Tag: games

  • 99games

    Ever wondered who makes those awesome games for the iPhone? Meet 99Games, one of the major players, with many t

    op AppStore games to its credit. In conversation with the founder Rohith Bhat.

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  • Power play

    He felt it was below his dignity to ask his team member for the solution. After all he was the manager.
    The team member, who had just gotten the solution, froze as he felt a hand on his shoulder, but relaxed when the manager asked, “Level 7, huh? But how did you cross Level 6?

    until next time, bench warm up games..

  • Next Level

    Its a bit like games.. once we get into a game, what keeps us going is the eagerness to master the level and reach the next level.. as we proceed, it gets more and more difficult as each level is designed to be tougher than the previous one… The stakes also get higher as it might be difficult to do it all over again, and all the gains amassed would be wasted…
    And thats why its a bit like games – life… Its always a play to master the current level and thereby reach the next level.. and the stakes get higher, because it is life, and not just a game… theres a standard of living, peer pressure and so many other things that make it a must to survive and move ahead.. the only difference being that unike the game, the progress in life cannot be made to stop.. or maybe we cant bring ourselves to make it stop… for its a race and like the cliche goes, you have to run to at least stay in the same place… and the things around will not slow down to accomodate you..
    we get used to what we can get from the money we earn – most important among them a lifestyle and its accessories, and once we master one level, we are eager to move on to the next level and find out what it has to offer.. and theres no end in sight… perhaps the biggest winner is one who can will himself to be satisfied at a particular level and not move to the next level, inspite of all the pressures from within and without.. for maybe it has been rightly said that when its a rat race, what matters in the end is that whoever wins,they all remain rats…
    infancy, school, college, the first job…sometimes, its true that the grass is green on the other side… only, i am just looking back, and speaking of the grass i had been on…
    until next time, theres no level playing field…

  • Game Theory Revisited

    1978 : rattles (educated guess)
    1980 : assorted dolls, building blocks
    1982 : wooden ksrtc (kerala govt transport) bus,lorry,plastic cars
    1984 : plastic/metal robots, Lego (thanks to dad’s US trip), guns (toy, that is), snakes and ladders
    1986 : Rambo stuff (bow & arrow, guns..the works), cricket, ludo
    1988 : scrabbles, hockey
    1990 : monopoly, indoor cricket
    1992 : mortal combat, steet fighter, memory!!
    1994 : cricket, dumb charades, walkman
    1996 : roadrash, Life
    1998 : claw, mario
    2000 : need for speed, duke
    2002 : snake, mpeg downloads 😉
    2004 : monopoly, claw, colony, discman……

    once upon a long time ago, hours could be spent playing any of these games..over time, the sheer joy the toys used to give, has given way to faster bouts of fatigue/boredom and the quest for an elusive ‘something’… growing up or growing down, who’s to say? ….ironical that more the choices, more the intensity of the quest……
    the toys have changed, the child remains…

  • The games people Play

    Monopoly, yup, the board game alright. One of my fave games ever, though there are some uncharitable people who call it a game that gets you bored. A couple of months back, i had bought the computer version of the game, and have been addicted since. this weekend, i finished the 15th and final level, so i thought i had to write a post on it, thereby slightly altering the ‘introspection’ scheme of things to the ‘my diary’ kind…but let me assure you that its only a temporary aberration, which shall be rectified in this post itself…
    hmm, back to monopoly, for those who are regulars, the comp version is slightly different coz there are different levels, with each level having a different objective. also some things like having to own all locations of the same color before starting construction have been bypassed, which actually makes it much better.
    as with all the games i play, i tried to find a link between me, the person, and the game i am playing…. monopoly allows you to completely destroy your opponent, using whatever cheap trick (read strategy) that you can think of, it allows you to toy with your opponent’s future and plans, and if you are real good at the game, put him in situations that will make him do exactly what you want him to do… all of which are things that get done in today’s world….but fortunately or unfortunately not the things i could bring myself to do in my current ‘love and peace to all’ avtar (which looks to be more and more a permanent state of affairs)..hehe…
    and so, do i like games like monopoly, delta force, unreal etc coz they allow me to be someone i am not, manifest myself in a form that i cannot be ‘really’… and so again, is it possible for all of us to find our own games, take out the rage , frustration, deviousness etc on the game, so that we can stop playing games on other people??
    until next time, keep playing