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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by Brad Linder Mar 21st 2008
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Todd said 6:16PM on 3-21-2008
Whoa cool!
I have people I pay to write blog posts so this is a very useful tool for me. Thanks!
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quanta said 8:18PM on 3-21-2008
Pretty neat, although some people might remember how all these features were built into WordPerfect 6.0 (with Grammatik!) back in the mid-1990s.
The more things change...
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Peter N Roth said 11:47AM on 3-22-2008
And, with fewer statistics, in Microsoft Word as far back as I can remember. Alt+F8 "Statistics"
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