Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts

Friday, January 05, 2007

Horse Racing Game

click the picture to play

Games for computers or gaming systems are usually in 3 genres: shoot-em-ups, avoid being eaten or squashed while you are eating or squishing, and racing. I am terrible at the first two and almost as bad at the third. Until, that is, I found this game. Most gamers of expert or middling ability will laugh at this one. It has a slow style of play, the animation is decidedly 2-dimensional, and the action is less than riveting. All of these make it perfect for me except the music starts to irritate after 30, no make that 15, seconds. This is for Ronda.

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

I'm an artist?

Here's what I've been making:

And this:

Plus this:

And my current favorite:

No wait, it's really this one:

Have I suddenly embraced my inner psychedelia and poured myself on canvas? I wish. No, the simple truth is I did it the old fashioned way and cheated with used a computer program and now you can too.

click the image to begin

Kaleidoscope Painter is furiously fast and fun for creating instant images. The colors are as brilliant as my old black-light posters and are easily changed. What a brilliant time waster. And my apologies to the real artists out there.

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