacks of diamonds. Cool. And I’m just like down there with my diamond pickaxe. Just doing that. [19:19.000 –> 19:23.000] That’s all I want to do. [19:23.000 –> 19:24.000] Okay. [19:24.000 –> 19:30.000] Next, Koa and the five pirates of Mara. Speaking of Summer and Mara. [19:30.000 –> 19:35.000] I wrote that this looks like a cute slash fun puzzle platformer. [19:35.000 –> 19:48.000] I’m excited. Is that what quite. Yeah, I think that it’s by Chibi. So same world as Summer Mara is in the same universe, but they, I guess, are deciding to branch out a little bit and they’re, I don’t know, type of game, I guess. [19:48.000 –> 19:57.000] So it is definitely a like 3d platformer and it just looks so cute and like getting to play as like Koa. [19:57.000 –> 20:05.000] I will just love and I do. It’s been so long since I’ve done a platformer because I feel like I got like tired of Mario for whatever reason. [20:05.000 –> 20:13.000] So maybe this will like get me back into like wanting to do platformers because it is so cute. It looks so bright. It just looks really good. [20:13.000 –> 20:21.000] I’m excited. And I did pack it. So excited just to get it. Well, good for you because it releases on July 27. [20:21.000 –> 20:31.000] So that is when it will be available to you. Beautiful. Super awesome. Speaking, I’m going to take a small sign here. Speaking of platformers, have you played Hollow Knight? [20:31.000 –> 20:40.000] Yes. Oh, so good. I have not like, I feel like finished the story or like I’m probably like 75% of the way through. [20:40.000 –> 20:48.000] But I also like get through like various like kind of like Stardew where I’m like, OK, I kind of want to get back into this. Let me start playing it again. [20:48.000 –> 20:55.000] But yes, love, love, love Hollow Knight. When I saw the trailer for Koa, I was like, oh, it’s a platformer. [20:55.000 –> 21:02.000] And then I like had a little bit of like anxiety and I was like, I’m not ready. [21:02.000 –> 21:06.000] If it’s Hollow Knight, then definitely not ready. I don’t think it’s going to be like Hollow Knight. [21:06.000 –> 21:12.000] I don’t know. I’m just too scared of platformers in general. [21:12.000 –> 21:17.000] Hollow Knight got me and I didn’t even get that far. It gets so hard real quick. [21:18.000 –> 21:28.000] I mean, I guess I’ve I’ve beat the game, but like my partner has done like the path of pain and literally a thing. [21:28.000 –> 21:34.000] And it’s just like it’s throwing all of the bad and all of the difficulty at you. [21:34.000 –> 21:39.000] And I’m like, I’m not doing that. It just sounds like stress. I watched like people stream that. [21:40.000 –> 21:47.000] I’m like, I’m not here for that. Like, I want it so I can like 100 percent the game or 120 percent it or whatever. [21:47.000 –> 21:52.000] But also, I’m never going to beat it. And it’s so frustrating. So no, thank you. [21:52.000 –> 22:00.000] Yep. That small aside, I’m trying to think of a nope, there’s no transition. [22:00.000 –> 22:07.000] Garden Galaxy, Garden Galaxy. [22:07.000 –> 22:16.000] Yeah, you don’t do that in this game. So, quote, discover, collect and organize to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idol slash creative sandbox. [22:16.000 –> 22:20.000] And I wrote, I have no idea how to describe this game. [22:20.000 –> 22:26.000] Yeah, it gives me like match madness vibes, like those matching games. [22:26.000 –> 22:32.000] But it’s not that at all. It’s like, I mean, I guess you do kind of like put you like match. [22:32.000 –> 22:37.000] It looks like there’s something there’s like this container that you can put things into. [22:37.000 –> 22:44.000] And then it pops out a randomly generated other things. Yeah, I don’t quite understand whatever that pot is. [22:44.000 –> 22:49.000] No, but it gives me like like city builder. Yeah. Vibes just in a garden sense. [22:49.000 –> 22:56.000] And I feel like I remember playing a phone game like this. That was also an idol game for just growing flowers. [22:56.000 –> 23:02.000] And it has like the same art style and like cubes, like sections, I guess. I don’t know. [23:02.000 –> 23:11.000] But like I said, I’m very anti-creative right now. And if you don’t tell me where to put things, I’m not going to put anything. [23:11.000 –> 23:16.000] Yeah, but this is like if you really enjoy being creative and like, yeah, exactly. [23:16.000 –> 23:24.000] Like if your favorite thing about Animal Crossing New Horizons was designing your island, you’re going to love this game. [23:24.000 –> 23:31.000] Because it’s just like it’s just that it’s just that and terraforming your your own galaxy. [23:31.000 –> 23:36.000] You’re playing God in this galaxy and just building. It looks it looks really cute. [23:36.000 –> 23:41.000] I’m not going to lie, but it’s just not like this is something that I would watch someone else play. [23:41.000 –> 23:48.000] Yeah. And maybe maybe at some point when I’m not feeling so tired and so anti-creativity, I will get into this. [23:48.000 –> 23:54.000] Bev, when you’re when? I’m hoping there will be a time when I’m not tired. [23:54.000 –> 23:59.000] Yeah, no, same. So we’ll see. That’s I just have been like joking about that myself. [23:59.000 –> 24:06.000] But like, you know, when I have free time. [24:06.000 –> 24:14.000] When I’m in the not so distant future, when this is all done in October 2025. [24:14.000 –> 24:19.000] Yeah. Yes. Catch me in January 2026. [24:19.000 –> 24:25.000] Yeah. So basically this there’s a summer update to this game coming out in June. [24:25.000 –> 24:29.000] This game’s already out, so you can already play it right now. [24:29.000 –> 24:36.000] But there’s a summer update and one of the new sets like they literally just put here the preview of one of the new sets. [24:36.000 –> 24:41.000] And it’s like a little island, kind of like a beachy. [24:41.000 –> 24:48.000] I guess it’s more like a deserted island theme now that I’m looking at it because it’s got like it’s got like a message in a bottle. [24:48.000 –> 24:55.000] Oh, wow. And like palm trees and stuff. So if you already have a game, new stuff is a coming. [24:55.000 –> 25:00.000] If you do not have that game, but this sounds intriguing, new stuff will be coming soon. [25:00.000 –> 25:07.000] So dive in now. The next game is we’re getting there. [25:07.000 –> 25:13.000] Y’all steamworld build such a weird name quote in steamworld build. [25:13.000 –> 25:18.000] You must escape a dying planet by building a mining town to dig up vital long lost technology. [25:18.000 –> 25:25.000] Meet the ever growing needs of your citizens, trade resources and defend your mine from the creatures that lurk below. [25:25.000 –> 25:31.000] End quote. That is giving Factorio vibes. It is. [25:31.000 –> 25:37.000] Actually, I don’t know. It’s the one where like you crash land on a planet. [25:37.000 –> 25:47.000] I think it’s Factorio because you crash on a planet and you’re just like mining the crap out of the planet to build your your thing back up. [25:47.000 –> 25:53.000] Eventually, these like creatures come at you and you’re just like, kill them. [25:53.000 –> 25:56.000] Oh, my goodness. Yeah, it’s Factorio. [25:56.000 –> 26:00.000] But yeah, it’s giving that. But the trailer. Did you watch the trailer? [26:00.000 –> 26:07.000] I have not, but I’ve I’ve heard about this game of seed. I think we talked about it on a like previous game or game previous episode. [26:07.000 –> 26:18.000] And I am excited by it. Like, I like the premise and like I enjoy mining and this is essentially what you’re doing. [26:18.000 –> 26:23.000] So I think I would enjoy this. And this also sounds like you’re like Minecraft like life. [26:24.000 –> 26:26.000] Until you can’t anymore. [26:26.000 –> 26:34.000] Like the gameplay trailer makes it look almost like like city skylines, like you have a city that you’re managing. [26:34.000 –> 26:43.000] And then there’s also like, I guess this might be minecarts that I’m looking at in this thing, but it looks like there’s like roller coasters. [26:43.000 –> 26:46.000] So it’s like a little roller coaster tycoon. Oh, my gosh, I forgot. [26:46.000 –> 26:59.000] If you go to 24 is for you and for anyone, if you go to 24 seconds into the trailer, there’s a there’s a what is that called? [26:59.000 –> 27:04.000] A drive through theater. A drive in. [27:04.000 –> 27:15.000] And there’s like these it’s all rusty in the image on the screen just looks like a robot is like about to have a showdown in the middle of the town in front of the tavern. [27:15.000 –> 27:19.000] And like he’s got his hand on his gun and his other guys, but like all you can see is the robot’s face. [27:19.000 –> 27:23.000] That’s just like what it’s evoking. But yes, drive in theater. [27:23.000 –> 27:38.000] So like this game just has a lot. But like to me, if I was the person trying to escape the dying planet partway through this, I would be like, maybe I don’t want just leave the planet. [27:38.000 –> 27:44.000] I mean, do we want to look at the beauty of that of that drive in theater and the roller coasters? [27:44.000 –> 27:51.000] Maybe we just fix up the planet that we have. Anyway, it looks really cute. [27:51.000 –> 27:57.000] I’m excited. And the news is that there’s a new trailer. [27:57.000 –> 28:04.000] That’s the news. So I definitely watch the trailer. It’s really cute, especially 24 seconds in. [28:04.000 –> 28:10.000] Tell me, listeners, what you think is happening in that movie at that drive in. [28:10.000 –> 28:13.000] It’s definitely a Western. OK, because it feels like a Western. [28:13.000 –> 28:17.000] It’s definitely a Western with the hot and the squidty eyes. And the squidty eyes. [28:17.000 –> 28:23.000] OK, next, Menechos Night Market. [28:23.000 –> 28:28.000] That’s me trying to be really, really excited, but also not too loud. [28:28.000 –> 28:35.000] I don’t want to blow out the speaker. So Menechos Night Market, this game, I did not have to look up because I know what I’m talking about. [28:35.000 –> 28:42.000] Exactly. The news here is that it is coming to Game Pass on its release. [28:42.000 –> 28:48.000] And of course, its release is September 26th, which is like the release for a billion games. [28:48.000 –> 28:52.000] There’s like four games that we cover that are all coming out on this day. [28:52.000 –> 29:01.000] Too many games. Pick another day. I mean, they can pick another day because whatever day Menechos Night Market comes out on is going to get our attention. [29:01.000 –> 29:06.000] True. Very true. So all the other games need to step off September 26th. [29:06.000 –> 29:10.000] Yeah, I feel like I need a Game Pass, but also I know I’m just going to buy this game. [29:10.000 –> 29:20.000] So, yeah, I mean, this is good news. Like if there if if you have been thinking about Menechos Night Market and every time you hear us talking about it, you’re like, oh, my gosh, I want a game. [29:20.000 –> 29:23.000] And you have Game Pass. That means you don’t have to buy it, right? [29:23.000 –> 29:30.000] Like you don’t have to put the money down because it’ll be on the for freezies, quote unquote. [29:30.000 –> 29:35.000] I think you have to pay for a Game Pass every month. Yeah, like ten dollars a month or something like that. [29:35.000 –> 29:45.000] So it’s not terrible. It’s only ten dollars. Which is why I was like, maybe I get it for Dreamlight Ballet because I want to play this game, but I don’t want to pay twenty five dollars for a free to play game. [29:45.000 –> 29:50.000] But also, I’m still paying whatever. It’s another subscription. [29:50.000 –> 29:53.000] Nope, don’t need it. OK, don’t need it. Exactly. [29:53.000 –> 30:02.000] If there’s like a specific game that I want to try, but don’t want to commit to, like I suppose Dreamlight Ballet, then I suppose it might be worth it for only like like a month. [30:02.000 –> 30:09.000] Like I definitely would pay more than ten dollars per an entire month if I bought a game. [30:09.000 –> 30:14.000] But whatever. Well, Bev, a great time, a great time to try Game Pass would be in September. [30:14.000 –> 30:25.000] Exactly. Because then you could try you could like if you do it early September, then you could play Dreamlight Ballet until Moneko’s Night Market came out and then swap over. [30:25.000 –> 30:31.000] Love that. That’s good planning, too. Maybe I will do that. [30:31.000 –> 30:36.000] Because I can plan for ten dollars in September. Right. Right. Yeah. [30:36.000 –> 30:42.000] I can do that. I also think that farming simulators on Game Pass. Oh, no. [30:42.000 –> 30:49.000] And I need to be playing that. Spoiler alert for future episodes. [30:49.000 –> 30:56.000] Spirit tea. Just going to transition very poorly. [30:56.000 –> 31:05.000] Spirit tea. So this is a quote from Al. Beta slash alpha slash meh. [31:05.000 –> 31:13.000] Out on Wednesday. So I believe that that means that it’s like Wednesday, like the day after the podcast comes out or the day of that. [31:13.000 –> 31:21.000] That’s unclear, Al. You put dates in the show notes. Wow. We’re just coming out all over the place because he then wrote might include all content. [31:21.000 –> 31:34.000] All content might not. Who even knows? And then I tried to click on the link and I sassily wrote would love to be able to read the update, but it’s only viewable by backers, Al. [31:34.000 –> 31:42.000] And that was where I was going to leave it. But y’all, he actually I didn’t like tag him or anything. He just looked at my notes and then he left. [31:42.000 –> 31:51.000] Yeah, he saw. Yeah. So he commented on that. What did he say? Not sure why I’m being blamed for this. Yeah. [31:51.000 –> 32:03.000] And then he took screenshots. Just copy paste the whole thing in here next time, Al. I mean, no, I wanted to give him crap. And then he ruined it. [32:03.000 –> 32:12.000] You still gave him crap. And then he gave you crap back. Yeah, it’s true. We do be ribbing each other. You’re like poking fun at each other. [32:12.000 –> 32:21.000] So, yeah, he said, let’s see, this says because this is I didn’t look at this last night. It wasn’t available to me. [32:21.000 –> 32:28.000] The developer says I’ve just finished a few of the crucial items and now we’re pretty much ready to start the public beta. [32:28.000 –> 32:36.000] Oh, I was about to say what is a public beta? And wouldn’t you know it? The next sentence. What is the public beta? Thank you. [32:36.000 –> 32:43.000] It’s essentially a chance to play the game early. I believe the beta will contain only the first two seasons of your first year in the town. [32:43.000 –> 32:50.000] However, there’s been talk of potential access to the full game as well. How do you not know? How do you? Yeah. [32:50.000 –> 32:54.000] So maybe it is. It’s not like the plan. [32:54.000 –> 32:58.000] I believe maybe maybe they just don’t have a lot of confidence. [32:58.000 –> 33:05.000] I also I also start with like I I think before things that I know for a fact, so it might just be like a confidence thing. [33:05.000 –> 33:13.000] So I hope that they will know what the beta contains and will maybe just plan to change it later with full access. [33:13.000 –> 33:19.000] I don’t know. Maybe it’ll be like a surprise, like a special surprise of like, oh, you get more. [33:19.000 –> 33:25.000] And you get a full game and you get a full game. [33:25.000 –> 33:31.000] Sorry, I’m tired. Yeah. And then there’s a secret. [33:31.000 –> 33:37.000] The next the next two paragraphs end up saying, oh, and please keep this to yourself. [33:37.000 –> 33:42.000] So I’m not going to say that. But Spirit Tea is done. So this is what they say. [33:42.000 –> 33:47.000] Anyways, the game is done, but the polishing isn’t done. So, yeah. [33:47.000 –> 33:52.000] Well, the secret is that, nope, that they’re announcing the beta for something else. [33:52.000 –> 33:56.000] That’s a secret. That’s for something else. Oh, is it? I can’t read. [33:56.000 –> 34:01.000] It’s too early. A secret. OK, I don’t know who that was. [34:01.000 –> 34:06.000] I just assumed it was the same person. No, I think they’re talking about two games here. [34:06.000 –> 34:11.000] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That’s that’s not clear at all. [34:11.000 –> 34:14.000] This dev needs to make that clear. This is a new game we’re talking about. [34:14.000 –> 34:21.000] This is also it’s just so unclear. I mean, like Dan, Dan, Dan. [34:21.000 –> 34:28.000] Thank you for staying for like communicating to people and like having these, you know, semi regular updates. [34:28.000 –> 34:32.000] But also, this is not clear. No, Dan’s probably also overworked. [34:32.000 –> 34:36.000] They’re probably submit this up, like in the middle of the night, like, oh, it’s out. [34:36.000 –> 34:41.000] OK, I’m done. Good night. Oh, my gosh. Dan is about to have a new baby. [34:41.000 –> 34:44.000] Oh, yeah. That’s why Dan is so tired. That makes sense. [34:44.000 –> 34:48.000] All is forgiven, Dan. Enjoy your baby. [34:48.000 –> 34:54.000] We will enjoy the game whenever she is 1.0, not this public beta. [34:54.000 –> 34:59.000] I’m super excited. OK, cool. [34:59.000 –> 35:04.000] Next. Only three more. OK, Spirit Tea. [35:04.000 –> 35:08.000] No, I already did that. Sprout Valley. [35:08.000 –> 35:11.000] It’s another Kickstarter, so valid. Oh, my gosh. [35:11.000 –> 35:18.000] OK. Oh, what? My laptop or my computer was doing some weird things. [35:18.000 –> 35:25.000] Sprout Valley, quote, a simple casual game. What a simple. [35:25.000 –> 35:28.000] A simple casual game about harvesting and gathering resources. That’s legit. [35:28.000 –> 35:33.000] Like that is what they that’s what the Kickstarter says. [35:33.000 –> 35:37.000] Oh, we’ve talked about this because it’s what the 1.0 is out now. [35:37.000 –> 35:44.000] And then Al says, although not sure what this means, because apparently it is releasing in July and this version is 1.0 of the demo. [35:44.000 –> 35:51.000] Or I’m very confused. And by I’m I mean, Al is very confused, but I’m also very confused. [35:51.000 –> 36:00.000] 1.0, but like still in beta. So like still then it’s not 1.0 Bev. [36:01.000 –> 36:06.000] I don’t know. I could see them be like, this is 1.0 and we expect to have bugs. [36:06.000 –> 36:11.000] So 1.6 will be actually the full release. I don’t know. I don’t understand. [36:11.000 –> 36:18.000] They need a standard. The industry needs to standardize this whole process because it’s ridiculous. [36:18.000 –> 36:24.000] It looks like it. So you can play this on itch.io. [36:24.000 –> 36:29.000] But they have a Switch version in the process. They just have to get it approved by Nintendo, [36:29.000 –> 36:34.000] which a shout out to Elle from Apico. [36:34.000 –> 36:39.000] I now have kind of an insider’s view into like how this stuff happens. [36:39.000 –> 36:51.000] Awesome. And they can they can take a long time and then slap you with the ESRB rating because you have meat in your game. [36:53.000 –> 36:55.000] Because you have meat in your game? [36:55.000 –> 37:00.000] Oh my gosh. So Apico, they have meat. Well, it’s Apicola. [37:00.000 –> 37:03.000] It was mead because you’re making mead. Yeah. [37:03.000 –> 37:08.000] And they didn’t call it mead. I think they did at first. Oh, maybe they didn’t. [37:08.000 –> 37:13.000] I don’t remember. But it was it’s very clearly you’re brewing. [37:13.000 –> 37:20.000] You put honey into a brewing thing. And then if you don’t understand the brewing process of me, then maybe don’t. [37:20.000 –> 37:23.000] But the ESRB was like you are gratified. [37:23.000 –> 37:31.000] You’re like showing alcohol in a positive light because you get these like powers from drinking this alcohol. [37:31.000 –> 37:38.000] And so they like slapped him with a mature rating. Apico, Apico with a mature rating. Ridiculous. [37:38.000 –> 37:42.000] So, yeah, that’s that’s just I don’t think that was Nintendo. That was the ESRB. [37:42.000 –> 37:48.000] So like Sprout or not. Yeah. Sprout Valley. Take your time getting the Switch version out. We get it. [37:49.000 –> 37:56.000] We get it. Also, did you hear? OK, sorry. Future versions of Sprout Valley to come on the Apico train. [37:56.000 –> 38:03.000] Did you hear that there was a bug that was because of me? What? No. [38:03.000 –> 38:11.000] It like made people’s game crash. Just like your existence in the game was just like so magical. [38:11.000 –> 38:14.000] There was something. Gosh, I don’t even remember. [38:14.000 –> 38:19.000] I so I was like talking to Elle. I’m going to pull up my my chat with Elle. [38:19.000 –> 38:28.000] He just one day reached out to me and he was like, I need you to know that you’ve caused me such a headache on Switch because there’s a crash that happens only after people speak to you. [38:31.000 –> 38:37.000] It was called like the Cody crash or the solitary bee crash, but he called it the Cody crash and I retweeted it. [38:37.000 –> 38:42.000] I was like, where do I put on my CV that my bee knowledge crashed a video game? [38:46.000 –> 38:55.000] In your fun notes, more information about me that’s not relevant to my experience, but it’s fun to know. [38:55.000 –> 39:01.000] The knowledge in my brain about bees makes people’s games crash. OK. Amazing. [39:01.000 –> 39:05.000] That definitely should go on your CV, please. Oh, we’ve had so many side notes. [39:05.000 –> 39:09.000] I mean, that’s an accomplishment all by itself. The fact that you’re in a bee game, just saying. [39:09.000 –> 39:15.000] Yeah, that was that was a weird a weird what a crazy random happenstance. [39:15.000 –> 39:21.000] I’m pretty sure it has to do with this podcast because like Elle listened to this podcast and met me from from here. [39:21.000 –> 39:26.000] And then he asked me for like a knowledge. [39:26.000 –> 39:30.000] Yeah, bee knowledge. I was going to say advice and I was like, that was what it was. [39:30.000 –> 39:40.000] It was like bee knowledge. And then at near the end of like me giving him bee knowledge, like once a month or whatever it was, like very, very infrequently. [39:40.000 –> 39:45.000] He was just like, oh, also, I’m putting you in the game. And I was like, what? Love it. [39:45.000 –> 39:52.000] Love it. OK. That needs to go to your CV. I feel like if I could say I’m the co-founder of a Quage team, I feel like you need it. [39:53.000 –> 39:58.000] But you’re you’re in a bee game. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, for sure. [39:58.000 –> 40:08.000] OK. Oh, what am I? I am messing things up on this. OK. 33 Immortals. [40:08.000 –> 40:14.000] So my here’s my quote here. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. [40:14.000 –> 40:22.000] And then I quote 33 Immortals. Yeah. 33 Immortals is a co-op action roguelike for 33 players. [40:22.000 –> 40:26.000] Pick up Thunder Lotus. Yeah. Yeah. Spiritfarer. [40:26.000 –> 40:33.000] Yeah. The people who made Spiritfarer. Pick up and raid, cooperate to survive hordes of monsters and rise above the Almighty. [40:33.000 –> 40:37.000] Yeah. So this is made by Thunder Lotus is the people who made Spiritfarer. [40:37.000 –> 40:42.000] Al, this link is not helpful. I need to know what this game is. [40:42.000 –> 40:51.000] I think it’s like newly announced. So it’s it makes sense that the link is not helpful because that’s all there is. [40:51.000 –> 40:59.000] And oh, oh, it kind of looks like like to me, it looks like Diablo, maybe. [40:59.000 –> 41:05.000] I don’t know. I’m getting like Hades vibes as well. OK, I’ve not played Hades, so it’s so good. [41:05.000 –> 41:11.000] But yeah, I mean, you don’t have to have 33 people, but you can. [41:11.000 –> 41:16.000] That sounds amazing. And I kind of want the chaos of 33 people. [41:16.000 –> 41:21.000] It’s going to remind me of my World of Warcraft 40 man days. [41:21.000 –> 41:26.000] The horror of trying to keep all those chickens in a row. [41:26.000 –> 41:34.000] Uh huh. But yeah, you you can you like dungeon crawl and you are like fighting things. [41:34.000 –> 41:39.000] And this is like an MMO without actually being an MMO. It looks really good. [41:39.000 –> 41:44.000] Yeah, it looks really good. And of course, Spiritfarer people. So Spiritfarer and like the art. [41:44.000 –> 41:51.000] We know the animations like fantastic. We know the art’s fantastic. So I’m very excited to hear about this. [41:51.000 –> 41:59.000] Yeah. And I just hope it’s kind of like a monster hunter, like like waiting room where you could just join random groups. [41:59.000 –> 42:09.000] Yeah, I don’t know. 33 players

