Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
.I forgot to mention that today is Petrov Day. This is when we honor Stanislav Petrov for preventing nuclear war by recognizing that computer errors are more likely than underwhelming missile strikes. His tale is recounted across the internet; I saw it in a variety of places. He is one of the few people who can compete with Norman Borlaug for the claim of having saved a billion lives.
If your MMO in development has a chance of causing a nuclear holocaust, please do more beta testing.
: Zubon
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth: deal with it. If no one understands you or you have trouble talking to girls, the problem is probably you rather than them. You must learn to communicate with the rest of the species.
Harsh? This is a primary point: men and women tend to communicate in different ways. Come explore the implications of this and other issues with IRL’s lousy chat system in our continuing series of articles on dating for the introverted heterosexual male.
World of Warcraft dance origins. The Draenei bit really does it for me. Have we posted this before? I know it is from a long while back, but I still love it.
: Zubon
I looked through the ways that Google sent us new friends in the last month. As a public service, I will answer some questions and direct people to the pages they were looking for. Also, I will mock some people, but I don’t think they’re ever coming back, so we will not hurt their feelings.
Let’s put it after the break, just in case this goes NSFW. My humble apologies to all the people who came to this site looking for ways to exterminate vermin. We are not that kind of site.
See that Great Person? Do you know who that is? That’s right. If you are falling behind in culture, call a librarian.
: Zubon
I may be deeply screwed up. I often do not enjoy point-and-click puzzle games (oh, I have to click the fish before I flip the switch that turns the cheese into a cat-deflector, of course!), but this one was far more intuitive and logical to me than most.
: Zubon
Hat tip: Play This Thing! (as mentioned yesterday. Check it out for more games)
Have you heard of Play This Thing!? (Yes, there is a ! in the title) It comes to us courtesy of Greg Costikyan, your friend and mine, who says, “It’ll feature a game a day–free games, interactive fiction, mods, and weird stuff like alternative reality and ‘big urban’ games, as well, of course, as independent games.” Check it out.
As Nicodemus mentioned long ago, you can also find a lot of free flash games at Kongregate. It also has built in badges and things so you can feel like you are leveling and getting pretty shinies as you enjoy timewasters.
: Zubon
I have mentioned Virtual Villagers a few times lately. The creators also make Plant Tycoon,® “a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants and solve the genetic puzzle.” They also have a virtual fish-breeding game along the same lines.
Of course, these are offline games. If you are looking for online massively multiplayer breeding, you might try Virtual Horse Ranch. (It says right at the top that this is a “strategic” MMO horse sim game.) Google led me to a surprisingly large number of online virtual horse breeding games.
And people say there is no innovation going on.
: Zubon
Seriously, wouldn’t robust animal/plant/whatever breeding be a neat addition to your game’s trade skills? Don’t just give us a “breeding” skill that increments up: throw in some real Mendelian genetics. A Tale in the Desert has some things along these lines.
I know this is old, but since we have a lot of The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ„¢: Shadows of Angmarâ„¢ fans here, I thought I would point out the list:
The Orcs were obviously stolen from PC game maker Blizzard and its Warcraft series. Too bad Blizzard is apparently too scared to sue New Line over it.
There are some spoilers, in case you missed the whole Tolkien thing. Oh wait, you know what other game it rips off?
The character of Elrond was based on Agent Smith from The Matrix.
That’s right, fanboy, your game is a lousy rip-off of The Matrix Online.
: Zubon
I saw the site for Aion today. Guys, no offense, do that one over.
Presenting a major part of your game as “PvPvE” comes across as meaningless crap. It’s not just PvP or PvE — it’s PvPvE! And I saw a video, they can say that with a straight face. The intent is to have a three faction system, which is of course a huge innovation, but one of them is NPC-controlled. Mmhmm. Having the NPCs pick on the winning team is an interesting idea; calling it revolutionary PvPvE means we must discount anything else you say.
If you check that page linked above, you may see my immediate worry in the first sentence. You are leading with “most visually stunning”? You really want the #1 thing people say about your game to be, “It looks pretty”? There are five sections: an overview that says how pretty it is, three tabs of graphics, and “specs: TBD”; you might say something about the game. I suppose we can really test the theory that graphics sell games, but we already have several MMOs with system-cracking graphics. I am also excited about this “true fantasy world,” as I have been playing in fake fantasy worlds this whole time.
You still have time before release. Throw the whole page away and start over, remembering that only gamers are going to bother to visit the site. Or maybe it is targeted to a gaming press that will run with pretty pictures and unsubstantiated claims of revolutionary play… I’m sorry, a massive wave of cynicism has caught me, and I cannot finish.
: Zubon
I do like the idea of focusing on flight to make it real 3-D combat.