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Archive for 2008
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008Passage - a ‘game’ or experience of life
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Passage - a free ‘game’ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux by Jason Rohrer.
In Passage, you’re this little pixelated guy. You live in the stripe of color. The stripe is twelve pixels tall. It’s green. All else is blackness. Your job is to move up and down and left and right through the stripe — the "forest" — in search of treasure chests, sort of like in the Legend of Zelda.
As you walk, the stripe shimmers and flickers, the fuzzy pixels in front of you scroll into sharpness, and the pixels you’ve already traveled blur in your wake. The stripe is your whole world. But soon you have to make a choice: share the world or keep it to yourself. You meet a girl. Your fat-pixeled soul mate. Link up with her and a heart explodes. You’re in love. Now she sticks to you as you move through the forest, less easily than before. It’s a trade-off: You can get more treasure by staying single, but bond with your "wife" and you earn double the points for every step you take.
If you’re like most people, you’ll choose the comforts of companionship. Only, as you trudge across the stripe, something happens. Your pixels begin to fade, gray out. Your hair recedes by degrees. Your wife slurs into a matronly shape. It hits you: This is going to happen to me. Age, decrepitude, ugliness.
Also: At least I won’t be alone. Somebody loves me. Ha-ha-ha.
Then — thwack — she dies.
Jesus. Weren’t expecting that. There’s a tombstone with a little cross.
Then — thwack — you die, too.
Passage: A somewhat poignant ‘game’ or, more like, experience of life.
You start alone and young, find a mate (or not) and end up dying suddenly. The game lets you experience choices and directions in life to see what will happen.
You can download the Windows, Mac and Linux versions free or buy the iPhone game for AUD$1.19
It’s only in blocky, 8-bit style characters, but many people will argue that the graphics are not what matters.. it’s the message in the experience. Many people have posted comments about being deeply affected by trying out Passage. Either way, it’s only a tiny download (2Mb). Go try it out. It may make you think!
Read more here and buy the iPhone version for AUD$1.19: TouchArcade.
Dungeon Runners
Monday, December 8th, 2008I’ve started playing a funky online MMO game called Dungeon Runners.
It has a lot of humour in it along with internet memes and other pop culture references.
It’s free to play or you can spend USD$4.99 pm for a members account to get access to other stuff. You can also buy a 6-month account for the cost of 4 months (USD$19.99) and get a free BLING GNOME who follows you around and turns cruddy drops into gold - by crapping out the gold! He also can automatically pick up and process any items below YELLOW status.
I joined up for 6 months to get my extra XP, cheaper purchases in-game and my lil Bling Gnome. 6 months for the cost of most MMO’s per month!
This game is full of pop culture and internet memes, etc. When I’m playing (I’m only level 5 so far) and fighting, I get a 15% XP bonus which gives 15% MORE COWBELL! lol!
Here’s a list of some of the amusing named items:
Sissirat’s Brother’s Cousin’s Roommate’s Staff of Something Really Awesome
The Most Amazing Ring Known to Goats (For Indoor or Outdoor Use Only!)
Dark Ring Around the Collar
The Un-Holy Hand Grenade of Anti-Gosh
Uber wand
Ma’nes Scapulae (Patent Pending)
Ma’nes Metatarsals (Patent Pending)
The Nadir (Do Not Ingest)
Psycho’s Unique Scale Gloves of the High-strung Hippo
Ourorboros’s Eczema Covered Ecdysis
Yeahhhh Boyyy! (Not Made in Townston)
2 x Sweetheart’s Ring of Extra XOXOXO
One of my favourite Mage spells is called "Blue Screen of Life" - a nice tribute to the Windows "Blue Screen of Death". heh!
Here’s some character sheets of my character: Moq, Moq.
Below is an image of my character, Moq’s, current look:
