Now, I am a programmer, and I do work for a game company, so it was quite silly of me not to mention it in the blog. Just getting up to speed.
Our product is currently in Beta, so there's not a whole lot the I'm sure I can talk about in general, but let me tell you, it's pretty cool.
Since I'm not sure what I can say, and there is public copy available, let me just send you that way:
WebWars
Monday, July 6, 2009
Wizard 101
Ok, so several people would say it's a slimmed down version of a World of Warcraft or Everquest, but my youngest got me into this game a few weeks ago, and I've not been able to stop since.
https://www.wizard101.com/
Basically it's a MMORPG set to a card game like Magic. You level up, and get better cards, and then you go out to waste bizarrely cute homicidal beasts so you can... level up, and get better cards. This is the basic point of all RPGs, MMO or pen-and-paper (at the core rules level, let's not start that flame war) but the world is pretty involved, and teamwork is encouraged but not rammed down your throat. It's also turn based, which I love considering I grew up at the beginning of the 8 bit era, where RPG monsters waited their turns politely before hitting us with their Nintendo Hard f-u move.
My son is a few levels higher than me at this point (and rising fast, he's 12, home for the summer, and I'm 32, working to get food on the table), so when I have a particularly annoying boss battle I'll call out to him, "I need help" from the other room. He'll teleport to me, summon his "Level 5 kill everything not us in the room" card and then be on his way back to slaying hoards of Egyptian themed creepy/cute monsters in the "more advanced than Dad" world he's gone off to.
It's becoming a tradition for us to play all day on Sundays (when the Beautiful One has her America's Next Top Model marathon so I don't feel quite as bad for wasting time on the computer) and it's quite a bit of fun.
Anyway, not meaning to advertise, just sharing something fun.
Laters
https://www.wizard101.com/
Basically it's a MMORPG set to a card game like Magic. You level up, and get better cards, and then you go out to waste bizarrely cute homicidal beasts so you can... level up, and get better cards. This is the basic point of all RPGs, MMO or pen-and-paper (at the core rules level, let's not start that flame war) but the world is pretty involved, and teamwork is encouraged but not rammed down your throat. It's also turn based, which I love considering I grew up at the beginning of the 8 bit era, where RPG monsters waited their turns politely before hitting us with their Nintendo Hard f-u move.
My son is a few levels higher than me at this point (and rising fast, he's 12, home for the summer, and I'm 32, working to get food on the table), so when I have a particularly annoying boss battle I'll call out to him, "I need help" from the other room. He'll teleport to me, summon his "Level 5 kill everything not us in the room" card and then be on his way back to slaying hoards of Egyptian themed creepy/cute monsters in the "more advanced than Dad" world he's gone off to.
It's becoming a tradition for us to play all day on Sundays (when the Beautiful One has her America's Next Top Model marathon so I don't feel quite as bad for wasting time on the computer) and it's quite a bit of fun.
Anyway, not meaning to advertise, just sharing something fun.
Laters
Allo Allo
So, this will be my first entry in what will most likely be a huge amount of random ramblings, pointed pithiness, and sputtering speculations on technology, home life, and video games.
Yes, I do consider myself clever for the unnecessary use of alliteration in the previous sentence, but hey, it's my blog and no one's forcing you to read it. If someone is forcing you to read it, my plans for world domination have come to fruition, so you don't get to complain. Please report to the behavioral improvement room in the blue corridor, citizen.
Who am I? I happen to married to one of the most beautiful women in the world. We have 3 children (all boys, god help us) and though I am not blood related I don't feel the need to call them step anything. I'm a programmer by trade and a complete geek by choice. If you were a fellow geek you probably laughed at the last sentence of the above paragraph, and knew what the hell I was talking about. If not, oh boy, you might want to pray I remember to label these things correctly, or you're going to get a crash course in RPG jokes, stupid Internet memes, and the kind of geek t-shirts that you don't get (or want to) but you smile politely at anyway.
My wife may drop by from time to time for the type of well thought out writings you probably want from a blog. Me, I'm in it for the silly, or to complain endlessly. Flip a coin.
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Yes, I do consider myself clever for the unnecessary use of alliteration in the previous sentence, but hey, it's my blog and no one's forcing you to read it. If someone is forcing you to read it, my plans for world domination have come to fruition, so you don't get to complain. Please report to the behavioral improvement room in the blue corridor, citizen.
Who am I? I happen to married to one of the most beautiful women in the world. We have 3 children (all boys, god help us) and though I am not blood related I don't feel the need to call them step anything. I'm a programmer by trade and a complete geek by choice. If you were a fellow geek you probably laughed at the last sentence of the above paragraph, and knew what the hell I was talking about. If not, oh boy, you might want to pray I remember to label these things correctly, or you're going to get a crash course in RPG jokes, stupid Internet memes, and the kind of geek t-shirts that you don't get (or want to) but you smile politely at anyway.
My wife may drop by from time to time for the type of well thought out writings you probably want from a blog. Me, I'm in it for the silly, or to complain endlessly. Flip a coin.
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