Random Gameplay Thoughts

It's been a while since I've done a post here, so I thought I'd regale you with a tale of my survivor from Urbandead.com. If you're into text-based browser games, then this is probably one for you.

Excerpt from Shoujin's Journal

Monday, July 17th - GST unknown

It's hard to find paper or a blank book without someone having pulled out the pages for paper. Thank god I found this book in decent condition.

It's been a few weeks since I woke up in my hospital. Apparently, I've got amnesia as to how I got there. I remember I was a doctor, I remember my training but everything else is a blurry mess. I guess having to deal with all the bodies, both dead, alive and in between has had me stressed out for most of my life.

One thing I will say about becoming one of them... it's a very... cold... cold existence. Thanks to the idiots of Necrotech, I remember everything... I saw what I did. I remember everything!

. People around here just tell me "Ignore it... You're alive, and you're a doctor. So do your job." I've been doing it, but apparently I've taken the precaution of carrying guns around... a lot of them... Pistols, a shotgun and now a crowbar... I find I'm kind of tired of running around, smashing my hands against the barricades just to get in. If anything, the only blood that I've drawn is from myself.

That kind of changed when I found a zombie lurking around in front of a building. How I found it is a little fuzzy, but I think that poor mutated bastard has more of a headache then I do now. After a few swings and dodges, I finally smashed the beer bottle I had been drinking out of across its head. And just today, I tried to empty all of my pistols into another zombie, only to wind up punching it across the face. Both of them looked a little stunned and that's when I made my escape.

I've been hanging around with some other survivors, but as far as I'm concerned, I need to keep on the move. Last night, the Maine Building itself went dark as a few of the people that I'm with were watching. We heard some groans and then nothing. We didn't bother checking - either they ran out of fuel and are safe, or they've all been taken.

Better safe then dead, as far as I'm concerned, but I've got a long road ahead of me. I found a hospital, but it's barricaded so much that I can't even get in before some zombies would come for me. I've seen people running around, jumping over buildings to get inside. Some of them scare the shit out of us at times. Running out of paper now, so I'll say this - I'm trying to learn and I'm learning as best I can, but these damn... people... zombies... whatever they are anymore... They're making it hard.

Lurch yourself to UrbanDead.com if you haven't and make yourself an account. Live or be undead; start as a corpse or one of three different survivor classes, each with three different occupations.

Ah the glory of space warfare. I've been playing Netrek recently because of my disappointment with star trek online. This game has got was most online games lack. GAMEPLAY! As simplistic as the graphics are the game itself handles like it should, you can chose from a multitude of ships, beam up, beam down, bomb and anything else a captain might need to do. The controls though are for those willing to tolerate a complicated game. For someone like me it was a matter of minutes before I had all the controls figured out. It's free and it's for trekkies/trekkers like myself. Consider it a form of arcade stratagy multiplayer action as if it was a game boy version of starfleet command.

YSflight - Arwing problem.

Modding can be fun.

As i depart to head out I must take a moment to talk about the arwing. Recently I added it to my YSflight compilation of aircraft and with a few tweaks i had it pretty close to what I think the real thing would be like. This thing can accelerate and decelerate at without any trouble and generally makes the realistic aircraft the game comes with look like 3rd world country biplanes.

Well i couldn't let my whole game become unbalanced so i fitted 747's with a multitude of gun turrets and armor to simulate battleships... or something. Then I unleashed my iron armada against them. As it turns out the arwing is perfectly suited to deal with the task. So.... I threw in some VF-01's and let them take care of it. with a little patience this game is whatever i can make of it. Anyone who ever wanted to run a flight sim server should know that you can make server specific mods to create any air combat experience you want.

Well, for those of you on Twitter & Facebook that play Spymaster, and those of you that don't, it seems the creators of Spymaster, Irata Labs, have put the game on hiatus. Access to the game has been closed pending its second day of inactivity.

Could this be a bad thing? Or is Irata Labs doing some much needed maintenance on the neglected game? Apparently, the news is not quite so clear - News Corp. Buys Irata Labs

From the looks of things, those spymasters could wind up with a better game, or some serious spam. Including myself.

Oh boy...

- Shoujin

First of all, I'd like to ask the people that have subscribed to us... Why haven't you deleted us yet? And secondly, thank them for not deleting us.

There's some things I haven't done recently between disappearing and reappearing. First of all, props and major kudos to Aika, blogger extraordinaire from Kawaii Time and Beautyscape for her work on changing our generic layout to something more gaming oriented.

And I'm disappointed, yet not surprised, at the amount of conversation surrounding the last post. I would've thought more conversation would've been stirred, but high hopes and all that. Eh... Que sera.

Some good news for those of you still with us, there'll be a new member coming to this blog. He's been a gamer on the lower end of the gaming spectrum, but often time, the best stories are ones shaped by players themselve. So said the brilliant Will Wright, creator of Maxis himself during at presentation at the GDC when revealing Spore, but I digress now.

Back to the topic at hand, our new add-on is dubbed Backfire. Insightful, if not a little crazy, he's one of the guys that enjoys freeware, classic and pen & paper games. Plus, if it's Star Trek, you'll bet he's had his hand in the jar. So what's so good about him? Well, he's one of the guys that got me into the Black & White series by literally giving me the game years ago. Now that's friendship amongst gamers right there.

Welcome aboard, Backfire.