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February 05, 2008
Fun Game
I'm just a casual computer gamer. I tend to like puzzle games, and recently found a good one. It's not super hard, but just hard enough to engage my interest for a while.
I downloaded the "Cradle of Rome" demo from Yahoo Games. The conceit is that you're trying to build Rome from scratch, and you do this by accumulating resources by playing levels. The levels are three-in-a-row tile-matching sort of like Bejeweled and such, but have some interesting twists like chained tiles that won't let other tiles fall until they're cleared.
Now like most Yahoo games demos it timed out after an hour of play. However, this demo has a "Well, OK, five more minutes" feature, where you can play for another 5 minutes after it expires. And then five more minutes after that. And so on.
And the part that makes it interesting is that each time it times out like that, IT SAVES YOUR GAME FOR YOU.
Now this sounds like a pain in the anatomy, but I've come to regard it as a feature. Rather than addictively sinking into it for hours, it has an automatic stop that makes me think "is there something better I could do?"
If yes, I do something else. If no, I play another 5 minutes.
I'm half tempted to buy it on general "I like, I pay" principals and then NOT install the full version.
Posted by Berry at February 5, 2008 05:16 PM
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