Game Theory: Please Come Home... (Andy's Apple Farm)

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, the program that takes a look at the indie tree of terror to find which franchise is the right one to choose, an example of this today is Andy's Apple Farm, a indie horror game released in august and designed based on his words, not mine, aspiring game developer m36 on that note, it's time to get that wannabe out of your gamejolt bio, his m36 because Andy's

apple

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is fantastic , has old-school 80s-style graphics, charming character designs, and a hidden story rolled into one. in the coolest and most unique ways, but it requires you to lose by intentionally failing by playing things out of order and ultimately by trying to break the game, you unlock new clues that take you deeper and deeper into this horror show, as You know what they say, a mystery.

The day is keeping FNAF episodes away and Andy is full of questions, so let's take a trip to Apple Farm to see if we can solve one of my favorite horror mysteries of 2021 when you first start the game you've been assigned. a choice between high graphics and low graphics as tempting as it may be let me tell you right now choose the low quality graphics trust me on this one oh my gosh walk so slow I think the graphics are too high fidelity for us , Matt. We are experiencing extreme slowdown because the graphics are very high quality.

Once you've selected your option, it's revealed to us that we're playing as beta testers for Eastwood's games. Hi, I'm Eastwood, Thomas Eastwood, welcome to the Andy's Apple Farm beta test. As a beta tester, your goal is to find bugs and glitches and report them to me. flaws you say in an indie horror game, who could have foreseen that in the game? We take on the role of Andy the Apple, the cute little one who had the keys to his house being stolen by his four friends before he is returned although the friends challenge him to four separate mini-games Klaus the Clock wants you to play I See Melody the Moon wants you to play friday night funk and felix the fish needs you to catch three fish, which seems like a strange thing for a fish to ask you to do, and margaret the unrecognizable animal wants you to sort fruits.

Yeah, probably the biggest mystery in this game is who Margaret the stray dog ​​is supposed to be, what can I say? she was giving me some strong bulldog vibes after doing some research, although apparently she's supposed to be a mole, no I don't think so anyway, that's not really the mystery we're interested in because before you even start these minigames , things start to fall apart, we see. Andy and Felix's faces in the audio distort text get stuck behind background assets and once you play the mini-games cryptic text appears on the screen. She hasn't left. She still she's here.

She wants you to free us. Please free us and then the game crashes. You weren't kidding when you said there would be glitches. I'm earning every bit of that minimum wage you're paying me if you beat all the problems, play all the mini-games, and collect all the bonus stickers you're in. I told you that your keys are in the barn where you meet the final character, Peter the Pumpkin, play him a final round of tag and understand what's going on, okay, yeah, whatever the evil monstrosities in the bar are and sure, one last jump scare and boom, you're at the end, that's it, 20 minutes of gameplay, five very basic mini-games, that's it, as long as you don't care about the story, and what kind of plebs don't care about the story?

No confused matpat needs to know what's going on in this. and once you start investigating, secrets are everywhere, so what the hell is this story and what's going on with that monster with the eyes that my friends is what we're aiming to solve? Sounds great, let's play. The first important clue we receive is during Felix's mission. fishing minigame you usually play this first and nothing really happens your eyes just glitch a little bit you know something spooky is happening when your eyes start melting a minute or two later the game will start to have real problems and eventually crash giving you this message just before quote he drowned that day at the bottom of the lake she didn't save him it's not his fault doesn't make much sense on its own but wait if you play the same minigame after one or two of the others suddenly you get a new ending, this time some new pixels appear at the bottom left of the screen and those are not just any pixels, friends, that's a body, the body of a dead child, wait here, glitches, hidden knowledge and dead children we just received a bingo we just received a bingo we know that it is the body of a child thanks to a police report that we received when we hooked the body and brought it to the surface they are looking for a child who fell out of a rowboat and never The victim reappeared on Thursday afternoon, a ten-year-old boy and his sister who fell from a robot late at night.

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safely, however, the child has not been found, as if our ten-year-old boy still years he wouldn't have done it. Not only did he fall off the boat, he drowned and let us pick up his body from the bottom of the lake. Now, this is where I normally move on to the next big puzzle, but Andy's

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is different; There are even more things hidden in this first minigame. We have already mentioned that the order in which you play can reveal different secrets, but the secrets you unlock also depend on how you play those minigames in the case of this first fishing minigame if instead of lifting the body you drag the body on the bottom of the mar the game gets scared and gives you this code using a substitution cipher we see it says but it wasn't her fault we weren't alone that night I don't blame her, followed by an image of a girl on a boat with a silhouette appearing behind her ;

In fact, we can see this girl after this tragedy, since this is an 8-bit style game, if we smash our bodies against every surface we come across, we probably will. We're going to find a gap in collision detection and sure enough, that's exactly what happens at the bottom left of the picnic area in the overworld, it's a gap that leads to a girl crying on the boat after the incident, She gives us lines like I did. I don't want to say what mom and dad are going to think. Sorry Lewis, followed by an inverted hexadecimal message over a picture of a child that translates to Lewis.

