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Explore →Welcome back to the Game-based Learning Review! This week, Dan and Brandon start the stream by sorting out some audio leveling issues with help from chat (yes, again). They then move into their pre-game segments with a tricky round of Filament Fours and a pitch for a cell biology dating simulator. After a quick recap of last week’s RoboCo wins, they return to the early 2010s to play one of Filament’s classic educational titles, Crazy Plant Shop.
In Crazy Plant Shop, players rent a storefront from a landlord named Gregor Mendel and breed plants with specific traits to fill customer orders. Dan and Brandon brush up on Punnett squares as they combine dominant and recessive traits to meet each request while keeping the rent paid. Tune in to see whether they can breed a heterozygous plant and win the county fair.
Episode Outline:
- [0:00 - 3:50] Dan and Brandon go live and work through audio leveling issues with help from a patient chat.
- [3:51 - 18:36] The hosts recap their RoboCo victories and warm up with a “Field Guide” round of Filament Fours. They then pitch a cell biology dating sim inspired by Hatoful Boyfriend.
- [18:37 - 23:14] The hosts share a brief history of Crazy Plant Shop and Filament’s early days making educational Flash games, along with a shoutout to the work of preserving classic web games.
- [23:15 - 47:20] Gameplay begins. The hosts fill customer orders and use Punnett squares to breed for dominant and recessive traits while managing the shop’s rent.
- [47:21 - 49:33] Dan and Brandon wrap up their successful run at heterozygous plant breeding and preview a possible return to RoboCo’s coding mechanics next week.
Links:
- RoboCo: This sandbox game about designing and building robots appeared in previous episodes, and the hosts plan to return to it for its Python coding features.
- Crazy Plant Shop: Filament’s 2014 management game has players run a plant shop and use genetics to breed plants for customers. It is available on Steam.
- Hatoful Boyfriend: This visual novel dating sim, in which every romanceable character is a bird, mentioned during this week’s game pitch.
- Flashpoint Archive: This web game preservation project holds more than 200,000 Flash games, including some of Filament’s early educational titles.
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