No Street Fighter 6 or even Zelda this week—just our old standbys: Star Trek and a little beekeeping. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Not E3 or Street Fighter or Zelda (18:04) - Genki Covert Dock Mini (27:15) - Star Trek: Resurgence (58:01) - Apico (1:20:23) - Outro

Al and Bev talk about Coral Island Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:46: What Have We Been Up To 00:08:02: News 00:17:22: Coral Island 01:40:08: Outro Links Research Story Update Sun Down Update APICO Console Update Grave Seasons Coral Island Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:23.960] Theme tune [00:23.960 –> 00:38.000] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. My name is Al. And [00:38.000 –> 00:45.240] my name is Bev. And we are here today to talk about cottagecore games. Woo! I still called [00:45.240 –> 00:51.800] them farmers. I mean, they’re always going to be farmers to us, I feel like. And I also [00:51.800 –> 01:00.920] discovered that goblincore is actually a real thing. And that is my vibe. I thought [01:00.920 –> 01:10.600] it was a joke. I didn’t realize it was real. And now I’ve accepted. Yeah, absolutely. Awesome. [01:10.600 –> 01:16.060] Um, cool. Well, let’s just get straight into it. And today we’re going to talk about Coral [01:16.060 –> 01:21.720] Island. We finally got here. We finally doing this episode. I feel like we’re right at the [01:21.720 –> 01:25.920] wrong time to talk about this game, right? Because it’s not just in early access. But [01:25.920 –> 01:30.400] we’re also like, not just about to have the fight the 1.0 release. So we’re just kind [01:30.400 –> 01:37.120] of like in that awkward middle. But the summer update is coming in like two weeks, I think [01:37.120 –> 01:42.280] maybe one week, something like that. So maybe maybe that’s good enough. And so we’re going [01:42.280 –> 01:47.200] to talk about that. Lots of thoughts. Before that, we’ll have some news. And but first [01:47.200 –> 01:56.720] of all, Bev, what have you been up to? I am starting my best farming life IRL. I recently [01:56.720 –> 02:04.800] bought a coop and built it. And we just got two little chicks yesterday. So we are chicken [02:04.800 –> 02:11.960] owners and they are adorable and they’re going to be our inside pets. And they’re so cute [02:11.960 –> 02:17.880] and so cuddly. And one purrs and one is just they like they’re only three days old, I think [02:17.880 –> 02:23.200] and they already have personalities. And I’m really excited about this. And I really hope [02:23.200 –> 02:29.800] my cats don’t eat them. That feels like it would be like the kind of bare minimum you’d [02:29.800 –> 02:37.880] want. Right, right. Like can we just not cats? Can we can we not? So the younger one who [02:37.880 –> 02:43.760] always has always been inside. He is just very curious and confused by them. He thinks [02:43.760 –> 02:48.280] they are toys and like, why can’t I play with the toys? I think it’s the older one that [02:48.280 –> 02:52.560] we’re a little bit more worried about because she used to be an outside cat. Right? Yeah. [02:52.560 –> 03:00.840] So she’s she could shoot. Yeah. So we’ll just we’ll just take it slow and see how it goes. [03:00.840 –> 03:07.880] Not eat the chicks. That’s the that’s that would be a good plan. [03:07.880 –> 03:13.800] And I’ve been playing roots of Pacha and have been obsessed lately, I guess with just random [03:13.800 –> 03:20.400] mobile games. I don’t know why. But like solitaire and the ads are getting to me. So I’m just [03:20.400 –> 03:24.280] constantly downloading the new ones and be like, Oh, let me try this and see if I actually [03:24.280 –> 03:33.840] like this. Cool. How about you? I have been playing a ridiculous amount of Coral Island, [03:33.840 –> 03:38.920] right? Like, we, we decided to do this episode. Well, we’ve been planning to do this episode [03:38.920 –> 03:44.040] for quite a while. Like, I think we must have decided this like, I don’t know, like, six [03:44.040 –> 03:47.760] months ago, we decided we were going to do this episode. But we never actually put in [03:47.760 –> 03:51.880] the time, mainly because they didn’t have like the controller support to start with. [03:51.880 –> 03:58.380] And I was not playing this on the PC. No, you can’t make me. So we were waiting on on [03:58.380 –> 04:04.400] controller support first. And then eventually, we got there. I think just like life got in [04:04.400 –> 04:08.440] the way. So eventually, you were like, Oh, yeah, we can I can do this next week. And [04:08.440 –> 04:14.160] I was like, Okay, all right, let’s do this then. And I have put 25 hours into it this [04:14.160 –> 04:21.840] week, which is a lot of time like I don’t normally play 2425 hours of a game in a week. [04:21.840 –> 04:27.480] But I was like, I need to do this one properly. So that is most of my gaming time. I’ve been [04:27.480 –> 04:34.000] playing a bit of Pokemon, not Pokemon Snap, Marvel Snap. And Pokemon Go. You know, the [04:34.000 –> 04:41.520] usuals. Nothing too special. And yeah, just bits and pieces here and there. Coral Island. [04:41.520 –> 04:42.520] That’s about it. [04:42.520 –> 04:48.480] Beautiful. Yeah, I’ve, I think I put up in about the same amount of time in a short while [04:48.480 –> 04:52.800] I’ve taken a little break from it since since rooster pacha came out. But yeah, I was the [04:52.800 –> 04:59.240] same. You want to go for that prehistoric farming sim instead? Uh huh. I was excited [04:59.240 –> 05:04.720] about it. And it’s not early access. So do you have any first thoughts on it? Obviously, [05:04.720 –> 05:09.920] we’re not in a proper episode on that yet. Yeah. Any first thoughts? I am enjoying it [05:09.920 –> 05:15.680] a lot. It’s a like I, you know, like you look at these farming sends and like often you’ll [05:15.680 –> 05:19.800] have to compare it to Stardew because of course, that’s where they’re based off of. [05:19.800 –> 05:27.480] Yeah. And I feel like this is like, like new enough that it it’s exciting and doesn’t quite [05:27.480 –> 05:32.560] feel like it’s just a Stardew in a different world. Yeah. Because it’s a whole different [05:32.560 –> 05:39.240] mechanics. I, I thought we would almost get like a completely capitalistic free like game. [05:39.240 –> 05:44.640] But there’s still a currency. But where I think they just can’t do it. It’s like an [05:44.640 –> 05:51.100] exchange system. But yeah, okay. Okay. But like the there’s like this, I don’t know, [05:51.100 –> 05:56.200] I don’t want to get too into it. But I’ve been I mean, just to be fair currency doesn’t [05:56.200 –> 06:02.000] equal capitalism, right? Like, you can have currency without being capitalistic, I guess [06:02.000 –> 06:07.880] like there’s, there’s almost two different types of currency. There’s like, like overall [06:07.880 –> 06:13.760] contribution. So there’s a contribution. And that’s like what you use for purchasing, like, [06:13.760 –> 06:18.600] upgrades and, and furniture and stuff. And then there’s another one that I forget what it’s called, [06:18.600 –> 06:24.560] that just continues to add up. And that’s just like the value of your society. Yes. [06:24.560 –> 06:31.240] Okay. GDP. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They’ve implemented GDP in a prehistoric game. [06:31.240 –> 06:38.160] It’s fun. It’s cute. The animals are cute. [06:38.160 –> 06:46.360] All right, fair enough. Well, we’ll see how that continues. I think we have a we have a planned, [06:46.360 –> 06:52.480] hopefully planned episode for that upcoming. So we’ll see what people think of that. I haven’t [06:52.480 –> 06:58.560] played at all. I might at some point, but like, there’s enough, there’s enough people playing it [06:58.600 –> 07:02.800] that I can, I’m going to at least wait until the episode comes out. To decide, [07:02.800 –> 07:05.920] I can actually use my podcast. So the way that I want my podcast to be used, [07:05.920 –> 07:10.400] I just don’t get to use it like that very often, right? Because I’m normally the one playing things [07:10.400 –> 07:15.040] and telling people what it’s like. But this way, I can actually listen to it and decide whether I [07:15.040 –> 07:20.360] want to play or not. Because weirdly, I never backed that one. Like, it’s I don’t know why [07:20.360 –> 07:28.440] I backed almost every single Kickstarter farming game for the past five years. And didn’t with that [07:28.480 –> 07:37.480] one. And I’m not sure why. I don’t know. Maybe just too many games. That’s why. Yeah, but I feel [07:37.480 –> 07:43.080] like if not, I didn’t really feel that, that there’s too many games until the last few months [07:43.080 –> 07:48.240] released, or maybe last year. And this, this was like, quite a few years ago, this, this game, [07:48.240 –> 07:52.960] when it started, I feel like it was like three years ago, it was a 2021 maybe a Kickstarter [07:52.960 –> 07:57.080] or something like that. I don’t know. It’s been a while. Well, yeah, there’s too much to remember. [07:57.080 –> 08:09.560] Anyway, shall we talk about some news? News. So first of all, research story. We’ve got a 0.2 [08:09.560 –> 08:14.920] update coming out. And Bev, this has something that I think you might be excited about. I am [08:14.920 –> 08:23.120] very much so. Because that means I can not have to play handheld on my Steam Deck. Controller [08:23.160 –> 08:30.200] support. Whoo. Realized I hadn’t actually said the words. We’re pretty much a fan of controller [08:30.200 –> 08:34.680] support on this podcast. Yeah, I think this was the one of the big things that you had on the on [08:34.680 –> 08:39.040] the podcast episode about this was the lack of controller support, causing issues for for both [08:39.040 –> 08:43.920] of you, I think. Even though Cody doesn’t have a Steam Deck, it was still causing some issues. So [08:43.920 –> 08:50.720] good that that is that is coming out. It’s out. Yes, it’s out now. So you got that there. And [08:51.600 –> 08:56.160] we’ll see how that goes. It looks like they have proper remapping as well. So if you have any [08:56.160 –> 09:02.480] issues with with the the automatic mapping, you can change change what control does what, [09:02.480 –> 09:08.400] which is the good way to do it, not just for you and me, but for you know, accessibility and stuff [09:08.400 –> 09:12.800] like that, as well as always, always very important. It has some other things as well, [09:12.800 –> 09:22.320] like cloud saves and support for 5120 by 1440 resolution. You got to love that 32 by nine [09:22.320 –> 09:30.560] resolution. So if you’ve been wanting to play an eight bit graphics game on a 32 by nine screen, [09:30.560 –> 09:33.600] you can you can now do it without the start menu being caught off. [09:34.480 –> 09:36.480] Beautiful. [09:36.480 –> 09:43.680] Absolutely bizarre. I think there was some issues if you have played the game on multiple devices, [09:43.680 –> 09:48.000] and you hadn’t had cloud save set up. If you’ve only played on one device, and it’s not an issue, [09:48.000 –> 09:54.960] but yeah, so if you if you’ve played research story, before this update, and you have played [09:54.960 –> 10:01.120] it on multiple devices with the same steam account, you’ll need you might need to do some [10:01.200 –> 10:07.680] jiggery pokery with with the cloud. Is that not a term you would know? [10:09.360 –> 10:16.000] Um, I feel like that is so actually googling it is gives up with a different definition than what [10:16.000 –> 10:24.560] I would assume. So Google says deceitful or dishonest behavior. I would just mean like, [10:24.560 –> 10:30.240] kind of fiddling around with things. Anyway, so you might need to fiddle around with things [10:30.240 –> 10:35.360] in your data structure to get it to work. But they’ve got on steam, they have instructions [10:35.360 –> 10:42.560] on how to do it if if you come up with an issue. Beautiful. And that will be linked in the show [10:42.560 –> 10:49.360] notes. It has like UI improvements as well, which I greatly appreciate as well that they took the [10:49.360 –> 10:55.520] time to like put in very small quality of life improvements. So there you go. I’m done. Yeah, [10:55.520 –> 11:03.360] there’s a bunch of what we’ll have to fill the full update notes in the show notes. Which, [11:03.360 –> 11:08.560] yeah, a lot of these small changes will probably not make it not be important to anybody who other [11:08.560 –> 11:14.080] than people who’ve played it. But yeah, this this, that’s a good point. They are they are improving [11:14.640 –> 11:19.040] things, not just adding what they wanted to, but also changing things based on feedback, [11:19.040 –> 11:23.840] which is always good. I mean, that’s why you do early access. You don’t just do early access [11:23.840 –> 11:27.440] to get your game out earlier. That’s a bad way to do early access, you do early access [11:27.440 –> 11:35.040] to get feedback from the community. Our next update is Sun Down version 1.2. So this is the [11:35.040 –> 11:44.640] one that is from the developers of Sun Haven. And it’s, I think it’s meant to be a rogue light, [11:44.640 –> 11:52.480] or is it just your favorite? I’ve just to come. I lose track of these things. Look, [11:52.480 –> 11:56.560] there’s lots of, it looks like it’s heavily focused on combat. Yeah, that’s what it looks [11:56.560 –> 12:01.200] like. I’m just confused. I’m just confused as to the difference between it and Sun Haven. [12:02.080 –> 12:07.680] But I’ve not played either of the games yet. Yeah, same. Although Sun Haven, Sun Haven wouldn’t [12:07.680 –> 12:13.760] change my switch code to a steam code when I got steam deck. So I haven’t been able to play it yet. [12:13.760 –> 12:19.760] Oh, sad. Yeah. Anyway, so the update has a bunch of a bunch of stuff. I mean, nothing that’s like, [12:19.760 –> 12:23.360] this is really important. If you’ve played the game, the link will be in the show notes. [12:23.360 –> 12:25.440] If you haven’t played the game, you don’t care about what there is. [12:27.520 –> 12:32.320] But it’s just a generic update with characters and content and stuff like that. So [12:33.280 –> 12:39.280] and the third update news, apparently almost all the news is update news this week [12:39.280 –> 12:44.160] is the Apico 2.0 update. So that was the butterflies update, which is already on PC [12:45.040 –> 12:51.760] is coming to PlayStation and switch on the 11th of May. Very exciting. Yeah, yeah. Uh huh. [12:52.320 –> 12:55.120] I still haven’t played this update. So I need to do it at some point. But [12:55.840 –> 12:59.040] I haven’t gotten to the point where I can actually take advantage of it. [13:00.800 –> 13:06.400] Yeah, but I just want to go in to meet Cody. Right. I haven’t met Cody yet either. Yeah, [13:06.400 –> 13:09.440] I want to get to that point. Because yeah, I said this is the butterflies update, [13:09.440 –> 13:14.640] but really is the Cody update. Mm hmm. Yes. So if you want the Cody update, [13:14.640 –> 13:18.080] and you’re only you’re playing the game on PlayStation or switch, you can get it [13:18.720 –> 13:25.360] in just over a week. Yes. Excited. You can get it two days before the Eurovision Eurovision final. [13:25.360 –> 13:29.200] Oh, goodness. Yes. It’s not time. It’s not time. [13:31.840 –> 13:37.360] And the final piece of news that we’ve got is about a new game being announced. We don’t have [13:37.360 –> 13:42.560] a huge amount of information about this game. Because it’s like literally just been talked [13:42.560 –> 13:47.360] about, like we don’t have any kind of information on what is coming out on blah, blah, blah. But [13:47.360 –> 13:55.120] this is called grave seasons. It’s an upcoming project. And it is a farming sim, where each time [13:55.120 –> 14:02.480] you load a new game, randomly one of the villagers is selected to be a serial killer. So it is a [14:02.480 –> 14:13.200] murder mystery farming game. Uh huh. And I love this so much. I so much. Is this sarcasm? I can’t [14:13.200 –> 14:18.240] tell. No, no, no. I think it’s amazing. Well, this is the thing like we were talking about [14:18.240 –> 14:24.640] so many games are just like, Oh, it started you. But it’s this, but it’s that right? Whereas this [14:24.640 –> 14:29.520] is like, completely. Well, it’s not completely different. But like actually has a hook that’s [14:29.520 –> 14:36.640] interesting, not just like words in space. It’s like no one of the one of the people is out to [14:36.640 –> 14:48.400] kill you. So you get to get you can keep track of who’s been murdered. And I just, I love it. [14:48.400 –> 14:53.760] It’s great. I want this game. I want this, but I’m also a little confused by it. Like, [14:53.760 –> 14:58.640] is this a rogue blight? Where like, like, what does it mean when you start the game? Because I [14:58.640 –> 15:03.280] like every time you open up the game? No, no. So it’s like each each new save file, right? So I [15:03.280 –> 15:06.560] don’t think it’s meant to be like, rogue lite. So it’s not meant to be like you play for half [15:06.560 –> 15:12.880] an hour and figure it out. But I think it’s like, okay, I think the idea is that you’ll probably [15:12.880 –> 15:18.080] play this more than once. So it’s kind of, I guess I see what you can think in terms of like, [15:18.080 –> 15:22.160] is it like a rogue like? And I guess the kind of the answer is like, well, you could probably play [15:22.160 –> 15:26.960] it like that and just play until you either. I don’t know whether you can die. You either play [15:26.960 –> 15:30.960] till you die or you figured out who the murderer is. And then you can start a new one and start [15:30.960 –> 15:36.960] again. Like that’s that would probably be like a unexpected way to play this. But you can probably [15:36.960 –> 15:40.240] also just play it like a normal farming sim. And if you figure out who the murderer is, [15:40.240 –> 15:47.280] then you just keep going without them. So, uh huh. Okay, yeah, this is this is good. This is [15:47.280 –> 15:53.120] this is I’m excited for it. Yeah. Now that I know maybe hopefully a little more understanding of what [15:53.120 –> 15:57.120] it might actually look like. Yeah, I mean, well, this is the thing like, oh, there’s so much still [15:57.120 –> 16:03.040] unknown. Like we don’t have any idea like, can you be murdered? Can you keep playing after you’ve [16:03.040 –> 16:09.040] figured out the murderer? Can you accuse somebody and it turns out they’re not the murderer? What [16:09.040 –> 16:13.920] happens then? You know, like, there’s just so many unknowns. What happens if everybody’s murdered [16:13.920 –> 16:19.920] except you? Like, what do you do about these things? I’m just I’m really fascinated to see [16:19.920 –> 16:26.320] what they do with it. I love the idea. Yes, more like this. Yeah. And now we just need somebody to [16:26.320 –> 16:30.720] make the one where you can break up the couples because that’s the one. Oh, my goodness. Uh huh. [16:31.920 –> 16:37.040] I won’t shut up about it till somebody does it. Someone will eventually. I hope so. Yeah, [16:37.040 –> 16:44.160] I’m sure they will. It’s gonna happen. I just need to get like properly famous and then I can [16:44.160 –> 16:48.560] like pay someone to do it. Right. That’s I don’t want to make it myself, right? I don’t want to [16:48.880 –> 16:55.600] figure all that out. I just want it to exist. I want to play it. Mm hmm. You know? Yeah. [16:56.560 –> 17:02.000] We clearly have a lot of ideas on this podcast. So we need to just partner up with a dev, I guess, [17:02.000 –> 17:06.480] and figure out how I don’t even want to partner up. Right. I just want someone to do. I will. [17:08.480 –> 17:13.440] I will. I am a visionary, right? Like, I come up with the overall ideas. I’m like, I want [17:14.080 –> 17:19.040] this. And then I just like, just make it. I don’t, I don’t really care about the details, [17:19.040 –> 17:23.360] right? I’ll care about the details when I’m playing the game. Uh huh. Anyway, [17:25.600 –> 17:28.320] speaking of caring about the details when we’re playing a game, [17:28.320 –> 17:33.600] should we talk about Coral Island? Yes, let’s do it. Alright, so just some quick [17:34.240 –> 17:38.880] overall information before we get down into the ridiculously deep depths of mechanics, [17:38.880 –> 17:47.280] which we always end up doing in this game. We are going to talk about Coral Island. It is [17:47.280 –> 17:55.120] currently in early access on Steam and Game Pass. It’s also going to come out on Xbox, PlayStation, [17:55.120 –> 18:00.240] and Switch at some point. But obviously, early access don’t tend to come to them. [18:01.200 –> 18:08.720] It came in early access on October, in October last year. And there has been two updates so far, [18:08.720 –> 18:14.000] and there’s a third one just about to come out. And I think it’s literally less than two weeks. [18:14.000 –> 18:21.200] I’m so excited. In nine days. I checked. And then I think is it two more updates that are slated [18:21.200 –> 18:26.480] before the final version? I think so. I can’t really scroll on like the screen where it has [18:26.720 –> 18:38.880] the roadmap. So I’m not entirely sure. As far as I can see, they’ve said that the full release is [18:38.880 –> 18:45.280] probably coming out this year. But who knows? Who knows? I’m excited. I hope so. [18:45.280 –> 18:50.400] Let me just double check the roadmap. Oh, there’s more than just two updates. So there’s the summer [18:50.480 –> 18:56.080] update is just just about to come out. And then there’s the merfolk update, the fall update, [18:56.080 –> 19:01.200] the winter update, the end game update, the marriage and children update, and then the 1.0. [19:02.160 –> 19:07.040] Wow. Okay. Yeah, this game isn’t this game isn’t releasing finally this year. Like, [19:07.040 –> 19:13.120] we’ll be lucky if it’s next year. I’m fine with that, honestly. [19:13.120 –> 19:17.440] Oh, sure. Sure. I’m not complaining about it. I’m just saying like, they it’s it’s just one of [19:17.440 –> 19:20.640] these classic things, right? Where they’re like, Oh, yeah, it’ll take us about a year to get all [19:20.640 –> 19:29.120] of the updates. You’re like, nah, no, no chance. No chance, mate. Like every time I see us on early [19:29.120 –> 19:33.680] access, and one of the things you have to answer when you’re doing early access is how long do you [19:33.680 –> 19:39.840] expect this to be an early access? And they’re always like six months or a year. And you’re [19:39.840 –> 19:43.680] like, come on, at least give us something realistic, right? Like, nobody is ever going [19:43.680 –> 19:47.360] to complain that you do it too early. Right? Say three years, it will take me three years, [19:47.360 –> 19:51.600] because like, it could take you three years. And if it doesn’t, everyone’s going to be like, [19:51.600 –> 19:54.480] wow, that’s amazing. They did it in last time than they said they would. [19:54.480 –> 20:00.880] True. Yeah, more people should take that route. Like, over overshoot instead of undershoot. [20:01.840 –> 20:04.960] Absolutely. More people should listen to what I see. Oh, my God. [20:04.960 –> 20:13.200] I agree. Cool. So I guess just overall, this is a very much a Stardew like, [20:14.240 –> 20:18.880] and we can, we’ll have debates, I’m sure later on about whether it does the thing that we want, [20:18.880 –> 20:24.640] which is being different, or whether it’s just the same, but in a different skin on a different [20:25.200 –> 20:32.560] place, etc, etc. But it’s very definitely Stardew. Like, that is absolutely what it’s taken a lot of [20:32.640 –> 20:36.960] stuff from. There’s a lot of stuff in this that are like, is like, that was that was Stardew, [20:36.960 –> 20:41.520] right? Like, yeah, that’s what Stardew did. And therefore, that’s what they do. They have done a [20:41.520 –> 20:47.920] bunch of things on top of that. And