Clearly, Lewis is our 10 year old victim, but the scary thing is that it seems like this girl, his sister was the one who pushed him into the lake, why else would he be saying I didn't mean to? It also seems that her shadowy figure was what prompted her to do it. Now, that alone is a pretty horrible story. but we're just getting started, the next part of the story takes place during the margaret the topos minigame. By moving the cursor out of bounds during this minigame, we get a binary code that translates to the name Cameron in a family Christmas photo from 1981.

Note the hair and sweater colors here the two boys match Lewis's sprites and her sister if you continue the minigame but keep tapping the space bar near the end margaret's face becomes distorted and suddenly we are shown a new scene with two characters based on the body and hair color appears to be that of the mother Cameron and his father Thomas from the Christmas photo discussing the boat incident. Thomas seems to be quite upset convinced that it is her daughter's fault, but the mother defends her and tells Thomas to leave now if Margaret is the first. minigame you play and once you've beaten it you head out and get this new cryptic message.

The weather was supposed to be happy, but she could feel her skin peeling off, which is creepy and gross, and I don't like it in general. because she doesn't connect with anything we've talked about yet, but don't worry, there will be something else, although it bothers me more. Why does the name Thomas sound so familiar to me? Oh, wait until the start of the game. He is the creator. Thomas Eastwood. By playing second or third melody music minigames, we are teleported to a snow-covered forest where we find a car and hear this audio. Hello camera, do you want to see this.

She seems busy anyway. I've been experimenting with a lot of interesting technology recently. many of the video games I have been creating have not been accepted by many publishers. I'm doing something really cool with the next one, it has something called a cinema monitor, so I feel like it would be more immersive like movies. I've also been thinking about other types of technology to make the characters a little more realistic. A struggling indie game developer on his last hope. Why does that sound so familiar? Anyway, he initially tries to talk to someone named Cam, which he is. probably short for Cameron, the name we talked about before, but this failure has led him to look for new technologies that make his games more realistic.

We've all done this rodeo a few times. Looks like someone is going to push some dead souls. in her video game, but again, that's not all going back and playing Melody's minigame a second time. You will find a message where you can hear through the window of a house inside Cameron comforting her daughter, who is upset because both her father and Lewis are away. There is no Christmas, it is important to note that the mother is heading to the daughter like Isabella, which would explain the stocking in the background with the letter i. There is also a middle for k, most likely for Cameron, and a third with the letter a hmm. well, there's no time to figure it out because after the scene plays, the house burns to the ground while screaming is heard inside, implying that both Isabella and Cameron died inside a house fire, which It also explains the quote we talked about earlier about peeling skin. during the happy time burning to death at Christmas.

I've heard of roasting chestnuts over an open fire, but anyway, this is getting pretty extreme. The end game is, I see with Klaus the clock, if you push the cursor out of bounds on this one. we get a scene showing Thomas sitting across from his friend Arthur, our first and only name in the game that starts with the letter a, we actually learn that after being expelled, Thomas asked Arthur to keep an eye on his family , but he also seems to have suspicions that Arthur now has an affair, I guess they are now ex friends or should I say ax friends, considering that the next scene we can unlock is where we see Thomas using an ax to chop his friend into pieces , Thomas then looks at his bloody hands and shouts what have I done right, so we get a tragic boat accident, a deadly house fire, a murderous game developer, and a mysterious shadow who seems to be pulling the strings, but how does it fit together? all good?

For that, we need to play our last game of tag against Peter the Pumpkin if you let Peter win the initial game we see what is, in my opinion, the scariest image coming out of Andy's apple farm a dark figure looming in a room with text that appears under the image I can see it, it has been following me I think it is looking at me but it has no eyes. Hey, that shadow looks familiar. Aren't you wondering if you like sailing? If you win the first game instead, you get a different message. I just wanted to see my family again.

I knew it. What he was doing was risky, he didn't want it to end this way, free us, save us, help us, the next game is almost impossible to win, but it can be done, he gives you a code that translates to thomas, don't ask. for help, no one can save you now, then the garage scene appears with a dark entity and Thomas falling to pieces. It's worth noting that as it breaks into pieces they turn red and we see the eyes of Andy the apple appear, we can then cross the screen to finally find Andy's missing key with text appearing saying he should have known. what I got myself into is my fault you on the other side can help save me save us so there you have pretty much the whole list of secrets coming. from Andy's apple farm now let's start putting them together because clearly there are still other clues and loose threads that we have to tie up first the house fire, who started it Thomas accuses Arthur of doing it during the act scene, but I don't think so While that's true, I think it was Thomas who started the fire.

Andy the apple appears to be Thomas trapped inside the game. Klaus, the clock, meanwhile is Arthur's stand-in before the scene in the forest where we see Thomas kill Arthur. We actually see Thomas. car in the burned house before klaus arrived, implying that thomas was there to start the fire and then arthur arrived after the fact, but all thisbegs the question: why would Thomas accuse Arthur of killing his family if he did it right himself? The reason is a lie. in another area of ​​the game we have yet to explore and that is the game loading screen, even when you start the game for the first time there is already a second save file loaded and hey they have eight badges not just the four we are limited to to unlock, so I hope there are some answers in this other save file.

