I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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by Jordan Running Oct 4th 2005
I love bookmarklets: you just drag-and-drop to install and they just work. My favorite today is the Sort Table bookmarklet by Jesse Ruderman. When you click on it it adds "a/d" buttons to the top of each column which, when clicked, will sort ascending or descending by the data in that column. Simple and effective, and it works in IE, Opera, and Mozilla (including Firefox).
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Sean said 3:20PM on 10-05-2005
This doesn't work with IE6 (well it works on the page, but doesn't work as a bookmark) because of the limit on the bookmark text length.
Still cool though!
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Chris Meller said 10:04PM on 10-05-2005
That's why you should be using Firefox like the rest of us! There are also several other amazingly cool bookmarklets on that site. It's one hell of a collection of JavaScript trickery and mastery to be sure!
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