I guess the biggest thing is it is a, it is set on an island. [20:48.640 –> 20:54.400] I think it’s meant to be a tropical island. Yeah. Oh, it’s definitely a tropical. I think [20:54.400 –> 21:01.440] that’s the only place that coral actually grows right in the tropics. And they kind of will get [21:01.440 –> 21:06.240] to the specifics of the mechanics. But there’s this, you can go underwater is basically the big, [21:06.240 –> 21:12.080] the big functional change, obviously, like, story wise and stuff. It’s kind of built more around. [21:13.360 –> 21:19.840] It feels like it’s meant to be Pacific Island type thing. But it’s hard to like, it’s obviously not [21:19.840 –> 21:23.760] like setting itself in a specific place. But that’s kind of the vibes I get from [21:24.800 –> 21:31.120] I think it definitely is set in a specific place. Because they reference pokio all the time. [21:31.440 –> 21:41.760] So I think it’s like, maybe like a an island off of Japan is where I’m thinking it would [21:41.760 –> 21:47.280] like geographically land. I mean, I think that would make sense. Because I need to double check. [21:47.280 –> 21:55.200] But I feel like they’re the company’s based in something like, as Indonesia, I was thinking the [21:55.200 –> 22:01.760] Philippines, but Indonesia. Yeah. So that would kind of make, it’s obviously not this exactly [22:01.760 –> 22:06.320] there. But like, that’s, that’s the kind of vague, vague area where we’re talking. [22:08.720 –> 22:16.800] So yeah, kind of West Pacific. And I feel like I would also describe this game as like Sturdy [22:16.800 –> 22:23.120] Valley meets Animal Crossing, more so in the environment. Yeah, that’s, that’s a very good [22:23.120 –> 22:27.760] point. There is a lot that it takes from Animal Crossing as well. I, I think I guess it’s, [22:27.760 –> 22:31.920] it’s really easy to merge those two together. So like, if we talk, for example, about like, [22:31.920 –> 22:38.080] the museum, the museum is very much Animal Crossing. Whereas, you know, Sturdy’s, it’s, [22:38.080 –> 22:44.240] if you actually think about it, Sturdy’s museum is very simple, right? Like, it’s, it’s, it’s just [22:44.240 –> 22:49.440] the artifacts, it doesn’t have anything else. Whereas this is very much, very much Animal [22:49.440 –> 22:54.000] Crossing inspired museum. Which I appreciate. That’s a good, that’s a good point. And there’s, [22:54.000 –> 22:56.960] yeah, there’s some other things and stuff, obviously, like, it’s island based. So you [22:56.960 –> 23:04.480] could argue that blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, no, that’s fair. Is that a good introduction? [23:04.480 –> 23:08.000] Have I missed anything introduction wise that we want to talk about? No, I think it’s good. [23:08.000 –> 23:12.640] It’s good. I mean, other than like, the art style being 100% different than Sturdy. [23:12.640 –> 23:17.040] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that’s, that’s fair. So let’s, let’s get, let’s go into that first [23:17.040 –> 23:22.160] then. Should we talk about the look and feel, the art style, the music, that sort of stuff? [23:22.720 –> 23:29.520] What are your thoughts? I absolutely love it. I think it’s so pretty. Everything is just, [23:29.520 –> 23:34.880] I don’t know, like, like the, the menu screen is just so very pleasing to look at, like the font [23:35.440 –> 23:45.040] choices, the NPC art, the animals, like, I don’t have any complaints, like, about the art style. [23:46.000 –> 23:49.840] I absolutely love it. I think it’s gorgeous and beautiful. [23:51.520 –> 23:56.720] Yeah, I think I’d agree with that is it’s very good looking art. They’ve clearly put a lot of [23:56.720 –> 24:02.720] time and effort into, as you talk about the portraits, the character portraits are really [24:02.720 –> 24:10.720] good. I will say the 3d models of the characters a little bit weird. The kind of the way that they [24:10.800 –> 24:18.160] stand and walk is a little bit awkward. But yeah, like the the character portraits in particular [24:18.160 –> 24:26.240] lovely. The most of the other non people models are great. I don’t know, it might be deliberate, [24:26.240 –> 24:30.960] the kind of weirdness of how they stand and walk. I think so, like a little bit of a swagger, [24:30.960 –> 24:36.880] or like an attempt at swagger. It just, it just feels weird to me. And maybe that’s just a [24:36.880 –> 24:41.200] personal preference thing. I’m not sure but and it doesn’t, it doesn’t kill me. Like it [24:41.200 –> 24:45.840] doesn’t cause me great issues. Right? Like most of the time, I’m not really seeing them anyway. [24:47.280 –> 24:53.600] Because I’m going to be honest, I just basically completely ignored the people in this game. [24:54.640 –> 24:59.520] Other than like, story wise, and the giants, like everyone else, I just completely ignored. [25:00.240 –> 25:02.400] Because there’s only so much you can do. [25:03.360 –> 25:06.720] Yes, you have to focus your time on things. [25:06.720 –> 25:11.680] And so I ignored relationships. Like I have no relationships with anybody other than the giants. [25:11.680 –> 25:13.520] I’ve also taken the same route. [25:15.280 –> 25:23.120] Okay, so we’ll probably talk about the people in another episode. I suspect we’ll end up doing [25:23.120 –> 25:28.560] like a blitz where we do a one panel episode as well. But we’ll see. Maybe we can talk about [25:28.560 –> 25:33.920] people in that episode. I think a lot of it is like, there’s obviously a lot of the relationship [25:33.920 –> 25:39.120] based stuff that isn’t fully implemented as well. So it kind of feels like a sensible one to kind [25:39.120 –> 25:42.960] of skip out at this point. But I know some people really love the relationship stuff. [25:44.240 –> 25:51.200] I don’t hate it in all games, but like, I’m fine with just ignoring that for for something. So [25:53.040 –> 25:55.360] yeah, okay, cool. So music, what about music? [25:55.680 –> 26:02.080] Oh, I feel like I don’t hear the music as much. Even with like, having it like all the way up. [26:02.640 –> 26:08.400] I mostly maybe I just like go into the settings and, and fix that. So I can’t really comment on [26:08.400 –> 26:12.560] the music because I haven’t really like noticed anything. How about you? [26:12.560 –> 26:17.280] I’ve liked the music, I will say it’s the one place I’ve noticed some performance issues. [26:17.280 –> 26:22.320] So I think if we talk about this game in general, like a lot of early access games go early access [26:22.320 –> 26:27.760] to like bug fix. This is done the thing that I like, when they do early access that ooblets did [26:27.760 –> 26:34.800] as well, which was this is like a fully functional part of a game. And the bits that we don’t have [26:34.800 –> 26:40.080] are bits that you can’t do. And you know, it’s not we’ve implemented everything, but it’s all [26:40.080 –> 26:45.200] slightly buggy, and we’ll fix it at some point. It’s no the core loop is there and so solid, [26:45.760 –> 26:50.400] the and the bits that we’ve implemented in terms of like story and all these things, [26:50.400 –> 26:56.640] they are there and they are good and you will not complain about them. You know, there are going to [26:56.640 –> 27:03.040] be missing bits, but that’s mainly content and some features. It’s not, it’s not really bugs. [27:03.040 –> 27:08.800] So I find it to be pretty stable. But yeah, the one issue I found is that sometimes the music can [27:08.800 –> 27:16.400] be a bit clippy, like it will stutter a bit. And so hopefully that will be fixed at some point. [27:16.960 –> 27:21.920] But that’s, that’s the only thing I’ve really noticed performance wise, or kind of buggy, [27:21.920 –> 27:26.560] bugginess wise. There’s been a couple of bits here and there. But like, if this, [27:27.360 –> 27:32.800] if this was the quality of a released game, I think it was perfectly acceptable. Like the [27:32.800 –> 27:39.680] bugs are not huge bugs. It’s like, occasionally, like, I mean, you know, I’ve played a year in this [27:39.680 –> 27:47.520] game. And three times I have tried to go out my house, and it’s just put me back in the house [27:48.560 –> 27:53.040] three times in a year. Right. So like that, that’s the sort of level of bug we’re talking about. [27:53.040 –> 27:57.840] It’s not a huge amount. It’s something that hopefully will be fixed. But it’s not like, [27:57.840 –> 28:00.560] oh, I can’t believe they put this out sort of thing, you know. [28:01.280 –> 28:07.760] I feel like the only bugs I’ve experienced thus far have been like starting the day. So I like [28:07.760 –> 28:13.200] every time I get to the TV and might like restart, or it will crash and then I’ll have [28:13.200 –> 28:17.840] to restart the day. But I had that twice as well when checking the weather, it crashes when checking [28:17.840 –> 28:23.760] the weather. Yeah. I forgot about that. That’s literally happened twice in my year as well. And [28:23.760 –> 28:31.360] yeah, you check the weather every single morning. So that’s not a high number of times. It was [28:31.360 –> 28:36.800] happening pretty consistently at some point for me, like every day. Oh, interesting. Again, like, [28:36.800 –> 28:41.440] it’s such a low complaint because it’s the start of the day. It’s literally the first [28:41.440 –> 28:46.800] thing you do. Yeah. It’s like the annoyances. Oh, I have to load the game up again. Yeah, [28:46.800 –> 28:51.840] I don’t care as much. So I’m just glad that I haven’t lost like a whole day’s worth of like, [28:51.840 –> 28:57.360] yeah, process. That’s true. I haven’t haven’t had a single crash other than that. So I’ve not had [28:57.360 –> 29:02.480] any time where I’ve had to redo something in a day. I thought I had one today, but I didn’t. [29:02.480 –> 29:09.200] It was just being a bit slow waking up. So that’s good, because I’ve had them in stardew. I’ve had [29:09.200 –> 29:15.760] stardew crashes. You know, so like, it’s pretty impressive that they had not a single one where [29:15.760 –> 29:21.280] I’ve had to redo a thing in a day, other than check the weather, which is not difficult. [29:22.320 –> 29:30.960] So that’s pretty impressive. Okay, cool. So that’s kind of just generic look and feel and sound and [29:30.960 –> 29:37.200] how we feel about it as a whole in terms of quality. Let’s talk about some mechanics. So [29:37.200 –> 29:41.440] I guess there’s a bunch of things that are kind of standard mechanics that we can quickly chat [29:41.440 –> 29:44.800] through, but I don’t think we’ll have a huge amount to talk about. So like the farming, [29:45.360 –> 29:51.440] it is standard farming, some farming, right? There is nothing special here. There’s nothing special, [29:51.440 –> 29:57.440] and there’s nothing that really drives me insane. And there’s a few kind of like, whatever, where [29:58.240 –> 30:02.720] as far as I can see, there’s no seed maker in the game yet. Yeah. Or it is in the game, [30:02.720 –> 30:08.160] you just can’t get it. It looks like they had it available, and then they put a level cap on, [30:08.160 –> 30:14.240] so now you can’t get it. Stuff like that, that’s just a bit annoying. And presumably, at some [30:14.240 –> 30:21.200] point, there will be a seed maker that you can get. And, you know, there’s just a bunch of kind [30:21.200 –> 30:29.120] of small things like that, that are just like the scythe, you can’t upgrade for some reason. [30:29.120 –> 30:33.280] Yeah, which is interesting. Very odd, especially as it’s such, we’ll come back to that when we talk [30:33.280 –> 30:38.320] about diving, but it’s like such a fundamental tool that you can upgrade, which is bizarre to me. [30:38.320 –> 30:45.360] Or equipped stuff to it, I guess, like the whatever magic upgrades. You can do that. Oh, [30:45.360 –> 30:49.520] it’s just because you can’t upgrade it, you can only do one. Okay, maybe I did do that. I just [30:49.520 –> 30:54.640] forgot. Okay. Yeah, because I checked that yesterday. I did one. Okay, nevermind. I [30:54.640 –> 31:02.240] will check that. You can add the enchantments, I think it’s called. Okay. But yeah, you can upgrade [31:02.240 –> 31:08.560] it. You can only do one enchantment. It’s a bit annoying. Yeah, I mean, I don’t really have [31:08.560 –> 31:13.520] anything really interesting to say about the farming specifically. I mean, I think that the [31:13.520 –> 31:19.040] farming is interesting in that there’s a difference, the different materials needed for crafting the [31:19.120 –> 31:23.600] sprinklers, which I thought was an interesting choice. Yeah, I’m annoyed about that. [31:25.120 –> 31:28.080] I’m not because I let me tell you, I’m annoyed about that. [31:29.840 –> 31:34.800] So I don’t like I’m not against them doing different things, right? And that’s fine. [31:35.840 –> 31:42.400] But my annoyance with it is, it’s basically as far as I can tell, it’s actually impossible without [31:42.400 –> 31:46.880] spending an insane amount of money to do that. Because you can’t actually get the gold kelp in [31:46.880 –> 31:55.520] the game. Yeah. So you have you can buy it, but it’s like 1500 pair gold kelp, and you need five [31:55.520 –> 32:02.480] gold kelp and five silver kelp to build a build a decent sprinkler. There’s a there’s a three by [32:02.480 –> 32:09.120] three sprinkler sprinkler, but that’s basically useless, right? So that is just a bit annoying [32:09.120 –> 32:15.360] that you have that something so kind of fundamental to me, a sprinkler is so difficult [32:15.440 –> 32:21.040] to do. And even the three by three, you have to progress the diving so far to get to that point, [32:21.920 –> 32:27.120] where you can actually do that, you know, it seems like it’s so hard to do, it feels like it’s almost [32:27.120 –> 32:32.480] like a level higher than it should be. Right? Like the the five by five should be the one that has [32:32.480 –> 32:37.600] silver kelp, the three by three should have bronze kelp. And then there should be another one on top [32:37.600 –> 32:43.200] that does the the gold kelp that it kind of feels like they’re missing a sprinkler there. [32:43.200 –> 32:48.160] I don’t know, I kind of disagree, because I almost feel like, like, I got it in a normal [32:48.160 –> 32:54.000] progression, I feel like, as I would have started, had I just been upgrading them via, [32:54.000 –> 33:00.000] you know, bars, iron bars, or gold bars, or what have you. So I feel like it, the progression [33:00.000 –> 33:06.000] made sense in terms of like, the different obstacles they put in place to slow you down [33:06.000 –> 33:11.280] with that development. Like, I think I got to summer, and I was able to, to upgrade them to [33:11.280 –> 33:17.840] the eight by eight. And that worked fine for me. So I would kind of, I think, disagree there. [33:17.840 –> 33:19.440] You mean the five by five ones? [33:19.440 –> 33:21.120] Yes. Wait. [33:21.120 –> 33:22.880] So how did you get the gold kelp? [33:22.880 –> 33:26.880] Oh, no, no, I like the eight tiles were ill. The three by three. [33:26.880 –> 33:30.080] Yeah, the three by three. Yeah, yeah, the three by three is the basic one. [33:31.280 –> 33:35.200] And they’re reasonably easy to get. It doesn’t take a ridiculous amount of time to get to them. [33:35.200 –> 33:38.800] But like, I’m in the second year, and I have not even had a single thing of gold kelp. [33:39.760 –> 33:44.480] I feel like my current complaint is not really about like, the being able to access the the [33:44.480 –> 33:49.360] highest gold kelp one. It’s the fact that sprinkler one and sprinkler two are essentially the same [33:49.360 –> 33:54.800] thing. Like they both do three by three tiles, like eight, eight around and there’s no [33:55.920 –> 33:56.560] Check this out. [33:57.360 –> 34:02.880] Because I thought I was just aware of two sprinklers. And I thought it was three by [34:02.880 –> 34:08.080] three and five by five. Yeah, it is. Sprinkle two is sprinkle two is five by five, not three by [34:08.080 –> 34:14.480] three. I don’t know. I feel like that’s okay. Well, that’s what it is. That’s what it says. [34:14.480 –> 34:20.800] That’s what it says in game. That’s weird. Okay. Great. I’ve seen spring. No, it doesn’t. [34:20.800 –> 34:24.800] No, it doesn’t. It says it says in game eight. Yeah. In game it says eight. [34:27.920 –> 34:34.560] The wiki says 24. Oh, is it just labeled mislabeled? And I never tried building a higher [34:34.560 –> 34:40.640] one for that reason. I think it might be. I suspect it’s an incorrect label. It’s also [34:40.640 –> 34:44.560] it’s also incorrect when it says because it says a radius of eight tiles. It doesn’t mean a radius [34:44.560 –> 34:50.160] of eight tiles. That would that would be that would be what? So eight and eight. That’d be 16 [34:50.160 –> 34:58.480] by 16, which would be incredible. Yeah, it’s unclear exactly what it does then because I [34:58.480 –> 35:03.600] haven’t been able to craft one. Because you need five gold kelp for it and haven’t even had one. [35:04.560 –> 35:11.520] Um, you can buy the gold kelp. But if you were to buy that five gold kelp, it would be 7500, [35:11.520 –> 35:17.200] which I mean, I have the money for now. But like, I would just be buying if I like, [35:17.200 –> 35:27.840] I’m currently at the point where I have, I’ve got 11 22 by 22 farming plots, right? So to try and [35:27.840 –> 35:35.280] cover that with, I would need 20 sprinklers to cover everything with sprinklers, 20 of those [35:35.280 –> 35:46.960] those five by five ones. And so that would give us 100 gold kelp, which would cost 150,000, [35:47.520 –> 35:50.640] which obviously I don’t have them. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, that’s gonna take that’s like [35:50.640 –> 35:55.920] endgame stuff. I think that’s my point. I think that’s my point is the sprinkler two feels [35:56.800 –> 36:02.240] so difficult to get to that. And I don’t even know if it’s possible because I have not seen [36:02.240 –> 36:07.520] Have you seen any gold kelp in the game? I haven’t. But like, part of the so I think [36:07.520 –> 36:12.400] the issue with the gold kelp is that the the area that it’s located is not accessible right now. [36:13.120 –> 36:16.480] So well, that’s, that’s, that’s the question. I don’t know whether that’s the case or not. [36:16.480 –> 36:20.400] So part of the problem with this game is that it tells you about things that don’t exist in [36:20.400 –> 36:24.800] the game yet. And so it’s hard to know whether something is possible in the game. And it’s just [36:24.800 –> 36:31.440] telling you about it or not possible in the game. I promise you that it will be I think possible [36:31.440 –> 36:38.080] because I have like looked at the map and I have like mapped it out in that I’ve tried to access [36:38.080 –> 36:43.600] every single part of the map. And I physically cannot access like the north eastern corner. [36:43.600 –> 36:50.480] Like there’s just barriers there that the underwater Yeah, right. Yeah. So I think it [36:50.480 –> 36:56.240] will be there. It’s just gonna I think it’s a content that they need a update. It’s a content [36:56.240 –> 37:00.720] update that they haven’t gotten around to yet. I think this is probably my only thing that I [37:00.720 –> 37:06.080] think they needed to do better as an early access is do better with telling us what is available and [37:06.080 –> 37:11.840] not. Because it’s a bit frustrating to get to the point where like, okay, well, I’m aiming towards [37:11.840 –> 37:15.360] this. Okay, I’ve got to the area where I’ve got the silver kelp. That’s great. I shouldn’t be [37:15.360 –> 37:20.080] too much longer till I get to the gold kelp. And then you just never get it. Yeah. And you don’t [37:20.080 –> 37:25.200] know whether you’ve done something wrong, or whether it’s not available. And it’s not a problem [37:25.200 –> 37:29.920] these things aren’t available. But I think they need to make it clear. Like, first of all, [37:29.920 –> 37:39.200] why give you the why have they given the crafting blueprint to us? Like, why is it possible to get [37:39.200 –> 37:45.360] crafting blueprint that you can’t do? That’s the weird thing to me. Like I have the crafting thing [37:45.360 –> 37:51.360] for the second sprinkler. But I can’t get the kelp to do that. That that feels like a kind of [37:51.360 –> 37:59.120] mismatch there and, and expectations of the game. I feel like it could it could be a little bit of [37:59.120 –> 38:07.120] wanting to appease people who want a more efficient way to farm, but are willing to grind [38:07.120 –> 38:12.960] for that method. And but you can’t grind Oh, you mean because you can get the you can buy the gold [38:12.960 –> 38:20.400] cap. Yeah. And I just I feel like there needs to be a way in game that they would tell you that [38:20.400 –> 38:27.680] that’s the case. Like, I mean, I suspect with other things, like they’ve told you with other [38:27.680 –> 38:33.200] things like this is not accessible yet. Like, there’s a couple events like scenes or cut scenes. [38:33.200 –> 38:40.160] So they, in a way they have, they just fail to tell you that there’s the gold is not the gold [38:40.720 –> 38:47.120] kelp is not accessible other than buying it. Yeah, it’s not just that. And so there’s also the [38:47.120 –> 38:52.240] the osmium ore is not possible to get in game either. And you can still get things [38:52.240 –> 38:58.720] crafting resources and blueprints for that that would I’d like you can, and you can assume that [38:58.720 –> 39:02.960] it’s not available because you can’t get to the final bit of the mine. But like, that’s an [39:02.960 –> 39:07.760] assumption. That’s not a definite, right? So there’s a there’s a few other things as well [39:07.760 –> 39:15.280] that’s like that what is it gives you something that you could craft or or buy that requires [39:15.280 –> 39:18.640] something that you can’t get in the game. And there’s no indication that you can get that in [39:18.640 –> 39:24.800] the game. And with the osmium ore, you can’t even buy that one. Maybe, maybe in an update, [39:24.800 –> 39:32.000] they’ll update what you can again. Because I think they tried it, they made the attempt at telling [39:32.000 –> 39:36.400] you like, this is physically not available in the game right now, or, you know, virtually whatever [39:36.400 –> 39:41.520] you want to call it. But then they just, I think, miss these portions and then forgot to [39:42.880 –> 39:50.240] the implemented it for events. Yeah, and areas. They didn’t implement it for items. Okay. That’s [39:50.240 –> 39:56.880] like, I don’t I’ve not been aware of any item where it is shown on screen, you can’t get it [39:56.880 –> 40:00.880] and they tell you that you can’t get it. Right? You always just have to assume that for that. [40:01.680 –> 40:07.520] And I like, you know, for example, like, so we have the, there’s the temple, the sea, the [40:08.240 –> 40:12.960] Lake Temple, which is your, here we go, we’re always comparing back to Stardew. [40:12.960 –> 40:17.520] It’s your community center, right? Like you have, you go there and you give offerings of [40:17.520 –> 40:24.800] certain things. There’s no, so first of all, there’s no way to go on to the things actually [40:24.800 –> 40:30.080] know what they’re called. Right? So like, if I’m looking at a list of things in a in a bundle, [40:30.080 –> 40:35.600] there’s no way to know what’s in that bundle, except by just guessing based on the the image, [40:35.600 –> 40:39.920] which in some is obvious, right? Like, oh, that’s clearly a daisy, right? You know, that’s a daisy [40:39.920 –> 40:44.720] because that’s a daisy you can you can buy daisy seeds. That’s easy. That one’s clearly wheat. [40:44.720 –> 40:49.440] But like, Brussels sprouts. Did you know what the Brussels sprouts was before you find a [40:49.440 –> 40:54.960] Brussels sprout? No, it is not obvious. Yeah, yeah, that’s

