“I’m crawling in unwanted plasma”
Making universes in This Starry Midnight We Make
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden is a clicker game by Cavyhouse. It is my favorite clicker game because it tasks you with running a greenhouse where the trees and bushes sprout human organs. You harvest these organs and use them to, for example, reanimate cats and bring dolls to life. Or to fulfil orders where someone requires seven ‘great’ colons immediately. I have not been playing Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden, but I have been playing another project by the same developer called This Starry Midnight We Make. It’s a project where you manipulate the universe by dropping debris into a basin. In the basin, blobs become stars, and you can add more debris to cultivate nebulae or constellations.
By gardening the skies you influence the lives of those around you, bringing customers to a struggling restaurant, or attempting to water the plants of a guy who won’t let you into his house.
There’s too much trial and error involved in creating the individual stars, and the little encyclopedia is arranged in unhelpful ways. As such, I have just rage-dumped a load of star seeds into the red area of the basin to cultivate some fire stars. I need five specific types of celestial body for my current constellation and can I catch an intergalactic break? Can I heck.
Aim for the stars
As soon as I manage to force one star to do my bidding, one of the others evolves into something I didn’t mean it to. I’m crawling in unwanted plasma and I’ve lost the will to leaf through the little guide book to figure out whether it’s a silicone star I need, or whether I should break out some fluff stars.
I knew I should have stuck with that free online introduction to astronomy course. I bet that was all about how to dump rocks into a bowl to manipulate current events. But I didn’t. I played weeks of Dota 2 instead, and thus can’t cultivate a working constellation. At least I know how to stack jungle camps, or rather, I did until an update to Dota 2 invalidated all that knowledge too. My life is a shambles.