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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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PhillyCope said 6:54PM on 2-24-2008
chika chika yea
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Joe Beaulaurier said 10:06PM on 12-28-2007
Oh lawrd! Windows only? That's only going to support 90+% of the market. Oh, the sheer idiocy of it, it's just incomprehensible. So worth pointing out as a significant failing of the service. And the Linux folks... I can't even think how many are knashing their teeth in that camp. It must be yet several whole percentage point units there.
Oh, the humanity.
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MrKniceGuy said 10:18PM on 12-28-2007
Bwaahahah!!!! Brilliant!!!
jus10 said 10:17PM on 12-28-2007
Well I'm part of that minority. I have 3 Linux boxes and a Macbook. One of the Linux boxes is hooked to my HDTV so I can watch movies from it just like I would from the HD-DVD player.
Hulu can do it, why not Netflix?
Mike said 5:21PM on 12-29-2007
Yes, Joe, because non-Windows users are a minority, that gives you free reign to be a jerk.
All Brad did was *mention* that it only supports Windows, which is a true fact. (Actually, it's not just Windows-only, it's XP or better and Internet Explorer only) Frankly, as a primarily Mac user, I find it to be a pain that I can't take advantage of this service as easily as I'd like.
That said, I don't think it's going to change anytime soon, as they appear to be using a Windows Media DRM technology, somewhere in the neighborhood of playsforsure except it works. It's a vastly different game from Hulu, just10 -- Hulu lets you embed vids on your site a la YouTube, whereas Netflix is trying to keep you from spreading the videos.
I have tried it though, and it's a mostly great service that works well even on not-great internet connections and the catalog has been steadily growing since its initial very blah selection.
Joe Beaulaurier said 5:22PM on 12-29-2007
@mike - I'm driven to my 'jerkiness' by more than a mere mention. It was the ranking as one of "three major restrictions."
aanidaani said 10:17PM on 12-28-2007
They may have 6,000 movies, but 5,950 are trash.
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RP said 2:18PM on 12-29-2007
What are the 50 good ones? You'll save me a lot of searching! :-)
RP said 5:24PM on 12-29-2007
I've tried it on the PC, and the quality is impressive -- flawless!
Mac users -- does it run in Parallels? (All my Mac friends seem to run Parallels anyway, vs. whining.)
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archivis said 8:33PM on 1-03-2008
The netflix viewer runs just fine for me on my Mac Pro via Parallels, even fullscreen.