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.19.537613v1?rss=1 Authors: Gupta, A., Ruturaj,, Mishra, M., Saha, S., Maji, S., Rodriguez-Boulan, E., Schreiner, R. Abstract: We suggest a model of apico-basolateral sorting in polarized epithelia using homologous Cu-ATPases as membrane cargoes. In polarized epithelia, upon copper treatment, homologous copper-ATPases ATP7A and ATP7B traffic from trans-Golgi network (TGN) to basolateral and apical membranes respectively. We characterized sorting pathways of Cu-ATPases between TGN and plasma-membrane and identified the machinery involved. ATP7A and ATP7B reside on distinct domains of TGN and in high copper, ATP7A traffics directly to basolateral membrane, whereas ATP7B traverses common-recycling, apical-sorting and apical-recycling endosomes en-route to apical membrane. Mass-spectrometry identified regulatory partners of ATP7A and ATP7B that include Adaptor Protein-1 complex. Upon knocking-out pan-AP-1, sorting of both copper-ATPases are disrupted. ATP7A loses polarity and localizes on both apical and basolateral surfaces in high copper. Contrastingly, ATP7B loses TGN-retention but retains apical polarity that becomes copper-independent. Using isoform-specific knockouts, we found that AP-1A provides directionality and TGN-retention for both Cu-ATPases, whereas, AP-1B governs polarized trafficking of ATP7B solely. Trafficking phenotypes of Wilson disease-causing ATP7B mutants that disrupts putative ATP7B-AP1 interaction further substantiates the role of AP-1 in apical sorting of ATP7B. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Bev and Codey talk about how to use research and science in games accurately Timings 00:00:00: Apology 00:00:53: Theme Tune 00:01:23: Intro 00:04:08: What Have We Been Up To 00:09:11: News 00:29:04: How To Gamify Science And Research Accurately 01:12:37: Outro Links Lonesome Village Mobile Len’s Island Controller Support Coral Island Dev Update Ages of Cataria Delaye Above Snakes Dev Update Innchanted Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:03.920] Hello, farmers! This is Cody. Just a quick update about this episode. [00:03.920 –> 00:07.280] Your girl hecked up and messed up the Zoom recording. [00:07.280 –> 00:11.520] Uh, so we usually, a little bit of background, we usually do local recording [00:11.520 –> 00:15.280] and Zoom recording as a backup. My local recording failed so we had to [00:15.280 –> 00:19.040] use the Zoom recording and I messed up some of the settings so [00:19.040 –> 00:21.840] we actually only have one Zoom recording instead of like one for me and one for [00:21.840 –> 00:25.600] Bev, which means that we have to use that one. [00:25.600 –> 00:28.480] Uh, and which is sad because Bev’s recording, [00:28.480 –> 00:32.800] local recording, was perfect and beautiful but we can’t use it anymore [00:32.800 –> 00:35.920] and it is not their fault. It is my fault. [00:35.920 –> 00:39.600] So, uh, if you notice that the audio quality is not as good [00:39.600 –> 00:45.680] in this episode, um, my bad. I learned my lesson and I won it again. [00:45.680 –> 00:49.840] Um, but this does not take away from the fact that Bev and I had [00:49.840 –> 01:05.760] a super fun time talking about today’s episode and I hope you enjoy it. [01:19.840 –> 01:27.280] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of [01:27.280 –> 01:32.800] the harvest season. My name is Cody and my name is Bev and we’re here today [01:32.800 –> 01:37.760] to talk about cottagecore games. [01:37.760 –> 01:49.680] Hello. How are you? I am just tired of my life with these games. [01:49.680 –> 01:52.880] I want the cottagecore life to just be my life, [01:52.880 –> 02:00.240] but yeah. Why did February just like fly by though? I don’t understand at all. [02:00.240 –> 02:06.560] Like, how’s it March? I don’t, I don’t, I don’t know. Yeah, I feel attacked. [02:06.560 –> 02:15.760] Um, so today our episode is, um, not what Al told us to do. [02:17.200 –> 02:21.280] Uh, it’s actually not what we originally were going to do. So [02:21.280 –> 02:25.520] basically, um, there’s a new game coming out that we’ve talked about on the pod [02:25.520 –> 02:29.520] before called research story and Bev and I have done research before [02:29.520 –> 02:32.720] and so we were like, we would like to be on that podcast please. [02:32.720 –> 02:39.520] Um, and so we both got the game and, uh, like a week ago and we just [02:39.520 –> 02:42.560] haven’t really had, I personally haven’t really had time to [02:42.560 –> 02:47.120] play with it, uh, as much as I would have liked to, um, on the pod. [02:47.120 –> 02:50.880] So I was just like, like, I don’t feel like I would do it justice if we tried to [02:50.880 –> 02:55.680] cover it today. So, uh, we came up with some last minute [02:55.680 –> 03:05.280] ideas, uh, and we are going with our idea. Not Al’s, not Al’s idea. [03:05.280 –> 03:11.760] Um, so our idea was to talk, uh, since we are talking about research story, [03:11.760 –> 03:15.280] which is a game where you research, where you do research, we were thinking [03:15.280 –> 03:18.000] about talking about our research that we’ve done in our [03:18.000 –> 03:23.440] lives before and how we could gamify it to be [03:23.440 –> 03:27.360] a, like, cottage core game. Um, because I think [03:27.360 –> 03:32.640] it’s a big struggle of mine that anytime I see a game that has, like, research or [03:32.640 –> 03:36.160] science or whatever, I get grumpy because I’m like, they’re not doing it [03:36.160 –> 03:39.440] the right way. They’re gonna do it so wrong. [03:39.440 –> 03:46.400] Yeah, and so, um, so yeah, I wanted to [03:46.400 –> 03:49.680] do it, tell people how to do it. I don’t know, [03:49.680 –> 03:55.440] just, like, dream up my, my, my research game. Um, and I think, Bev, you actually [03:55.440 –> 03:58.720] had mentioned this idea and then I immediately was like, we’re doing it, [03:58.720 –> 04:03.440] we’re doing it. So, yeah, we’ll talk about that. [04:03.440 –> 04:06.960] Um, and then we’ll also talk about some news, [04:06.960 –> 04:10.560] but before that, uh, Bev, what are you up to? [04:10.560 –> 04:14.320] I have been playing a lot of Stardew lately, [04:14.320 –> 04:18.800] uh, ever since I saw, like, Concerned Ape’s tweet about it being, I think, the [04:18.800 –> 04:22.320] seventh, like, year anniversary. I’m like, I [04:22.320 –> 04:25.600] should get back into it and then I’ve been completely sucked in for the past [04:25.600 –> 04:28.560] week. Like, all of my free time has just been [04:28.560 –> 04:32.800] devoted to Stardew, but it’s not good. I don’t care. [04:32.800 –> 04:37.680] What are you, like, are you prioritizing a certain thing this time around or [04:37.680 –> 04:42.320] doing anything? I would like to finish it. Okay, have you not ever done that? [04:42.320 –> 04:45.760] No, I’ve always been, like, so, like, like, [04:45.760 –> 04:49.680] so prescriptive and wanting to get everything done in the first two years [04:49.680 –> 04:54.560] and I think I burned myself out and I haven’t quite, like, gotten to the [04:54.560 –> 04:59.120] point where I need to ask for Grandpa’s affection yet [04:59.120 –> 05:04.000] or whatever. Um, and I haven’t actually gotten to, like, the 1.5 stuff, [05:04.000 –> 05:10.560] um, that came out, so I, I want to, one, finish, I said, I guess, [05:10.560 –> 05:15.360] essentially the game, get to part, uh, you know, year two, end of year two, [05:15.360 –> 05:22.240] and also, uh, try all the 1.5 stuff. Yeah. Uh, do you ever get credits? Like, [05:22.240 –> 05:26.240] is there a way to get credits? What do you mean by credits? Like, so, [05:26.240 –> 05:28.560] like, when you play, like, a Pokemon game or something, [05:28.560 –> 05:31.120] like, eventually at some point you hit credits. [05:31.120 –> 05:36.000] Oh, in Stardew. Um, yeah, I feel like I would imagine it would be [05:36.000 –> 05:40.160] after, after year two. Okay, like, you, like, after your [05:40.160 –> 05:45.520] grandfather gives you love and affection or something. For getting [05:45.520 –> 05:50.800] always tried too, yeah, apparently. Yeah, okay, just never, I’ve never [05:50.800 –> 05:55.840] gotten it that, that far. Um, I always am perpetually getting [05:55.840 –> 05:59.360] distracted, so. Uh-huh, exactly, and starting new farms is, like, [05:59.360 –> 06:03.760] also my issue. Like, I think I have over, like, probably 400 hours in [06:03.760 –> 06:08.160] this thing, but I don’t have to be in the game, so here we are. [06:08.160 –> 06:11.200] I do that with Skyrim all the time, like, I’ll start it, and then I’ll [06:11.200 –> 06:13.840] get really into it for, like, two weeks straight, and I’ll get really [06:13.840 –> 06:18.560] far, and then I won’t play it for months, and then when I get, when I [06:18.560 –> 06:21.040] try to play it again, I’m like, I don’t remember what I was doing, so [06:21.040 –> 06:25.600] I’m just gonna start over, and I have over a thousand hours. [06:28.240 –> 06:33.680] Yeah, love that dirty, though, because it’s essentially my journey. [06:33.680 –> 06:43.840] Yeah, um, I have been reading a lot, um, so, oh, I like to read [06:43.840 –> 06:48.480] fantasy books, so I read, I’m reading books by Robin Hobb, which is, [06:48.480 –> 06:53.840] she’s my favorite author, um, I’m reading books by, uh, N.K. [06:53.840 –> 07:00.000] Jemisin, I read, uh, our mutual friend, Brittany Morris, um, I read [07:00.000 –> 07:04.080] one of, uh, her books, called The Cost of Knowing, I tried to read, um, [07:04.080 –> 07:06.400] books by Black authors during Black History Month, so. [07:07.520 –> 07:10.320] I didn’t realize she had come out with another book already. [07:10.320 –> 07:15.440] Yeah, so, instead of, so, her first book was Slay, um, so good, yeah, [07:16.240 –> 07:19.520] um, and then the second one was, is called The Cost of Knowing, so [07:19.520 –> 07:22.800] that Slay was kind of about, like, a coming-of-age story of a, of a [07:22.800 –> 07:28.800] Black girl who designs kind of a Ready Player One style video game, [07:28.800 –> 07:35.120] um, super fun, super awesome, and then The Cost of Knowing is about [07:35.120 –> 07:40.560] a coming-of-age story about, um, a Black teenager, uh, uh, boy at this [07:40.560 –> 07:45.280] time, and it’s about, like, he has this ability to see the future, and [07:45.280 –> 07:49.520] then he sees the death of someone that’s very close to him, so, um, [07:49.520 –> 07:53.840] and it’s about, like, him trying to kind of come to terms with it, [07:53.840 –> 07:58.080] but also kind of prevent it, but also it’s like, you can’t prevent it, [07:58.080 –> 08:04.720] like, you can’t prevent it, um, yeah, for games, like, I’ve been [08:04.720 –> 08:09.040] playing Pokemon Go, um, and I picked up Arceus again, and I tried [08:09.040 –> 08:14.160] to get credits, I finally beat, uh, a difficult part at the end of the [08:14.160 –> 08:16.640] game, where if you’ve played Arceus, you know what I’m talking about, [08:17.200 –> 08:22.240] and, and then there’s another thing you have to do after that, and I [08:22.240 –> 08:25.840] didn’t know that, like, I literally thought that this thing was, like, [08:25.840 –> 08:28.400] the thing that was stopping me from beating the game, and then there [08:28.400 –> 08:29.920] was a different, there’s a different thing you have to do. [08:29.920 –> 08:32.720] I don’t know if I have beat in the game, and I don’t know what you’re [08:32.720 –> 08:33.440] doing. [08:33.440 –> 08:34.400] Oh, yeah, yeah. [08:35.040 –> 08:35.920] Maybe I have. [08:36.640 –> 08:39.120] No, actually, I don’t think so, because I’m thinking, I’m thinking [08:39.120 –> 08:41.360] of Brilliant Diamond Pearl, like, I… [08:41.360 –> 08:43.360] Oh, yeah, no, Arceus. [08:43.360 –> 08:46.720] Okay, then maybe I can have a beat in it, what am I doing? [08:46.720 –> 08:48.720] I need to go back to it at some point. [08:48.720 –> 08:54.560] It’s so good, it just, like, scratches the itch of collecting, and, [08:54.560 –> 08:57.040] I don’t know, my favorite part of Pokemon is catching, and trying [08:57.040 –> 08:59.760] to catch them all, and trying to catch different types, and, [09:01.040 –> 09:04.080] excuse me, see the, see the Pokemon do different things, and that, [09:04.080 –> 09:05.360] it really does it, so. [09:05.360 –> 09:07.360] And that’s what we’ve been playing and reading. [09:08.240 –> 09:08.560] Hey. [09:11.360 –> 09:14.560] Okay, so next up, we have some news. [09:16.160 –> 09:19.040] First piece of news is about Lonesome Village. [09:19.040 –> 09:29.440] This is the Mexican, not director, Mexican developer that, you’re, [09:29.440 –> 09:31.360] like, a little coyote? [09:31.360 –> 09:31.920] Little fox? [09:33.440 –> 09:34.400] I think it’s coyote. [09:34.400 –> 09:34.900] Okay. [09:35.760 –> 09:37.040] If I recall correctly. [09:37.040 –> 09:42.640] Yeah, and they are porting the game to iPhone and iPad. [09:42.640 –> 09:50.400] Which is, I guess, exciting if you want it on your phone and iPad. [09:53.520 –> 09:55.520] I think you can get it on Steam now. [09:56.160 –> 09:56.480] Yeah. [09:56.480 –> 09:57.360] Like, it’s out. [09:58.880 –> 10:03.200] But if you want it on your iPhone or your iPad, she do be coming. [10:04.960 –> 10:06.640] I don’t think they said when. [10:06.640 –> 10:08.400] I think they just were like, she happening. [10:09.680 –> 10:11.440] Nope, release date yet to be announced. [10:11.440 –> 10:15.680] Okay, I feel like I personally don’t enjoy playing games on iPhone or iPad, [10:15.680 –> 10:20.000] but I know some folks only have access to a phone to play stuff on. [10:20.000 –> 10:23.600] So I am excited for them. [10:23.600 –> 10:28.160] And actually, I might actually tell this person that I’m thinking of about this game, [10:28.160 –> 10:32.960] because they’re also, I think, Hispanic origin, so they might actually enjoy it. [10:32.960 –> 10:33.520] There you go. [10:34.080 –> 10:37.360] Visiting this world in Lonesome Village. [10:37.360 –> 10:41.120] Mm hmm. Yeah, I like playing. [10:41.120 –> 10:45.200] I like mobile games, but specifically the ones that are meant to be mobile games, [10:45.200 –> 10:47.120] like things like RPGs. [10:47.120 –> 10:52.240] Like, I just don’t anything that requires me to use a phone like a controller. [10:52.240 –> 10:54.160] I’m like, no, no, I’m out. [10:56.240 –> 10:58.160] So I have to move anywhere. [10:58.160 –> 10:58.720] No, thank you. [11:00.720 –> 11:04.960] Yeah, but it’s there for someone. [11:04.960 –> 11:08.000] So Lonesome Village, keep your eyes posted. [11:10.160 –> 11:12.800] Lens Island, which is a game that you and I’ve covered, [11:14.400 –> 11:16.400] has controller support coming, finally. [11:18.400 –> 11:25.760] And I saw the tweet and I retweeted or tagged Al and Kevin in it, [11:25.760 –> 11:27.280] because I thought they’d be excited. [11:27.280 –> 11:31.360] And Al was just like, guess who doesn’t read the show notes before? [11:32.000 –> 11:33.680] And I was like, this is like four days ago. [11:33.680 –> 11:37.600] And I’m like, I was excited to tell you this. [11:37.600 –> 11:40.240] And then you just like clap back at me. [11:42.640 –> 11:46.880] I thought we uploaded the news, like in the show notes, like last night. [11:46.880 –> 11:49.360] I’m pretty sure he messaged me asking. [11:49.360 –> 11:50.880] Oh, my gosh. [11:50.880 –> 11:52.640] I don’t even know what he’s talking about. [11:52.640 –> 11:55.120] Al, Al, Al, Al. [11:55.120 –> 11:56.800] Yeah, no. [11:56.800 –> 12:01.120] So this is something that I know Kevin had said that he was waiting for. [12:01.120 –> 12:05.280] And we like controller support here. [12:05.280 –> 12:06.080] We do. [12:06.080 –> 12:07.920] It helps for accessibility. [12:07.920 –> 12:11.360] I’m excited to get back into this with controller support. [12:12.880 –> 12:15.920] I have not played it, I think, since we last covered it. [12:15.920 –> 12:18.240] And I know there’s been a whole bunch of changes. [12:18.240 –> 12:23.920] And I think having the controller support might be what brings me back in at this point. [12:25.280 –> 12:28.320] And someone had said, someone on the Twitter, [12:28.320 –> 12:32.240] on the Twitter, on the tweet said, [12:33.440 –> 12:36.080] so would that mean Steam Deck compatibility? [12:36.080 –> 12:41.200] And the developer said that after the controller support update playing on Steam Deck, [12:41.200 –> 12:43.120] we’ll have improved functionality. [12:44.240 –> 12:47.120] So it still won’t technically be supported for the Steam Deck, [12:47.120 –> 12:51.200] but it will have better functionality on the Steam Deck. [12:51.920 –> 12:55.600] And they’re hoping to have full compatibility in the future. [12:55.600 –> 12:56.960] So yeah. [12:56.960 –> 12:59.600] So I’m assuming it essentially works fine. [12:59.600 –> 13:02.400] It was just like whatever Steam requirements are for [13:03.280 –> 13:06.160] Steam Deck optimization or whatever it needs. [13:06.160 –> 13:09.040] They just added a few more things that I probably don’t care about. [13:10.800 –> 13:14.160] Yeah, it just looks so good. [13:14.160 –> 13:15.360] I need to jump back into it. [13:15.360 –> 13:16.080] I know. [13:16.080 –> 13:16.880] It’s so good. [13:19.360 –> 13:23.680] Speaking of games that you and I like and fight over sometimes, [13:23.680 –> 13:31.200] uh, Coral Island, when Al was like, [13:31.200 –> 13:32.720] who wants to be in the Coral Island episode? [13:32.720 –> 13:33.360] We were both like, [13:36.080 –> 13:38.640] like the beginning of when Al was like, you guys do it? [13:38.640 –> 13:39.680] Like, I’m stepping back. [13:42.160 –> 13:44.800] I think we’re also like that with Lens Island too. [13:44.800 –> 13:45.300] Yeah. [13:45.760 –> 13:48.880] And then Kevin and I were like that with Bear and Breakfast. [13:50.080 –> 13:51.920] Just like, we want to do it. [13:51.920 –> 13:54.640] And so, and also research story now. [13:54.640 –> 13:57.040] So there’s a theme here. [13:57.040 –> 13:57.760] Coral Island. [13:59.840 –> 14:04.000] The Coral Island Spring update is coming in March. [14:05.360 –> 14:07.520] There will be a bunch of new content. [14:09.840 –> 14:11.360] You can, it adds a solar panel. [14:11.920 –> 14:12.480] Just go on. [14:13.680 –> 14:17.120] New outdoor decor, new indoor decor, [14:17.120 –> 14:19.600] a new tree planting festival, [14:19.600 –> 14:26.240] um, which is awesome that, uh, you go to an area that was devastated by logging and you replant. [14:27.200 –> 14:29.120] It’s very on brand for Coral Island. [14:30.640 –> 14:32.640] Um, yeah, it just looks really cute. [14:32.960 –> 14:38.800] Um, on top of that, there is a bunch of accessibility improvements, which I love. [14:41.360 –> 14:46.960] Um, so they said that there’s support for dyslexic font for Latin characters. [14:46.960 –> 14:51.760] Um, there is, you can increase or decrease the font sizes depending on your need. [14:51.760 –> 14:55.440] And there are three different, uh, colorblindness filters. [14:55.440 –> 15:01.840] Now, um, I’m going to ruin these deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia. [15:02.720 –> 15:06.880] Um, so I think that’s depending on what your colorblindness is. [15:06.880 –> 15:13.040] Um, those are the three modes that’s supposed to like help enhance the game or make the game. [15:13.040 –> 15:20.720] Um, I depending on what kind of colorblindness you have, um, like it’s these three different modes. [15:20.720 –> 15:27.120] Um, and then they also said custom key bindings, which is awesome. [15:27.120 –> 15:31.440] Like I’ve never, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game do dyslexic font. [15:31.440 –> 15:35.440] In fact, I didn’t know that was the thing until I read it. [15:35.440 –> 15:39.760] Um, and I am just love, love, love. [15:39.760 –> 15:45.360] Uh, I think I’ve seen maybe one or two other games that have colorblind modes, but it’s just, [15:45.360 –> 15:50.000] I feel like that needs to be more mainstreamed at this point. [15:50.000 –> 15:56.240] Um, with all the new, like new games coming out, like just having that actual level of accessibility. [15:56.800 –> 15:59.040] I bring in a lot of people. [15:59.040 –> 16:01.280] Um, so I’m, I’m really excited. [16:01.280 –> 16:02.960] Like rural Islander was doing this. [16:02.960 –> 16:03.440] Hey, good. [16:03.440 –> 16:04.880] I was like, we haven’t covered this yet. [16:04.880 –> 16:05.360] Right. [16:05.360 –> 16:06.000] Cause like, [16:06.000 –> 16:11.200] Uh, right now it has you and Al’s name on it. [16:11.200 –> 16:12.080] So I’m gonna wait. [16:12.080 –> 16:13.920] Which one has a core Island? [16:13.920 –> 16:14.560] Yeah, this game. [16:15.440 –> 16:15.940] Okay. [16:17.120 –> 16:19.280] I was like, I was wondering, have you covered it? [16:19.280 –> 16:20.560] No, I was sitting here. [16:20.560 –> 16:22.080] I was like, wait, this is out already. [16:22.080 –> 16:28.560] Why like, we know why haven’t we, what am I doing sitting on this game? [16:31.760 –> 16:33.360] Wait, what are we supposed to be doing? [16:33.360 –> 16:37.920] Oh, wait, it doesn’t have a date yet. [16:38.480 –> 16:38.980] Okay. [16:39.760 –> 16:40.800] And Alice name on it. [16:40.800 –> 16:42.720] We’re going to have to kick out on earth. [16:42.720 –> 16:43.920] Get you a problem. [16:43.920 –> 16:46.080] The problem is that it’s just windows. [16:46.080 –> 16:47.440] So this is the problem. [16:47.440 –> 16:52.400] Y’all I only have my PC is my desktop and it’s in a room. [16:52.400 –> 16:54.400] I never go in anyway. [16:55.600 –> 16:57.760] Um, I mean, I’m going to be playing research story on it. [16:57.760 –> 17:07.440] So next piece of news, uh, ages of Kataria, um, is delayed [17:07.440 –> 17:11.440] until 2024, specifically Q1 2024. [17:12.240 –> 17:19.440] Um, I am not sure if this game has been talking about, um, I don’t [17:19.440 –> 17:23.200] also, but I will say that I’ve personally not looked into it [17:23.200 –> 17:25.120] yet until just now. [17:25.120 –> 17:28.160] And I love the look of it. [17:28.160 –> 17:28.660] Yeah. [17:29.040 –> 17:29.540] Same. [17:29.540 –> 17:30.720] It’s very cute. [17:31.440 –> 17:31.940] Yeah. [17:32.240 –> 17:36.000] Um, the whole vibe aesthetic looks really cute. [17:36.000 –> 17:37.600] Of the animals are really cute. [17:37.600 –> 17:39.600] Um, I like the concept. [17:39.600 –> 17:43.440] Like it’s like an age of empires game, but you actually care more [17:43.440 –> 17:44.960] about what your people are doing. [17:46.960 –> 17:50.800] Like your, your characters like age over time and you get to see [17:50.800 –> 17:53.520] them and you collect your little souls in a tree, apparently. [17:53.520 –> 17:57.840] Um, I’m feeling like I actually might’ve already talked about this [17:57.840 –> 18:01.280] in a previous episode and I already covered it. [18:01.280 –> 18:01.760] I forgot. [18:01.760 –> 18:02.960] My memory is terrible. [18:02.960 –> 18:04.800] I’ll confirm this. [18:06.800 –> 18:10.240] Um, yeah, no, I, it looks really cute. [18:10.240 –> 18:13.200] You manage your villagers, uh, there’s a spirit tree. [18:13.200 –> 18:16.240] There are elves and the elves are like plant people. [18:16.240 –> 18:21.520] Um, so you can choose whether your village is humans or elves. [18:21.520 –> 18:23.920] Um, and the elves also are like different colors. [18:23.920 –> 18:28.080] Uh, I’m a little confused by that. [18:28.080 –> 18:30.160] Like, why, why do you have to choose? [18:30.160 –> 18:31.440] Why can’t you just have both? [18:31.440 –> 18:36.560] And I’ve seen that it’s like based off of real world, like time. [18:37.440 –> 18:40.240] And that’s why I think maybe I’ve talked about this already. [18:40.240 –> 18:44.000] Cause I feel like I’m not excited by it being real world world. [18:44.000 –> 18:44.500] Yeah. [18:44.500 –> 18:47.200] Um, but whatever, it’s very cute. [18:47.200 –> 18:49.760] Uh, I love the gist of it for the most part. [18:49.760 –> 18:53.280] So I will, I don’t, I don’t have money right now to bag it, [18:53.280 –> 18:55.280] but I will probably get it at some point. [18:56.160 –> 19:00.560] So, I mean, I think that the reason you choose between either humans or [19:00.560 –> 19:03.360] elves is because you’re supposed, you’re wanting your village to grow. [19:03.360 –> 19:09.920] And I think since the elves are made of plants, I have the feeling that [19:09.920 –> 19:14.080] if you had both and then they all pair off that eventually you’re not [19:14.080 –> 19:15.600] going to have a village anymore. [19:15.600 –> 19:18.640] Um, but that would be a super cute idea. [19:18.640 –> 19:22.560] If like you could make like a second village or something, and then [19:22.560 –> 19:25.840] maybe like an elf comes over and like falls in love with a human and [19:25.840 –> 19:30.560] then like, and they can totally like live it, but babies are, are a [19:30.560 –> 19:35.360] thing that need to happen and if they’re plant, but I guess it’s also a game. [19:36.240 –> 19:38.000] Well, they could make it happen. [19:38.000 –> 19:40.560] They have to reproduce somehow. [19:40.560 –> 19:42.880] Otherwise, how, how do they exist? [19:42.880 –> 19:47.520] Um, we have questions. [19:47.520 –> 19:49.120] We have a lot of questions. [19:51.760 –> 19:52.960] Oh my goodness. [19:53.840 –> 19:57.680] Also, if that’s also like the question of, are they the same species? [19:57.680 –> 20:01.200] Cause can they actually humans and elves, can they procreate? [20:01.200 –> 20:02.400] I don’t think they can. [20:02.400 –> 20:05.520] But is there any concern with having them both in a one village? [20:07.680 –> 20:12.560] I mean, so they, I don’t think that they can procreate, [20:12.560 –> 20:15.040] but I think that they would probably still have the capability [20:15.040 –> 20:16.720] to fall in love and choose each other. [20:16.720 –> 20:16.960] Right. [20:18.320 –> 20:18.640] Yeah. [20:19.200 –> 20:21.520] Cause like, is it going to be drama about that? [20:21.520 –> 20:23.520] That’s what I want. [20:23.520 –> 20:24.560] This is what I want now. [20:26.080 –> 20:27.120] Cause that’s what I’m saying. [20:27.120 –> 20:31.520] It’s like, what if they all like, all the humans are like, screw humans. [20:31.520 –> 20:34.240] Like I’m going to date an elf and the elves do the same thing. [20:34.240 –> 20:35.360] And then your villages. [20:35.360 –> 20:35.680] Okay. [20:35.680 –> 20:36.640] I understand that. [20:36.640 –> 20:37.280] I understand. [20:37.280 –> 20:39.920] Your village just is gone. [20:39.920 –> 20:40.960] How they procreate. [20:40.960 –> 20:46.240] Like if they’re, if they’re plants, they could theoretically holiday themselves. [20:46.240 –> 20:50.640] What if the elves last like so much longer than the humans. [20:51.680 –> 20:55.040] And so then the human passes, but the elves. [20:55.040 –> 20:56.640] Oh my God. [20:56.640 –> 20:57.600] I want this. [20:57.600 –> 20:59.360] This is the story. [20:59.360 –> 21:01.360] This is not what this game is going to be about. [21:01.360 –> 21:05.520] But okay. [21:05.520 –> 21:07.120] This is what I want now. [21:08.240 –> 21:09.600] Above snakes. [21:09.600 –> 21:18.400] According to their latest update, it’s finished quote unquote whatever that means. [21:18.400 –> 21:20.000] They’re just focusing on bug fixes. [21:20.800 –> 21:26.000] Looks like they’re still I don’t know if it’s, I think they were still on, on, on track for [21:26.000 –> 21:28.000] their release in early 2023. [21:28.000 –> 21:34.000] Also, whatever that means, because early 2023 is fast ending. [21:34.000 –> 21:39.760] Yeah, as we, as we mentioned, retired in February, where did it go? [21:41.760 –> 21:45.440] I feel like March is like the end of like early 2023. [21:45.440 –> 21:50.320] Like that’s officially been a quarter, a whole quarter of a year done. [21:50.320 –> 21:56.240] So if it’s not coming out in the next month and this month, I don’t believe in early 2023. [21:56.240 –> 21:57.920] Then but we’ll see. [21:57.920 –> 21:58.720] We’ll see. [21:58.720 –> 22:05.280] There’s apparently a prologue coming soon, which we can download for free, I guess. [22:05.280 –> 22:08.800] I guess it’s going to be kind of like a demo, I’m assuming. [22:08.800 –> 22:12.800] Yeah, it looks like it covers about the first hour of gameplay. [22:12.800 –> 22:14.720] So why don’t we just call it a demo? [22:15.360 –> 22:16.400] But it’s a demo. [22:17.120 –> 22:17.600] I wonder. [22:17.600 –> 22:24.160] So I wonder if, so I know that like if you have a demo of a game, so like Apico, for [22:24.160 –> 22:29.920] example, if you downloaded the demo and then played the game, you could not continue your [22:29.920 –> 22:30.720] demo game. [22:31.760 –> 22:33.840] You had to start a new game. [22:33.840 –> 22:35.840] And a lot of people, which just makes sense. [22:35.840 –> 22:36.960] It was a demo version. [22:36.960 –> 22:39.040] It was like a completely different version of the game. [22:39.040 –> 22:42.800] They don’t like, it didn’t have everything. [22:42.800 –> 22:46.640] But I wonder if because they’re calling this prologue, like you, yeah. [22:46.640 –> 22:47.520] Oh, it says that. [22:48.480 –> 22:50.560] Oh, see if I will carry over to the full game. [22:50.560 –> 22:51.440] So yeah, that’s. [22:51.440 –> 22:58.800] Yeah, so instead of you having to like start over, you can play this first bit, be introduced [22:58.800 –> 23:03.600] to the game for free, and then your save file will carry over. [23:03.600 –> 23:04.160] Yep. [23:04.160 –> 23:08.160] But it sounds like a DLC or like a whole different thing. [23:08.160 –> 23:09.840] It’s a pre-LC. [23:10.400 –> 23:11.440] It’s, oh my goodness. [23:13.120 –> 23:17.600] Is this early release, like early access, just a different way to call it that? [23:17.600 –> 23:20.240] Because they did have early access in their Kickstarter. [23:20.240 –> 23:24.160] So I’m confused. [23:24.160 –> 23:25.680] Yeah, I’ll define this. [23:27.040 –> 23:28.480] What does prologue mean? [23:29.360 –> 23:32.000] I mean, that’s what I think it means is that, yeah. [23:34.160 –> 23:38.560] They’re going to PAX East, which is super interesting. [23:38.560 –> 23:41.840] Actually, no, no, I am not going, no. [23:43.120 –> 23:46.080] I saw it and I was like, oh, I could go to PAX East. [23:46.080 –> 23:50.400] Because