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by Brad Linder Jan 1st 2009 at 10:00AM
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)
Daniel Massicotte said 12:13PM on 1-01-2009
So who's going to be the first one to come up with something that links everything on the web together?
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El Taco said 2:59PM on 1-01-2009
I just uninstalled this yesterday. It was good, but it took up way to much memory (about 56,000 K)
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Latest Tech News @ Technology.com.au said 7:04AM on 1-02-2009
This support must be good. work together of both- Facebook & Flicker will give best output.
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Firax said 11:33AM on 1-02-2009
That sounds awesome. I will check it out :) Thanks Brad
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Leandro said 4:00PM on 1-02-2009
Too bad they removed FriendFeed support in newest version. Only available in the old plain version.
AlertThingy is dead for me..
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Nathan Mylott said 6:49AM on 1-03-2009
Might as well just use both. I like Twhirl better so far but it doesn't have Facebook support or RSS feeds. So a combination of the two will make one very useful offspring.
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moby said 4:38AM on 1-06-2009
Installation: while not too painful was annoying as it forced me to re-install the same version of AIR I already had. It would be nice if the code actually checked before forcing a new install.
Settings: Could never get it to work w/Facebook even after manually configuring FB to allow Alerty access to everything it asked. Also no access to how often it requests updates. For Twitter users, the latter needs to be included. Has no filters (that I could ascertain) to avoid double data being culled.
Use: Pretty simple to use barring the annoyances above. However, it merges every feed into one long stream. The current version is a bit confusing frankly. And if you add RSS feeds it becomes even worse.
Overall: Off to a good start but I won't be abandoning twhirl anytime soon. It still needs a lot of work, IMHO.
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