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by Brad Linder Jul 3rd 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)
Josh said 10:18PM on 7-03-2008
And they still haven't scrapped the theme. Why do browser developers not realize how crappy their default themes are? Every single browser has this issue except for Safari on OS X and IE7 on Vista when it isn't full screen. Every other version and browser, for the most part, looks like crap. =\
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Jon said 10:19PM on 7-03-2008
When is real-time spell checking making its debut in Opera? In my humble opinion, this is the single biggest thing missing from Opera.
With web based email and google docs making headlines, a decent spell checker is a necessity!
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WolvenSpectre said 9:54AM on 7-04-2008
@ Josh - Its a much better default than there last one while it isn't my favourite it is actually not painful like the last one, and alot more people actually like this one.
Maybe they don't get a great set of skins because when they did almost nobody made skins for the alternate browsers.
@Jon- they haven't announced any intention to do it. That feature is one of the cases where they took Opera by surprise. While it was available for Firefox, most people didn't know it where the use of it was coded right into Opera and they told you how to set it up easily.
Inline Spellchecking is not an easy thing to do and you have to integrate the browser to it and it into the browser.
Personally I hope they do it soon, if not improve on it.
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Khuffie said 9:56AM on 7-04-2008
Brad: this is an *important* change for lots of Opera users:
TinyMCE 2.1.x editor now works properly.
Previously we couldn't post on things like wordpress, joomla or forums without switching to a basic editor.
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7banners.com said 12:17PM on 7-04-2008
Its a great browser. I have been a fan of Opera for a few years now and I cannot imagine using anything else even if it fries eggs for me.
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