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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 17 - Firestream Interview 2!
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BOOOO!!! Did I scare you? Welcome back for another episode of the FarmRPG Podcast! This month we have the boss-man himself joining us again! The highly requested Firestream is back!!! We chat with him about future plans for the game and about the spooooooky season! Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for listening in! Good luck with the swear jar!
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Appearance
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are are
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I'm back. My name is Bubun, you didn't know.
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we're back again it we're a little bit late this month i'm so sorry um we're just like a couple weeks but he didn't look sorry i'm not actually really that sorry but i'm sorry i am um ah anyway i'm ah i'm back my name is boobo if you didn't know um i'm here with i boobo love hi i'm here with my lovely co-host Hey, it's me, Force Path. How's it going, guys?
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And as promised, we do have another special guest here with us today. ah the man, the myth, the legend. Himself. You want me to say who I Yes!
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It's Firestream. It is Firestream. The crowd goes wild! He's back again. when Everyone! We've got him back. Yes, yes. but Back as highly requested.
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Honestly, we do get a lot of requests for you to come back. would say you are the most requested guest for the record. Big agree. I suppose that shouldn't be that surprising, but still. i mean, right, right.
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But anyway, thank Glad to be back. I know it's been, what, maybe year? little bit over. A little bit over a year. Yeah. Well, I like to listen in a lot and hear everybody else coming on and all the other guests you have. That's pretty great.
00:01:37
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yeah I mean, it's mostly just staff. And last month was our editor. ah I shouldn't say last month. Well, the month before. months soar We had the editors, both of the editors on, which was fun.
00:01:48
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That was fun. Elegant staff. Elegant staff, yeah. Mostly staff and one not staff. It was good time. Actually, two not staff. Our first like non-staff was, I think, G-Dubs' wife, Hobbit. Cozy Hobbit.
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Cozy Hobbit. Yeah, that was a good episode, too. That was a good episode. Staff makes the game run. You know what mean? Like, it yes it's a well-oiled machine because of them.
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Because of them. They're the best. We love them. They really are. Anyway, welcome back to
Game Overview and Player Feedback
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the podcast. If you are just turning in for the first time ever and you don't know what this is, this is a podcast about a farming sim on the App Store and on your ah browser.
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I should note, though, it is not a super realistic sim. It's not. There has been some confusion about that in the past. Not realistic. I mean, it's a sometimes it can be realistic. But, I mean, we try to make some stuff a little bit, like, close to life sometimes. But you're not tapping to collect corn in real life. So, let's be real.
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Right. Well, you know, when I started, i actually was going to be realistic. And then it was just like this, just out of nowhere. I was like, you know what? Forget this. We're just going to go crazy and nothing's going make sense. But...
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going to like you're farming, but not really. And then it just evolved from there. Did you, would you have to wait like, like, I don't know, two months for your corn to grow? Like in real life. yeah Let's start over and make the most realistic farming game possible.
00:03:18
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yeah I feel like that might be a really funny April Fool's joke. I don't know how you do in the DB. If you could just for April Fool's make all of what we could go do a little bit of research, find out how long a typical cycle is to make the crops when you plan it. It takes that long.
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Like, but then like when April Fool's hits, it resets it all so that people don't get stuck. it would be really funny. Somebody wouldn't wouldn't like it. I'm sure. Well, someone won't like something sometime anywhere, but it would be funny in my mind.
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Can't make everybody happy.
00:03:54
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We certainly do try. We do try. hey man, remember, plant all didn't always used to exist. That's true. Oh, my goodness. That's a great button, though. Plant all. That. Like, early feedback was like, we needed this. And then I made it a gold perk, which.
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you know in In hindsight, looking back, was a mistake. So at least we fixed that maybe, what, a year in? but now You refunded all the gold, too, for everyone. yeah Yeah, we did. We actually gave all the gold back.
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See? Yeah. just love that. That's good. Giving all the gold back. I think remember that. I was still a player at that point. That was a good time. There's been some ah very rough edges. you know like The game isn't perfect still, but i mean if you just jump back a year ago...
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you had like you couldn't even claim all your chores at once you had to click one by one that's true temple was that way i mean what else like all the masteries so many all those clay malls are so so helpful it's just like click reducing so much click reducing over the years it's been so good can i tease another one real quick that's yes of course it's another click reduction um It has little bit of a twist.
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It's not just a complete freebie, but we're going to save you a lot of clicks on a daily basis. um It related to having to go into your farm and checking your chickens and cows and all that every day. Oh, yes. There's a new building coming that's, I think, going to be pretty well received. I really hope.
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I think so. New building. building Since I'm on the subject, we had this period of time where farm additions just weren't happening um because we were building all the other parts of the game. you know More and more stuff in town and a lot of things outside of my farm.
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um But now we're kind of coming back around to there's a lot of my farm building type additions in work. I can think of but We just launched one or two.
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ah One was the Greek spat. Yep. We just launched another one, too, that's in there. But we can get over it when we get into the updates. Yeah, let's do that. Anyway, I just decided to say that there's going to be more um additions available.
Monthly Updates and Community Contributions
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Coming. Coming. Yes. <unk> Coming soon. Coming soon. Farm additions. Farm additions. Well, while we're sitting here, we can just probably go through. Let's go through our our updates that we've had since the last time we've had an episode. Our last episode, I know we recorded on the, I think it was the 21st of August because it was my farm anniversary.
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That's how I know. That's the only reason I know. It's because it was my farm anniversary. So there's been quite a few since. I know. So September 1st was the entirety of September. Yes, all of September. September 1st is like i'm what I'm going to be talking about now, which we had a lot of stuff pop up, which I mean, I'm just going to do like the the the direct overview because otherwise we're going to be here all night talking about updates.
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ah Basically, the new starter pack came out that month. You've got the ah pet wolf came out that month. ah which is very cool. all All brand new pet art that I work very hard on. them Thank you. Pet art is stellar.
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It's so much fun. i Again, having me draw an animal, that's like my, you know, that's my bread and butter right there, so... We love that. um Then we had, and of course, a new Raptor, a new mailbox, some new buddy dolls.
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ah Treasure Hut went into beta, which I think it's already out of beta now. um ah And we also had a raffle going ah during that month or during the beginning of the month that started. We were giving out raffle tickets.
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So we're going to be announcing that at some point very shortly, I i assume, but not at this podcast, obviously. um And then... Very soon. Very soon. Very soon. Very soon.
