awfulhorrid | Games that I'm playing (Reply)

isolde_deely asked me yesterday if I'm playing any new online games lately. This reminded me that I've been meaning to mention two new ones and update my COH information here.

I really don't need to promote City of Heroes. Either you already know about it and play or you're probably not interested in it. (Or you've moved over to the new Champions Online game.) I'm paying for my City gaming one month at a time: no automatic renewal for me this time! This way if I don't have enough time to play during a given month, I don't feel like I'm wasting my subscription fee. I'm on the Pinnacle server and have the global name of (you guessed it) awfulhorrid.

Two new ~~time sinks~~ game sites that have been taking my time lately ...

I've seen Star Pirates advertised on several of the comic sites I read, including Girl Genius and Schlock Mercenary. It's a text based browser game about ... well, Pirates in Space. Realism? Um. I mentioned Pirates in Space, right? There's trading, raiding, and lots of searching through debris. It's about as far from a twitch game as you can get. I'll bet you can guess my name there too!

The second game site collects several flash based games into one easy to find location: MochiGames. I've been absorbed with Bloons Tower Defense 4, a very silly 'tower defense' game involving monkeys, balloons, and lots of sharp, flaming, or exploding objects. Here's my profile, although I notice it's not really updated in real time.

These last two are free to play, but you can throw money at the site and get various benefits in return. I think I like this system. The players who can afford to give them money aren't getting such a huge benefit that they dominate the game, but they do get some incentive to 'tip' the developers.

OK, play time is over ... time for me to get back to work. (Er ... at least working on this project so I can finish it and get paid, anyway!)