Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
by Brad Linder Feb 27th 2008
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)
steven said 4:15PM on 2-27-2008
Just use TweakUI. It does this and much more.
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jfjb said 5:12PM on 2-27-2008
right on, steven
Now, for the folks who:
- don't have Tweak UI
- don't want to download Tweak UI
- don't know how to download Tweak UI
- don't care about Tweak UI
... follow Tweak UI suggestion:
- open My Computer
- right-click the drive you want to customize
- select Properties
- select Autoplay
- select a content type, then chose an action for window to perform automatically
- repeat for any content type to modify
- when finished, click Apply or OK
- et voilà
- enjoy
Well, you can also get a computer without a CD or a DVD...
steven said 5:53PM on 2-27-2008
I suppose my comment was a bit cryptic. :) The devil is in the details. It sounds more complicated than it is in TweakUI. It's definitely a addon you will not want to live without. But is it compatible with Vista? Not. Dealing with autorun issues is natively easier in Vista. Definitely don't install anything extra to do this. Just follow these instructions: hit the windows key, type "autoplay" into the search bar (no quotes), now just change software to "take no action". Do the same for any other media types you want.
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