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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Podcasting portal Odeo recently added a feature that lets people record messages for you on your Odeo page, kind
of like voicemail for the web. What's cooler, though, is that the message recorder can be embedded in any web page, so you can stick it in
a blog post and anyone with a microphone can come along and leave a voice message for you. To use it you'll need an
Odeo account, but people don't need one to leave you a message.
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izzyb412 said 1:31PM on 3-20-2006
I made an account, now all I need is for someone to leave me a message on it. *hint hint* Go to my livejournal if you want to send one to me so I can see this thing in action.
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Zachary Kominar said 3:02AM on 3-21-2006
The embedded object is difficult to embed gracefully with my webpage. This story opened my eyes to Odeo's services and I've put up a button link instead of integrating it until some sort of skin is available.
Great idea though, nice to see wider integration of these ideas amongst the community.
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