Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters, iPhone
Galcon for iPhone - Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway Oct 13th 2008 at 11:00AM
The single greatest procristination tool I've run across in the past couple of months is an iPhone game called Galcon. It's a deviously simple space battle that can take anywhere from 9 seconds to 5 minutes. The object is to send ships from your home planet out into the galaxy to conquer your opponent's planets. The number on each planet tells you how many ships you need to conquer it, and the size of the planet's icon tells you how fast it will produce new ships for you.The strategy of the game takes a few tries to get the hang of, but once you know how to play, replaying each randomly-generated map to get a faster time becomes totally addictive.The short timespan of a game of Galcon, combined with the game's multiple difficulty levels, makes it hard to play just one game at a time. The Lite version of Galcon is free, but there's also an upgrade that introduces 4 additional mission types and an online multiplayer mode. I'm afraid to download it, because I might never put my iPod down again.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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ben said 12:14PM on 10-13-2008
This is the same as a game for linux (at least i was able to find it in ubuntu) called Konquest. Great game
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pmow said 3:44PM on 10-13-2008
Same type of flash game called Nano Wars, it's on Kongregate. Only 20 levels though. I played the iPhone one but between crazy hard and hard, there's a world of difference.
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Enrique said 11:46AM on 10-14-2008
I agree - very fun!
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