The house in Minecraft

I have been lately played more Minecraft again since somehow it is easy to return anytime I want to do so. Instead of playing servers hosted by someone else I have played on my own. Main reason is that usually servers simply vanishes or aren't online all the time if owner can't keep them  up. So even building alone is lonely, I do not have to get frustrated.

Made some decorations to the bedroom.

Dining room and kitchen behind it.

Living room and stairs to second floor.

So lately I finished one house project in my server. I am not get used to build anything medium sized house even so this is one of the first tryings what I actually finished. Of course everything would be easier if I would be building on creative mode but somehow I like the idea that I need to gather every ingredient on survival mode. It makes building more meaningful yet slow as well. Maybe simple mining and crafting is good when you're simply exhausted from the work. As you can see from pictures the house is rather simple but I am happy that finally the ceiling looks fine. At least I am satisfied with it.

House from distance.

There is secret field of wheat in upstairs.

Skeleton horses fell in love with my house.

The view is nice.

I have found modpacks lately again in Minceraft so most likely next posting about Minecraft will be about them. As a Middle-Earth fan I found modpack including Middle-Earth in Minecraft so I am thrilled to play more of it! Wohoo!  

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!

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.

Minecraft minigame: Speed Builders

Now it was time to return back to play minigames in Minecraft. I haven't played in Mineplex before but now I had to try it out when they offered a minigame called Speed Builder! I just went to European server (eu.mineplex.com) and logged in.

You have few seconds to see model before building own.

The penguin should look like this.

Various versions about the penguin.

Speed Builder is simple game. On each game there can be 8 participants. On very round you will have few seconds to watch the model what you need to build. When the model disappears you have 30 seconds time to copy it. Challenge is also that you can't fly so you need to build like you were playing survival mode. And that you have only that amount of building materials what you need. No more or less.

Gwen the Guardian eliminates someone on every round.

Sometimes 56% is enough to survive from elimination.

When I tested the game I find it very difficult at first. You need to have a good memory to memorize all the details in ten seconds and then build them in 30 seconds. If you build your structure on wrong tiles you are most likely eliminated fast. Since every round there will be elimination. The one who gains lowest complete percent on the round will be eliminated. If everyone succeeds to build exact copy about the model there won't be elimination on that round. 

At times even I can be succesfull. 

Third place is my highest result for now.

But after playing this game I quite enjoyed it. Comparing to Build battle I like the fact that opinions of the other players does not matter. You can manage well with your own talents and not being voted out randomly by other players. So if I am eliminated fast by Gwen I just know that I need to improve my building and memory. So if you wanna try how good you're building fast, I can recommend to try Speed Builders. It is fun game and takes less than 15 minute to play through so good game for a little break. There were other interesting games in Mineplex also so I might tell about them on another time.

Guildwars 2, The Vistas

There are games what I have been playing a long while ago.. Then I had a break with them until  I find them again. One of these games is Guildwars 2. It  is multiplayer game where you can adventure around a realm without paying certain sum monthly. You just buy the game and start playing, how satusfying.

Vista in Silverwastes

Vista in Divinity's Reach

The GW2 is visually loooking very nice. Every map is made to look different and when you look down from the hill it really feels that you're standing on the high place. Maps are also full of quests, places where is something interesting and vistas. Vistas are usually places where you can see landscape perfectly well. So most often they're on high places where you can get best impression how the land looks like around you.

Vista in Brisban Wildlands

Vista in Harathi Hinderlands

Vista in Tiessa Plateau

I will tell more about Guildwars 2 and it's gaming at some point. But now I wanted to show it looks like. If you haven't tried this game, I can recommend at least to watch some videos from Youtube to see if you like it. Of course if mmorpgs aren't you thing, this ain't for you. But otherwise beautifull and cheap GW2 is a good choice to try out!

Monster loves you

How it feels to be monster? Born from a goo, make your own decisions and grow up in to bigger one who will scare away human and tend the animals. Or perhaps you wanna be little monster who hides and use intelligent to solve problems. You decide since it is time to live life of a monter!

The story begins

First choices has been done.

The consequences follows decisions you made.

Time to born from a goo!

Monter loves you is an indie game what is based to little text adventures. You do not have to move and explore with your monster, you just decide from offeren options the ones what fits best to you creature. So very nice little game what is fast to play through. When I played my first adventure it only took a little more than hour. I clicked the adventures, read the texts and made decisions. And then my monster got attributes like bravery or kindness. Or I lost some point from them if I chose wrongly.. so finding balance isn't always easy among the monsters.

The Attributes after finishing monsterlinghood.

Options how to deal every adventure.

Some of the adventure take you out of the monster village.

Played through for the first time.

The game is nicely made and simple. I was also worried if it is fun to play thourgh only once. When I started my second round, it was good to notice that some of teh adventures were changed and I had some other options to  pick than what I had on the first round. If it wouldn't have been like this it would be boring to play it through unless I waited long time between games. So good thinking from the makers.

New life is born and time to have adventures.

You can pick adventures you want from the offered ones.

Eventually little ones grows to adult ones.

And best of the adults will become elders!

Monster loves you is lovely minigame but isn't anything what will make your head whirl and you're totally fascinated about it. When I am tired to play longer games I stick on shorter ones and this game is perfect to that. Just enjoy the little adventures and quests and try to make your monster popular among others. That seems way harder than maximize some of the attributes. But if you like indie games which are easy to start to play, you could try this one out. To those who desires more complicated games, I can't recommend this one.