Party In My Dorm
Party in My Dorm is a role playing game that is developed by ATA (A Thinking Ape) and its a game I’ve been playing ever since I was in 6th grade. Basically, in the game, you are a college student who’s trying to succeed.
Originally, it was supposed to be a player vs. player game but it eventually evolved into a party game. The concept is really simple, you party and you get rewards– if you take the game on its face value. The game actually is very strategical, and it would really eat you alive if you’re not cunning.
The game features a ‘hunt’ that usually lasts for three weeks. During this time, there would be a thing we call a ‘potd’ or party of the day which basically is a category of a party that gives ‘drops’. Drops are basically items you collect in to qualify to get rewards and other items that you can get exclusively only for that certain hunt.
The game also features ‘collectibles’ which are items that you collect in order to create other items. This is where the game becomes more interesting because you don’t just only wait for them to be dropped as a reward from parties but you can actually trade your other items with other people in order to create the items you want.
Although the game is a role playing game by category on the app store, I think of it more of like a simulation of real life.
Its like a simulation of real for me because I’ve been playing it for a long time. The first time I played the game years ago, it only has a ‘campus chat’ where all players can chat and a ‘club chat’ where only you and the people you party with can chat, but now there is a ‘pub chat’ where chats are unregulated.
I think of the campus chat feature more of like a world market, because this is where all legal players advertise the items that are up for trade with other items and I think of the pub chat as the black market because people would be selling items there for non-game stuff (like load or real money) which is against the game rules but nobody really cares since pub chat is inaccessible by the moderators.
Speaking of moderators, they’re like the police force of the game. Kinda like the same in real life because these moderators are also just players who make sure that other players follow the game rules but they don’t really know what the developer’s plans are. Really kind of just like the police force in real life.
I’ve also seen players create currency on their own! The first time I played the game, we would just trade our items to what we think is its value. But now, there is a standard currency for trading and this standard didn’t came from the developers, but the players themselves! There’s a certain item in the game, a chibi, which has become the standard of currency or of exchange and the value of it fluctuates sometimes, and nobody knows who decided that these chibis should be the currency, its just something that we progressed to over time.
The game itself is also very aesthetic. You can really see that the developers put a lot of effort in the game because after every hunt, not more than 24 hours later, they would start another and the theme, items, and rules are always superb.
Here are some examples of their graphics:
Aren’t they beautiful? These are just the avatars, the developers also release a new set of furniture, items, collectibles, and rules every hunt!
I really admire the dedication that the developers have towards the game!
I highly recommend this game, and if you ever play this game, add me. My username is erlee.
The game is available on Android and IOS.
Spotify
My favorite music streaming app. It is very easy to navigate and with million of songs available, it has almost all of my favorite songs! (except for barbie music)
What makes this app my favorite is because its really easy to use and I can use the app in my phone to play music in my laptop which is very convenient for me. Also, it makes downloading music in your phone really easy, you just tap the one button and it will automatically download.
Of course, downloading music is only available on premium accounts and premium accounts need to be paid monthly. What I love about Spotify though, apart from the premium account being totally worth its price tag, is that if you’re a student, you are entitled for a discount! Their premium accounts are also student friendly.
You can also listen to podcasts and download them so you can listen to them offline and let me tell you, they have a really good collection of it. I especially love listening to ‘Debatable’ by Nina and Kyle.
All in all, Spotify is a really good app, but will I use other app aside from this? Yes. Although Spotify has a wide range of music collection available for everybody, it doesn’t have all the music I love.
Sweatcoin
This is the only lifestyle app I actually stuck to. Its not exactly a training app but what it does is it pays you to walk outside.
Although I haven’t actually got a payout from this app (since their minimum requirement for a cash out is kind off hard to reach and I’m not exactly the most active person out there) they have an option where you can donate you accumulated sum to a charity and there’s no minimum cap for it. Basically, even if you’ve only earned a peso in their app, you can already donate to charity and I really loved this feature so much!