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A Gaming Diary
Pocket God (iPhone)
Aug 11th
Another new mini game has been added. The last was a tribute to Doodle Jump, this one to Harbour Master.
There are piranas in the sea, you need to draw lines to your pygmies, so the piranas can get some food, then direct them off the screen. If two piranas collide, it’s game over.
So, yes, similar to Harbour Master.
Just nowhere near as good. But – but! – it’s just a small mini game in a much larger package. After being baffled by Pocket God’s success when I first got it, I’ve found these two latest updates have really added some much-needed bulk. I actually ended up playing the Doodle Jump mini game for ages on Saturday.
I think it might even be worth buying now.
Str8ts (iPhone)
Aug 11th
Didn’t play this as much as I’d expected to over the weekend, but I did a few more puzzles.
I’m definitely getting a lot better at solving the puzzles and sometimes I even manage to complete them without mucking them up and having to use the Check function to see where I went wrong.
I still don’t know what it is about this puzzle that has grabbed me when other puzzles haven’t, but it’s grabbed me like no other numbers-in-a-grid puzzle ever has, including Sudoku.
Zombies Vs. Sheep (iPhone)
Aug 11th
You remember how I got annoyed with the first boss, then decided he was fine because he wasn’t killing me any more?
Well, I played this several times over the weekend and died at that boss every time.
Gah.
Still not putting me off the game at all – it’s still holding on to its spot on the first page of games on my iPhone, which is obviously a great honour – but it was very annoying, nonetheless.
Rope’n'Fly (iPhone)
Aug 11th
It’s not the most visually interesting game.
I also keep getting into impossible situations, where I simply can’t reach the next building.
I don’t mind, though. It’s small and cheap and cheerful and keeps me coming back, again and again.
iNetHack (iPhone)
Aug 11th
So, yes, I downloaded iNetHack and started it up.
Took me all of ten seconds to realise that I’ve completely forgotten how to play NetHack. I couldn’t even remember how to rename my pet. Or, indeed, myself. (It didn’t seem to ask me for a name when I started, but I could well have missed something.) I can’t even remember if NetHack is the correct capitalisation of the name. Maybe it’s Nethack.
So I put it down, decided to refresh myself with a desktop version of the game and a wiki and haven’t been back yet. Hardly worth blogging about, really, but I took the screen shot, so I have to. That’s the rule. That I just made up.
Words With Friends (iPhone)
Aug 11th
Played a lot of this over my long weekend.
By the way, if you’re wondering why there were no updates yesterday, it was my wedding anniversary and so my wife and I went down to Hastings and had a great time with claw machines, ice cream, sticks of rock, lovely fried food at the “famous” Mermaid Restaurant, etc. We also saw the world’s creepiest children’s ride.
“Wanna come for a ride, little kid?”
(By the way, that photo was taken with my iPhone. It does things that aren’t games… sometimes.)
Anyway, I’m winning some games and losing others. There really doesn’t seem to be pattern.
I’m resigning a lot more often now, when it’s obviously hopeless and there are no more letters in the bag.
Trash Panic (PS3)
Aug 8th
Either I’m missing something, or this is incredibly difficult. I’m on the second level of the Main Dish, or something, and I can’t see how to complete it. I am given the odd lit match, which helps burns things away, but quite often graavity doesn’t seem to work afterwards and my trash ends up hanging in mid-air, getting in the way of, well, all the other trash I need to dispose of.
It’s frustrating, baffling, strange and oddly wonderful.
WipEout HD (PS3)
Aug 8th
It’s amazing how bad I am at Wipeout after a few months of not playing, consdering that I’ve been playing for over a decade. You’d think I’d remember.
My limited skills aome back quickly enough, though, when I dusted this off today and I’vc managed to get a few more medals. Not very good medals, because my skills have never been great, but I’ve been doing okay.
That’s my current ship up there. I have no idea why I’m using AG Systems, but when I started up today that’s who had the longest loyalty bar, so I must have been using them before.
I also seem to have won a lot of medals on Elite difficulty in the past. That doesn’t sound like me at all.
Batman Arkham Asylum Demo (PS3)
Aug 8th
Played this through a few more times. I unexpectedly discovered the joy of knocking people out by dropping unconscious bodies on their heads. It just gets better and better.
Blue Skies 3GS (iPhone)
Aug 7th
Played another two or three missions this lunchtime.
It did nothing to convince me that I should be playing it more. It’s an okay time waster, but I just can’t get excited about it. I find lining up shots a bit fiddly and avoiding enemy fire is too hard, even now I’ve discovered strafing.
I know other people like it – and it’s not that I especially dislike it, myself – but, you know, the word that springs to mind is a simple, damning “meh”.
