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  • svgSep 11, 2019Quick Bits

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    During a recent live-stream on Twitch of Bitsummit, the Indie Game Festival, from Tokyo Game Show 2019 we got a closer look at the gameplay of Giraffe and Annika! This adorable 3D adventure & rhythm-based action RPG with a cat-eared protagonist is coming this year (2019) on PC! You can even wishlist the game now on Steam right here. Giraffe and Annika and developed by atelier mimina and published by Sony Music Entertainment and they have confirmed that there will be a PS4 and Switch release sometime later.

    About Giraffe and Annika

    Join the cat-eared heroine Annika on her adventures in the mysterious island of Spica! Tasked by the young boy Giraffe, she sets off to find pieces of the stars. Solve the islands hidden mysteries!

    Key Features

    • Adventure! Explore the mysterious Island of Spica! Uncover hidden secrets on the island!
    • Rhythm! Defeat bosses with the beat! Synchronize your attacks to the music to overcome challenges!
    • Comic! See the world of Giraffe & Annika brought to life in beautiful, manga-inspired style!
    • Dungeons! Challenge five unique dungeons on the island to recover the star fragments and help recover Annika’s memories!
    • Collectibles! Find cute cat collectibles hidden all over the island! Expand your gallery and unlock prizes!

    If you’re interested in the rhythm-based action aspect, check out our article on Cadence of Hyrule here.

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  • svgSep 11, 2019Feature

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    With the new DLC for Two Point Hospital, Close Encounters, now available on Steam here (followed by console releases soon), we thought it was a great opportunity to dive back into the game! If you haven’t yet heard of this tycoon management game, you can check out the details with our review here.

    Don’t be alarmed by the hospital setting; the illnesses you’ll encounter are all but ordinary and come with ‘punny’ alternatives. For example: Enjoy the visual details of someone walking into your hospital with a pan on their head and direct them to a treatment room where you remove it with a giant magnet! Since we wanted to get the most out of this game and feel compelled to achieve excellence, we went after the 3-star goals in every level. Below are some tips and tricks to help you avoid the same mistakes we made that resulted in figurative and literal dumpster fires.

    Tips and Tricks for Two Point Hospital

    You’ll notice that getting that first star is always quite easy but if you want to attempt the third, you’ll need to buy more plots and expand your hospital. This will obviously give you a lot more to manage. You might be making millions but when your expenses kick in, you can lose it all and maybe even go bankrupt if you’re not careful.

    Creating Rooms and Hospital Layout

    • You’ll want to start every level paused to save time and money by building the basics; Reception, GP Office, General Diagnostics, Toilets, Staff Room. Then hire the employees necessary to fill these rooms.
    • Only build the minimum required size for all rooms in your hospital because the level prestige can be raised by spamming Gold Awards for your walls that you’ll want to unlock with your Kudosh ASAP. Even rugs are handy because you don’t really have to worry about them getting in the way of anything else.
    • When planning out the layout of your hospital, be aware of your patients that need further diagnosis as they go to the GP Office to General Diagnostics and then back to GP. This means you’ll want to have them next to each other to shorten their walking distance.
    • Placing rooms that help diagnose patients can lead to a higher probability of a cure. These rooms are: General Diagnostics, Fluid Analysis, X-Ray, and MEGA Scanner.
    • You can greatly increase the overall health of the hospital by placing Hand Sanitizers in every room and in the hallways were there are drinking fountains. Also, don’t go placing too many garbage cans as this will just cause more work for your janitors and decrease your attractiveness when they fill up. You only need them near your vending machines and near treatment rooms for the pukers.
    • Make sure to place Fire Extinguishers in every treatment room that has machinery you need to repair. Furthermore, place more than one as they are single-use only! You don’t want to worry about this after a fire breaks out.
    • Placing Coffee Makers and Medicine Cabinets in every office (especially the GPs) will give your doctors a boost of much needed energy and diagnosis/treatment.

    Essential Needs of Staff and Patients

    • You’ll need to place a large amount of GP Offices at a certain point so make sure to reduce the queue lines by placing drink and snack machines, toilets, and news racks nearby. Your patients will sometimes take their time or leave the lines to do these things.
    • Forget building cafeterias when you unlock them, they’re a huge waste of space, tie up your Assistants that are better used toward Reception, cause line-ups, and even seem to spread more germs. Don’t waste your Assistants’ time with Newstands either.
    • Toilets can be placed in 3×2 areas so they’re great to fill in those awkward spaces you might have. Just make sure to have one or two of those in every major section as patients can and will relieve themselves on your floors.
    • To keep everyone happy and improve your hospital’s reputation, do the objectives that pop-up and place a lot of decorations. Plants (mainly sunflowers) do the largest amount for a cheaper price and fountains are useful to put near your empty spaces by Reception.

