I've played the game for nearly a week now, I suppose I should describe it.
Glitch is a Flash/web based game that has a series of maps connected by various nodes grouped by regions. I find the artwork endearing... it varies from nice woodsy sort of environments, mountainous regions, and underground areas, to psychedelic areas that seem inspired by Dr. Seuss.
The game has several skills your character (called a 'glitch') may learn.
One set of skills seems to influence your character's 'mood', another influences your character's 'energy', another helps your character learn other skills more easily, another set helps your character move about the world more easily, and so on.
The skills have a kind of deity called a 'giant' associated with them. The favor you gain with these giants influence your ability to learn the higher level forms of the skills you choose to learn. There is a maximum number of skills you may learn, which you can increase with the 'Better Learning' skill to a maximum of 37 skills. You may unlearn skills, though, to pick up other skills if you want.
The crafting skills are kind of integral to the game, unlike some games where it exists, but isn't as important to the game. Almost everything you want in the game can be created by another character or yourself if you improve the associated skill enough to create it.
All combat in the game is co-operative. Although I have the skill to engage in combat against 'rooks', I haven't yet. Just haven't stumbled into a situation where they were attacking an area yet.
The community has a reputation of being very co-operative. To date, I haven't met anyone playing this game who is rude. Most people are very co-operative, and the game encourages this kind of gameplay. If you want PvP, you won't find it in Glitch.
For my own part, I have mostly spent the game exploring the game world. You gain achievements for nearly everything, to include exploration. You can explore people's profile easily enough... here's minee:
http://www.glitch.com/profiles/PUVUAIQ5BSP28AE/
(Flaximus is my sister, incidentally... she hasn't played it as much as I h ave, to date).
You can also learn quite a bit about the game through their Encyclopedia:
http://www.glitch.com/encyclopedia/
I have one invite left. Not sure yet to whom I should send it.
I have been the only one in hospital, dothebart. I am a little better now that I sleep at home again. But the doctores didnt diagnoze anything, they seem to be clueless. Calling House, M.D.!!!
hm, though its the wrong time of the year, tick bite infections tend to surpass hospitals (my mom had that some years ago...) so maybe another pointer to have a look at.
get well soon.
the_mgt:
The e-mail I sent for you here was bounced 25 hours ago. I do not see a way in the interface for me to correct it to something else.
wow, that channel is still active? Thought it died out for some reason....
Sorry to hear about your hospital stay, the_mgmt. Hope they figure it out soon and get you back on your feet!
Gnaa, second stay in hospital... they know the general direction of the cause, they claim that it wouldn't have happened again, but it did. Twice! And they also have the cojones to give me the same sorry excuses and the "Won't happen again" again. With a "most probably" added this time. We'll see.
They also have no föcking WiFi in hospital!
I registered my nick in the internet-email-aliases file here on my personal vcard and now it seems that i can receive mails there, fleeb. Can you resent the invite, if possible? I am sick at home now, for a week and would be more than happy to toy around in the game.
Just to continue abusing this thread: I have been to hospital a third time for the same shit :)
Will probably go for a fourth visit to another hospital, since my distrust for the first one is over 9000 now and I need some second opinion. Also, for the protocol: encephalitis totality sucks!
fleeb: The email/invite issue still didn't work out, but I found refuge in Pikmin (New play control) on my wii. :)
Fun stuff:
http://www.farbs.org/games.html
I especially like Rom Check Fail. I remember most of the moving targets, but can't remember the names of all the games.
http://coilhouse.net/2012/06/10-years-of-civilization-ii-1700-virtual-years-of-hell/
Link pretty much describes it: Some guy plays Civilisaition2. Since 10 years.
Does this instantly make lots of games available or does it simply make them portable by the game developers?
The big thing about Steam is that it allows a lot of smaller, indepedent game studios to utilize an alternate method of publishing their software.
Keep in mind that Steam was first released on MS Windows, so most, if not all of the games, are geared towards that platform. Given that, my guess is that Steam on Linux will have the same utility as the Steam apps for mobile phone OSes. You'll be able to access your account, change settings, chat with friends, check out statistics, browse through the game catalog and make purchases, etc.
With WINE, though, there's a chance that a number of those games will run on Linux as well. I'm curious what Valve's stance is on that; whether it's something they've considered or not.
Steam Binder
from what i've read at least some of those using steam as their distribution channel are trying to port their games to linux.
since i.e. the indie humble bundle and the ubuntu market shows that linux users are willing to purchase games (which was always denied in advance)
10% of the HIB were linux purchases, though 18% of the money transfered originated from linux purchasers (since HIB alowes you to choose the price you pay...)