Thursday, July 26, 2007

Don't Let The Egg Smash In Egg Way

Egg Way is a fun game to play and graphically very rich and clear. What happens is, there are a lot of levels and you have to win them all to move up to a further level. So you get an egg and you get a pan. And the aim of Egg Way is to click on the egg to break it open but as soon as you have done that, you get a pencil. With the pencil you must draw around the egg (not leaving any part of the egg out of your drawing) and then guide it over to the pan. What you will probably find happens initially (level one I was successful with pretty early on but it took me ages to gain control of level two and thus move forward) is that you are just ALMOST getting it, but not quite enough. So with Egg Way, rather than the game being just a test of your speed skills, it is also a test of your accuracy skills. You have to draw around the egg not just as fast as possible, but also as carefully as possible. Because if you just quickly try and contain the egg in your drawing, you will likely do so with less accuracy and then that will not give you success in guiding it in safely into the pan. It is pretty cool when the egg smashes (i.e. you are not successful), from a graphic point of view. You see the yolk splurge out like you would if you inadvertently smash an egg in the kitchen!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Get Back to Basics With Tic Tac Toe

True, true, it might be an old game that has been around longer than your great grandma, but Tic Tac Toe is indeed a classic game that will never get boring, especially if you get to play it on line using super cool flash software like I found recently. In this version you are able to choose the Easy or Hard mode (I always start with Easy, given the option) and you are playing against the computer. You are the Cross. I actually won the first time I played so that cheered me up and then after a ton of sessions which had me winning or a tie between me and the computer (but usually me winning) I felt confident enough to progress to the Hard mode.

The first time I tried the Hard level it was a tie, so that gave me confidence too. the second and third time I tried, I won, so I was really raking in the confidence but then the computer beat me a few times and then it seemed to be random and quite equal; sometimes I would win; other times the computer and then there would be ties. But each time I played Tic Tac Toe I enjoyed the game and especially the speed in which it could be played thanks to the cool flash software used.

While Tic Tac Toe is nothing really special playing through flash software, what I do like a lot is how fast the game moves. As soon as you have selected your spot for your Cross, the computer is right there behind you (no thinking required, unlike when you play off line with a person, the game can be delayed for ages as you have to wait for their brain to work!).

Monday, July 9, 2007

Go Fast With Cube Buster

I had absolutely no idea that you had to be so fast with this game of Cube Buster!!! I mean I had played fast flash games before, but this one REALLY required mega speed. Cube Buster really moves quickly and is quite scary in that way (well, not scary as such, but you know what I mean; it certainly gets you biting those nails if you are a nail biting type of person). So here is what you must remember at all times before and during the time you engage in Cube Buster. What happens is, is that you are faced with a large grid with small different colored cubes on it (red, green, silver) and then at the bottom of the grid is another line which fills up with these same colored cubes VERY very fast (almost too fast for you to work out what is going on). And what you have to do is click on one of those colors that matches up to the same color on the last line of the grid, but you have to do it as soon as it appears otherwise you miss your (very small, very fast) window of opportunity and thus you here "eek" from the computer telling you, pretty much, that you failed. Most of the time I play this game I actually got nothing (no points!) but I did find that the more I tried it (despite how incredibly frustrating it got at times) the (slightly) better I became at it.