that’s the first time that we met, I think. [23:50.400 –> 23:51.040] Was it PAX East? [23:51.040 –> 23:54.880] No, because I got sick and I couldn’t make it out. [23:54.880 –> 23:55.200] Right. [23:55.200 –> 23:57.200] It was Kelly that I roomed with. [23:57.200 –> 23:59.200] Kelly and I think Mia and Nick. [23:59.200 –> 23:59.600] Yeah. [23:59.600 –> 24:01.040] All the other slackers. [24:01.040 –> 24:02.000] Yeah, you weren’t there. [24:02.000 –> 24:03.840] Oh, and then we went camping afterwards. [24:03.840 –> 24:04.400] Okay. [24:04.400 –> 24:04.720] Yes. [24:04.720 –> 24:05.760] So that made up for it. [24:06.800 –> 24:09.360] I think it’s still going back to Above Snakes. [24:09.360 –> 24:14.000] I think it’s still on track because they had, they were Kickstarter. [24:14.000 –> 24:17.920] They had a pre-alpha and alpha beta, and they still say early 2023. [24:17.920 –> 24:18.420] Okay. [24:19.600 –> 24:22.800] And it says we have internally decided on a release date. [24:24.080 –> 24:28.160] Then they’re going to say what it is the next update. [24:28.720 –> 24:29.040] Okay. [24:29.040 –> 24:30.640] So there’s going to be announcement. [24:30.640 –> 24:32.800] This is the announcement about the announcement. [24:32.800 –> 24:33.840] This is the announcement. [24:33.840 –> 24:34.340] Correct. [24:35.200 –> 24:35.700] Okay. [24:36.320 –> 24:41.200] I mean, we know we love that in at harvest season. [24:42.560 –> 24:42.960] Yeah. [24:42.960 –> 24:44.320] Should you almost say Harvest Moon? [24:44.880 –> 24:46.400] No, no. [24:46.400 –> 24:47.760] I almost heard Harvest Moon. [24:48.560 –> 24:51.120] I mean, also, I don’t know what I was going to say. [24:53.280 –> 24:53.780] Okay. [24:54.480 –> 24:55.360] Last piece of news. [24:55.360 –> 24:55.920] We’ve got this. [24:55.920 –> 24:56.800] We can do this. [24:56.800 –> 24:57.440] We do this. [24:58.960 –> 25:00.560] So this, I think, is a new game. [25:01.120 –> 25:03.280] It’s called Enchanted. [25:03.280 –> 25:09.520] So it’s like Enchanted, but it’s an inn, like a cozy inn that you go and stop and stay at. [25:10.160 –> 25:10.800] Enchanted. [25:10.800 –> 25:15.920] And the steam thing says, quote, run a magical inn with friends. [25:15.920 –> 25:17.280] I’m going to butcher this name. [25:18.240 –> 25:23.920] Ja rules family in question mark has been stolen by an evil wizard landlord. [25:23.920 –> 25:26.400] Team up with friends to reclaim your family’s legacy. [25:26.400 –> 25:32.800] Manage your in brew potions, fish cook and fight in this hectic and heartfelt magical [25:32.800 –> 25:41.200] adventure and play solo or play solo or co-op for one to four players. [25:41.200 –> 25:46.080] I feel like they should say play solo or co-op for two to four other players. [25:46.640 –> 25:50.160] Like, I don’t know, but you can’t co-op by. [25:50.160 –> 25:53.280] I mean, no, no, you can’t co-op by yourself. [25:55.440 –> 25:55.940] So, yeah. [25:55.940 –> 26:02.180] So at first it looks like another, like, witch game. [26:03.060 –> 26:04.900] There’s like a little cauldron and stuff. [26:06.500 –> 26:10.020] But then it very quickly became chaos. [26:10.020 –> 26:12.020] Yeah, there’s a lot. [26:12.580 –> 26:16.420] Like, we were talking about this before we started recording, and it’s like our ADHD [26:16.420 –> 26:19.060] brains can’t understand what’s going on. [26:19.060 –> 26:21.940] It’s just there’s too many colors, too many things. [26:21.940 –> 26:24.180] A lot of colors in this. [26:24.180 –> 26:30.900] So you said you were into it because it’s an Australian goodness. [26:30.900 –> 26:31.540] What was it? [26:32.420 –> 26:39.940] It’s a fantasy universe inspired by indigest, indigen, indigen, indigen, indigenous. [26:39.940 –> 26:41.300] Yes, thank you. [26:41.300 –> 26:42.100] Australian tails. [26:44.100 –> 26:46.580] I’m a struggle boss today. [26:46.580 –> 26:47.220] It’s all good. [26:48.980 –> 26:49.460] Yeah. [26:49.460 –> 26:58.100] So I mean, it looks like you cook things and you update your in, you run it, and you decorate [26:58.100 –> 26:58.260] it. [26:58.260 –> 27:05.300] You’re trying to satisfy, quote, the infamous food critic with capitals. [27:06.180 –> 27:07.380] No, I don’t like that. [27:07.380 –> 27:09.220] Surprised it doesn’t have a trademark after it. [27:09.860 –> 27:10.500] Oh, my gosh. [27:10.500 –> 27:13.540] Purchase upgrades from your local were’s wolf. [27:13.540 –> 27:19.620] Oh, a wolf that you get were’s from. [27:19.620 –> 27:24.020] See, I think I just needed to take the trailer was a lot all at once. [27:24.820 –> 27:31.460] These little golden gems did not like the famous food critic, but where’s wolf? [27:31.460 –> 27:32.420] I am here for. [27:32.420 –> 27:34.820] You got to overcome any of the wizard burglars. [27:34.820 –> 27:36.820] There’s a cat bird. [27:36.820 –> 27:37.700] That’s one word. [27:37.700 –> 27:43.300] And I don’t know what that means, but it looks like it’s a species of cat burglar. [27:43.300 –> 27:44.900] Oh, my gosh. [27:46.020 –> 27:46.420] Yeah. [27:46.420 –> 27:49.700] So Al had said that this was out now. [27:50.580 –> 27:51.700] And it’s not. [27:51.700 –> 27:52.420] It’s not, Al. [27:57.700 –> 28:01.540] You can purchase it, pre-purchase it, pre-order it. [28:02.420 –> 28:06.980] Well, how, you know, however you want to call it, you can buy it now, which is 50% off. [28:06.980 –> 28:07.940] So go for it. [28:07.940 –> 28:10.660] If you’re going to get it, I will say it is. [28:10.660 –> 28:12.660] It sounded like you said 50% off. [28:12.660 –> 28:15.620] So I’m going to 50 15 15. [28:16.420 –> 28:16.980] Thank you. [28:16.980 –> 28:21.700] One five established words are not my strong suit and I’m recording a podcast. [28:21.700 –> 28:30.180] So so yeah, if you buy it before before the release date, which is March 28th, you can [28:30.180 –> 28:32.180] get that 15% off. [28:32.180 –> 28:35.780] My brain’s trying to do math right now. [28:37.780 –> 28:38.900] You save three dollars. [28:40.900 –> 28:42.340] You save three dollars. [28:42.340 –> 28:43.620] Three American dollars. [28:43.620 –> 28:47.380] I was just like, is this is that it is it is. [28:49.220 –> 28:51.540] So that is enchanted. [28:52.980 –> 28:53.780] It’s a clever name. [28:53.780 –> 28:54.980] I’ll give it that. [28:54.980 –> 28:55.300] Yeah. [28:55.300 –> 29:02.740] Okay. [29:02.740 –> 29:03.540] Oh, my brain. [29:05.380 –> 29:12.260] So let’s go to our main topic, which is I wrote how to gamify science and research accurately. [29:13.620 –> 29:14.340] The important bit. [29:14.340 –> 29:15.220] Act it is. [29:15.220 –> 29:22.900] Yeah, because so this kind of like I said, Bev, they brought up the game, the idea first [29:22.900 –> 29:26.340] of talking about, like, research that we’ve done before and then how we can gamify it. [29:26.340 –> 29:37.620] But this also ties into this gripe that I have about bees, bees, specifically bees and [29:37.620 –> 29:41.300] bees and games, because there was a game that came out recently or not came out, but like [29:41.300 –> 29:43.380] it was talked about on the podcast recently. [29:43.380 –> 29:45.540] Gosh, I can’t remember what Honeyman sir, I think. [29:46.740 –> 29:49.700] And someone was like, Oh, Cody’s going to love it because it’s a big game. [29:49.700 –> 29:52.100] And I’m like over here, like, see things. [29:52.100 –> 29:57.300] Just like screaming in the background. [29:57.300 –> 29:59.460] Yeah, because it completely depends. [29:59.460 –> 30:06.900] Like, so for one, I think that there’s a lot of there’s a lot of honeybee stuff in the [30:06.900 –> 30:08.260] media nowadays. [30:09.620 –> 30:11.620] And I don’t really study honeybees. [30:11.620 –> 30:14.260] I study specifically anything else. [30:14.260 –> 30:24.500] And so there’s like this built up ire over years of me telling people that I study bees [30:24.500 –> 30:27.140] and then them asking me, Oh, do you have a hive? [30:27.140 –> 30:31.460] Oh, how can I have a hive? [30:31.460 –> 30:33.460] And me being like, I don’t do that. [30:34.340 –> 30:36.580] Go watch a YouTube video on how to do it. [30:36.580 –> 30:38.420] Yeah, I don’t do that. [30:38.420 –> 30:39.380] I can’t tell you. [30:39.380 –> 30:44.420] I can’t tell you anything about that. [30:44.420 –> 30:56.020] And so it’s this like, if the game either only has honeybees in it, or if all it has [30:56.020 –> 31:01.460] is a big round thing, and it spits out honey. [31:03.140 –> 31:05.700] I’m not gonna be one over. [31:06.500 –> 31:07.940] There has to be more. [31:07.940 –> 31:17.060] But if it’s like a game where you can have, you plant flowers and you plant bees and butterflies [31:17.060 –> 31:20.900] and stuff, and then there’s a benefit to that, I’m all for that. [31:22.260 –> 31:23.060] It’s just different. [31:23.060 –> 31:27.140] Or like Apico, they have the solitary bees update. [31:27.140 –> 31:32.100] So that talked all about solitary bees and butterflies, which is amazing completely. [31:32.100 –> 31:39.700] Like, even though it’s a game that started out only about beekeeping, it’s not just that. [31:39.700 –> 31:40.500] So that’s amazing. [31:41.220 –> 31:42.020] It is. [31:42.020 –> 31:42.900] They did it right. [31:42.900 –> 31:44.260] Apico is amazing. [31:44.260 –> 31:44.820] Yeah. [31:44.820 –> 31:46.660] And so whatever. [31:46.660 –> 31:47.060] I’m sorry. [31:48.420 –> 31:49.380] It’s all good. [31:49.380 –> 31:54.020] And so part of me is sitting here like, okay, what do I want from people? [31:54.020 –> 32:00.580] Because right now all I’m doing is getting mad and saying you’re not doing it correctly. [32:00.580 –> 32:02.500] But then I don’t like in my brain. [32:03.940 –> 32:12.020] And then I don’t say how it should be done, which is kind of also the like, how do you [32:12.020 –> 32:13.540] gamify science and research? [32:13.540 –> 32:15.060] Like, how do you do this? [32:16.420 –> 32:21.540] And sometimes I feel like people don’t, you know, of course, Elle from the developer of [32:21.540 –> 32:27.780] Apico is the exception to this, but most people don’t do their research. [32:27.780 –> 32:31.620] And so that’s all they do is just make like a thing that spits out honey. [32:33.620 –> 32:38.100] I mean, if you do your research, like if you were looking like how to conserve wild native [32:38.100 –> 32:43.460] bees, you would learn about the diversity of bees and you would learn about how they [32:43.460 –> 32:45.380] need more than just like most. [32:45.380 –> 32:47.060] Most of them don’t use hives. [32:47.060 –> 32:48.340] Most of them aren’t social. [32:49.700 –> 32:54.260] There are only so in North America, for example, there’s 4000 species of native bees. [32:55.300 –> 32:56.340] None of those are the honeybee. [32:56.340 –> 32:58.580] Honeybee is not native to North America. [32:58.580 –> 33:00.900] And only what is it? [33:00.900 –> 33:06.500] Like 9% of bees are social and live in like a colony or a hive environment. [33:08.740 –> 33:11.380] The other 91% are solitary. [33:12.180 –> 33:13.220] And nobody understands. [33:14.100 –> 33:14.660] Yeah. [33:14.660 –> 33:20.580] So nobody understands like their life history, what they do, how they do it. [33:20.580 –> 33:28.740] And I feel like a game would be an amazing avenue to teach people how to do it or to [33:28.740 –> 33:32.420] teach people about plant pollinator networks or whatever. [33:34.420 –> 33:40.580] So I guess that’s gonna be part of part of why we’re talking about what we’re talking [33:40.580 –> 33:49.060] about today is like trying to just like advance the or advocate for the use of doing your [33:49.060 –> 33:55.780] research about plants that you might be using or insects or wildlife that you might be using. [33:55.780 –> 34:04.100] Like, if you have someplace, if you have a game that is set in the forest, try and figure [34:04.100 –> 34:08.980] out what forest insects actually are or what forest birds there actually would be. [34:11.540 –> 34:12.980] I feel like movies don’t do this either. [34:12.980 –> 34:16.500] Movies don’t do a really bad version of this, too, because there’s been a lot of movies. [34:16.500 –> 34:24.180] I also listen to, like, I also go birding and know a decent amount of bird songs, and [34:24.180 –> 34:29.620] I’ll be watching a movie and it’ll be in, like, a desert and there’s a beautiful sand [34:29.620 –> 34:33.460] dune in front of you and the sun is hitting it just right. [34:33.460 –> 34:35.620] And it’s just really like, you can feel the heat. [34:35.620 –> 34:42.260] And then I hear a red-tailed hawk and I’m like, I am taken out. [34:42.260 –> 34:42.740] No. [34:42.740 –> 34:43.300] Yep. [34:43.300 –> 34:48.180] Yeah, I’ve had that moment before with, like, tropical birds calls. [34:48.180 –> 34:49.860] Like, I only know about bird calls. [34:50.740 –> 34:56.740] And I’ve heard like a Montezuma like goodness, I’m forgetting the name or pendant. [34:56.740 –> 34:57.060] I can’t. [34:57.060 –> 34:59.140] There was also another name I couldn’t pronounce. [34:59.140 –> 34:59.460] No. [34:59.460 –> 35:03.940] And I was like, that is not where this bird is found. [35:04.660 –> 35:07.780] I completely like thrown off and distracted by that. [35:07.780 –> 35:09.620] So, yeah, I agreed. [35:09.620 –> 35:14.420] Or, like, watching a movie that’s set in California and I hear a cardinal. [35:15.060 –> 35:19.060] And now that I’ve lived in the Northeast and I know what a cardinal sounds like, I’m like, [35:19.060 –> 35:21.220] nope, that’s not out there. [35:21.220 –> 35:22.420] So I don’t know. [35:22.420 –> 35:30.500] Just advocating for even if your game is not about science or insects or anything like [35:30.500 –> 35:34.500] that, or about research, like, even if the game isn’t about conducting research, do your [35:34.500 –> 35:34.980] homework. [35:34.980 –> 35:42.100] Either contact someone, like, honestly, like, Elle, when Elle reached out to me and was [35:42.100 –> 35:45.940] like, Hey, would you be willing to consult on the solitary bees update? [35:45.940 –> 35:49.700] I was like, Yeah, I don’t even don’t even need money. [35:49.700 –> 35:51.780] Like, don’t need money. [35:51.780 –> 35:52.980] We’ll still pay for the game. [35:53.540 –> 35:56.020] Like, I would love to play this game. [35:57.700 –> 36:04.340] And I feel like a lot of other like if you’re making a game about birding or bird watching [36:04.340 –> 36:10.260] or something like that, like bird watchers or ornithologists would be all about it. [36:10.260 –> 36:13.140] Yeah, it would be so excited to see like wingspan. [36:13.140 –> 36:19.620] Like, I am in love with this board game because they actually took the time to like, you know, [36:19.620 –> 36:23.380] do the homework and make it realistic and about birds. [36:24.500 –> 36:31.060] And it’s just like any opportunity that is like an educational like there’s so many opportunities [36:31.060 –> 36:39.460] just to educate people without even trying to, you know, like having a like neat like [36:39.460 –> 36:46.420] I don’t I can’t work with words today of having having a like locality that has like actual [36:46.420 –> 36:50.980] local plants and actual local flora and