    Training, Marketing, and Research

    • Do not hire staff that have the following traits: Cheese for Brains, Dirty Habits, Grumpy, Has a Dark Side, Litterer, Nasty, Nausea Inducing, Suffers from spontaneous bouts of snoozing, Tires Easily, Unhygienic, Unmotivated, Wants More Money, Weak Bladder, and Vengeful. These will have negative affects to happiness, efficiency, cleanliness, and more! These employees will ruin your entire hospital.
    • Some staff traits don’t do anything but others will have useful qualities such as Motivated and Positive. As long as you hire based on these traits, you don’t need to worry about higher tier levels as much.
    • You’ll want to train your employees often as this raises their happiness/morale with promotions and their patient treatments are more effective. Specialize your employees in specific areas such as Psychiatry. You can go up to level V in certain jobs.
    • Make sure you know the difference between which rooms are for Diagnostics and Treatment so you can train accordingly. For example, GPs should be trained in GP higher tier levels as wells as Diagnostic boosts, and Nurses in Pharmacy can be trained in Treatment for a better curing rate.
    • If you have a target to reach in a certain illness or you need to raise your reputation, create a marketing campaign specifically for it.
    • Research everything and anything to upgrade your machinery and to unlock different rooms. Everything you research will carry over to your other levels so you only have to do them once.
    • All three of those rooms can receive bonuses with certain objects. Place tons of encyclopedias in the Training Rooms, Servers (and ACs) in the Research labs, and more desks and Assistants in the Marketing rooms.

    Other things you can do to help keep your hospital afloat are:

    When you edit rooms, it kicks everyone out of them but don’t be afraid to rearrange or delete unused rooms as it will make things easier in the long run! You should also check up on your employees and fire staff that are under-performing. Then, keep checking your patients’ health and bump the ones that are near death up the queue line before they keel over! Finally, take your time and have fun!

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  • svgSep 11, 2019Quick Bits

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    The most recent free update, Celeste Chapter 9: Farewell, is now available on Nintendo Switch.

    There are a few things you need to know about Celeste before checking out Celeste Chapter 9. When it comes to super fast-paced mountain climbing dashery, it doesn’t get much better than Celeste. Released in January of 2018, Celeste was an exceptionally well received platformer that boasted fun and fury for its fans.

    Celeste Chapter 9

    With a rich in-depth story to keep you pushing, this game has won the hearts of many. Battling her greatest foe, Madeline must overcome the “dark” part of herself to make it to the peak of Celeste, a daunting, seemingly insurmountable, obstacle-laden pile of stone. 

    Celeste Chapter 9

    Now, the new update for Celeste adds over 100 new levels, over 40 hours of new music, as well as new mechanics and items. On top of all this new content, the game also happens to currently be on sale through the Nintendo eShop. There has never been a better time to dive into this amazing adventure game.

    For more information on Celeste, be sure to t=check the official Celeste website.

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  • svgSep 11, 2019News

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    Some of our favorite games will be making an appearance at this years IndieCade Festival.

    The Indiecade Festival is an indie game festival that features games of all types and genres from all around the world. It was founded in 2005 as a part of E3, and became a independent event in 2009.

    At the festival, developers who have submitted their games and survived the initial sifting will show their games to a selected jury comprised of individuals from all around the world. The jury will then decide who wins what award.

    We just happened to notice that some of our favorite games have passed the sifting, and will be featured at the festival. We are very excited to see just who wins what at this years Indiecade Festival.

    Knights and Bikes

    Indiecade Festival
Knights and Bikes

    Knights and Bikes is a quirky action-adventure set on a fictional British island in the late 1980s. The creators convey that they were “inspired by coming-of-age movies like The Goonies and classic games like Earthbound and Secret of Mana.” This title was developed by Foam Sword, a small studio comprised of some of the same amazing talent that helped create Little Big Planet.

    The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game

    The Haunted Island Indiecade Festival

    The game plays exactly as it sounds. You are a frog who is also detective. The game takes place on a mysterious island with some not-so-cool goings-on afoot. Is it ghoul ghosts, or your regular flesh and blood baddies. It is up to you to find out in The Haunted Island! The Haunted Island is a first person 3D detective game on Mac and PC.

    Kind Words

    Kind Words

    Kind Words is not your traditional game, it’s a game about kindness and letting go of fear or anything else that might put a burden on ones heart. If you have ever felt down, scared or worried then that probably means you are a human. In this game you can make request for a letter if you are just not feeling your best, or would like to ask for advice. 

    For more information about these awesome games and the rest of what you can find at this years festival, you can check out the official Indiecade Festival website.

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  • svgSep 11, 2019Quick Bits

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    The people who you have possibly purchased chicken from are now serving us a dating simulator game, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! is heading to Steam this month!

    Dating in video games has long been popular with marriage and relationships frequently promoted in games like Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Rune Factory and more. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! takes you to cooking school where you eagerly want to date one of your classmates that happens to be Colonel Sanders.

    On your mission to getting the perfect date and hopefully find love, you will be faced with difficult life decisions. Every choice you make in the game will have consequences on the relationships you form at school.

