Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Gardens of Time Quest: Guards of Horus


For this quest, you need to have one Left Horus and a Right Horus.  These are under the artifacts tab in the build menu.



Gardens of Time Quest: Sandboxed


For this quest, purchase the following from the Build tab for your garden:


  • 4 Patches of Sand
  • 2 Egyptian Lamps

Reward: 75 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: Under London

To complete this quest, you need to purchase a Tube Entrance for your Garden.  This can be found in the Artifacts tab under the Build menu.

Gardens of Time Quest: An Appearl to Eleanor


For this quest, you need to do the Hourglass Study scene back in Chapter 1 and find all 12 items.

Gardens of Time Quest: Back in the Drink


In this quest, you need to go to the London Nightclub in Chapter 2 and complete the scene by finding 12 hidden objects.

Gardens of Time Quest: Star Challenge


In this quest, you simply need to play any scenes you want in Chapter 2 in order to earn 5 total stars.

Gardens of Time Quest: Blitz Challenge Round 1


This quest requires you to go to your neighbor's gardens and click on characters with exclamation points over their head to do a "blitz".  You simply need to complete 3 blitz scenes to get this quest reward.

Gardens of Time Quest: Victorian Gardening 2


This quest requires you to purchase the following decoration items and place them in your Garden:


  • 2 benches
  • 2 lightposts
  • 8 cobblestone roads



Gardens of Time Quest: Trials by Ire

This quest requires you to go to the Pyramid Shadows scene back in Chapter 1 and find 12 hidden objects there.  Easy!

Gardens of Time Quest: I'm on a Boat!


This quest requires you to go to the chapter 2 scene "Ancient Ship" and complete it by finding 6 differences in the two scenes.

Master List of Gardens of Time Quests

Here is the full list of all of the known quests in Gardens of Time! (Note: this is a work in progress at this point).

The Manor Awaits
2 Star Giza Riverfront
Visit Lulu's Garden
Increase Reputation
Peril at the Pyramids
2 Star Pyramid Shadows
Victorian Gardening
The Two Tombs
Star Challenge
2 Star Egyptian Tomb Paradox
Add Egyptian Flair
Cue Bricks
Reach 1,000 Reputation
Eleanor Confronted
Loose Ends
2 Star Hourglass Study
Being Neighborly
Build the Egyptian Temple
Partners in Time
The Wonder of Big Ben
Desert Oasis
2 Star Streets of Florence
3 Star Egyptian Tomb Paradox
Trials by Ire
Victorian Gardening 2
Blitz Challenge Round 1
Star Challenge
Back in the Drink
An Appeal to Eleanor
Under London
Sandboxed
Guards of Horus
Trial's End
Victorian Gardening 3

Gardens of Time Quest: 3 Star Egyptian Tomb Paradox


For this quest, you simply need to play the Egyptian Tomb Paradox scene repetitively until you have earned at least 3 stars.

Gardens of Time Quest: 2 Star Streets of Florence


For this quest, you need to play the Streets of Florence scene over and over again until you have earned at least two stars.

Reward: 75 silver

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Gardens of Time Quest: Desert Oasis


To complete this quest, you must buy and place 1 Oasis and 3 Ephedra Plants.   These are both found under the decorations tab in the Build Menu.

Reward: 75 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: The Wonder of Big Ben


This quest requires you to build Big Ben!  You're probably wondering how to build Big Ben.  This is your first Wonder, which means that you will need friends to help you.  Open up the build menu and go to the Wonders tab.   Click on "use" on Big Ben and place it on your Garden.  You then have to click to invite friends to help you out.  You need a total of 3 friends to help you, or you can pay 1 Gold per friend to complete it.


Gardens of Time Quest: Partners in Time


This quest is the beginning of Chapter 2!  Partners in Time requires you to travel to the streets of Florence and find 12 objects in the scene.  You need 1,470 reputation to play the scene.

Gardens of Time: Build the Egyptian Temple


To complete this quest, you need to build an Egyptian Temple.  To build this building, buy the Egyptian Temple from the Buildings tab of the Build menu.  It costs 3,510 coins and takes 1 hour to build and gives 760 XP.

Gardens of Time Quest: Being Neighborly


To complete this quest, you must have a total of three neighbors (including Lulu).  Visit each one of their gardens to complete the quest.

Reward: 75 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: 2 Star Hourglass Study


To complete this quest, you need to continue to play the Hourglass Study scene over and over until you get a minimum of two stars in the scene.

Gardens of Time Quest: Loose Ends


To complete this quest you need to replay Chapter 1 scenes many times until you get 9 total stars.  You should place two new artifacts in your Garden, and 3 new decorations.

Gardens of Time Master Neighbors Post


Are you looking for neighbors in Gardens of Time?  Comment on this post with a link to your Facebook profile!

To get your Facebook profile link, go to www.facebook.com and click on the "Profile" link in the top right.  Then copy the web URL out of your browser address bar and paste it into a comment here!

Gardens of Time: How to Get Energy

In Gardens of Time, Temporal Energy is used to play through scenes. Each scene requires 10 energy.  You start out with 60 energy, and it regenerates every 5 minutes.  There are also a couple ways to get energy if you need it.

