Got your Poker faces on? Good, because you won’t need ‘em here. So basically when you play poker you create hands of five cards, a pair, two pair, three-of-a-kind (three of the same number, 2 unmatched), straight (ie straight set of sequential numbers with different suits), flush (five cards of the same suit), full house ( 3 of the same number, and a pair of a different number), four-of-a-kind, and a straight flush (five cards in sequence, of the same suit), and royal flush (means the 4 highest cards of the same suit in sequence, and 1 ace also in the same suit). Whew! that was a lot to say, er type.
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009SpellBlazer – Part card, part role-playing, all game! – flash
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
What if you took Magic: the Gathering and combined it with Dungeons and Dragons. That would just be like so full of cool you’d be frozen when you played it. Well SpellBlazer by Seismic Studios is not like that, luckily for all cold-blooded animals. Okay so there is elements of an RPG, and then a card game in between. If you are particularly astute you will find that Seismic actually developed Wagons HO! which I did the programming on. So SpellBlazer was designed by the same guy. Of course I had nothing to do with SpellBlazer as I was contract programmer for Wagons Ho. Actually it’s been a fair bit since I played it so even though I know there are card based battles, I don’t really remember much about it. Well let’s see what we got here.
Pure Sudoku – Achieve a Zen-like oneness with your computer.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
First I have to say, I HATE SUDOKU! And why, I hear you cry. Because you could almost have it beat and then realize that you have a duplicate number somewhere and it all completely unravels. Okay I hope this little outburst doesn’t have any bearing on the review. In fact Pure Sudoku is perfect, even though I’m angry at the game, I’m not angry at the program. Pure Sudoku is pretty nice, of course it is just a game of Sudoku. However the visuals are decent. And it is easy to play.
Okay according to Wikipedia Sudoku is a logic-based combinatorial number-placement puzzle. Number puzzles similar to this were available in 19th century newspapers. Eventually it got transformed into what it was today. It was introduced in Japan in ‘84 which gave it its Japanese sounding name Sudoku. If you really want a history I suggest you read the Wikipedia entry on it, and then search through the net, and maybe your local Library.