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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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Alex M said 4:30PM on 11-26-2008
And it would give extension developers more time to update their stuff!
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finnith said 1:25PM on 11-27-2008
It would be pretty convenient if the private browsing feature would work like stealther, which is one-click.
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Damian said 1:25PM on 11-27-2008
Beta 3 will sort of have a new feature. The ctrl+tab / all tabs is being removed for beta 2 while is goes under some reworking (make more sense, not be a performance disaster etc...), it'll be landing again shortly after beta 2 is released.
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Salsa Shark said 1:25PM on 11-27-2008
They better do a complete overhaul of that new "All Tabs" functionality because that thumbnail approach was atrocious...and it didn't help that they completely disabled the ability to revert to the original (and much more straightforward) behaviour.
I truly don't understand why some of these design decisions (All Tabs, the New Tab button) lack any sense of User-Centered Design practices...I'm glad the community is vocal enough to force some of these stupid decisions to be rethought or rolled back.
Damian said 1:25PM on 11-27-2008
Salsa Shark:
Well they're still using thumbnails and I don't see how you can say that's worse than an uninteractive pop down overflow menu. But the interface is getting improved and the order of the tabs is now going to be the order of the tab bar rather than the most recently used order.
Stuart Halliday said 9:36AM on 11-28-2008
Let's hope they fix the bookmarks section. It was busted in Beta 2.
Some of us like organising our Bookmarks.
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