Filed under: Security, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, OpenOffice.org
by Ted Wallingford Sep 25th 2007
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chuck said 9:35PM on 9-25-2007
But according to the ZDNet article: "The next version of OpenOffice (version 2.3) arrived on 17 September and is not affected by the flaw."
I installed 2.3, so I shouldn't be worried about this bug, correct?
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James Roche said 1:49AM on 9-26-2007
Maybe it would be kind to acknowledge the following:
1) It's taken a really long time for someone to discover, and no one yet has taken the opportunity to employ, this flaw.
2) The latest version already includes a patch.
This story comes across as a bit of a "just as bad as Microsoft" hit job. The fact is, when civilians find hackable flaws in Windows or IE, the fixes are insufferable and frequently ignored for a duration. This announcement is more noble than shameful, the Open Office movement deserves a retraction.
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catchwa said 6:25AM on 9-26-2007
Next time read the article, Ted. The have released a fix, it's called updating to the latest version.
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Huw said 6:19PM on 9-26-2007
The second paragraph of that article says that not only is it version 2.0.4 *and prior*, but also that version 2.3 is unaffected.
I think you should post an apology, Ted.
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