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Probably by the time this comes out, which it usually takes about a week, you know maybe. Maybe. I'm not going to promise anything. and Don't make any promises. I'm not promising. didn't say I promised. There's a lot of moving parts to the raffles, which is why it takes little bit of time and, you know Code Raiders involved. And so, but we're we'll get it. We'll get it. I'm hoping very soon.
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There's some fabulous prizes that you can be winning potentially. If you're part of the route, if you, if you were playing last month and you got raffle tickets, there's some really nice prizes, which it looks like you can, three people could get a custom animal drawn by me. Yours truly. You can get five people 3000 gold.
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10 people get 1500 gold. 20 people get 750 gold. twenty people get seven hundred and fifty gold 30 people get 333 gold. Five winners get an October starter pack and five winners get a tower prep pack. And I think that's the only way you can get that tower prep pack at the moment.
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For now. That's right. For now. For now. But that's a September 1st update.
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And the next one would be September fifteen
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And ah we had some cool stuff in beta there where you could give some specific items to townsfolk, which is fun. Which is, yeah, that's all still in beta. And we're kind of just scratching the surface there. Like, just a few of the townspeople are taking items that you can't normally give.
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Like Jill loves corn, right? So you should be able to give Jill corn. And Morgan loves ancient coins, so he'll be able give him those. But we've kind of got a whole slew of items to map out, you know, to the different townspeople. And before we come out of beta, should have more of those.
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yeah It's more lore-focused than it is necessarily balance-focused, but something we can also do in a balanced perspective, too. Some people have suggested some stuff that would... like make townsfolk really, really easy.
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Probably won't always go that far, but it is a lot of fun. It is. It's cute. It's definitely cute. ah What else do we have here? Oh, we had the admin pets dropped, which is everybody on the admins team's pets. Actual pets are now available. ah Quick craft perk update.
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It looks like there was... um the when you Basically, when you click on them, it'll show you which items you're missing, so and then you can click on those and go directly to that item. So it makes it easier for you to like do the loop of crafting, which is very cool and good, which I've actually been using this month.
00:10:26
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ah We promoted Lichman to Ranger because ah Lichman is our dedicated discord Discord, like, you know, overarching moderator who has been helping us out quite a bit over there.
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Also, shout out to the Discord. ah Great, great folks there. Dude, I love the Discord. Discord's good. Can I quick shout out the Discord? Yes. Cool.
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Hey, I love our in-game chat too, and I'm certainly not saying don't chat in-game because that's what makes FarmRPG the most amazing community. But we have some really cool people in our Discord.
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ah We have someone who is going out right now and making... physically making every one of the Farm RPG meals and creating a recipe that you can use. i Shout out to Svarog for that.
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I'm sure I'm pronouncing your name wrong. The Farm RPG cookbook is viable. It is viable. it is um and there's just There's guides in the Discord and there's just a bunch of really cool people there. So if the chat ever intimidates you or it's moving really fast, pop over the Discord. There's some really awesome, helpful people. there yeah thanks to lichman for kind of helping curtail all that i actually talk in the discord a fair amount these days i really like it there it's a good zone i like pop into the fan art channel quite ah quite a bit at this this point right now we're doing a thing this month which i'll go over in the updates but you anyways anyways anyways no no you're good you know what you need to have a little shout out you gotta shout out your bros in the discord
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uh what else was happening oh this was the 15th okay uh oh the first edition of the red book times was teased here which we are still working on that bad boy um coming out soon coming out soon but the yeah raffle winners in that oh that's a good idea there we go we're just like but we're brainstorming live here um perfect uh september 24th you want to you want to take it away because i'm Talking about talking about. Yeah. No problem. Yeah. Yeah. All right. September 24th.
00:12:28
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We did the apple bobbing adventure. So that was the open fishing zone where you had to use mealworms and you clicked on a shadow. You got an apple or something else.
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It was really actually. i saw so many people apple bobbing um and had a really good time with it. We also released the treasure hut at that point. So if you haven't paid attention, if you go into my farm under the Borgen area, the wheel and the mercantile and The shop.
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There's also Morgan's Treasure Hut, something I'm personally really passionate about, really fun little thing, way to spend your AC, get some rewards. It's really, i don't know if you could use fun as an objective word, but it's sort of like a high risk, high reward scenario to spend your AC and get really cool.
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I've seen a couple of people now get some of the really, really good ones. And that's a lot of fun to watch people post screenshots and go, hey, I hit the jackpot. So that was cool. We also released the sugar cane and the sugar cane mill.
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The sugar cane mill is in beta. That's the other building couldn't remember earlier. I know. but yeah So the sugarcane mill is in beta and sugarcane is out. ah The sugarcane mill works a little bit differently than previous buildings. Again, this is kind of where of the things I love about the Farm RPG dev team is they like to iterate and grow. So on this, you put in sugarcane and another item, in this case, the machine press.
00:14:04
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And you will get unrefined sugar, which you can then refine. ah We're going to be making some recipes around that. There's one released right now with the acorn pie. Acorn pie is a special meal that the way that it works is for a certain number of clicks. It has leather, ah sorry, not leather, hide to your item drop pool.
00:14:32
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It's super fun. ah a nice way if you are really looking for hide, but kind of the whole idea of the forest and realizing that all of your twine is immediately going to go towards large nets, so you kind of have to balance it back and forth. This is a way to get leather and hide without necessarily having to deal with the balance of nets in forest.
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ah so It's been really fun, really fun to watch people kind of come up with strategies to
New Features and Holiday Events
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use that. Yeah, so very well received. It looked like everyone was pretty happy with that meal. Yeah. ah Yeah, I'm really, really stoked about that. The tech behind that is really cool, too.
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and think you can probably look forward to us doing more things with drop shenanigans in the future. I think this is a really great way to customize how you want to play the game and not just kind of feel locked into one optimal way of doing things. Something that i personally am really passionate about.
00:15:32
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So that was really cool. We also updated the roadmap because we have added a ton of new stuff. We added some numbers to Gary's diary pages because it was a little bit confusing. And that's also for...
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a possible temple addition here in the future. um We also fixed some more bugs. I do love a good bug fix. ah We also added the temple ah for the king apples so you could donate the king apples and get a bunch of stuff.
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ah it It was just a blast. The whole apple bobbing event was a ton of fun Really fun to watch people go crazy, try to get as many king apples as they could. You know, just a really cool idea. i Firestream, what do you think? Is that something you want to do more of? Like, it seemed really well received.