Al, Bev, and Micah talk about their farming games of 2022 Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:03:00: What Have We Been Playing 00:17:28: News 00:43:40: Farming Game Of The Year 00:45:43: Nominations 01:35:56: Debate 01:44:42: Winner Announcement 01:48:02: Outro Links Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos ConcernedApe Interview SoS: AWL Premium Edition Princess Farmer Coming to Mobile Disney Dreamlight Valley Update Garden Galaxy GOTY Nominations: Ooblets Cult of the Lamb APICO Harvestella Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom Disney Dreamlight Valley Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation The Endless Seven-Day Journey Bloom Micah on Twitter Bev on Twitter Contact Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THSPod Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

In this episode of Safe Space, Rosie and Sky talk to Dr Matthew White, CEO of Whitethorn Games about the culture around easy and casual games. We chat about Matthew's path into the games industry, and going through the teaching aspect as an assistant teaching professor at Penn State University, having been in the industry for several years and now as CEO for Whitethorn. Matthew discusses the ethos behind Whitethorn and the games that they work on, as 'defenders of easy games', which leads to our discussion on gatekeeping difficulty within gaming. We look at APICO, one of Whitethorn's latest releases, as a cosy beekeeping simulator about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees, and how games can make a real-world impact. Matthew tells us about his mental health journey within his career, and how he wants to see the industry change for the better. "While our games might challenge you, they'll respect your time, they'll make sure you can play, and most importantly, they'll never punish you." Links Whitethorn Games APICO

