This week we’re celebrating some fun holidays!
Mar 12: Plant a Flower Day!
Mar 13: World Sleep Day!
Mar 14: Pi Day!
The Rise of AFK Games
World Sleep Day is a good reminder that rest matters even for gamers. While traditional games often demand long sessions and constant attention, AFK (Away From Keyboard) games have created a different kind of experience. These games continue progressing even when the player isn’t actively playing, allowing characters to farm resources, gain experience, or complete tasks while the player sleeps or goes about their day.
In a way, AFK games fit perfectly into modern lifestyles: you can still enjoy the feeling of progress and growth in a game without sacrificing your sleep schedule. Sometimes the best strategy isn’t grinding all night it’s simply letting the game play along while you rest.
— Justin J., Asst Project Manager
Sweet Numbers
In celebrating Pi Day, a fun day that brings together everyone’s love of pies and everyone’s favorite subject, math. Sadly, some people did not get that memo, and they dread it. As a kid, I was like that too, but I remember playing a bunch of web-based math games and slowly starting to enjoy them and appreciate the subject more. As I got older and even had the chance to teach kids, I found myself using the same tactic. One of those games is Papa’s Bakeria, where players make pies while managing orders in a timely manner, or else the customers get mad and sometimes confrontational, just like in real life. It may feel like running a chaotic little pie shop, but along the way, kids who once hated math and want nothing to do with it start practicing counting, timing, and other math skills without even realizing it. I think that is the beauty of video games. They can take a subject someone dislikes and somehow make it fun, letting them see it in a whole new light. Or maybe I am overthinking it, and making pies is just as wonderful as eating them.
— Andrew S., Asst Producer
Planting Good Vibes
This week, I find myself thinking back on childhood days in the garden. Being outside with a small shovel, cracking through that top layer of dirt while the sun sat warm on my back. The soil had a smell I couldn’t really explain back then. Still can’t, honestly. But something about knowing a tiny seed could eventually change the whole look of a yard made it feel worth doing. That feeling stuck. It probably shapes why a day like this still lands for me the way it does, as a quiet reminder that adding something small and beautiful to a shared space is rarely a wasted effort, even if it’s just one flower in a pot sitting next to your monitor.
For a lot of long-time RO players, Midgard seems to scratch that same itch in its own way. The soft town colors, the flower gear, the way a crowded Prontera can somehow feel more like a garden than a lobby. RO has always been a little unusual in how it holds two things at once: the min-maxing, the build theory, the damage math on one side, and on the other, genuinely tender little moments. Meeting someone in a pretty map. Lining up a screenshot under the cherry trees. Sending a blossom emote because words felt like too much.
Plant a Flower Day doesn’t need to carry more weight than it actually has. It can just be a nudge. Log off for a bit, find some real dirt, plant something that’ll keep growing after today’s dailies reset.
— Mace T., Project Manager
That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by.
Have a great week and see you next time!
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