00:16:19
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Yeah, I think we can revisit the concept of Apple bobbing again um pretty soon, actually. already have some ideas related to kind of a twist to it um in an upcoming event.
00:16:32
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Is that a spoiler? It's little bit of a spoiler. it probably not next month, but maybe the month after. that is no snowballing all our stuff. So anyway, i think we'll be able to ah use it.
00:16:47
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Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. Yeah. Love that. That's super cool. Big fan. That was a lot of fun. and That was the end of September. We actually did so much in September.
00:16:59
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We did. There's a lot. We definitely missed some things in this. Like, oh, we're doing we're doing like a quick zoom through because otherwise, again, we'd be here probably all night. But there's one more update here, which I will read.
00:17:11
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um It's the actual yeah first one, which was not even that long ago. That was six days ago because it's the sixth right now. Just not to again. but How the how the really only six days ago. I know, it's crazy.
00:17:23
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So spooky season, we love we love Halloween season here at Farm RPG. As everybody, if you've played the game for ah long enough, you well know. ah So all townsfolk have new costumes this year.
00:17:34
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you know what they are, please feel free message me. I would love to know if you could guess them all. ah The Halloween theme is on by default. If you want to turn that off, it's in the settings.
00:17:45
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um All the pets now have Halloween art that you can then go and unlock. It looks delightful. know. Aren't they all fun? i i you know I went crazy on some of them. It was good time. I had a fun time with those.
00:17:57
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uh the starter pack is is absolutely bonkers this month uh it's the pillowcase and in the pillowcase you get all of the treat bags one through six and some ghost candy which is used to unlock those pets uh the pet variations for halloween very good there's a lot of goodies in there Uh, also, let's see here Pet variations, yep.
00:18:23
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There's a new raptor, of course. There's a new mailbox, of course. hello The jack-o'-lanterns will start dropping now with when you grow pumpkins, of course. Candy corn sometimes when you grow corn.
00:18:36
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And can grab toilet paper. And quick interruption. Yep. You will be able to get jack-o'-lanterns and candy corn from the haunted house. So if you're like, oh my God, how am I supposed to get 20,000 jack-o'-lanterns or whatever it is you're concerned about and think that farming is the only way to get it. It's not.
00:18:53
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Don't worry. We got you taken care of, homies. Yeah, that that usually comes around the middle of the month ah as far as we usually do. Anyways, continue. I just sell I see that in chat a lot. I'm just I'm just speaking. Just like you don't have to like worry too bad. We we won't we don't leave you hanging too badly with ah with those sorts of things.
00:19:11
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ah Oh, new this month. Pumpkin spiced milk. You can make your pumpkin spiced milk and there is um it's not a recipe. It's just crafting. So it's very cool. Get your milk. Get your milk on.
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um don't get me started i know i know uh halloween profile backgrounds are back there's a ghost cow that you can unlock in the cows and you already got 1300 people have gotten the ghost cow so amazing that's great i'm so glad that people i got a lot of compliments on the ghost cow people really like it i like it a lot i love the ghost cow oh Let's see. Anything else? Oh, also, if you really can't wait, because we are going to have some stuff coming where you can get more of the ghost candy to unlock more pets, but if you can't wait, you need it right now.
00:20:03
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You can go to the flea market and buy some bags of ghost candy to unlock the ah pets. Now, it's like, I think one bag of candy will unlock the pets for you. I think there's 100 in each one. One bag of candy will unlock one pet variation. Yes. So you have to buy, you know, you'll have to buy like 23 or 24 of them. Whatever, however many it is. i should You think I should know that, how many there are, but I don't.
00:20:27
Speaker
It's not your job to know. I mean, it kind of is. I should draw them all. Kind of is my job to know. Anyway. I didn't know you had a job. there apparently Anyway.
00:20:41
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But that was it. that's That's all the updates. We got through them all. and And there's more coming. only so more to two minutes more More coming this month. It's not over. We're not even halfway done.
00:20:51
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We're only six days in. yeah and um and Yeah. And I've got to get a update posted about the haunted house and the event. And there's there's a lot. have a lot of oven cooking.
00:21:05
Speaker
There is a lot cooking. We've got some stuff popping on our side of things, which is good. We've been pretty productive. We have. but This whole year. It's been a really good year. Sometimes sometimes people say, well, what all have you really done? And ah go look at the roadmap kind of because it like you know details everything. Yeah.
00:21:22
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mean I'm surprised at how much stuff we really got done because there's been a lot. Yeah, we're just like cranking this year, which is good. It feels good. feels good to get stuff done. I feel like I'm leveling up every single time I draw something now.
00:21:34
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I've just been like feeling good about it all. so we Yeah, we didn't even mention the vault rewards, the vault yeah the vault completion rewards, the wheel spin completion rewards. Is that even in here?
00:21:44
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is this and ah Is this in any of the updates? Did I just scroll over them? Yeah. Maybe the September 24th ones? Yeah, it's September 24th ones. New rewards for the wheel spinning and vault opening. Yeah, I just i just zoomed right past that My goodness. You mentioned that too.
00:22:00
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Another great way to get people kind of up and running. Yeah, there's a lot stuff in those rewards too. but so bo it Because I'm afraid of voiding some stuff. Yeah, I definitely would void some stuff if I started cleaning Not the void! No, I know. It's bad.
00:22:17
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You know, Force Pass mom told me have void privilege. Oh, wow. Because I'm just not stressed about the void. Yeah, I don't stress out about it too badly either. But if it's something big, I do. Like, stuff I want, I don't know.
00:22:30
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I just don't think about it. Like OJ, I refuse. I won't void that. I can just drink it But everything else I might void. Oh, yeah. So related to the wheel rewards, I don't have this report all the way out, but the day after ah rewards went live, the wheel was spun...
00:22:50
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192,000 times, which was almost double the normal amount. So people were really trying to get those rewards. Right. That's cool. Yeah. it's real It's a motivator. It's a motivator to spin. Keep that listening, baby. Yes.
00:23:07
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Well, you know, Borgen, he needs your ancient coins, so. He does. Yeah. We should do Borgen spent. Like how much do we do we track how much an individual user has spent? it Oh, I don't know about individual. I know Borgen has it on his profile, doesn't he?
00:23:25
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he's got the count on his profile, yeah. It's like... It's the count his profile. I don't think we track Borgans and unique to user. Going his profile on, seeing his costume, just to get jump scared by him.
00:23:37
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I made him the Lorax this month and he just is very... I don't know. I don't know why i did that to myself. Anyway. Oh, let me pull the um but swear jar winner. Swear jar winner. It's Amazia. M-A...
