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Tibia: Level 1-20: All Vocations (Rookgaard)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:00:00

You are starting a character, but you don't feel like spending 10 hours leveling just to get out of that pesky rookgaard. Well, with my handy guide you can have that character you've wanted to get to main in a couple of hours. It may take some determination and a couple energy drinks, but that's ok. Right? Haha, just kidding.

HOWTO: Run a Halo server using Wine

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:40:00

Ubuntu 8.04 Review

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:10:00

It's been a few months since the latest Ubuntu distribution has been out and it's overdue to be reviewed. The latest edition is almost perfect, certainly there were very few things that were bothersome and those could be configured with the included menus. Unfortunately there were still rare but irritating bugs that cropped up at bad times.

Sins of Solar Empires

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:30:00

Really I should have reviewed this one earlier. I'll start by saying that Sins is a great game. There are plenty of strategic options while at the same time having something that other 4x games lack; simplicity. In Master of Orion, Space Empires and their like, it's one thing to manage one planet, two, five and so on however when the number of planets hits 80+, things become complicated. Civ 2 and other empire building games suffer from the same problem. While Sins doesn't have an AI assistant to build and develop for you like Alpha Centauri and Civ 4, you can offload the specifics of your instructions onto the computer.

Ubuntu 8.04

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:10:00

It's good, it's very good. It's actually rather frightening. When installing Ubuntu it's generally very shiny and then a system-halting bug hits you like a Claymore mine buried in the bushes. A part of me is still waiting for the other shoe to drop however after a day of setting up the system and using it for daily tasks I have to admit that it does seem pretty much perfect.

Secret of Evermore - SNES

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:40:00

Emulators, yes I admit it, wine drives me to distraction. That and I can never seem to shake the enjoyment of old Super Nintendo, Playstation, Gameboy / Color/ Advance/ Ds or for that matter, Playstation 2 games. Was into old pc games for a while but they're a lot like current PC games except with less plot and more irritating controls.

So

So I'm going to do something questionable, I'm going to start reviewing snes games. It's Linux-gaming for a given value of Linux. The only condition being that the emulator has to run completely on Linux. PCSX2 is bad enough native, it's ten times worse in wine.

For my first review, I'll be reviewing "Secret of Evermore". The first time I played this was when I was in primary school, on an old 400mhz along with FF6 and Secret of Mana. The fact that I'm still playing it now just proves how excellent this game is.

Dwarf Fortress

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:30:00

I have to admit I feel bad for replacing the previous article.

Dwarf Fortress is an ASCII game that focuses more on the physics of world simulation and the intricacies of the Fortress economy than it does on usability or interface. As a result it is very fun, extremely fast on most hardware and has a nearly vertical learning curve.

Comparison of free software shooters

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:50:00

I originally wrote this article over months ago, I have been too busy to publish it anywhere so I decided to post it here before it gets too out-of-date.

About a week ago, Joe Barr posted a feature on Linux.com titled "New Alien Arena 6.10 blows away its FPS competition" yet gave no real comparisons with other similar games, regretable since his conclusion was that it "blows away its competition". This was done in the same style as Barr's previous feature, "Tremulous: The best free software game ever?" which described Tremulous but also lacked comparisons and relations to other games. This feature hopes to be a thorough comparison of the major free software shooters.

Talking about Warsow

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:10:00

Before you can start reading this interview
I will give you a little introduction about the game!

Warsow is a First-Person-Shooter game designed for online play.
Many games have inspired Warsow, yet it is its own unique game.
Similarities to Quake3 CPMA and Unreal Tournament series are probably the most evident. The team has sought to create a fun, fast, action-packed game
which may be seen as a critique of the many realistic, slow, warfare-orientated First-person-shooters that saturate todays FPS market.

Now that you know what Warsow is you are allowed to read this interview!

Niggles and Irritations

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:30:00

Well, since people would rather hear constructive criticism. Ive taken what I consider to be the major irritations with various Linux distributions and compiled what fixes Id like to see for them.