Is this real? Did my PC really die? No, after Matpat it wasn't like that and if you're a lore hunting expert like me, you've probably noticed that too. Not only the creepy face hidden there in the blue, but also the QR code on the screen, which means this has just become an arg bingo, definitely this time bingo. What's strange is that this QR code simply takes you back to the game's ichio page. I would have been downloading this first anyway, which means there is more to this page than meets the eye at first. Browsing the page line by line, I noticed that this little exclamation point here had a hyperlink, so I clicked on it and found a YouTube page for someone named Logan Eastwood, Thomas Eastwood's great-nephew.

This guy only has three videos, mainly playing this old game he found at his great-uncle's house, but the last video is the most interesting, titled The Secret of Andy's Apple Farm. The video shows us a new scene from the game in which Thomas looks at an ax and argues with a voice inside his head that says: I don't want to kill him, I don't want to kill anyone and the voice responds: when did I do that? i give you a choice i guess you could say thomas here is a uh wait a reluctant follower get it its a fnaf thing you know glitch trap possessing vanny and all that look its not like i'm looking for these things, it just comes to Anyway, okay, everything seems to be related to this dark entity on the boat at Thomas' house.

At the end of the game, he's still possessing people and making them kill others, but what's the point? Well, I think he's getting stronger. Think about it this way, we see the entity for the first time on the ship with Isabella, but at that point in the story it has no facial features moving forward in the timeline, although we see this entity again in Thomas' bedroom and it still has no eyes. . We are explicitly told that it has no eyes, but now it has a mouth. At the end of the game, once everyone else has died, we see that he has many eyes and a massive form capable of killing Thomas.

He has grown stronger with each death, but Thomas was not. He's not completely destroyed, we saw him transform into Andy the apple, he even addresses us directly asking the player to save us in plural, he's not the only one trapped inside this thing. Klaus is Arthur Margaret is Cameron. Melody unlocks the events leading up to Isabella and Felix's Christmas Eve scene. he's fishing for lewis' corpse these characters these dead characters have put their spirits in the game why do we know that thomas was playing with technology to make his characters more realistic and when his son died thomas was desperate to be with his son and bring the family back together again and then the entity saw this as an opportunity.

Thomas essentially made a deal with the devil to keep his family together when we see him say that he should have known what I got myself into. He just wanted to see my family again. He knew it. What he was doing was risky and, as the devil usually does, he keeps his promises, but there is a problem: his family can be together again, but not in the real world, but trapped inside a video game, except there is a problem here. Isabella didn't. She doesn't die in the house fire, unlike all the other characters, there is no screen with the date of death in the barn, she is strangely not found, and if you play Melody's minigame before all the other characters, we see the message that he is not gone, he is still here, he wants. you to free us,

please

free us and to put the final nail in the coffin by visiting m36's YouTube page.

We can find the test sprite video of Melody, who we have already established that she is Isabella's counterpart in the game. In this video we receive coordinates that when decoded. from hex translates to she saw what you did Thomas, meaning that Isabella not only survived the fire by witnessing her mother's death in the process, but she also probably saw Thomas kill Arthur in the woods, so Isabella is not dead, but she is also the melody of the game. Well, I think she's definitely going to die at some point, but not in the story of this game.

You see m36 came out and said they are working on a follow up and we even got some screenshots showing us two girls. standing together, one in a blue shirt and the other, a brunette dressed in pink exactly like Isabella's elf, her story is not over and I think this other girl will only play a part in it on November 14th. m36 posted the code on his Discord, which had the second half of a YouTube URL then took us to an unlisted video called Don't Be Scared Sam, where a girl in a blue shirt is seen holding a copy of Andy's Apple Farm, he touches it and they say no.

Be afraid, Sam, soon you will be with her again. I think our next installment will continue Isabella's story after she escapes the house fire, she confides in her friend Sam and realizes that her family is trapped inside the game, but the entity will catch her before she can. I can do something to free them. Sam will be trapped in this thing too. They told her that she may be with her friend very soon, which in turn will get her killed and in fact, she will also enter the game. I predict she will be one of the only unused characters we see in the first m36 sprite test video, the bee known as bailey, so there you have it, my predictions for

andy

apple farms, next chapter is what I would say if I didn't have A Final Prediction Bomb will drop on you when you explore that final barn on the top floor where you find pictures of Cameron Arthur and Thomas.

There is also one for Lewis, but he doesn't have a death date, just missing a date on which his body is found. I never found it, I think that like with his sister, this is a clue that Lewis will also return, but in this case it will not be the real Lewis if I had to guess that it will be the entity that will use Lewis's body, a body that , unlike Isabella and Thomas he will not have to fight him for control, he will be a double, the entity will pilot him and seek to kill and that, my friends, is the uplifting story of Andy's apple farm, a family that murders herself during Christmas.

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