What Did We Play Yesterday?

A sort of mashup between arkanoid, vampire survivors, and tetris, with a base building component. Tough to explain, with the potential for addiction. You can have up to four main balls at once time, and have the ability to fuse or evolve them to open up slots. You also have passive bonuses. The goal is to clear the enemy lines before they reach the bottom of the screen (or kill the roaming boss, if you've reached the end). Will probably be playing a bit of this.

Freshly Frosted is a cute donut-frosting line game. It's fun watching the donuts move along the conveyor belt and get frosted, sprinkled, etc. But it's like inbento in that it's "fine" but I don't know how long it will hold my attention.

Le famous puzzle gaem. I tried this game years ago, and had an urge to try again and dang this one is hard. When I get stuck, and finally see the solution, I feel like an idiot every time. I'm gonna do my best but I swear my brain does not work this way.

Well, I gave Kamaeru another shot, but when I got to the frog breeding minigame, which involves using tic-tac-toe to determine dominant genes (with the remainder being randomly selected) I threw in the towel. The game play is tedious and none of the things that "work" work well enough to be interesting or rewarding beyond a few minutes.

Decided to tear myself away from FT2 before my game brain atrophies completely and I can't play anything else.

Kamaeru is a cozy frog-collecting game. The frogs are cute, but so far most of the species variations are uninteresting (different color combinations). You can buy items to place on the farm and you can build up wetlands and catch bugs. Cooking is a mini-game with reflex-based bonuses. It's also kind of buggy (ha) so I had to look up a workaround to actually play it. It's very much take-it-or-leave-it at this stage but I may play around with it a little more to see if it opens up.

Finally unlocked cherry trees.

I decided I kind of hated having all my chickens in one big mixed plot, so I started breaking them out into their own areas. I'm experimenting with landscape fencing and mixing in trees and flowers. I'm also spacing out my ducks. After I realized ducks will interact with water I wanted them all to have their own ponds. I'm still trying to avoid having massive livestock tracks.

Also trying to create more mixed flower arrangements and beds, using checker and stripe patterns.

I have been having a blast in FT2, and didn't bother blogging since it's just "THIS IS FUN Weeee".

It's holiday time! Maxed out the holiday event and made a little area. Originally it took up a whole plot but I have since condensed it to half a plot since the poinsettias really don't need to take up that much space.

I picked up the Meadow and Gothic expansions to treat myself and am thrilled with both. The only "issue" is the houses, especially the gothic one, are freaking huge. The Gothic pack has more stuff generally but I really dig the flower fences and art style of Meadow.

Lots of re-arranging and expanding favorite areas (since taking these screenshots I've rearranged at least 3 of those areas), I'm experimenting with less roads we'll see how that goes.

I've been playing a l o t of Dispatch, but never remember to take screenshots. It's grate! More discussion on my Dreamwidth. Bye!

I was thinking okay, I think I'm over FT2 for a bit. But then I started taking pictures of the things I've built lately and it really made me happy so idk I guess I'm gonna live here a bit longer.

I've been working on little livestock centric areas. I don't like having huge areas of animals. This game actually reduces the number of sprites for large animals,which I really appreciate (so 2 or 3 cows only shows as 1 cow) as it helps keep things less cluttered, but I'm gonna try just keeping small sections of animals. Livestock quests are rarer than crop quests so it's not a big deal.

I have an abundance of ribbons so I hired 2 farmhands, one to continually harvest the apple orchard and another to continuously harvest and plant a few crops that have really high unlock levels (carrots and peanuts, mostly). I'll usually toss a few flower pots at the edges of their area so those can get passive leveling as well. I've also begun fortifying most of my crop fields with sprinklers, which half the grow time.

I have plenty of diamonds for everything I wanna do BUT buying plots of land (up to 21k now), but I'm trying to do as much as I can with my existing plots before I CE more diamonds. I don't have a way to grind for diamonds that isn't boring (I kinda hate the mines and I enjoy harvesting what I feel like harvesting or completing quests but I don't like grind-planting to sell for diamonds). The first game had some crops that produce diamonds, but this game the only one so far is the halloween trees, and those cost 15 diamonds each so it takes a while to earn back the investment (2 harvests per year, so 7.5 years assuming you don't miss any fall/winter harvests which I certainly have).

I've unlocked both cinnamon trees now, so I could set up a spice farm with a farmhand. I'll have to check the conversion on ribbons to diamonds (it's funny to me I'm thinking of "downgrading" ribbons to diamonds but whatever.)