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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I'm glad Google didn't wait too long on this one. A week after the release of Google Calendar, they've
released the API that will allow third-party developers to build tool for interacting with it. The Google Calendar Data API includes functions for fetching a
calendar's feed, adding events, and requesting events based on date range. So far it's pretty basic, and I think we can
expect it to be expanded in the near future, but for developers itching to dig in, it's a start.
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Doug said 11:48AM on 4-20-2006
It would be more useful to people in the UK if it was actually linked to Google Mail (which still hasn't been updated to include RSS feeds, Google Talk etc..)
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Razib Ahmed said 7:27PM on 4-20-2006
I wonder how long will Google take to integrate Google calender to Gmail. I know that some of the smartest brains in the world are behind Google but sometimes why they cannot assume the demand of the users.
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henrrrik said 2:47PM on 4-21-2006
It already has been integrated.
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Doug said 4:58PM on 4-21-2006
@henrrrik
As far as I've seen, it's only integrated in the US version of Gmail.
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Amit said 6:45PM on 4-23-2006
I can't wait until it will allow you to synch to it with a palm. I'm pretty sure yahoo! calendar does it but, i'd rather use google's.
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maciek said 5:14AM on 4-27-2006
I'd like to see whole year in it, a month is too little for my plans. Google please give me a year view.
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