Gone Home

Today  I played through a short game called Gone Home. It is story about the family and I need to solve why the house is empty. That game gave me a lot of to think about and I have to say it wasn't anything I thought it would be. It took me two hours to explore the game but it was worth playing it through.  I do not add screen shots to this posting so I am not accidentally reveal anything special about the game.

The truth is that I am bad when playing point and click games. I often get jammed somewhere and do not realise how to go forward. Now the story was meaningfull and puzzles made sense. It was only about exploring the story through to learn what had happened when my character was gone from home. 

The story was good and I believe many will see it in different lights. To me it was kind of comforting story after all even there are also darker shades on it. But honestly, if you haven't ried this, you should. It won't take long anyways to play it through despite all the exploring.

Check the trailer from below and enjoy the atmosphere of the game where you do not need to hurry at all. 

Who has the biggest snake?

Sometimes a simple idea can creat an addictive game. In a webpage called slither.io you are playing snake. You grow bigger and try to avoid to be  killed. Just like worm games in in the firts mobile phones. Except now there are other players who you try to lure into your trap so that you can eat the glowing dust what has been left behind from a dead snake. Game is as simple as that but still it is nice to play it every now and then.

You begin as a small snake.

Only the final text reminds your length when you die.

Making knots helps to avoid other snakes.

If you share your result on Twitter or on Facebook you get and option to choose the skincolour to your snake. But other than that it is simple survival game. You do try to eat essence to become larger snake and one of your goals can be try to be in top ten.  It really depends on the day and time how easy it is to get on top ten list. 

The glowing snakes are speeding up.

Once I was lucky to recieved 1st place.. and then I just died.

But simple game and yet I have played it many hours when I do not have much time to play. One game lasts from few minutes for as long as you can survive so the best of snakeplayers most likely roams around rather long time. When I have reached over 10 000 points it has taken about 20 minutes usually. So you can count from it. If you wanna try this game out, you just need fast enough internet connection and browser. Then just go to page slither.io and try to speed up your snake to be a number one using your mouse. Nothing else is needed to be the best snake in the realm.

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.