Codey and Kev talk about Bear and Breakfast Timings [00:00:00] Theme Tune [00:00:31] Intro [00:02:16] What Have We Been Playing [00:10:15] News [00:44:19] Bear And Breakfast [01:24:44] Outro Links Ooblets Release Date Ankora: Lost Days Delay Autonauts vs Pirate Bots Spells and Secrets Consoles Re:Legend Release Date Tease Disney Dreamlight Valley Gameplay Video Doraemon Story of Seasons 2 Japanese Trailer Garden Paws Update Parkasaurus Update Haunted Chocolatier Screenshot Lemon Cake Console Release Spirit of the Island 1.0 WoMen in Science 1.0 Harvestella Info Codey in APICO Codey on Twitter Kev on Twitter Contact Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THSPod Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

Welcome to the first episode of The Pure Nintendo Podcast!  This week, Jemma and Roger talk about Nintendo news, including the Nintendo Pictures Announcement and the updates to Mario Strikers: Battle League.They also dig into the last issue of Pure Nintendo and discuss some of their favorite articles. The cast also talks about the games that they are currently playing and reviewing, including APICO and Long Live the Queen. There's also some Sonic talk as they discuss the current poll happening on the Pure Nintendo Twitter feed.Finally, the crew wraps up the show with Jemma's eShop pick of the week.Time Stamps:00:00:12  - Intro00:01:37 - What is Pure Nintendo?00:10:30 - Who are the hosts, Jemma and Roger?00:22:12 - Have you heard? Gaming NewsNintendo Pictures AnnouncementMario Strikers: Battle League Updates00:37:00 - Have you read? Articles from Pure Nintendo00:46:52 - Games we are currently playingAPICOLong Live the Queen00:54:22 - Pure Nintendo Poll: Sonic the Hedgehog 01:01:09 - Jem's eShop gem: InfernaxSupport the magazine!Check out the site! https://purenintendo.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PureNintendoMusic:Gigakoops - Tunnel of HateRolemusic - If Pigs Could SingSupport the magazine!Check out the site! https://purenintendo.com/To learn more about how to subscribe to the magazine, check out our Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/PureNintendoFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PureNintendoSend us your questions on Twitter!Music:Gigakoops - Tunnel of HateRolemusic - If Pigs Could SingKris Keyser - OHC3

Welcome to another episode of Gamerheads! This week, the cast talks about the release date of the TMNT Cowabunga Collection and the impact that Shredder's Revenge may have on it.And then Mike breaks down the Resident Evil series, giving us his Good, Bad, and Cringe of the show. The cast talks about the games they are playing, including Powerwash Simulator, APICO, Spidersaurs, and Fall GuysThe crew also goes through the list of games coming out next week, and Mike shows off his uncanny ability to dissect a game just by knowing the title of the game.Check out our sponsor!Established in 2018, Joypad Lad is an online retro video game store that puts customer service and the quality of the products first while also remaining affordable.Check out their website: https://joypadlad.com/Get 10% off your next purchase by using the promo code GH10Support the show!If you like what you hear, please leave us a review on Podchaser! We'd love to hear what you have to say.  Here's the link where you can leave us a review.Have a question for the crew? Ask us on Twitter, on Gamerheadspodcast.com or send us an email: info@gamerheadspodcast.comMusic by:Komiku - Run Against The UniverseSawsquarenoise - Stage 3 RushJet1 - Return to Cont

Welcome to another episode of Gamerheads! This week, we have an interview with Joe Mirabello and we discuss the development of Mothergunship: Forge.Mike also gives us a run down of the headlines, including the Bayonetta 3 announcement and the Netflix Resident Evil series.The cast talks about the games they are playing, including Fall Guys, Mothman 1966, Apico, and Spidersaurs.The crew also goes through the list of games coming out next week.Terrible Posture GamesYou can find out more about Terrible Posture Games at their site: https://www.terribleposture.com/Join their discord! http://discord.terribleposture.com/Check out our sponsor!Established in 2018, Joypad Lad is an online retro video game store that puts customer service and the quality of the products first while also remaining affordable.Check out their website: https://joypadlad.com/Get 10% off your next purchase by using the promo code GH10Support the show!If you like what you hear, please leave us a review on Podchaser! We'd love to hear what you have to say.  Here's the link where you can leave us a review.Have a question for the crew? Ask us on Twitter, on Gamerheadspodcast.com or send us an email: info@gamerheadspodcast.comMusic by:Komiku - Run Against The UniverseSawsquarenoise - Stage 3 RushJet1 - Return to ContHoliznaCC0 - Legends

It's a bit of a chaotic episode of the GoGCast this week. First off, Simon revives the 360 No Scope meme to celebrate the episode's number. Cat and Simon report on this year's edition of Montreal ComicCon, the first in person one since the start of the pandemic. Leah lives her best beekeeper life thanks to APICO. Plus, we chat about Haven Studio joining the PlayStation family, how PAX organizers are taking over for E3 2023, and more. What is Everyone Playing? (00:27:39) APICO (00:39:04) This Week's News (00:44:10) Playstation acquires Montreal based Haven Studio (00:44:10) Follow up on EA's bad tweet (00:47:14) Legal action threatened as Hideo Kojima falsely linked to Shinzo Abe assassination (00:53:15) PAX organizers to take over E3 (00:58:07) Outro and Wrap-up (01:05:55) -- Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca. Find our Merch at http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/GirlsOnGames/ Buy us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/girlsongames

Al nd Kev talk about accessibility in games Timings [00:00:00] Theme Tune [00:00:31] Intro [00:03:31] What Have We Been Playing [00:10:51] News [00:39:23] Accessibility [01:07:31] Outro Links Disney Dreamlight Valley Worth Life Autonauts vs Pirate Bots APICO APICO Episode Len’s Island Len’s Island Episode Garden Story Let’s Build a Zoo Let’s Build a Zoo Episode Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom Doraemon Story of Seasons Episode Harvestella Wholesome: Out and About Kev’s Twitter Kev’s Art Twitter Contact Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THSPod Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

Lucy tells us of her time with APICO, a beekeeping simulator with minecraft-like survival elements. Ben touches on his first impressions of Diablo Immortal. We then spend the rest of the episode talking about the open letter from CAMRA chairman Nik Antona to the Minister for Small Business lobbying for the legal definition of a pint to be 100% liquid. Lucy has the Coconut Froth Latte Stout from Overtone, while Ben has the Forbidden Worlds Session IPA from New Bristol Brewery. Aadil rounded it all out with the Hamer & Sikkel Porter from Brouwerij de Molen.

Cette semaine, dans Tin Can, on commence par tenter de survivre dans une capsule de sauvetage d'une station spatiale. Pas de bol, elle est dans état lamentable et il va falloir apprendre à réparer tout ça un peu dans l'urgence. Direction ensuite le XVIIIe siècle dans une ambiance très Alexandre Dumas avec Card Shark et sa plongée fascinante dans les rouages de la manipulation des cartes. C'est beau, c'est passionnant, et d'une originalité folle. On termine avec Apico, qui ressemble à un tutoriel reposant pour devenir apiculteur. On signe tout de suite.Jérémie Kletzkine, dans sa chronique jeux de société, nous parle de Number Drop.Pour commenter cette émission, donner votre avis ou simplement discuter avec notre communauté, connectez-vous au serveur Discord de Silence on joue!Silence on joue! C'est l'émission hebdo de jeux vidéo de Libération. Avec Erwan Cario et ses chroniqueurs, Patrick Hellio et Corentin Benoit-Gonin.CRÉDITSSilence on joue ! est un podcast de Libération animé par Erwan Cario. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 2 juin 2022 sur Discord. Réalisation : Erwan Cario. Générique : Marc Quatrociocchi. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Al and Codey talk about APICO Timings [00:00:00] Theme Tune [00:00:32] Intro [00:07:34] What Have We Been Playing [00:11:24] News [00:26:28] APICO [01:06:04] Outro Links Wholesome Direct Dragon Quest Builders on Mobile Turnip Boy on Mobile Rune Factory 5 Possibly coming to Steam Spirittea Inof Spirittea new trailer My Time at Sandrock Atomicrops DLC on consoles Let’s Build a Zoo DLC Autonots vs Pirate Bots APICO on Steam APICO on Twitter APICO Website Bee Death Metal and APICO soundtrack by Mothense Codey on Twitter Contact Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THSPod Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

Beköszönés, 640kRoller Champions + GAAS (09:15)APICO + fura játékok (33:30)Cyberpunk 2077 nextgen (50:10)Horizon Forbidden West platina Warhawknál (01:02:05)Eiyuden Chronicles - Rising (01:16:32)Sniper Elite 5 kóstoló (01:24:40)Mi várható a következő időszakban (01:26:51)Discord csatornánkTelegram csatornánkAmennyiben tetszik a podcast, támogass minket a Patreonon!

On this week's Pixels & Ink Podcast: Brendan, Chris, Dayna and Jordan sit down to talk cross-overs in games like Fortnite with Among Us, PUBG with Evangelion, and even Marvel with...Marvel. From there, the team discusses the Marvel Disney+ takeover, beginning with the new She-Hulk: Attorney At Law trailer, its story, graphics and the magnificent Tatiana Maslany. With movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness crossing over so closely with Marvel shows like Wandavision, is the MCU becoming too much? With Silent Hill rumours running wild, the cast breaks down past games. Members mention which Silent Hill titles were great, which weren't and who they think should bring the title back for another run. Dayna also shares her new found love for indie games, and how some of her favourites are no longer AAA titles. After reviewing Cat Cafe Manager and APICO in the last few weeks, the team discusses the charm behind indie darling.

Steve gives his review on Apico, Levi talks about his gaming preferences, Playstation announced their tiered releases for PS Plus and stackhouse is missing!

Welcome to The ohmTown Daily News Show (ODNS). The show is held live on https://www.twitch.tv/ohmTown/ at 11AM Eastern where I merge business, technology, and society. Apple Wuhan no Covid, Crude Oil, VR Pain, 57 Seconds, Apico, and more. ODNS Ep 142 Articles Discussed in Season 1, Episode 05222022 (142): https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/smacktalk/f/d/apple-store-opens-in-wuhan-with-chinas-first-apple-pickup-area/ (apple-store-opens-in-wuhan) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/were-sorry-for-u-s-baby-formula-shortage-abbott-ceo-ford-says-in-washington-post-op-ed/ (were-sorry-for-u-s-baby-formula-shortage) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/jif-peanut-butter-recalled-over-suspected-salmonella-outbreak-that-has-hospitalized-two-people/ (jif-peanut-butter-recalled) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/crude-oil-is-selling-for-over-100-per-barrel-but-200-years-ago-it-was-a-plentiful-resource-used-in-medicine-and-cosmetics-here-are-15-surprising-facts-about-the-history-of-oil-and-gas/ (crude-oil-is-selling-for-over-100-per-barrel) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/i-substituted-alcohol-with-psychedelic-water-a-kava-seltzer-thats-gone-viral-on-tiktok-and-found-its-the-perfect-drink-for-the-sober-curious/ (psychedelic-water-a-kava-seltzer) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/the-sunday-read-can-virtual-reality-help-ease-chronic-pain/ (can-virtual-reality-help-ease-chronic-pain) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/tour-all-the-coolest-parts-of-fords-electric-f-150-lightning-from-its-frunk-to-its-taillights/ (fords-electric-f-150-lightning) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/hatchideas/f/d/a-tesla-driver-who-had-his-car-on-autopilot-in-a-fatal-crash-faces-manslaughter-charges-report-says/ (tesla-driver-who-had-his-car-on-autopilot) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/the-continuity-report/f/d/morgan-freeman-josh-hutcherson-team-on-time-bending-thriller-57-seconds-in-first-look-photo/ (time-bending-thriller-57-seconds) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/the-continuity-report/f/d/snl-season-finale-lets-mckinnon-bryant-mooney-davidson-say-good-bye/ (snl-season-finale-lets-mckinnon-bryant-mooney-davidson-say-good-bye) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/warcrafters/f/d/get-honey-get-paid-in-charming-beekeeping-sim-apico/ (charming-beekeeping-sim-apico) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/warcrafters/f/d/this-week-in-pc-gaming-my-time-at-sandrock-sniper-elite-5-and-kao-the-kangaroo/ (my-time-at-sandrock-sniper-elite-5-and-kao-the-kangaroo) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/smacktalk/f/d/woman-claims-40000-credit-card-fraud-occurred-after-losing-apple-watch/ (woman-claims-40000-credit-card-fraud-occurred-after-losing-apple-watch) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/thedailynewsshow/f/d/plane-carrying-more-than-75000-pounds-of-imported-baby-formula-lands-in-us/ (75000-pounds-of-imported-baby-formula-lands-in-us) https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/theres-an-animal-that-walks-on-three-limbs-its-a-parrot/ (theres-an-animal-that-walks-on-three-limbs-its-a-parrot) More ohmTown: Visit https://www.ohmTown.com (https://www.ohmTown.com) Visit https://www.twitch.tv/ohmtown (https://www.twitch.tv/ohmtown) Visit https://www.YouTube.com/ohmtown (https://www.YouTube.com/ohmtown) Visit https://discord.gg/vgUxz3X (https://discord.gg/vgUxz3X) Visit https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohmtown/id1609446592 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohmtown/id1609446592)

Al and Codey interview Ell from APICO Timings [00:00:00] Theme Tune [00:00:31] Intro [00:04:28] What Have We Been Playing [00:07:21] News [00:33:12] Interview [01:42:02] Outro Links APICO Release Announcement APICO on Steam Ooblets Coming to Switch Ooblets Trailer Cloud Gardens Delay Announcement FarmCon Let’s Build a Zoo DLC Let’s Build a Zoo on Switch? My Time at Portia on Mac Moonstone Island Coming in 2023 Above Snakes Spells and Secrets PuffPals Sprout Valley APICO on Steam APICO on Twitter APICO Website Bee Death Metal and APICO soundtrack by Mothense Codey on Twitter Contact Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/THSPod Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

This week we are chatting with Grant Morris. Grant should be well know to our Australian listeners as he is multiple time West Australian state champion, and for a period also spent time riding on Australia's East Coast.   However what makes this chat with Grant have even more global appeal is Grant spent 10 years over in the UK based around Bury & Rochdale riding UK trials, including a total of 9 SSDT attempts which in his last one in 2009 gained him a long sought after First class award.   He also tells us of his time at the Scott trial, the chasing the Road National Series & event the French 4 day.   Grant also went on to a career in motorcycling first with Apico while in the UK and then KTM group when he returned to Australia. With KTMs recent acquisition of Gas Gas, Grant is now the unofficial DOT (Director of Trials) here in Australia.   I took this opportunity to asking him on his perspective of KTMs ambitions in the trials arena and did my best to get scoops on the plans for the Gas Gas trials bikes.   I hope you enjoy this chat with Grant Morris.   Contact the Podcast: Email: podcast@trials.com.au Facebook Group: Trials Australia Podcast Community Instagram: _davidgrice TikTok: @trials_aus_podcast

In our fifth episode of the Game-Maker Series, we interviewed Ell, the co-founder of TNgineers and co-creator of the upcoming Beekeeping management game, APICO.Make sure to wishlist APICO on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1390190/APICO/Follow APICO on Twitter:https://twitter.com/apico_gameFollow TNgineers: https://twitter.com/TNgineers►  Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!  ►  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-8xvYGhQQRgp7Ic02yciAJoin our Discord Server!   ►  https://discord.gg/Fusr6jH8bMJake's Twitter ► https://twitter.com/jacob_chipdip18Cameron's Twitter ►  https://twitter.com/masssgeneric

Al and Codey go through the news Timings [00:35] Intro [05:21] What Have We Been Playing [11:11] Wholesome Direct [14:51] Harvest Moon: One World [16:59] Story Of Seasons: Pioneeers Of Olive Town [23:59] Lonesome Village [25:35] Sun Haven [27:38] Kynseed [29:28] Alba: A Wildlife Adventure [31:15] Farm It! [33:58] APICO [40:00] A New Leaf: Memories [43:05] Story Of Season Mobile [54:26] Outro Links Wholesome Direct Announcement Harvest Moon: One World Update Harvest Moon: One World Episode Story of Seasons 1.0.5 Patch Story of Seasons DLC Lonesome Village Coming to Xbox Sun Haven Delay Len’s Island Demo Kynseed Update Alba Tease Farm It! APICO A New Leaf: Memories Story of Seasons Mobile Trailer Codey on Twitter Contact Raschelle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissDellaney Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/scotbot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

Join Sophie this week as she chats to Apico Factory Racing Owner's Dylan and Anna, and also the marketing manager Scott Cannon. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss and Episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.