Thursday, June 19, 2008

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Google + Monopoly = Googolopoly Ghost Stories

Logo de Googolopoly What will happen when it Google has extended its dominance in the world in every field? Well, we can play the board game created and designed by Googolopoly Box.net. It aims to put ourselves in the shoes of a Google employee, also called a Googler, and buy everything we can think of with as the basis of the game Monopoly .
You can download the. Pdf file containing the rules, cards and game board at the following address: http://www.mediafire.com/?4emz9r54yub
course, if you 're not a surfer geek, many purchases do you say nothing. Here's the list:
  • Ebay, PayPal, Skype,
  • Facebook, Box.net, LinkedIn,
  • DoubleClick, GrandCentral, Urchin
  • YouTube, SketchUp, Keyhole,
  • Writely, JotSpot, BlogSpot,
  • NewsCorp, AOL, SalesForce.com,
  • Scribd, Loopt,
  • MicroSoft, Yahoo,
  • Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Google Gears, OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android
If you know in less than 5, we can say that you're using probably the first time a computer. If you agree with between 5 and 14 you discover the internet and I congratulate you. If you know in between 15 and 24, you're a tough guy and nothing escapes you on the web. If you know more in 25 (of 28), I wonder what you've done on Pick & Play !

illustration de Googolopoly

Can You Travel With Pink Eye

us an eyeful! How to earn

Logo de Repos Prod Provoost Thomas, founder of Rest Prod , nicely spent no less than 6 illustrations of maps for the game Ghost Stories to appear for the show in Essen 2008. These are signed pulp illustrator Pierre Lechevalier aka Pierô , personality who has worked a few games so far. They include Mr. Jack which revealed, but En Garde , Lice and Hurry Cup shortly.

For the record, know that it has insisted that Pierô Rest Prod to illustrate the game initially Antoine Bauza , creator of the game, and publishers had not imagined that they could Pierô Himself propose. In fact, their prototype was made with superb graphics tablet. At a party, Piero had the opportunity to play and it was love at first sight for this game, so he hastened to contact Repos Prod for "begging" to make illustrations of the game publisher well packaged by the idea that either Piero, expressed reservations about the price it would bring. He sent them in the week that followed an illustration of a Geisha (the first image we have seen). Bing, bang, bang! Prod signed and rest our poor Pierô now working very hard every day to finish the illustrations for the game in October 2008.



Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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Settlers of Catan?

Logo des Colons de Catane An economic theory was written by a fan of the game hard Settlers of Catan available on the group Boardgames Google. It outlines what resources are to have in order to optimize its economy and thus to win. Of course, if you're a casual player and / or you love to play with your family without you to lead, this list is not necessarily the most useful.
The explanations are given in English on the subject here . You'll find that many players are not necessarily agree but I think it helps to have an idea of the importance of certain resources in the game

Here are the resources in order to have priority:
  • 1. Ore
  • 2. Wheat
  • 3. Clay
  • 4. Wood
  • 5. Wool

Monday, June 9, 2008

Splits In Wooden Swingset

2008 could be the year of games

Scrabulous Scott Jon Siegel , game designer by trade, has just published an interesting article on why that 2008 could very well be the year of games. In fact, it is rather why 2008 is the year of games for consoles and PC.

Indeed, he exhibits a number of points that tend to show that since 2006 there is a real rise of video games based on board games. Since the release of Uno in 2006 on the XBox, it continues to earn the players so it is 4th most played game on Xbox Live in 2007! Development costs are ridiculous front of "big" games such as Call Of Duty and Gears Of War where the graphic is very important. In addition, the results are again much more interesting in proportion to development costs.
By cons, as explained Brian Reynolds, CEO and Creative Director of Catan , play video from the game "Settlers of Catan "by Klaus Teuber, the challenge is to program an artificial intelligence capable of rivaling the most twisted of our playmates

The other important point is that games are gaining more and more social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and others). The best example is Scrabulous , application available on Facebook and that is a misfortune. In May 2008, there are currently just under 500,000 daily active users!

I suggest you read the article Scott Jon Siegel posted on escapistmagazine.com that enlightens us more about the gap between games and video games that is not so great as people think.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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Play Monopoly on an iPod, you can!

Monopoly Owners of iPods should be happy (or not) on this day because Apple has added the popular game Monopoly in iTunes Store. This is compatible with the iPod Classic, the third generation of nanos and fifth of iPods.
so you can play the classic game but as they always do things right at Apple, new features were added. On the menu, there is therefore:
  • Throwing the dice that is achieved with the simple click-wheel ",
  • The ability to play alone against the iPod , or more by connecting them
  • Sublime animations (here it is they who say),
  • difficulty levels, customizable
  • original sounds and musics It needed to have you say!
With all that, you certainly want to download is not it? Then click on the link below. Beware though, you must have iTunes install on your machine.
Do you recognize the character at the center of the image?

Image du monopoly avec Steve Jobs

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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Pillow-Dex, the pillow fight organized

Pillow-Dex One of the many precursors of table tennis is certainly Pillow-Dex released in 1897. With a name like that, one wonders how this game can consist! Very little information about him circulating on the Internet and it reading "The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit" I decided to make you (re) discover .

Firstly I would like to put in the context of the time. In 1897, Parker Brothers has not yet broken with the release of Pit and is continually looking for new games to support its catalog. George S. Parker makes regular trips to Europe to find the games or even game concepts that would march on American soil.
In London he discovered a game called Piladex , a UFO in terms of games. The principle is relatively simple, there are no limitations of players. Two teams battle each other across the table. It is separated into halves by a long string in the middle. The goal is to tap with the back of the hand the ball above the table without it lands in Part of his table. If we add the rackets, one dangerously close to table tennis. That's all asshole!

Parker Brothers decides to buy the rights to Robert Brothers for the United States. The expected success was not long in coming, hundreds of thousands of boxes of Pillow-Dex (renamed for the occasion) are sold at 25 cents. People have fun organizing "Pillow-Dex Parties" home.
addition to the time the game has enjoyed the participation of the Gibson Girl , personification of the feminine ideal, tall, slender but with the chest and hips. These are the women you see on the cover of the box.

You will discover in this little slide show of the game a few commercials and some original boxes that I managed to glean on the Internet:


Monday, June 2, 2008

Mount And Blade 1.010

Grand Theft Auto, the board game Clue

Logo de GTA 4 You have trouble believing it, well Mad TV did! Blood, sex, murder, not the politically correct, everything is there. I'll let you take a look at the beginning of the week.

For American bent, you can spend your way though, one can easily understand some jokes without sound.