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but Excuse me, um I'm just like dyslexia-ing this. A-M-A-Z-I-A.
00:23:59
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Send me a message. You have won the swear jar. who Thank you. yeah Thank you for commenting. You know, it's consistently like 60 to 70 comments every every single time, which I am dazzled by always.
00:24:13
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The amount of people that listen and, you know, watch this podcast. Thank you. Thank you for everybody for listening and watching this podcast about Farm RPG. appreciate it. It is humbling.
00:24:25
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It is humbling. It really, truly is. Truly. and love it. But that's it. If you want a chance at winning the swear jar, make sure to comment on the swear jar page.
00:24:35
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I update it every single time ah to be new so you can comment freely. And then I close it down and when when somebody wins. So get at me. Yeah.
00:24:47
Speaker
Love that. Maybe we should. Hey, it's nice to have Firestream on the podcast. Thank you for coming. Maybe you should tell us how things are going, dude. I'm like, how's Farm RPG doing?
00:24:59
Speaker
I guess I could talk about it a little bit if you want. I mean, i think that if the the people could pick between the three of us here, it would be you they would want to hear from.
00:25:11
Speaker
That's true. I would say that would be true. don't know if that's completely true. Total humility here. am happy to talk about the game because it's kind of my life.
00:25:21
Speaker
You know, it's all I do now and it's it's a extremely busy but very rewarding very enjoyable um pastime life whatever we want to call it but uh you you ask how's the game doing and the game is doing great i mean we couldn't ask for more than what we have we have very steady with some growth you know as far as people come in per day mean every day i jump on and i see
00:25:54
Speaker
500 to 700 new people. And that's just awesome. And, you know, not everybody sticks around, but we keep a lot of them and the community is always growing. And the biggest thing I see is just how many reviews we get that come in.
00:26:09
Speaker
just about every day. and they say, you know, something like this game, i I wasn't sure I would like it. And then I jumped in it and it's got all these things, but the community and the chat are just really special and nice and friendly and welcoming.
00:26:22
Speaker
And that like makes me feel so great because I think that's kind of one of the biggest differences between the the game out there versus a lot of other communities and games, which maybe aren't always as welcoming or Maybe there's some more toxicity there.
00:26:37
Speaker
And so the farm RPG community is really special. And I just, I love that. So I'm thankful. I just want to say that much about it. um But yeah, I mean, i'd like to track numbers.
00:26:49
Speaker
If you didn't know that, I track a lot of stuff. I watch statistics behind everything. have all these charts all these graphs and um spreadsheets and everything. And and I like Well, I track it all and then I see things that are like new records all the time, almost every week.
00:27:07
Speaker
um Like Buddy Jack. Buddy Jack just keeps growing. I think or more people play and they play long enough that they unlock it and then they just keep playing Buddy Jack. And the Buddy Jack numbers have just grown for over two years now.
00:27:22
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Like we literally hit a record again. um just the other day of the first time ever, October 1st, was 20,060 Buddy Jack games played.
00:27:35
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One day, 20,000. And a few weeks prior to that, the record was just under 20,000. And so um it's like very steady but slow growth.
00:27:48
Speaker
And I'm okay with that because, you know, if you have a tidal wave of people, if a million people started playing the game, the server would probably... fully died. It did. Remember that one time that we had like those that flood in at that one point and it was, we kind of got a little crunched.
00:28:04
Speaker
Yeah, the server really didn't like that back then and I think we lost some people because of all that but anyway. But ah yeah, we're we're doing good and I think too this time of year is just kind of great for everybody, right?
00:28:16
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Like maybe there's more time for people to play but there's all the events and all the We have lots of updates, but there's just lots happening. And I think that gives people a reason to come on and and check it out. And related to that, too, how many times have we s seen people who join in either October or December who stick around because there was just so much happening event-wise and costumes and Christmas lights and all that stuff. And then, you know, so good time of the year. If you, for some reason are listening to this podcast and you haven't played the game before, now he is the
Future Plans and Community Impact
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time to play it. So play.
00:28:53
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Yeah, that truly, it is the time. I feel like I started like in August, but I didn't really pick the game really up until right after Halloween. And it was like, it was like just so exciting. Like there's just Christmas, especially is like such an exciting time. I feel like Halloween,
00:29:10
Speaker
Farm RPG, just the holidays in general, like this good three month span from yeah October to December is just like, there's so much going on. There's so many things to look at. Everything changes like monthto month to month.
00:29:21
Speaker
It's just, it is the time to start and play, and there's so many bonuses. Really good vibes. Really good vibes. The community also really, like, gets into the into the season, which is fun also, so.
00:29:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, they do. I love seeing that stuff, too. And we related, because I'm not sure we mentioned it, did you already mention the but art prompts for... Oh, well no, actually, I did not mention the art prompts. We have an October art prompt. I was i think we I should have said something in the last update. Yeah.
00:29:51
Speaker
So the last update has it. We basically have an art prompt list going on for... It's like, you know, October tends to be like there's like a the art prompt month. There's like a very specific, very famous one that people do um that's copywritten. Yeah.
00:30:05
Speaker
that we don't want to use so we just are doing farm farm tober and you can you can check out the art prompts uh if you're an artist or if you're not an artist and you just want to you know try your hand at drawing something please do or writing something you could write like a little story or something and share it on your social media and um like add us and we will share it out to the world or put it in the discord and we'll share it out ah As long as you're okay with it. I know I've been asking everybody in the Discord if I can share their stuff. um But yeah.
00:30:35
Speaker
No, it's awesome. ah There's a lot. What is today's? What's today's prompt? Let me go see. oh I just had it pulled up. But I don't remember. Okay, hold long Let's see. it's the part where I and got it. It's six. It's chill.
00:30:48
Speaker
It's chill. It's the chill day. So draw something very chill. Like maybe a frozen vegetable. There you go. Or a frozen fish. Something fun.
00:30:59
Speaker
But yeah, if you're doing that, please hit us up because drawing's fun. I love drawing. And Farm RPG is fun. I love Farm RPG. So do those things. I actually draw ah two, but I haven't drawn yet this year.
00:31:12
Speaker
um But I'm going to try to draw at least a couple of the prompts here. for our own farmtober. And I don't know how I'm going to post them, but I'll post them somewhere somehow. Probably just on Discord or something. but Yeah, throw them in the Discord. We can also just throw them up on socials if you want. That's, you know. Maybe.
