Category Archives: Games

Sam Triggy – A Real Triple GuitarHero

Just wanted to share one of my latest
discoveries on youtube.Sam Triggy from
Malaysia, doesn’t play guitar…
…he does not play two guitars…
…no, he plays three guitars, at the same time.

Man, he’s a real pro. Enjoy Take 5 and Autumn Leaves performed by
Sam Triggy alone,
with his 3 e-guitars.

And one more video to give you an impression of his ability to play
different style music too.

This one is inspired by Jimi Hendrix:

Feel free to search on youtube for more different styles,
instruments and concertvideos of Sam Triggy.

MMORPG Fever – Guild Wars – Nightfall Campaign

Almost one week since my last post, so
what happened ?About 1 year ago I build a gaming PC, and the only game I
did play was X3 –
Reunion
, well meanwhile getting a bit bored of it, or didn’t
play anything else at all, I decided to enter world of MMORPG
(Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

Having played Neverwinter Nights a certain time ago, which was a
offline role playing game, I searched for a transition game to
enter the “for myself mysterious” world of online gaming.

And there I found Guild Wars – Nightfall, usually online role playing
games do charge a monthly fee for gaming and storing your data,
while Guild Wars gaming is for free. And the best thing is, the
latest add-on Nightfall, is a complete standalone game, which
further can be played “online”, but without the need to build
guilds with other online-players. An ideal transition for
“single-players” to get into guild playing.
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So within the last 4 days of gaming (yeah right not one complete
week), I’ve already reached level 13 as a
derwish/elemental-magician.
Here are some screenshots
of the Guild Wars World
.
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It also has its own wiki in
english
and german.
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So, what’s next ?

Just in a few days the “non-game-based” MMO-World SecondLife will be released
for the german
market
, as it becomes more and more hype recently, I’ll
certainly give it a try, but as of now, I still can’t get the
“sense” of SecondLife other than making virtual/or_real money in a
virtual world without any aims/targets.

May the magic power be with you, and your guild !
Kobaan.

Real tough Sudoku

Sudoku became
world famous in the last months, although it exists since 18th
century when swiss mathematician Leonhard
Euler
discovered a puzzle game called Latin Square.
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The name Sudoku comes from the japanese sentence:
数字は独身に限る
,
meaning as much as: limit to unique numbers.
Although published in various newspapers over the years, it reached
world wide fame quite recently.Meanwhile there are also a lot of more complex sudokus for “the
advanced puzzle fan”.

Sudoku
with 16 sqaures and numbers.
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Sudoku
as jigsaw puzzle, non square based:
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And for the real freaks, pre-requistiting a computer, and probably
a 3D graphics card:
The ultimate 3-dimensional Sudoku called:
3doku, available for Mac and PC.
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If you’re interested in the different mathematical approaches to
solve a sudoku take a look at wikipedia.

Nostalgically – Dark Faith of 3rdMillenium Projects

Browsing through my computer library
archives, I rediscovered some demo screenshots of a computer
role-playing-game that I was programming together with Sun(Gerd) as
graphical artist, Loki(Reyk) and Bernhard for background story and
concept.Within 3 years, and only 1 programmer, we didn’t achieve a finished
playable game, but anyway we all learned a lot doing this Dark
Faith Game for he 3rd Millenium Projects initiative.

Click on
the image above or here to see further screenshots of “our”
programming and “graphics design” progress.

Back right now, Sun is heavily creating in Blender again, as you
can read in his blog.

The more interesting thing is, that all project members changed to
intel Mac’s by this year. Laugh

Eye Toy Kinetic

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Quit your fitness contract, buy Eye Toy Kinetic…

…you’ll get a virtual personal trainer and do various
funny, although exhausting training lessons, three times a
week.

For those of you thinking that they’re fit enough to do a
harder training, you can exercise freestyle.
But I promise you, you’ll sweat like you never did before
Laugh
Even Tai Chi or Meditation lessons, really can be a
challenge.
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Own X3 Map released

I know there are already some good
sectormaps available, even for the latest Release X2 of the
X-universe saga.

There’re also quite a few lists with some more information
available, so I decided to include as much information as possible
into my very own map.
If you’re interested you can download it here:
http://home.mnet-online.de/tuxine/x3kobaanmap.jpg (gif and png
version also available)

Features:

Showing all sectors for X3 by their names
Graphical Sectorsize
Mark Solar Power Plants
Mark Shipyards
Mark Docks
Mark Pirate Bases
List Superfreighter I/II availability
Relative Spacegate Positions
Mark profitable asteroids for each sector by ore, silicon,
nividium
List sector protection M1,M2,M6 and TL availability
Energie Support/Shortage mapping through the whole map
Prepared non-functional space-gates
Marketprice comparison
Rocket Damage/Speed/Range data

Changes:
V0.5
Included marketprice comparison list
Included rocket-data list
Included Race color-coding

V0.4
High resolution clean-ups
set non-functional gates visibility

V0.3
Energy-Support and shoratge highlighted through the map (blueish
background)
Legend scaled to a more readable size
Scaled some known wide sectors in width t.b.c.

V0.2
Translated Sectorname Avarice to german Habgier
Include information on highest asteroid value: ore, silicon,
nividium
Added pinpoints (yet invisible) for non-functional spacegates
List Superfreighter I/II availability

V0.1
Include information on shipyards, docks, pirate bases, solar power
plants
Include information on spacegate positions
List sector protection M1,M2,M6 and TL availability

V0.0
Scaled sectors by their size (middle spacegate distance)
Initial version based on old maps, with additional sectors

I didn’t translate the map to english yet, this may follow someday
later.