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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Trevor said 2:52PM on 7-22-2008
Actually, when I took a Media Presentation course in high school, we were taught to use wingding fonts for custom bullet points on Word documents and PowerPoints. Still, it is a really pointless font.
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a said 3:03PM on 7-22-2008
Century Gothic was pretty cute :)
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minibar said 7:04PM on 7-22-2008
When I worked in the software industry there were a number of programmers i knew who used windings (typically the same people who create highly personalized mappings for their keyboards), although more recently when I pursued a degree in computer science at the same university as many of those programmers, I don't recall any of my peers, professors or teaching assistants ever using windings. Trends like this tend to recycle, though.
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io said 7:22PM on 7-22-2008
Sheer genius.
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Matt said 8:04PM on 7-22-2008
I use WingDings sometimes in my tech documents because of the arrows it provides. Allows me to create simple diagrams in Word without the big leap to a Visio diagram, or the dreadful Word drawing tools. Just for a quick fix.
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kevjohn said 1:59PM on 7-23-2008
This was full of narrow stereotypes and has about the same comedic depth as a Benny Hill sketch.
In other words, it's hilarious! Open mailbox indeed.
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Anthony Morreale said 7:49AM on 7-29-2008
the wingdings part was seriously hilarious, when he starts spouting off random characters... some of the personifications were so good!
"Which one of you am I about to make... SANS Serif!"
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