00:31:29
Speaker
There you go. If you're feeling okay, if you're feeling proud enough with them, I know I have to do a couple myself this month. I have to pick one, one or two, and just and do something. Probably Raptor. Let's be real. I'm probably going to do Raptor. Oh, would be the right?
00:31:42
Speaker
Yeah, that's the one right there. Chicken. ooh you know I'll do probably a couple in here. From last year, the more popular event with the drawing prompts, i actually did every single day, which was the first time I'd ever done that.
00:31:55
Speaker
31 days of drawing. And it was actually real challenge. It is. Props to those who actually can accomplish that. because it's It's hard when you're busy and trying to run a game and trying to draw it at the same time. It's rough.
00:32:08
Speaker
Yeah, I feel you. I feel you there. I draw every day anyway, but like, you know, it's one of those things. Sometimes I don't get to it. But if you're an artist, please join us in our Farmtober. You'll probably see a couple of us joining in.
00:32:22
Speaker
Very cool. love Well, what else can I say? Let me think. What else can i talk about with how the game is doing? What do you think?
00:32:33
Speaker
What are your plans coming up? like Without spoiling anything, obviously. Not spoiling too much. over our arching like What's the plan in your ma mind for the next year-ish?
00:32:45
Speaker
Okay. what There's a lot. And it's some actually challenging things to accomplish. Okay. So we still have mining. And it's still beta. Been in beta a long time.
00:32:57
Speaker
um Some of that has been. we've completely reworked some underlying systems like the quest system to actually work with mining. And then we've also reworked some other parts of mining that we haven't put onto alpha yet, but it's really close um to affect the drops for mining so that the quest can tie into affecting the drops for mining to make mining better. Because right now some of the feedback is that takes too long to mine a whole lot of items.
00:33:26
Speaker
And then To compound that, which is very difficult, is trying to write all of the quest lines and stories and characters, which Force Path and Tenfu are or doing a lot of that work, and I think they have a really great plan, but it's just It's kind of been a challenge to get all the moving parts coordinating at the same time ah to get this out and done. And then on top of that, we've actually been developing the rest of the game so much. I mean, just by looking at all the updates that were shared just in September, i mean, we've been really busy.
00:34:00
Speaker
So it it's been a matter of how do we keep moving forward? um But how how do we also get this mining skill the way we want it to be? ah so That's one of the goals I have is to keep working on that and and get it out eventually.
00:34:14
Speaker
um There's a lot of growth still to happen. um i actually have another server and there's been some talk about the best way to move to this new server and and upgrade some um boring things that no one really cares about, but some things we need to upgrade.
00:34:33
Speaker
And I do have another developer helping now, which is um leading the way to make some of these things happen a little more timely. ah And then I still would love to see the game get on Steam.
00:34:47
Speaker
We kind of teased it on Steam. We put the page up. There's been a lot of wish lists for it. I think it's it's at least 5,000 wish lists right now. It hasn't been a huge priority because um there's plenty of ways to play the game. You can play the game you know in a browser on ah on a desktop or on your phone in a browser or get the apps.
00:35:07
Speaker
So Steam is kind of one of those ah nice to have that I think we'll get to eventually, but we really need to have some upgrades in our server done first. And then top of that, we've been trying to get all this other content done and out. and So just being a small team, it's really hard to move the ship because the ship keeps getting bigger and bigger.
00:35:27
Speaker
Trying to steer it different directions is a challenge. But I do hope get over to the server, get steam going, get mining going. But all the while, we still have a lot of other updates.
00:35:40
Speaker
You know, the new buildings I teased, some other new systems, some of the stuff under the high-level concepts on the roadmap. I mean, I stare at those every month and I think about them. And and sometimes I kind of just jump on and tell the development the development team, hey, we're going to do this now. um yeah And I mean, half the stuff we've put out this year has probably came about from, you know,
00:36:05
Speaker
Like it just kind of almost feels like this is the right time and let's do this now. um But yeah, I mean, everything that we've got, we're just going to kind of keep growing. I think there's just a lot of content and a lot of things we can do um because as the player base continues to play, i mean, we have people every day when I jump, when I look at updates, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, at least seven, four stars today.
00:36:34
Speaker
her There are people who've been playing for four years and they're still here. So that's really important to me and the rest of the team is to keep giving our long-term players ah things to do, things to work towards, more unlockables.
00:36:48
Speaker
It's just more content. So that's always going to be happening. kind thing um there's What else is there? There's so lots of systems and and more um things that let players work together with other players.
00:37:04
Speaker
And I don't know, just that's kind of the highest level way to describe it all without going into too much detail. All right. Without spoilers, without true spoilers anyway. But I like true spoilers.
00:37:15
Speaker
This is true. Who doesn't like a little bit of spoilers? Well, I'm definitely looking forward to all of it. It's a blast to to see what the high level concepts are and maybe be a little bit behind the scenes and see what's going on. But it's just an absolute blast.
00:37:31
Speaker
But RPGs Day is fun. And we're going to keep giving people stuff to do as long as they're around to do it. It's my favorite part. It's fun. have a good time. You know, get so many reviews that say that kind of stuff too. People, you know, the reviews are always like, I don't usually play mobile games this long, but here I am. It's two years, it's three years later. I'm still playing this game.
00:37:52
Speaker
There's still things to unlock. And that's, that's, don't know. I love seeing that because that's kind of always the goal. The goal was to build something that isn't going to be too, you know, monetarily aggressive, um but just giving you something to do for for years to come. So everybody's really, it's not just the work I've done. There's a lot of people involved and we've all been able to continue to make this great content. And I'm really happy about that.
00:38:22
Speaker
Hey, in the comments, in the swear jar comments, or even just in the main podcast comments, maybe put your favorite thing about Farm RPG so that Firestream can read it. Maybe you've already left a review, but it's always a real lift up for all the people that work on the game to read it.
00:38:39
Speaker
And you know what? It also helps sometimes guide us when we're looking at saying, hey what should we prioritize next? We have all these high level concepts. Tell us what you love. We love hearing that. We read the feedback page. We repeat read comments. You know, we can't necessarily do all the things that we get feedback on, but we love hearing what you love.
00:38:59
Speaker
um And stuff that you don't like, we we listen to that, too. ah You know, it's not always our favorite thing as women. you know, that's a valid piece of feedback back as well.
00:39:10
Speaker
So anyways, big picture, right? Something that you love about Farmer RPG or something you're looking forward to in the next year two, because that's fun. And we like fun and community here. Anyways, that's my little bonus spiel.
00:39:23
Speaker
Your little bonus. The bonus spiel. We love it. bonus spiel. Related to all the feedback. ah That's always been a challenge for me. It's like our improve loop, as you know, is like thousands of things on it. And oh my lord there's so many really great ideas. And it's really just like we're limited on resources and time. And so it's hard to get them all done. But I actually think lot of the stuff we've done this year has been a result of the stuff that's trickled up on improve loop and on our feedback.
00:39:55
Speaker
I went into that a long ago and I was like, oh, we've done that. We've done that. And you know's It's really great just to get that checked off like, hey, this was a great idea. It came in. A lot of people agreed with it, and we completed. it So the feedback really does matter, like you said. It's just the volume of it that sometimes is a challenge for us. But I think we've kind of come into our own over the last year or two, and we know we know a lot of what the community wants to see happen.
00:40:24
Speaker
And I think we're kind of chipping away at that the best we can. I would have to agree. Yeah, I think that's true. we kind of We kind of understand what people are looking for now at this point.
00:40:35
Speaker
For the most part. sometimes For the most part. I still think it's very easy to make a misstep. you yeah Well, and related to missteps and the challenge, which I'm not sure a lot of people maybe see, is the balance now because the game is really big.
00:40:52
Speaker
We're four and a half years in and it's relatively easy to put something out that maybe affects the balance of all the other systems too much. I mean, Morgan's Treasure Hut was actually, i think, a good example of that because the rewards are great if you you know we have good luck.
00:41:10
Speaker
So, it and you worked hard on this, but we had to make sure that all the rewards felt rewarding without literally overpowering everything else that was coming out in the game. um And every month, every system, every new thing we add all the rewards, all these things,
00:41:26
Speaker
it all just kind of has like a ripple effect through the rest of the game. And so it's generally a more challenging thing. The longer this goes in ah in another four years or four and a half years.
00:41:37
Speaker
mean, just think about what we add one little thing and what does that do to all the other things out there? So mean when we add triple quadruple mega grape juice to go with your, you know, super Saiyan Raptor Yeah, exactly. Right.
00:41:53
Speaker
yeah no exactly right and i mean And you're good about thinking about that, right? like Whenever we propose an addition to farm, you probably think, well what does that do to all the ah secret temple chains?
00:42:08
Speaker
Suddenly those are easier now. So it leads to a lot of really good discussion amongst the team, which I love. I love being able to bounce this stuff off of so many people that are involved with the balance and the quests and the rewards and prizes and stuff because there's often things that I didn't consider, or there's often things that weren't considered by another person that I did consider.
00:42:31
Speaker
Um, Yeah, so it's a challenge. It's lot of fun to try to work on the challenge. And sometimes we get it mostly right and sometimes we don't. But at least in general, I think people are pretty forgiving when we do screw up. think I think we've we've we have definitely, as a team, gotten a lot better at getting right more than wrong now. yes it's you know And we react better and more thoughtfully than we do in the past.
00:42:59
Speaker
and it's ah It's just, yeah, it is a challenge. you know I don't mind saying it. I'm i'm probably the the naysayer of the group. I'm the one that says, whoa, let's hit the brakes on XYZ feature. but me that We need that in general because sometimes you know can be too willy-nilly with something and you kind of need that person to say, well, hold up.
00:43:22
Speaker
Did you consider this? Or that actually wrecks my entire quest line I just wrote. Yeah. Right, right, right, right. Or we released Apple Bobbing and we didn't realize how good Apple slices were. Oh, yeah, the Apple slices. That's a perfect example. and Honestly, on my part, i was like, I'll just throw Apple slices in. What harm can it do? And just completely messed it up, which...
00:43:47
Speaker
I don't know. I think it was fine anyways. I think it worked out. um It worked out. It totally worked out. You know, that's the thing we about that, too. You know, yeah yeah that's one of those things where maybe like my initial reaction would have been i get rid of it. But the reality is, is that it played out really well.
00:44:03
Speaker
And we can all sit back and not tell people on the podcast that it wasn't planned that way. And everyone thinks that we're geniuses. I meant to say we meant to do that. Yes. Right.
00:44:15
Speaker
but Get a little bit of how the sausage is Yeah.
00:44:23
Speaker
It worked out. Everything works out in the long run. Everything works out. Everything works out. And if it doesn't work out, we just fix it and poke. Yeah, this is true. Just like, you know, we put a bandaid on it somewhere. It's easy. We can just, you know, here's here's ah what's it called? Cranberry juice. Sorry. You know, it's amazing, though. well but if if If we think back to what Farm RPG was like in 2024 and we had people constantly saying, like, where's my compensation for this crash or this downtime?
00:44:56
Speaker
i really don't see a lot of that having happened 2024. i mean I would say Firestream, that's another thing that you could, I mean, absolutely, we're all knocking on wood right now. yeah But the the reality is is, I think you've done a wonderful job of helping make the game more stable and had any major outages or incidents. That's been really cool to see as well, I think.
00:45:19
Speaker
Maybe one of the more underappreciated things that we don't mention or talk about is the stability of the game. And yes, I mean, we have had situations where, you know, um like to again, to to get into the sausage of it, are our host had some DDoS protections that caused some lag for people. Yeah.
00:45:39
Speaker
We, you know, some people have regional issues, but like the bigger picture is that I think FarmRPG is the most stable that it's been. It's been in a wide a while. Yeah, it's true. so not Another achievement that, you know, doesn't necessarily show on the sheets.
00:45:54
Speaker
But, you know, yeah those of us that have been around for four plus years, we notice. Yeah, that's a good point. It's been a pretty good year on that. There have been a lot of optimizations made.
00:46:07
Speaker
ah by a number of people. I mean, we've got some smart people helping. And that's been actually part of the challenge, too, with moving the game to a different server because we, um like said, we need to upgrade a few pieces that should help with the speed.
00:46:23
Speaker
But we also have to be careful because, you know, it's kind of like it's not broken. you don't want to fix it. But I want to move to some new hardware.
00:46:33
Speaker
Yeah. and potentially some other tech just to help with growth and all the while i don't want to mess up what we have which is a lot of stability too so the yeah that's a hard thing sword yeah good way to put it well we are very glad that you made farmer pg and brought together this whole community so we're very grateful glad to have you on the podcast too yes thank you for coming back on and if you don't if you have any you know feel free, but otherwise we can pop into maybe couple minutes of tea time. We need a, you know, the very specific... No, we should use the actual word, password.
