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Text Based Browser Games - What Are They?

Filed under: Great Fun, Warlocks Den, Web Of Games — admin at 3:23 pm on Monday, January 10, 2011

So you’ve heard about text based rpg games, and you want to know more. Continue reading to discover the history, attraction and how text based mmorpg games have evolved over time.

Long before the average computer had any sort of graphical capabilities, text based web games were being played on university LANs over exceedingly weak dial-up connections. Best known as multi user dungeons (MUDs), many of these text-based rpg games have been adjusted for play over the web using a MUD client, or more recently, a modern web browser.

Most text-based RPGs have very few graphics. Like their offline pen and paper style predecessors,such as Dungeons & Dragons, they rely on random numbers, written words and statistics. The game can be played over a poor web connection, and can handle a huge number of users, often known as MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). Unlike graphical games, text based mmorpg games will run on computers with much lower system requirements, enabling them to be enjoyed on pretty much any computer connected to the web. Some people also play them on modern handheld gadgets and modern cellphones.

All text based browser games worth their salt must have the ability to build a character, improve their skills, weapons, equipment, status etc, and complete tasks in the game. With so much competition, expectations are generally higher and building a successful text based RPG requires time, effort and constant feature updates. Great text browser games are massively addictive and keep players loyal for months, and sometimes, years.

Facebook observed the attraction in text based browser games and has recently launched Mafia Wars, Farmville and Frontierville, produced by Zynga. Although Zynga’s games are more graphical than the original text based rpg games, the game play is really no different to most other text based mmorpg games.

Why not start with Torn, Mafia Wars, Frontierville or many others, if you want to give text-based web games a try.

Enon Valley Hotels

Filed under: Warlocks Den — admin at 5:06 pm on Monday, November 29, 2010

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Celebrating Science Fiction Together Is Worthwhile

Filed under: Information Infos, Pastime + Entertainment, Warlocks Den — admin at 8:18 pm on Thursday, April 8, 2010

It is impossible to dissuade some people from their errant beliefs. We all harbor certain prejudices or assumptions by which we stand for purely emotional reasons, even though we may not be cognizant of those reasons. Rationally we may feel we stand for certain values or virtues but at some innate level we violate those values by reserving special recourse for ourselves.

Before you assume this article is talking about moral distinctions, picture this: your likes and dislikes don’t always agree with what you say or believe you like and dislike. For example, take literature. You may have said on a hundred occasions, “I hate science fiction” — but if you love monster movies, James Bond, or seeing space ships and ray guns you probably do love science fiction at some level.

There is no need to be embarrassed about actually liking science fiction enough to say something pleasant about it. But the idea of being a “science fiction fan” may collide with your assumptions about what science fiction fans are supposed to be like. There are millions of science fiction fans, many of whom are called “sleepers” because they just don’t realize how much they really belong to the fandom community.

You shouldn’t be afraid to put on your science fiction wings and fly away like a free creature from an outer space cinema. The joy of science fiction fandom is found in its diversity, its uniqueness, and its shared love of some of the corniest, campiest, dumbest movies of all time (and some of the best movies of all time). It should come as no surprise to anyone that science fiction movies dominate the top 10 movies of all time.

Even serious scientists take time out to discuss science fiction on some level because they not only relate to science fiction they have learned that they can relate to other people through science fiction. That is what is really so cool about science fiction, after all: it brings people together from all walks of life, from around the world.