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Category: Games
I enjoy playing video games. I used to play PC games since early 1990’s. I played anything from real-time strategies like WarCraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, etc; to first-person shooters like Half Life and Quake III.
In the recent years though I have completely moved to consoles. My favorite gaming device is Sony PlayStation 3. Now I play mostly first-person shooters (Kill Zone, Call of Duty series, and the like), driving simulations (Colin McRae’s Dirt), adventure quests (Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted), and sports (NHL09 ice hockey).
I don’t write much about games, but when I do, I publish my posts in this category.
Freecell fanatic
If you thought that you are a hardcore Freecell fanatic, think again.
Lemmings
A game of lemmings done with DHTML is here. Really cool and pretty addictive. I had to stop after the level 7, otherwise I would have spent the next 3 days playing it.
Finished playing DopeWars
Today new round started in the DopeWars game A. I have finished previous round with the rank 109 having approximately $33,000,000. Considering that there were almost 500 people playing, and that I started few days later than everyone, and that I played this game for the first time, I think I did very good. Olga finished just few positions below me, and my brother Alex finished yet few more positions below her. Good game.
I will not play this game anymore, because it turned out to be pretty boring. Game balance needs more work and there should be way more functionality. Otherwise it is no fun.
DopeWars ends. VGA planets starts.
The thrill with DopeWars is gone now. It turned out to be very addictive, but very boring in the long run. At first, it was interesting because I tried to understand how the game works and what is the most efficient path. I also moved very dynamicly in the ranking table. Just a few actions could have caused me to move few tens of positions up or down.
Now I am as high as I can get. I stay between 130th and 140th places for a few days now and no matter what I do I don’t go any higher or any lower. The game seems very simple at this point. There are not that much options to choose from. In fact, most of my clanmates felt the same and quit playing already.
When I talked with my friends about the game, Vladimir suggested that we try something different. He used to play something called VGA planets. Which is a turn-based strategic multiplayer game from past years. We agreed to try it and by now he spent a lot of time configuring the server (Host), checking out the clients, and linking to the documentation. He setup a page for the game at his site here.
I went through most of the “must read” document. And I tried the interface also, so that Vladimir could test if everything is working fine. It looks to be a lot of fun, but it will require some time for me to read the rest of the documentation and to get used to the interface and stuff. Anyway, I am going to try it and I’ll let you know how it goes. Better even, you can join us and we can play it all together.