00:47:13
Speaker
Oh, you want to use the password? You want to do the password right now? Do you have a password for us so there, FireStream? I think I do. Okay. He doesn't even need me to add it. This guy made this system. He can just do it yeah he did it on his own. own Yeah.
00:47:27
Speaker
not Well, hold on. you need a password.
Community Engagement and Game Testing
00:47:30
Speaker
You need to say it so that they can, because they can prove they listen to it and they can get it. You know what i mean? They can get their little reward. So you have to, I mean, you're the boss, so you can, you can do whatever the heck you want. Normally I'm the purveyor of the, he you can or can't do this, but I think you kind of trump my authority.
00:47:48
Speaker
yeah Okay. Okay. Well, the password is lagoon. Lagoon. Okay. Okay. Legume? Legume or legume?
00:47:59
Speaker
Legume. Okay, like a like a like a body of water. Okay.
00:48:06
Speaker
Are you going to put this up and you're going to assign a reward to it? i mean, I can do that. What is the reward? I mean, now you don't tell us, actually. You just decide.
00:48:16
Speaker
You can tell us if you're goingnna have if you're going to have him do it for you and then you have to tell him, I guess.
00:48:24
Speaker
I'll tell him now. so Okay, that sounds fine. that I probably should have thought that part too, but all I thought of was the word. but normally Normally, in fairness, I ask we sit ahead of the episode, yeah and I did not do that.
00:48:39
Speaker
I was so starstruck by having Fire Show on the podcast. forgot early stuff. Razzle dazzle, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:52
Speaker
Well, let's do the tea time then. We have tea time now. Should we do a quick tea time that way? Yes. yeah You know, i mean... You know, I mean, yeah, you know. Okay, well, then have you what if you want to talk about your stuff outside of the game or inside of the game? I mean, inside the game, we all know we're just kind of plugging away. but Okay, ah yeah, I'll go really, really fast.
00:49:13
Speaker
Inside the game, Force Path has been working on tower progression and DI progression at the same time. Horrible mistake. Do not do that. Whoever made the DI quest line is an absolute masochist. Monster.
00:49:28
Speaker
Total monster made it so that it is a pain in the butt. You should just, just, I hate that guy. He stinks. Also, I've been working on it. Um, almost up to tower two 90. I think I'm at two 87.
00:49:42
Speaker
I'm working on Magisite right now, but I slowed down because I'm doing linked lanterns at the same time. ah So that's been my farm RPG experience. I've also been working on some stuff on the back end, having a real blast on that. I just finished my phase one testing.
00:49:58
Speaker
no There's a quick update for you guys. That's all good to go now. I'm pretty excited. Otherwise, I've been playing Hades 2. Oh, yeah.
00:50:08
Speaker
Vinny's been playing that a lot. Really, really excited about that to come out. yeah The music just... So good. ah The fact that the soundtrack's not on Apple Music breaks my heart, but I listen to it on YouTube. It's Spotify.
00:50:23
Speaker
Well, Spotify is evil in the devil. I know. I know it is. But anyway, this is neither here nor there. Not the right time to have that conversation. okay. Also, all the art in that game is so gorgeous, by the way. I'm drooling over every single character in that game. Oh, my gosh. Have you... ah You know what? We'll talk about this offline. We'll talk about offline, yeah. we don't really Because there's a couple characters there that I'm like, listen, know just hit you know. You know where to find me. I know where to find you.
00:50:47
Speaker
yeah right So Hades 2 has been what I've been playing. I'm also playing, of course, Megabonk, which everyone and their mother is playing right now. ah Super fun little combination of Vampire Survivors and Risk of Rain 2, but Hella unbalanced.
00:51:05
Speaker
Pretty fun. think it's on sale right now. What's that? Yeah, it is. It's cheap anyways. It's like eight bucks. So I've been playing that. I've been playing Borderlands 4. um I bought that on a shady key website so that I wouldn't be ah supporting certain individuals. But my friends really, really wanted to play it.
00:51:24
Speaker
I've been a Borderlands fan. So I've been playing that. um I really, really want to play Final Fantasy Tactics. I know there's someone else in this chat that loves Final Fantasy even more than I do.
00:51:35
Speaker
We'll let them talk about that. Yeah, that's ah that's just like a really quick overview of my life. That's your overview? Okay. I didn't even touch everything.
00:51:47
Speaker
All right. Well, that's that's a good overview. um go I'll go real quick, and then we move on and go we can we can let the boss man go last. but So I have been in-game. just got my second chicken raptor, which was... Hot diggity. Look at you.
00:52:01
Speaker
I got the other design, too. So now I've got all the raptors. go. have all the raptors again, baby. That's all I ever try to do is get all the raptors, and I did it. that's what's up hey you know fire stream i'd like a way to modify raptor stats so that i can get another chicken raptor oh yeah it's so i mean i gotta it was a it was an 11 power and it took me forever to hatch an 11 power again because i had a 12 power that just kept that just failed entirely so this 11 power it it didn't like a day and a half and i was extremely excited to have the new the new raptor skin i'm so happy for you I know. I was so pumped.
00:52:35
Speaker
Anyway, but that's what I was working on. I i really need... I'm slacking in Farm RPG. I've been working on a lot of stuff, like on the dev side, just doing, you know, just being an art-making machine for last two months.
00:52:48
Speaker
And we'll continue to do that. um You really have. into the next Into the next months. So be prepared. And then outside of Farm RPG, games I've been playing, I just beat Cult of the Lamb.
00:53:00
Speaker
um which I loved. That's very fun and good. I like love like a little, what's it called? Like a sim. but Yeah, that's a really fun game. that's It's really, really fun. And I don't really even want to play like the the fighting part. I just want to do the sim part. You just want to do the sim part?
00:53:16
Speaker
That's what I love. I love a sim. Anyway, I was doing that. um I picked up like a weird little like slot machine game that feels very insolent. Clover Pit. Clover Pit. So fun. So good. Really, I'm enjoying that one.
00:53:30
Speaker
That's good one. And picked up baby steps yesterday. was playing with a couple of friends and that was really fun. And I just was playing it by myself for about an hour and a half last night. And I'm enjoying that. It's by the guy that made Quop.
00:53:44
Speaker
So like, it's just like a walking simulator where you have to push a button for every step. It's very, it's bonkers. It's very frustrating and good though. What else have I been playing? I think that's it.
