New Internet Game - Pardus

As you may or may not know I love finding random games on the internet, getting really involved in them and playing them (usually for no more then a week).

Earlier this week a friend introduced me to a new (if I haven't heard of it, it's new to me) game called Pardus.

Here is a couple of screenshots and a banner. FYI I don't earn money from advertising this banner, only the Google ads.

What the navigation looks like. Isn't my ship awesome looking? It's not really.

A great community telling me all the things I'm doing wrong. :)

Lots of meaningless statistics.

Look I made the news!

The game is turn based, so you earn a certain number of 'Action Points' every 'some period of time'. This means you play for about ~20 mins a day. 

Let's see how this fits my requirements for a good game:

+ Free

+ Low system requirements

+ Overly complicated tech tree and/or options

- Time played not necessary equals game skill

+ Single player (You don't have to interact with others)

+ Multiplayer

+ Short gaming sessions

- Long gaming sessions

+ Quick to start a game (loading internet is faster the Halo game lobby)

+ Fun

Not bad. The reason I like games like this is that you are forced to only play a little at a time, so you are forced to study / complete that assignment that is due in 3 days. Though this game isn't for everyone, if you can get through the tutorial you are off to a good start.

If you add me 'Screaming Hawk' and say you came from my blog I'll be stoked.

Also this is me at work today:

Cheers,

Milk

100 Followers!!!

Awesome. Simply awesome. I would like to think my mum, for the cake, my brother and cousin for the story, myself for the epic content, all my followers for keeping me here, and all the little people I squashed to get where I am today.
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Here's a whole bunch of random images I enjoy. To celebrate. I will have some content related to the blog later on. I hope. When I get around to it... I'll do it tonight. I promise.

Cake!

So it was my birthday a while ago. Yay me! I'm now 20. Sorry I haven't had any software-ish updates for a while. Still on break from, well, everything. Haha.

My mum is very good at making cakes. She made my cake. It was awesome. She recently won Twitters Hottest Home Baker. You can see some of her work here, on her website. She is also a computer person.

Here is a picture of my cake.



It's nice. And no, the cake is not a lie. It is in fact a real cake.

Dwarf Fortress and a Puzzle

So I still haven't got back to Tanks. And I'm posting at work again so now screenshots of my other game or anything like that.

I saw on Blops Killer's blog something about Dwarf Fortress. Now I have heard a bit about this game before and with all the down time I seem to have I decided to give it a try. IT'S AWESOME!! If you like those kind of games. It's an ASCII game which means it only uses characters you can type, including the alt-code ones such as ♪, ☺ and incase you are racist ☻. Hold alt and press a couple numbers then release alt.

Luckily they have packs out there that replace the characters with more accurate characters. e.g. the ☺ (alt+1) into an actually dwarf. Pretty cool.

You have to build a fortress to fend off attacks, usually underground, and make sure all your dwarves have something to do, and see sunlight regularly; otherwise they go mental and start killing everyone in your fortress. It's hillarious.

Here's a screen shot of my fortress in progress. Note that it is based entirely on a tutorial. Except where I stuffed it up...

Here's the entrance.

Here's the dining hall, still (the Dwarves live off alcohol), food storage, some rooms, and some work stations. This is about 3 levels underneath the ground.

And here's the future living quarters. Still yet to be dug out. About another 2 levels under the above photo. You can see they have started digging the top section.

I thought it was cool.

Anyways... Here is a test for everyone out there. I bet it will just end up pissing you off. ☺