Found this pretty cool toy on deviantart called Line Rider

Please click “Play”. Don’t come back to me saying you “saw the fancy text” -__-”

There’s an updated and better version but requires you to install Microsoft Silverlight first.

At this moment, the video below is the highest rated one on youtube. There are many others that look better to me though. Some have colour and some have even more interesting tracks.

Got addicted to a game again. Not good! Everytime it happens, I just stare into the screen for hours and miss all my appointments and datelines.

If anyone’s interested, this game is parody of McDonald’s. Uncreatively, it’s called "McDonald’s Videogame".

My classmate gave out the flash file itself so I could play it full screen. To play just for fun, go to this link here.

Took a few tries to finally get the cash going smoothly. I don’t think there’s an objective except to keep raking in the cash. Try hitting 100,000 bucks if you can

Being hailed all over the world as the most addictive game on facebook, Packrat’s influences were horribly damaging. I got hooked back onto it 9 days before my exams all because I discovered that I could actually combine lower level cards to create rare high level items. This was a crucial key to the game. Avoid compounding the cards and it will be impossible to finish any set unless you are an extremely lucky person. If you are one of the blessed souls, I suggest you stop playing and start buying 4D instead.

Previously, I stupidly vaulted multiple low level stuff or random rares that I salvaged from the rats; Then lost interest since it was so frustrating to finish any one set until that fateful discovery which almost ruined my examinations. Packrat is a greed based collection game where the objective is to steal and vault pretty cards and complete sets. A simple enough concept, yet so fatally addictive.

There are a few ways to play the game. The first is FFA (Free For All) which was how the game was originally designed to be played. Competitive style forces the players to lock their items and break locks of their fellow packrats in order to steal and complete their sets. I, for one, absolutely hate this method of playing.

The second most popular is Co-op (Cooperative) where minor communities are formed and help is given freely within the group to aid “members” in completing their sets. Some FFA players join under the cover of being Co-op and unscrupulously rob their friends blind. I’ve seen so many complaints on the forums. So far the solution is to create blacklists and swap them among the communities to deter such “crimes”.

The third style is what I’m going for - Hermit. I basically have very few friends. Anyone who does a FFA with me without warning is automatically being defriended. No offense to real life contacts I’ve deleted but there’s always friendster if you still want to stay connected.

Upon completion of any set, the player will receive a “Feat of Wonder” card. My very first set I completed was Ancient Realms which, not surprisingly, is my favourite.

The Feats of Wonder text were interesting to read. So far, Sugar Rush is the funniest:

Flapjickety! No more low-fat, low-cal, sugar-free desserts for you! Congrats on finishing the Sugar Rush collection. Grab a big spoon and a bowl of your favourite ice cream, sit back, and admire your shiny new “I’m an Anti-Dentite” card.

For newbies, here’s some useful resources for the game:

Card Recipes and Guides
Trading Post - Specifically for Retired Sets
General Trading Post - Found within the app itself

Enjoy!

For those who play Dungeons & Dragons or games based off their alignments…

Lawful Alignment:

Lawful Good
Lawful Neutral
Lawful Evil

Neutral Alignment:

Neutral Good
True Neutral
Neutral Evil

Chaotic Alignment:

Chaotic Good
Chaotic Neutral
Chaotic Evil

The one on lawful evil made me laughed. The rest are pretty good representatives.

Being a huge fan of Theme Hospital, I had mixed feelings when I heard of Hospital Tycoon. Sure, the graphics look good, but the overwhelming success of Theme Hospital are big shoes to fill. There will be comparisons, afterall they are hospital based tycoon games.

After many months of delay, I finally got Hospital Tycoon installed. Installation was smooth, the game took rather long to load but it was still alright. After the usual film sequences, I was taken to the menu which looked cute and fun. So far so good. Then it went straight to hell.

There were two modes - story mode and sandbox. I picked story mode since the game didn’t look complex. The first scenario was practically idiot proof but I managed to run into problems. So much for addressing me as manager of the hospital. I can’t command my doctors to do what I hired them for. They’ll only treat patients when they feel like it. Instead, I am somehow given power over relationships between my staff. If my staff is to run on AI, at least make it smarter. While my doctor is kissing his nurse, his patient is dying right outside his room. In the end I failed the level since the patient died.

Dumb staff AI aside, the patient AI is not much better. The receptionist could only register patients one at a time so while she was occupied, they’d do things like use a magazine stand. I placed two near the receptionist and another two across the room. I deduced that the fourth and furthest stand must be holding porn magazines because all the patients refuse to go to the other three nearer stands. Also, even if patients are 1% away from death, they sometimes prefer to stand then to choose an empty seat one tile beside them.

In the entire story mode, you get to run three hospitals, four times each. Story mode was such that there are four scenarios for each hospital and each time it was a progression of the plot from the previous scenario. What gets on my nerves is that after I complete a scenario, the hospital “resets” with all the rooms I added gone. Instead, I get a pre-determined template of the developer’s idea of how the hospital should be for that scenario. Granted it makes the story’s movie sequence accurate but this is a tycoon game. The interference is really annoying.

Enough of hospital administration. What’s a tycoon game without money? As far as money management go, it is rather poor. I command over 20 staff sometimes but I can’t see their wages. There’s no financial chart. As a result, I have a rather vague idea of my finances. Then again, the money making aspect of this game is too simple. All I have to do is to walk off to make coffee and return. And if I still do not have enough money, I just need to wait even more.

The game does still have a few saving graces. I like the idea of the story mode. It’s the only reason why I played finish all 12 scenarios. Hospital Tycoon inherits Theme Hospital’s winning humour. Diseases and treatment methods are as good and as hilarious. I like watching the skeleton (it’s a room decor item) do funny poses when no one is in the room. I really like the graphics. They make the game look really cute and fun.

Hospital Tycoon reeks of rushed development. It’s a real pity. I felt that it could have been a great game if they throw in more stuff, fix the bugs and come up with a better AI. The game is too simple. In short, it’s disappointing.