Minecraft

http://www.minecraft.net/

I’ve been recently testing a cool new game that’s called “Minecraft“. It’s a sandbox game were you can alter everything in the world and extract certain resources to produce different tools that will allow you to extract even more resources, or the same resources but faster.

The game is still in its alpha stages, and it currently costs about 10 euros, but after it’s finished it’ll cost 20 euros.

You may be thinking “well, ok, but this seems to be rather old”. No, it’s still being developed, the project started in 2009. It looks like this because the “world” this game generate is huge, if those blocks(even poorly textured) were… well.. not blocks, you wouldn’t be able to play the game on a normal computer. I saw there are some mods though, like highdef textures.

It’s both browser-based and downloadable, and you can play it in multiplayer.

Oh, did I say it also features rail tracks and mine carts?

It’s a fun little game that can be a good time waster .

Here’s a fun minecraft rollercoaster somebody built:

 

GemCraft

Talking about kongregate, I have a favorite game that is quite interesting.

Its name is ‘Gemcraft’ and it’s a tower defense game(you basically have to defend your house from being attacked by monsters by using the so-called ‘gems’, which you can constantly upgrade). I probably like this game because I used to play different tower defense maps in Starcraft .

You can access the game at this link:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/gameinabottle/gemcraft

This game provides saves. It will save on your computer so every time you come back to play you can continue from the point you left(assuming you saved your progress first).

Frets on Fire

I was anyway lacking any ideas of what to post, so I made a video presentation for an open-source game I like: Frets on Fire.

Youtube link

It’s a fun game to play when you’re bored, and it’s meant to be customizable: it comes with only 3 tracks for some training, but after that you can go to http://www.fretsonfiresongs.com/ and download whatever you enjoy.

Enjoy!

ColinMcRae:Dirt2 MegaReview

Un review de toata frumusetea, inca proaspat, a jocului nou aparut pe pc Dirt2. Reviewul este postat pe site-ul romanesc dedicat gamingului, www.wasd.ro

Reviewul prezinta foarte frumos aspectele jocului cat si cele tehnice, pentru cei interesati. Gasiti mai multe pe pagina reviewului, I won’t spoil the beauty

LINK REVIEW

Settlers2

For those of you who loved settlers2 in their childhoods, here’s a surprise !

A bunch of coders from Germany succeded in making settlers2 a multiplayer game. Not hotseat, but multiplayer ! Not only that it’s multiplayer now but it also runs smoother, runs on windows xp and the single player part of the game is a wip.

Here’s a link :  http://www.siedler25.org.

If you would still like to play settlers2 in single player, I recommend you to download DosBox. And here’s the full version of the game ( abandonware) on bestoldgames :

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/settlers-2-gold-edition.php

Happy gaming !