My least favorite part of the day is doing ordinary tasks. I like novelty, I like excitement, and I've been a gamer girl for decades, so when I saw that there was an app to "RPG your habits" I went over to check it out -- with just a tiny bit of skepticism. How could you possibly have a web and smartphone app for tracking your habits that's been turned into a game?
After two months of trying it, I'm wondering why nobody ever thought of this before!
The application is lean (no memory hogging here!) and its simple interface and will remind you of your favorite 8-bit game graphics. You are given a character and you set your own tasks and decide whether you want them done daily, weekly, or on whatever schedule you like. If you're a habitual procrastinator (that would be me, folks) then there's also a column for the "get this done or else" list. Delay your tasks too long and your health bar goes down. Quit doing them for a day or two, and you're dead.
Or at least your character is. There's scary stuff out there!
Luckily there's a "vacation mode" (if only we could get life itself to install a "vacation mode.")
After two weeks, I don't know that I've developed any habits, but it IS an excellent reminder system for me to keep up with certain tasks... like writing new posts for The Silver Geek.
https://habitrpg.com
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Glorious Time Wasters: Glu's Bonsai Blast Android Game
Initial review: Five stars -- Nice little twist on a target shooting game
Game category: Physics games
Game type: Arcade
Recommended device size: any device
Who'd enjoy it? For everyone, really.
http://www.glu.com/game/bonsai-blast
It's hard to come up with new concepts in a "shoot the target" game, but Glu has managed to create a very pleasant, simple, and playable game for all Android devices. You're presented a screen with a path and a little "snake" of marbles that start moving along the path to another hole. The object is to add colored marbles to a section until you match three of the same color, and that section of the line explodes and the marble "snake" shrinks. Once you've mastered the basics of this game, you can start to get fancy by ricocheting your marbles off walls, using chutes to guide marbles, and swapping from one shooting spot to the next with a touch of your finger. Each level brings some extra bonuses and treasures.
The game graphics are beautiful, and the play is smooth. Although this doesn't involve chess-like strategy, it does require some quick thinking to place the marbles properly. Best of all, for those with poorer eyesight, you touch the part of the marble snake where you want your next marble to land and it goes there -- no wild blasting all over the screen trying to get the game under control.
Great fun, great quick time waster, great stress buster.
Game category: Physics games
Game type: Arcade
Recommended device size: any device
Who'd enjoy it? For everyone, really.
http://www.glu.com/game/bonsai-blast
It's hard to come up with new concepts in a "shoot the target" game, but Glu has managed to create a very pleasant, simple, and playable game for all Android devices. You're presented a screen with a path and a little "snake" of marbles that start moving along the path to another hole. The object is to add colored marbles to a section until you match three of the same color, and that section of the line explodes and the marble "snake" shrinks. Once you've mastered the basics of this game, you can start to get fancy by ricocheting your marbles off walls, using chutes to guide marbles, and swapping from one shooting spot to the next with a touch of your finger. Each level brings some extra bonuses and treasures.
The game graphics are beautiful, and the play is smooth. Although this doesn't involve chess-like strategy, it does require some quick thinking to place the marbles properly. Best of all, for those with poorer eyesight, you touch the part of the marble snake where you want your next marble to land and it goes there -- no wild blasting all over the screen trying to get the game under control.
Great fun, great quick time waster, great stress buster.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Glorious Time Wasters - Android Game Review of "Seven Little Words"
Glorious Time Wasters - "Seven Little Words"
Rating: Everyone who reads well
Notes: Great for the vocabulary. You might have to hunt some things up!
We've all been there -- standing in the grocery line while the person in front of you unloads what seems to be a clown car onto the conveyor belt. The checkout machine decides to not scan five items (based on some sort of random algorithm) and as you look around, you discover you ARE in the shortest line. Ennui looms. Tabloids hint at dark secrets. Candy racks hint at high calorie satisfaction.
What to do... what to do? Your fingers start to twitch...
Rating: Everyone who reads well
Notes: Great for the vocabulary. You might have to hunt some things up!
We've all been there -- standing in the grocery line while the person in front of you unloads what seems to be a clown car onto the conveyor belt. The checkout machine decides to not scan five items (based on some sort of random algorithm) and as you look around, you discover you ARE in the shortest line. Ennui looms. Tabloids hint at dark secrets. Candy racks hint at high calorie satisfaction.
What to do... what to do? Your fingers start to twitch...
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