Foursquare turns NY to a giant game of Risk

The board game Risk, in which players maneuver plastic armies on a http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmap in order to achieve “world domination,” has firmly occupied one corner ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giff nerdom for about fifty years. Foursquare stationed itself in another more tech-oriented corner of that same kingdom about two years ago. Now, at last, the two categories of nerdom meet.

“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk.

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got stuck with Haunted Manor Lord of Mirrors

I got hooked this weekend by this pretty hidden object story, Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors. It made me realize how the game doesn't have to be hard to solve at all.

Haunted Manor is just about the same game as Drawn. It satisfy me almost only through magic and mystic illustrations while the game leads me along all the way and I just do what it tells me to do. I'm supposed to find hidden objects to achieve keys or other required objects to open up new rooms or drawers and to find new hidden objects. I get the aha-feeling again and again but it really doesn't require anything from me... and yet I like it. Or maybe therefor I like it.

I got so hooked I payed 50 kr in the middle of it to be able to continue...

Wonderful Drawn on my own

Wow! Drawn - What a game. There are not many games I like to play on my own, with no company, but this I do. I want to solve the puzzles and riddles and patterns on my own. I want to be the clever one finding my way through it. There is no time pressure, a few hints to help me solve the tasks if I need to, objects to save for later tasks and wonderful magic graphics to melt into. It is creative, letting me be creative too.