Whether it is a cold escape from the rush of the real world or simply as a way of beating vacation bravages as viral Roblox The game over gardening has become the surprise hit of the summer.
Grow a Garden, which was created by a 16-year-old in a few days, has destroyed records for the simultaneous players of all games in history and did video games that take years and millions of dollars to develop.
And there is no one to shoot, fight or run. If your last attempt to cultivate vegetables in 2010 was Farmville, don’t worry – your tomatoes will grow, even if you never water them.
Grow a Garden is as simple as the name suggests – players can fill a plot of plots with plants and animals, the bounty of another er harvesting and selling, acting or stealing. The game is little stress, with an aesthetic memory of Minecraft and a soundtrack of soothing classic melodies such as Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca, which plays in the background. Its popularity has consolidated Roblox’s place not only in the gaming world, but also in popular culture – for the good or for the bad, where the children hang around.
“The word that I used again and again to describe this specific game is that it is cold, which is such a nice alternative. I get a lot of this animal crossing mood about it. You know how you can check in, you can check your gardens, you can get some new seeds, you can plant them with the non -profit -profit media. “I have an 11-year-old son who (plays) and he says to him that many games have a big huge goal they have to do, but in growth of a garden they can just hang around and do what they want.”
Coincidence or not, a garden that increased around the same time was growing as Take-Two announced Interactive that he would delay the start of his wildly expected Grand Theft Auto 6 by next year. At the end of June, the garden game created 21.6 million simultaneous players and, according to Roblox, exceeded the previous record of Fortnite of 15.2 million. Analysts that follow the Roblox share say that Grow a Garden helps to increase the company’s turnover and increase the company’s quarterly winning figures on the expectations of Wall Street.
It is not clear whether the GTA audience flocked to this simple garden game to spend the time until then, but Timing has sparked the ancient debate about who is players and which titles are taken seriously by the video game establishment. It happened with Candy Crush, with puzzle games, with Animal Crossing. Are people who play real players who play cozy games? Or is the title reserved for people, shoot the enemies in Call of Duty or to create Mayhem in GTA?
“There is a huge percentage of players who play Roblox, and the actual industry sees them only as this esoteric, immature platform of the strange gameplay habits,” said Janzen Madsen, the New Zealand CEO and founder of Splitting Point Studios, who took over the game from his teenager creator. “Well, I actually think that this will be the expectation of the players in five years. And because you have not accepted it as if you won’t know how to play games.”
To grow your garden, you need a Roblox account. The game will start with an empty plot and some money – Sheckles – and a starter seed. From there you can harvest and sell seeds, your plants and buy more seeds, animals or tools for your garden. It is possible to play the game without spending real money, but it will take longer. As soon as you have sold enough harvest, you earn money to buy more expensive seeds that go beyond basic carrots and blueberries.
“I just want to get the rarest stuff for me. I am a completion, so I want everything and I enjoy it,” I said, “I said,” I said “, I said”, I said “,”, I said, I said “, said”, “I said,” I said, “I said,” Leah AsheA Youtuber who plays is growing a garden and other popular games for an audience of 5.3 million. “It is really cool because you can get together because the seed shop is global, so that everyone is the same. So you can work with other people and say:” Oh my god, the sugar apple is in stock. Get online! “The Seed Shop updates every five minutes, so you always pull a little back into the game.”
For Roblox, the one before a counter reaction for Don’t do enough to protect children In his game service, Grow a Garden has a kind of relaxation – together with new security measures such as chat restrictions and data protection tools.
New players receive help from more established colleagues who send you gifts and let you know when rare seeds are available in the seed shop.
Bozdech said: “If you have the right surveillance and guidance”, Roblox can be a positive experience for children, which enables you to create your own designs or practice coding, for example.
“Something like a garden is a nice opportunity that parents and children play together,” she said.
And maybe the slow cultivation of a magical garden can also benefit the parents.
“It hits a nerve, do you know?” Said Bozdech. “People need an escape from the world, I think we all do it.”
