by Brad Linder Nov 10th 2008 at 4:00PM
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)
Mark said 5:52PM on 11-10-2008
Little late, might have been funnier if they had made it about Windows 98, and made it back when anyone cared about the Matrix. I've been using XP since it came out in 2002 and I don't remember it ever crashing, not even once.
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rupaniii said 10:39AM on 11-11-2008
No, no, make one of it running on Windows Home Server
mvp said 5:52PM on 11-10-2008
I'm no phanboy but aside from a few direct jokes (ie. BSOD and the paperclip) every other o.s. out there suffers the same problems. I could easily make this into a mac or linux parody just by replacing a few logos and lines of script here and there. Other than blaming xp for any kind of problem associated with computer, the video is pretty excellent, especially love the trial part.
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deforge said 5:52PM on 11-10-2008
what about [system failure] at the very end of matrix the movie?
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Todd said 6:06PM on 11-10-2008
omfg lol
I would add to the video:
Windows doesn't allow multiple Remote Desktop Connections so you could only have one person "jacked in" at a time.
IE 7 would never render the Matrix properly, so you'd see buildings and street signs in the wrong place, upside down or all pushed over to one side.
I replace Clippy with Vista's constant requests to allow software to do stuff.
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LeeH said 12:38AM on 11-11-2008
And if the Matrix ran on Linux, Neo would site at a terminal and type something like this:
matrix$ wget bullets.tar.gz
matrix$ tar -zxvf bullets.tar.gz
matrix$ make bullets
matrix$ make: *** no rule to make target 'bullets'. Stop.
matrix$ ls
matrix$ bullets.tar.gz bullets/
matrix$ cd bullets
matrix [/bullets]$ make bullets
matrix [/bullets]$ kernel panic!
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topbar1 said 8:09AM on 11-11-2008
Mr. smith likes to see the quality of DLS articles, videos and posts increase.
David said 12:38AM on 11-11-2008
if it ran on linux, it would be super fast, never crashing. however, a higher IQ and more experience would be needed.
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mko said 12:38AM on 11-11-2008
If it ran on linux it would need download 49 additional packages just to install 1 package.
hazard said 12:38AM on 11-11-2008
well produced but far too many boring old cliches .. best moment I thought was when they were trying too work out which cable to plug into Neo's head .. now that was funny :)
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fraseyboy said 12:38AM on 11-11-2008
Not really funny.
And its pronounced Oo-Boontu not Oo-Buntu.
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CptApathy said 8:09AM on 11-11-2008
That wasn't so funny, the years old jabs at XP died a long time ago.
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LordDaMan said 11:08AM on 11-12-2008
Ok, lets go after this form the movie side:
"They don't crash"
It has crashed in teh matrix. According to teh movie it's crashed multiple times. We are talking full reformat to fix it also
"They don't ask you to send error reports."
Didn't neo and people like him all talk to teh oracle, which is pretty much a program designed to fix bugs in teh system? Sound like error reporting to me
"And they don't bog down after you've been using them for a few months and the registry is filled with gunk from programs you've installed, uninstalled, and forgotten all about. "
Except that's exactly what neo was. He's the culmination of all the problems of the system. It's a huge error that caused massive problems within the system (think of what happened with agent smith in the last movie.)
I hope Xp is NOT like teh matrix, or else you would have a hacker that could access our system and do whatever he wnats and you can't do a single thing about it!
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