perjantai 25. maaliskuuta 2016

Draw a Stickman

I started a different kind of game after seeing some videos about it on Youtube. The game is called Draw a Stickman where you play a selfmade character. Sounds funny? Well at least it is interesting game for sure. And not that easy unless you have get used to play puzzle games which I have not. 

Making first versio of my character. 

Also made my friend Tina, who suddenly left from canvas!

So in the beginning of the game you can make you character and actually draw it. But amount of colours is limited. You will gain more of them during the game so then you can make your character to look better later or as good as your drawing skills allows it to be. But it is good to know that when you choose to use remake option you can't return to play old character anymore. After making your character you have to draw your friend and name it. When your friend is ready story will begin.

The exploring begins.

One by one more minimaps are opened for to play.

Time to use magic pen what creates fire.

And after clicking agreed flames will burn. 

Whole game is full of  minimaps and each of them you can find pathes to new maps, pieces of puzzle, new colours and pages what well explain what actually happens in game. So even you would  find entrance to another map it is usefull to explore each minimap more. There is also magic pens in game.. on each minimap you get certain magic pens to use and survive from the challenges what maps offers. At first I thought you could have all the existing pens in further maps as well but there I went wrong. Not on this game  what is a pity since it leaves the feeling that story isn't ongoing even it is. Or maybe I have played so many rolegames that I missing improving the character.

Remade character when found more colours.

Story in the book goes forward and you can choose new maps. 


The game do not seem to be a long one but it is nice. At times I had some difficulties to figure out what to do.. but after few times of dying most of the puzzles were able to solve out. Game also gives you hints what you can read after dying in the map or skip them if you want to solve everything by yourself. But when you want a nice little game what to play  every now and then, this is worth of trying. No big plots and hours of gaming. You can solve one map and then continue another time if you're feeling too busy to play more. And besides.. good thing is that now you can make any kind of hero you wanna play!

sunnuntai 6. maaliskuuta 2016

Addictive game about geography: Geoguessr

This time I am telling about the game what you do not need to buy or download. You just go to webpage called https://geoguessr.com/ and start playing. You do not even have to sign up unless you want to. . The idea in the game is simple. Try to guess where you are! Sounds simple but still offers plenty of challenge. 

There is several options what you can play.

First landscape could be in some many places

Signs and machine could give you a hint.

Still I was totally lost.


You can play different kind of games there. The whole world can be your playground or you can stick on famous places. There is also made special games from some of the countries or famous cities. But I have mostly tried the World game and the Famous places one. They just seems the most interesting and offers enough challenge. 


One of the famous places.

Then you mark your suggestion on the map and make a guess.

Not a bad result.

There is always five places what you need to know where they are. You will get points depending how close you were. When you're playing Wolrd map you are getting still some points even you were over 2000 kilometer lost. But in Famous places over thousand kilometer won't give you any points. Maximum points from each target is 5000 so you can recieve 25000 points on each game if you get five perfect matches.

Suddenly we are in place where stone is crushed.

One good hint is the outfit of the females.

Yay, at least country was right!
This game is based on the pictures what Google has been taking around the world and unfortunately sometimes landscape might look flurry. At times pictures are very sharp ones. So this depends on your luck. And you're always sticking on road and looking surroundings from there. On some roads you can click and travel a long time to seek signs or any hints where you're, but then there are possibility that you're inside the house and can't move out of there. 

If you get lucky, you get picture from your own country.
You will be close when you have visit the place like have.
Few mistakes lowers the final result.


But this is absolutely fun game even the idea is simple! Only five rounds per games shouldn't take too long but at least I am then thinking one more game repeating the mantra. And suddenly you have spend hour with it. So this is fun to play alone, compete with friends but I also see options to use this game at school. When you have extra time with students why not to play with them this one? But I have to warn you. This is highly addictive game... at least for geographers like me.