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Phosphor - Daily Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Mar 30th 2006 at 8:50AM
I'm always amazed at the range of different time-wasters we've been able to dredge up, and that makes finding
something unique harder and harder. But here's something I don't think we've had before; a first-person 3D shooter, in
your browser. Yes, you read that right. Made by Rasterwerks, Phosphor is a multi-player 3D shooter that runs in your
browser, thanks to the Macromedia Shockwave browser plug-in.
The game is currently in beta, but looks pretty darn impressive when you get it up and running. Understandably, it takes significantly longer than most browser-based games to load, but considering what it is, it's not an unreasonable amount of time.
Obviously, as with any beta software you may run into issues. But honestly, isn't it worth it to be able to frag at work - not that we'd suggest or condone that sort of behavior - but isn't it?
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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izzyb412 said 9:17AM on 3-30-2006
I've been playing this for a little while now. For what it is it's pretty good.
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David Ron said 10:39AM on 3-30-2006
This is filed under Linux, but I'm not aware of a shockwave plugin for Linux. I do have flash for Linux though. Does anybody know where I can find shockwave for Linux?
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Jason Clarke said 12:22PM on 3-30-2006
Hi David - I made an (obviously wrong) assumption that Shockwave would be available for Linux. I'll correct the post - but if there is a Shockwave plugin for Linux, hopefully someone will post about it here!
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