A Gaming Diary
Mobile
Doom RPG
Nov 17th
Played this on the bus on the way home because I had my phone in my hand after finishing this month’s Fortean Times and thought I might as well give it another go. Doom RPG, that is. Not the Fortean Times. Or the phone itself. Or the bus. Or anything.
I’m babbling.
Anyway, I think it might actually be rather good. I’m not standing outside the exit of the first level. I thought I was going to get to level two, but looked up and realised I’d nearly missed my stop. It shouldn’t work, but there’s something about the game and the way it’s so finely tuned to mobile phone play that just makes it an excellent time killer.
And you do get to kill zombies, after all.
Doom RPG
Oct 27th
It’s Doom!
On my mobile phone!
But it’s an RPG!
Dungeon master meets Doom, kind of thing.
I’ve played it for ten minutes. I’ve put out fires, talked to some poeple, killed a zombie with an axe and killed a dog with the same axe. Good axe, clever axe.
Doesn’t seem very interesting so far, but we’ll see.
Jewel Quest
Oct 15th
Travelled for five and half hours today, mostly on trains (both overground and underground, but none Wombling free).
(I assume ‘Wombling’ is capitalised. But it looks wrong now. Hmm.)
Anyway, I had my SP with me, with Final Fantasy tucked into the cartridge slot. But I didn’t play it. The journey up was ‘think, watch the scenery and try to ignore screaming toddlers’ time. The journey back down was ‘I’ve got a headache coming on and can’t be arsed with Final Fantasy’ time.
But I did play Jewel Quest on my K750i phone. It’s in the same vein as Bejewelled and Zoo Keeper, with a slight twist. Basically, you’ve got to colour in each tile on a board within a time limit; tiles change colour when jewels disappear on them. And after the first level the boards aren’t square. They have bits cut out of them, which obviously makes getting three-in-a-row on those bits more difficult.
I saw my first ever Game Over screen. I’ve had the same game going since I got the thing, but finally died on level 1-22. It has three ‘pits’ two squares wide at the bottom of the screen. I managed to get two of them changed, but the last one eluded me. Damn.
