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xiphiasNow that I’ve gotten several of you hooked on Kingdom of Loathing, I figured I should let y’all know about the other two games which distract me from things I SHOULD be doing.
The first one is a space game. It’s called Transcendence.
How do I explain the appeal of this game?
Imagine if Nethack had been based on Spacewar instead of Rogue. Okay, except there are no gravity effects. So I guess it’s more like it was based on “Asteroid”, then. (But “Spacewar” is a better game, so I give the credit there, instead.)
It’s a freeware game that one developer is making for fun, and I hope he’s having as much fun making it as I am playing it.
The other one is a medieval combat game. It’s called Mount&Blade. It’s shareware, not freeware, and it’s still in beta. The demo version only allows your character to progress to level 6, and the game isn’t finished yet.
Even so, I paid the money to register the game -- if you register when it’s still in beta, it’s cheaper than the full version, but it will upgrade to the full version when then finish it. And the unfinished game still has enough to do to make it addictive.
You can be attacked by bandits! You can join one of two factions and do missions! You can raise your own small army! You can ride horses! It’s a “Morrowind”-style game, in that you play one character and you see yourself walking around from just above and behind, and you fight things. But it’s got some neat things which I haven’t seen other places, like fighting from horseback -- you can actually be cavalry and fight like it.
It’s made by a husband and wife team in Turkey or somewhere like that, who are financing development by having people pay for the beta version. I’m really enjoying it.
So there are two further time-wasters for you! They’re both Windows-only, at least, so far, so you Mac and Linux people are safe for now.
The other neat thing about both of these games is that they’re user-extensible. You can write up your own spaceships or items in “Transcendence”; you can write up your own modules in “Mount&Blade”.
So, there you go. If you’ve had too much productivity in your life, I’m here to help.
The first one is a space game. It’s called Transcendence.
How do I explain the appeal of this game?
Imagine if Nethack had been based on Spacewar instead of Rogue. Okay, except there are no gravity effects. So I guess it’s more like it was based on “Asteroid”, then. (But “Spacewar” is a better game, so I give the credit there, instead.)
It’s a freeware game that one developer is making for fun, and I hope he’s having as much fun making it as I am playing it.
The other one is a medieval combat game. It’s called Mount&Blade. It’s shareware, not freeware, and it’s still in beta. The demo version only allows your character to progress to level 6, and the game isn’t finished yet.
Even so, I paid the money to register the game -- if you register when it’s still in beta, it’s cheaper than the full version, but it will upgrade to the full version when then finish it. And the unfinished game still has enough to do to make it addictive.
You can be attacked by bandits! You can join one of two factions and do missions! You can raise your own small army! You can ride horses! It’s a “Morrowind”-style game, in that you play one character and you see yourself walking around from just above and behind, and you fight things. But it’s got some neat things which I haven’t seen other places, like fighting from horseback -- you can actually be cavalry and fight like it.
It’s made by a husband and wife team in Turkey or somewhere like that, who are financing development by having people pay for the beta version. I’m really enjoying it.
So there are two further time-wasters for you! They’re both Windows-only, at least, so far, so you Mac and Linux people are safe for now.
The other neat thing about both of these games is that they’re user-extensible. You can write up your own spaceships or items in “Transcendence”; you can write up your own modules in “Mount&Blade”.
So, there you go. If you’ve had too much productivity in your life, I’m here to help.