Visit Neighbors





Each day that you visit you can get 1 energy per neighbor.  If you have a lot of neighbors, this can really come in handy!

Are there any other ways to get energy?  Comment and let us know!

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Free Energy!

Today, the folks at Playdom decided to give us fans something special - free energy!  To claim your free energy, click here.  We have no idea how long this link will be valid for, so click it soon :)


Each Energy Can gives +5 energy.

Gardens of Time: How to Earn XP

Leveling up allows you to access bigger and better decorations, artifacts, and buildings.  To level up, you need to earn experience (XP).  This guide will teach you how to earn XP in Gardens of Time.

Complete Scenes

Playing Gardens of Time and completing scenes will give you XP depending on how well you did on the particular scene.

Visit Neighbors

Every 24 hours you can visit a neighbor's Garden.  Visiting them will earn you 50 XP.



Buy Buildings and Decorations


All items under the build menu (except Wonders and Paths) will give you XP.  The XP values can be found by hovering over each item.

Do Quests

Completing quests is not only fun and unlocks new parts of the story, but it also gives you XP for each quest you complete.

Are there more ways to earn XP that we have missed?  Leave a comment here and let us know!

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Gardens of Time: How to Earn Coins


In Gardens of Time, you need coins in order to buy decorations, expansions, and buildings (which are needed to gain reputation so that you can play more scenes and unlock new chapters of the story).  Earning coins comes naturally throughout the game, but you might find yourself wanting extra coins for something expensive.  Here is a complete guide that will show you how to get coins in Gardens of Time.

Complete Quests

Each time you complete a quest, you earn coins.  Most quests give out 50 silver, which is a decent amount of money.  This isn't the fastest way to earn coins, but it is one of the more fun ways because you will get to learn more about the exciting story in Gardens of Time.

Visit Neighbors


You can visit your neighbors one time per day for a sweet bonus reward.

Blitz


When visiting neighbors, you can find a patron with an exclamation over their head who has claimed to have lost something.  Click on them to start a "Blitz Mode" in which you can try to click and find as many objects in a scene as possible within 60 seconds.  This will give you coins based on how many you find.  A great way to earn extra money!

Level Up

When you level up in Gardens of Time you will earn coins for each time.

Complete Scenes

Playing the game and completing scenes will earn you coins for each time you play.  You will earn more coins if you score high.

Trade Gold For Coins


If you happen to have extra gold (or real life money) laying around, you can exchange your gold for coins.  The exchange rates are as follows:

5 Gold -> 3,640 coins
10 Gold -> 7,280 coins
15 Gold -> 10,920 coins

Are there more ways to earn coins that we have missed?  Leave a comment here and let us know!

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Gardens of Time: How to Get Reputation

In Gardens of Time, reputation is used to unlock new scenes.  If you don't have the required amount of reputation, the only other option to is pay your way into the new scenes and chapters by buying Gold with your precious hard-earned real money.  So you're probably wondering how to get reputation in Gardens of Time, and this guide can help you do just that.


Get Stars By Playing Through Scenes

Each time you complete a scene, you earn points that can unlock stars.  Each scene has a maximum of 4 stars, and each time you get a star you will earn reputation.  Play through scenes over and over again to max out each one, and you will earn reputation that can save you precious space in your Garden.

Decorate Your Garden




Decorating your Garden with Decorations, Artifacts, and Buildings can increase your reputation.  The quickest thing to do is buy Decorations, as they do not require any time in order to finish building.  However, they earn the lowest amounts of reputation.  The buildings and artifacts all require time to build, starting at 5 minutes and going up to 16 hours.

Do you know of any other way to earn reputation in Gardens of Time?  Comment and let us know!

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Gardens of Time Quest: Eleanor Confronted!


Alistair says that we need to confront Eleanor in the Hourglass Study.  To do this, go to the Hourglass Study scene and find 12 objects to complete the quest.

Reward: 50 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: Reach 1,000 Reputation


This quest requires you to reach 1,000 reputation.  You can do this by decorating your garden with artifacts, buildings, and decorations.

Reward: 50 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: Cue Bricks


The Cue Bricks quest in Gardens of Time requires you to buy 6 Brick Path tiles in the store, which are under the Path tab in the Build menu.



Reward: 50 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: Add Egyptian Flair


This quest requires you to buy the following:

  • 2 Palm Trees - Found under the Build menu under the Decorations tab
  • 1 Obelisk - Found in the Build menu under the Artifacts tab 



Reward: 50 silver

Gardens of Time QuesT: 2 Star Egyptian Tomb Paradox


To complete the 2 Star Egyptian Tomb Paradox quest, you simply need to do the Egyptian Tomb Paradox scene over and over again until you have two stars in total.

Reward: 50 silver

Gardens of Time Quest: Star Challenge


This quest requires you to earn 6 total stars in Chapter 1.  By the time you get this quest, it should only require you to get one additional star.  You can get this easily by completing The Two Tombs quest and kill two birds with one stone.

Reward: 50 silver