00:53:55
Speaker
Didn't you get steep as well? No. Or not steep. ah Peak? peak there you go was playing peak for a minute i i kind of ran out of friends to play that with they all like kind of moved on pretty quick and i kind of want to get back into it so if you have a peak game you want to um ping me and add me to i would probably do that but yeah no that's that's pretty much all i've been doing i' waiting for pokemon to come out which is like two weeks from now is coming so i'm very excited about that one very excited Might be a ah drop-in player activity that day.
00:54:27
Speaker
No, for sure there will be, I'm sure. but I mean, yeah. Is there a lot of crossover between Pokemon fans and Farmer RPG fans? I think there might be ah pretty large amount. feel like yes, but... don't know that.
00:54:40
Speaker
We're going to poll. you play Pokemon? We should run a Pokemon poll. Make it happen. What is your favorite Pokemon starter? But that's a lot of options, actually, so don't do that. Anyway.
00:54:52
Speaker
So, sir, what have you been what have you been working on in Farm RPG? Firestream, welcome to Tea Time. Yes, welcome to Tea Time. Tell us your Farm RPG, whatever you're working on in-game, and then what you're doing out of game for fun. Typically, we talk about video games because that's fairly relatable, and then it doesn't reveal too much about our personal lives.
00:55:11
Speaker
Well, got to in-game, got to Tower 275. five doesn' say And i've I've got more to do there, but I actually, I'd like to play undercover boss a lot, which basically means I'm running a test account and playing actively amongst the community.
00:55:33
Speaker
And they don't know that they're interacting with fire stream. It's a different account. now they're ill try to hunt you down I know. I know you do this and I catch you. I've had, it you have caught me in a few of the staff and,
00:55:46
Speaker
I have a couple like of than most people. It helps having tools. Yeah. um I love to test the early mid balance, especially with all the changes that we put out.
00:55:58
Speaker
And there's really no better way to to do that to than to actually play. And i so I start from the very beginning and I'll spend two months to six months on it. And I still play my main fire stream account, but a lot more casually ah during that time.
00:56:13
Speaker
And I make notes. Constantly, I take notes and I write down every little thing that and I like, I dislike, whatever. And then I take all that stuff and I come back after a couple months and say, all right, we need to change this and do this and add this. And it is really proven to be a very good way for me to make sure that but I feel that the yearly game and the but onboarding and all that stuff is is solid.
00:56:38
Speaker
And we've fixed a lot of things because of um doing these play tests like this. and ah And it also is fun to sort of be amongst the community and just be a player and not some admin.
00:56:52
Speaker
um Because they they don't know who they're talking to. And I can just go and give away as a fray and just, you know, going to be undercover. So doing that, outside of Farm RPG, I'm literally playing only one game.
00:57:06
Speaker
And it's Final Fantasy Tactics. ah Came out what? let's go Last week. Came out a week ago. Okay, a week ago. I'm not very far because I don't have a ton of time, but I am playing it probably daily, and I'm i'm still in in the very beginning. I've played the game 100 times. It's probably my third favorite game of all time. I love it. but um And this remaster is, I think, great. I think they did a really good job.
00:57:32
Speaker
Plays great, sounds great, looks great. All the changes are good. The quality of life stuff is fantastic. And I'm just working on my first ninja, so I've got the main...
00:57:44
Speaker
the main character of Ramza, I'm just taking him to Ninja and then I'll move on through the story for a while. And then I'll eventually make him a bunch of them ninjas. Cause I just love having a whole party. in Yeah. yeah there you go Waxing everybody through the rest of the game. I'll probably play it the rest the year. I don't see myself playing anything but Final Fantasy Tactics because I just, and I've purposely put off replaying it for many years because of the rumor of a remaster.
00:58:12
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um Same is true for Final Fantasy IX, even though I did start a new game. Like, I know there's a remaster. don't Don't crush my heart yet again about a Final Fantasy IX remake. I want it so badly.
00:58:26
Speaker
The leak was, like, spot on. Every single game. And that game hasn't come out. um thell re the remaster it or or even full remake where they did. it's Desperate. Totally breaks my heart that it's not here and I want I need to see Quinn of Quinn.
00:58:42
Speaker
Quinn of Quinn is like my favorite Final Fantasy character ever. Oh, really? I love them so much. It's like my favorite, favorite. I just, there was a plush pre-order that was out for, like they had all the plush Yeah. I definitely, I pre-ordered Quina and that was the only one I got. I, I'm so excited to get it because literally that character is, has no merch.
00:59:01
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So having merch of it was like, oh, anyway. Well, you know, it's been a big year for Final Fantasy, right? All these, um, like the Magic the Gathering cards. Oh God, that's so fun and good too.
00:59:13
Speaker
Yeah. And then all the, well, the remaster of Tactics, I think is a pretty big deal. At least people. I know a lot of people that are really into that game. um But I do want to get Hades 2, and don't know when I will, but I will get it because i really, really love the first one. It's gorgeous. It is gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's like and the stakes are so much higher because like Hades, like Hades 1, Zagreus is just trying to get out of hell. Like he's just trying to get out just because he doesn't like his dad. He's just upset.
00:59:41
Speaker
But this one's like, it's got like an actual, like it's, she's actually trying to get out for a reason. So it's a lot different. It's a lot different. I love i like it a lot. I think it's very good. And I'm not even playing it. I'm just watching Vinny play.
00:59:52
Speaker
Oh, you're watching Vinny it. I'm watching Vinny play it. Yeah, and he's played it just few. Rose was watching me and she just didn't like it. Oh, no. I love watching that loved it, but it was like too much fighting in between the cutscenes. Vinny 100%ed Hades 1 just like last week.
01:00:09
Speaker
He just 100%ed it. He did 70 hours in it for the last like month. So he was like primed and ready for this game to come out. And as soon as it did, he was just like, all right. moving right over. so That's a real Vinny thing to do. I know. Bonkers.
01:00:23
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Anyway, I think we're at time. We get we hit the the one hour mark here. and but We did, yeah. you know i did It was good. It was good to catch up with Firestream. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Thanks for having Thanks for talking about the game.
01:00:36
Speaker
months ago. we'll We'll do it again sooner than than a year this time. Okay, we'll hold you to it. We'll hold you to it and you know people will send us questions and maybe we'll do little less of a freeform thing and have some set questions to come.
01:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, that might be nice actually. Alright, sweet. Well, thank you all for listening. We appreciate you. We love you. um Enjoy Farm RPG this next couple of months. We're going to have a lot of stuff coming out. We're going to have fun. It's going to be good time.
01:01:06
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Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Bye.