peasants quest

Bargain Bin:

*^{I really don’t have that much to spend.}*

Jay’s Picks:
Down in Bermuda – $1.99 (90% off $19.99) (matches previous low)
Here Be Dragons – $5.39 (70% off $17.99) (matches previous low)
Inside – $2.99 (85% off $19.99)

Em’s Picks (everything is a puzzle AND $1.99!!!):
Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise – $1.99 (90% off of $19.99)
The Wardrobe: Even Better Edition – $1.99 (90% off $19.99)
Tardy – $1.99 (80% off 9.99)

What we’re playing this week:

Jay:
Tunic
… just Tunic.

Em:
Heardle
Stardew Valley
Peasant’s Quest (Also, Emo Game may be defunct but here is a soundtrack of songs featured from Spotify)
Norco

*^{Your robot companion (family member?), Million, in Norco.}*

Time for puzzles!!
Jay’s brief history: 2300 BC: labyrinth drawings were popular around the world, particularly in Ancient Greece and Egypt. These kinds of images hold religious and spiritual significance in ancient cultures. This has nothing to do with the movie labyrinth with David Bowie.

2250BC: The first tactile puzzle came some 500 years after the first labyrinth drawings, dating back to a whopping 2550-2250 BC. Appearing initially in the Indus Valley and Mohenjo-Daro, one of the first known human civilizations – there appeared dexterity puzzle of sorts, similar to the famous “Pigs in the Clover” puzzle. This seems the first physical manifestation of the labyrinths popular in Ancient Greece and Egypt. They had indoor plumbing and puzzles, so count me in.

Jay’s Picks:

Carto
Donut County
Baba is You
Return of the Obra Dinn
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker

Em’s Picks:

*^{Pat the Alligator from Later Alligator. Highly anxious, would love this podcast.}*

Carto
Donut County
1010!
From Alike Studio: Love You to Bits & Bring You Home
Later Alligator
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (on iOS with in app purchases, but also on the Nintendo DS)
Silent Age

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What time is it? Adventure Time? Time to get ill? Closing time?
Nope! Time for everyone’s least favorite topic! Daylight Savings Time! We talk games to play all day with that extra hour. Bargains, farming sims, and the games we’ve been enjoying this week!

Bargain Bin:

Jay’s Picks:
Cozy Grove **(30% off) – $10.49 (reg. 14.99) – sale ended, but mobile game also available/goes on sale regularly.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (50% off) – $14.99 (reg. 29.99) (we love a bargain bin bundle! – matches previous low) – Shout out to friends/listeners Gretchen and Ian who bonded over this game! ❤️

Em’s Picks:
The Stillness of the Wind (80% off) – $2.59 (reg. 12.99) (lowest price ever!)
Summer in Mara** (60% off) – $9.99 – (reg. 24.99) (matches previous low)

Currently playing (March 2022)

Jay
Cozy Grove
Turmoil**
Pokemon Unite**
Kirby and the Forgotten Land Demo**

Em
Unforeseen Incidents**
Boyfriend Dungeon** (dated all the swords!)
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp
Heardle

Daylight Savings Time!
Common myth: It is for farming and farmers.
It is not.
It’s about capitalism and bug collecting.
Benjamin Franklin wanted people to capitalize on more daylight and burn less candles.
In New Zealand in 1895, entomologist George Hudson wanted more daylight for bug collecting and inspecting (sounds familiar).
It’s actually a myth that it’s for farmers, they lobbied hard against it (like my mother every year on social media). It’s supposedly for things like energy saving during wartime/energy crises but many call it “daylight slaving time.” Time is money.
But! It’s time to burn daylight with our favorite farming sims.

Farming Sims!

Jay
Friends of Mineral Town on the Gameboy Advance
Stardew Valley**

Em
Garden Paws
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
My Time at Portia

✉️ Mailbag! ✉️
Thank you to friend and listener Pete! After episode 4 (Strong Female Protagonist/Women’s History Month), Pete sent in the tip about Roberta Williams! There are so many influential and talented women in the gaming industry, but Roberta Williams is a pioneer. Some highlights about Williams: influential female game designer, instrumental in pioneering the graphic adventure which is definitely the building block for our cozy, chill games today (also point and clicks!) She is the “queen of adventure games.” She has won the Industry Icon Award (2014) and the Pioneer Award – Game Developers Choice Awards (2020).
Games she designed to check out: Kings Quest series, Phantasmagoria, Laura Bow, and more!
The Secret (TBA) with husband developer Ken Williams – Keep an eye out for their new game!

Em’s deep cut of the day: Peasant’s Quest (King’s Quest Parody from Homestar Runner)

Strong Bad email #58: Dragon

Last but not least, shout out to Skatune Network. I mentioned Ska Shores (Animal Crossing covers on vinyl) and it is everything I hoped and dreamed it would be.

**mentioned in a previous episode

Friends Are Far Out!

Gaming for the young and the anxious.

Episode 6! Puzzles?! Puzzles!!

Episode 5! What time is it?!