I wonder how much money the kid developer is making off this game.
Most likely nothing. The whole system is designed to lure kids into making content and not pay out.
PMG has a pair of videos looking into it -
comment on the article says
Actually the teenager would basically DMCA takedown peoples games and then remake the game nearly exactly and upload it himself to steal the playerbase, now he sold it to another pay2win studio
trying to find actual evidence for this has sapped my will to live but there’s some interesting drama
https://x.com/joshuaistweeter/status/1919491878505923040
or
https://nitter.net/joshuaistweeter/status/1919491878505923040ruthless little shit’s gonna go far
My son and all of his friends played it for a day or two. He made a point of showing it to me, which he rarely does with Roblox. While he was showing me how to play, another player came and asked if he wanted to see his garden. It was huge. After, he gave my son a bunch of materials and cash (or something, I don’t remember), so that was pretty wholesome.
It was basic plant, water, pick, sell. Something I’d never seen in one of their games was it had a gacha system where you complete requested missions and get a random reward, like new or bigger seeds.
I have no idea what the monetization was, mine didn’t spend any.
I guess on some level there’s something wholesome about it being a gardening game. I wonder how much of the success is owed to the natural human inclination towards farming
What? Is there a natural human inclination to farming?
I ask because I’ve always had a natural disinclination to anything out in the sun.
I’ve always been an indoors gamer type myself. Then when I was in my mid thirties I decided to grow a couple tomato plants in pots. Now I’m apparently a gardner. As much as I complain about it, I really like it. Seeing the seeds sprout, eating to veggies. I think I spend more growing than if I bought it, but I’ve still come to like it a lot.
That’s just growing things.
I have a few little house plants, that were foisted on me by my sister. But by no stretch of the imagination is that at all related to farming.
Even gardening at its most extreme, only might be a hobby farm.
Actual farming, is a whole other kind of annoying. Its just way different when your lively hood depends on it.
I suppose then a more accurate description would have been horticulture; but I’m using “farming” here as in planting and growing things, not for subsistence necessarily
Is it fun? Or is it one of those things where they should be playing one of the existing farm sims and just don’t know better?
Made in 3 days too… doesn’t that just sum up the industry. Well fucking done.
Roblox cultural victory