    The game features 9 characters that according to KFC are totally lovable and interesting. If you are just here for the chicken, you will find that the game has a lot of other things to offer outside of dating Sanders.

    I Love You, Colonel Sanders! also teaches you secret recipes, homemade KFC chicken? Yes, please! Cooking battles are also part of the game in which you have to show off you cooking skills much like in the new and upcoming Cooking Mama game!

    If you are intrigued, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! can now be wishlisted on Steam and is slated for a release on September 24th.

    If you love dating simulators, check out our best picks for dating virtually right here.

    https://youtu.be/cNQxsTKpFtw

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  • svgSep 10, 2019Mobile Game

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    TokoToko is an augmented reality game developed by indie studio Kalank and coming to iOS devices October 3rd, 2019. Help your adorable cat artist apprentice named Hako to save her friends, the Tokotokos, by drawing real-life pictures that will come alive in-game. Journey to an island and solve puzzles to find these adorable creatures from another world and interact with them in our world. All Tokotokos are artistic and have unique personalities, for example, Azuko the lion is a narcissistic painter.

    Furthermore, TokoToko lets you take pictures of Hako and her friends while using filters to create your own scenery with your drawings! Pictures then appear as Polaroid photos in-game that you can share with your friends.

    Key Features

    • The first story-driven augmented reality adventure
    • Life-bringing technology for handmade drawings
    • A touching coming-of-age story about creativity
    • Cute and charming creatures with strong personalities
    • A relaxing and amusing place to draw, experiment and create unique art
    • Beautiful art style inspired by clay and stop-motion
    • Augmented creativity puzzles to solve with your own drawings

    If you can’t wait to start drawing, you can check out TokoToko’s official website and share your fan-art on social media! For more on games with AR, check out our article here: Minecraft Earth Turns Reality Into A Playground.

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  • svgSep 10, 2019Mobile Game

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    Our beloved brazen froggie is back in action in Frogger in Toy Town, soon on all Apple devices.

    When was the last time you thought about a new Frogger game? Frogger has been bouncing around from arcade machine to console for forever, and now is landing on many mobile devices. Frogger was born into this world as an arcade game back in 1981.

    Since then he has made an appearance on nearly every console in existence. He is officially being given yet another new look, but this time his game will be available exclusively through Apple Arcade.

    Developed by Q-Games, Frogger in Toy Town places the epic frog in a colorful and whimsical land. There will be some new features. to set this game apart from the rest. One such feature is the ability to acquire invulnerability for a limited time. This should just enough extra boost to get through some of the tougher levels.

    Frogger in Toy Town is set to be released on September 19th, the same day as the official opening of Apple Arcade, which only charges users $5 per month for a family plan. For more information about the Apple Arcade service, be sure to check out the official Apple website.

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  • svgSep 10, 2019News

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    It’s been a while since we received a major Nintendo Switch Firmware Update. Luckily today is one of those days and Nintendo even provided patch notes to go with it!

    The latest 9.0.0 update brings a bunch of new enhancements, bug fixes and even adds new features to the Nintendo Switch! The latest update also includes an alarm clock to the console, now you can use your Switch to wake you up in the morning, a great way to always be close to gaming!

    One feature requested by many people was the ability to send game invites to players on your friends list. This has been a common feature for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users, but was not available to Switch players until now. Supported games will now let you send invites to friends making online co-op play a lot easier and more streamlined! It may take some time for developers to adapt this new feature, but it’s a great step into the right direction!

    You can check out the full patch notes below. If you’d like to make the Nintendo Switch Firmware Update right away, simply go to your settings on the Nintendo Switch and choose System Update in the System tab, as seen in the screenshot below!

    In other related news check out the best new Nintendo Switch Accessories currently available!

    Nintendo Switch Firmware Update 9.0.0 Update Notes

    • Added a search feature for the News Channel.
      • Channels can be searched using filters or free text.
    • Added “Display QR Code to Check In” to User Settings.
      • You can display a QR Code on-screen to check in using your Nintendo Account.
    • Alarm Notifications have been added to System Settings > Notifications.
      • You can check or delete pre-set alarms.
      • Alarms can be set up only within supported software (to be added at a later time).
      • A controller firmware update may be required to use this feature.
    • You can now configure touch screen sensitivity settings.
      • Select between Standard and Stylus sensitivity (optimized for stylus input).
    • Added the option to turn on/off the system button input (Nintendo Switch Lite only).
      • When this setting is turned off the system no longer receives input from the console buttons, with the exception of the Capture and HOME Buttons, and can only be operated from a wirelessly paired controller (sold separately).
      • This setting is on by default and can only be turned off if a compatible controller (sold separately) is wirelessly paired to the console.
      • The setting will automatically turn back on when the console is restarted or after returning from sleep mode.
    • Added “Online Play Invites” section to the User’s page.
      • Invites from friends to join online play in supported software will be displayed in this section.
    • General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.
      • Resolved an issue where some users can’t start the Fire Emblem: Three Houses game, and get an error instead.
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