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by Brad Linder Mar 7th 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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pierfrancesco99 said 7:51AM on 3-08-2008
How can install cURL and use in Windows XP ?
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Brad Linder said 7:54AM on 3-08-2008
Try downloading cURL from this link:
http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=bin&os=Win32&flav=-&ver=2000%2FXP
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RazorD said 7:56AM on 3-08-2008
I wrote a perl script to do this too, its open source on google code (http://code.google.com/p/gmedtwitpost/)
you setup the username and password in the script and then just run 'gmedtwitpost.pl new_status' and it'll update.
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Saul said 12:28PM on 3-08-2008
I blogged about doing this from the shell on the mac - using launchbar - it's darm easy, and works great
http://saulrosenbaum.com/blog/2007/10/16/the-raw-power-of-launchbar-shell/
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Grant Robertson said 12:57PM on 3-08-2008
That is totally hot. Rawk!
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Alex Gretlein said 8:21AM on 3-09-2008
Of course you would want to alias this with something like:
alias twit='curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
(preferably in your .bashrc or the like) and then you could just do "twit Message".
I'm not sure if KDE's Katapult or GNOME's Deskbar Applet recognize your Bash aliases. If they do, then you could use this to twit from either. (In Katapult type "exec" first.) If they don't, then just use Saul's tip and save it as a script in your path, and you'll be good to go in either. (There are also several Twitter plugins for Deskbar. I'm not sure if they do anything more than send messages, for which it seems curl is perfect.)
Lastly, you don't need to download curl, wget (installed by default on many *nix systems) should be fine:
wget -O - --user=USER --password=PASSWORD --post-data='status="MESSAGE"' http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
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arrohwany said 10:15PM on 3-12-2008
Very great idea :0
i like it...
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