12/24/2022 0 Comments Toem a photo adventure![]() ![]() You can complete all objectives or the bare minimum and still experience the beauty of the mountain. The beautiful thing about TOEM, however, is the complete lack of pressure. The NPCs are kind and appreciate your help, and the cartoon, black and white world makes it easy to traverse throughout the areas, making the feeling of supporting others and getting each sticker even more rewarding. All you can do is speak to quirky characters and take photographs. While it’s not difficult to obtain enough stickers to progress to the next area quickly, the game automatically encourages you to explore and complete other objectives when possible because of its simplistic nature. However, the ultimate goal is to experience the beauty of a natural phenomenon, aptly called TOEM, which your grandmother remembers fondly from her own adventure into adulthood. The sticker and bus ticket mechanism is an important lesson in and of itself – helping others and having a connection to your community isn’t deterring you from your goal but enhancing it. You need to assist other folks in the area by capturing specific scenes in your photographs to gain stickers, furthering both yourself and the community. Earning these stickers isn’t just helpful for you, though. With a list of objectives in hand, TOEM sends you on a journey of personal growth, encouraging you to take pictures and earn stickers that, in turn, become free bus tickets. The biggest gift TOEM gave me, other than a fun platinum trophy to add to my collection, was a new life philosophy. Instead of stressing myself out, doubting my progress and growth in both my career and my personal life, I could have simply stopped, smelled the flowers and maybe taken a picture or two of a cool bug, just for kicks. My approach to life before was like shoving myself onto a crowded bus in TOEM without all my stickers, trying to get to the top of the mountain and see the phenomenon of the lights before anyone else could. More than that, it’s OK to relax, stop and take a breather every once in a while. ![]() When your grandmother hands you a camera (or your school hands you a college degree) and sends you on your way, it’s OK to take a few detours. Life is not a race, and it never has been. I was happy for them, but as someone who already graduated late in the midst of a pandemic, was it possible I was falling behind? Provided by Something We Made Although I was satisfied with my job, seeing my peers advance in their gaming and radio careers was hard. For years, I worked to build my freelancing portfolio, hoping to snag a job in radio broadcasting or the games industry, two already competitive fields that felt even more unattainable as I was confined to my bedroom my last two semesters of school. The fall rolled around, I attended my Zoom classes, I graduated in December and, somehow, I was lucky enough to get a job as a reporter at a local community newspaper.Īs much as I enjoyed my work in print news (and still do, just in case my boss is reading this), it was not where I thought I would end up. I don’t need to explain what happened because we all experienced the transition to life on Zoom in one form or another, but opportunities I thought I would have, namely internships and networking events as a journalism student, suddenly no longer existed. When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, I was in my second-to-last semester of my college degree. On the surface, TOEM, developed and published by Something We Made, is a relaxing game about taking pictures, riding buses and exploring the natural phenomenon of a nearby mountain, but on a deeper level, it’s about perseverance and growth with one very important caveat – it’s OK to go at your own pace. ![]()
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