Tag: Computer Games

In many ways, Depths of Perils is a standard sort of action RPG along the lines of Diablo. Create a character, get some quests from the folks in town, go kill things, gather things, escort things, etc.

But this indie game adds an interesting strategic element. Your character is part of a guild (called a convenant here) and you can recruit NPCs to your guild. The goal in the game is to win over the hearts and minds of the townsfolk by finishing the quests, but your guild has competition in the form of computer-controlled guilds who are also accepting and completing quests to try to win over the town folks.

When you’re questing it’s a bit like an MMO in that there are NPCs with these other guilds out gathering 10 hides or killing 15 monsters in the forest at the same time you are questing. Moreover, there are too many quests for any one guild to complete, so you have to pick and choose what you’re going to do.

So you can’t just sit back and plod through this…you’ve got to not only quest, but you’ve got to beat the other computer players at question…or reach diplomatic agreements with them…or fight them.

Wow, someone actually came up with a computer game that has a new and interesting component beyond some new buzzword-compliant graphics engine. Amazing.

There’s a free downloadable demo on the Depths of Peril website, and registering the game costs$30.

WeGame.Com has been billed on some sites as a sort of YouTube for gamers. The site features a downloadable client that lets you record in-game video and then upload it to the WeGame website.

The site says the client is “as fast as a Zergling rush” and a number of commentators have contrasted it with dedicated screen recorders like Fraps. Personally, though, I saw no difference between Fraps and the WeGame client — both kill my system performance (and, admittedly, my computer is a POS compared to what most gamers would consider a real machine).

On the other hand, the WeGame client is free, which is hard to beat — though still Windows only.

Line Golfer is a clever web-based game where you literally draw a one-hole golf course and then attempt to play it. For example, here is one person’s interesting attempt at a Mario World-themed golf course.

Mike Dailly has written exactly what the world was waiting for — an exhaustive history of the old school video game Lemmings. And if you’ve never heard of or played Lemmings before, there’s a Javascript/DHTML version online here.