august 6, 2024

i really hope Roblox tycoon games are not left out of the history of idle/incremental games. i guarantee a sizable amount of the players of Cookie Clicker and AdVenture Captialist got their start with Roblox tycoon games, i know i certainly did! i mainly played on Defaultio's Mining Tycoon game (which i didnt know was uncopylocked?? downloading it immediately with Roblox Studio) which got several updates. i really wish there was a way for me to revisit the older version of that game, but some things are just gone in the past. earlier today i played Domo Island Obby Tycoon on Rowind with Rose (and also Mega Marble Run Pit, as the thumbnail looked cool, but was far more boring in practice.) and while Domo Island Obby Tycoon sounds like a very, very strange game, it is far more boring than it is interesting.

a review of Domo Island Obby Tycoon

you start on an island with a few purchasable cosmetic nodes and a money machine. the first money machine component is free, but then the rest is paid. once that is fully upgraded, you earn about 100 dollars every couple seconds, which is not tremendously fast. the gameplay consists of purchasing segments for the obby, completing the purchases segments, then buying more segments, up until you reach the top and are able to buy the Winner Domo badge, which is unfortunately not a real badge in the roblox sense, but instead just a png on the ground. although in the games defense badges might not even have existed when the game was made, and i can respect the Rowind developers for not adding one where it did not exist before, even if buying a "badge" and not getting one is a little jarring. i can get behind this gameplay loop, even if its just really basic, but the issue is that you never get any more money machines or upgrades for it. you are locked at the same income rate for the entire game once you get all the upgrades, which takes like 2 minutes to do. once you complete a segment, buy the next segment and its teleport pad, the only thing to do is wait for the generation to make more money. every upgrade on the island, aside from the money machine and first obby segment, is purely cosmetic. for an experience where the intention is you progressing through a obstacle core, there is no reason for you to be wanting your island to look nicer. individually, i think roblox obbys and tycoons, while being very basic, are inoffensive and can be a nice way to feel some nostalgia for the old days of Roblox, a Roblox we will never get to experience again. both genres, especially obbys, can be so mindless that you can just fall into a zen-like state, similar to other movement-based game and gamemodes, but you never hit that state here. the actual moments of gameplay are limited in small bursts, meaning you never get an opportunity to fall into that state, unless you want to run through the obby over and over while waiting. as for navigating the obby itself, Rowind has some slight delay with jumping it seems, which can make the jumping sections like at the very beginning of the course, much harder than they actually should be. overall, a boring and mildly annoying experience.

now with that being said, this is a game from like 2012. i might not find any enjoyment in the context of experiencing it through a recreation in a pseudo experience preservation game, but im sure people back then ate this right up. Domo was weirdly big back in the day and more so on Roblox. one of the oldest Roblox games i remember playing on is Find The Domos, which i and plenty of other older (older as in like 20 lol) users still have fond memories of (and i really should give it another play sometime and try and get all the Domos, as i have never been done that before.) it is commendable that Rowind put in the effort to keep this title accessable and working in modern Roblox, although i will spare this post another paragraph of worrying about the state of Roblox experience archival.

well in other, non-Roblox news (i really dont play Roblox a lot, i just happen to have strong opinions on it when i do play it), yesterday i reconnected with an old friend and it is a blessing that i am able to reconnect with them after all this time of convincing myself this would never happen, i proved myself wrong.

another Flight b741 single dropped!!! Field of Vision once again increases my hype for this album. i am surprised we got a single this close to the albums release, it comes out in 3 days, but i am also not complaining. more gizzard forever and ever.

i got an eyeliner pen and a desk mirror today, and using that pen has completely changed me. i am going to be wearing eyeliner maybe every day for the rest of my life now, i feel so good when i am wearing this. another transition checklist thing checked off! i am hoping i can get my ears pierced within the week.

one last thing, enjoy this funny message my friend Jay said. move over brat summer, we are in harold summer.

anyways, see you next time!