Category: Tech

Book Of Heroes

Book Of Heroes is a nifty free iOS game I’ve been enjoying for a couple of weeks now. It’s a cross between World Of Warcraft and an old-school RPG.

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That’s the town, where you pick up quests, train, and visit the store. Theres no real movement or exloration, you just click on locations. It’s simple, but fun.

Here’s my character Momo:

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If you’ve played WoW you’ll recognize the inspiration. The game is heavily based around killing enemies, like these:

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Using the skills unique to your character:

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Momo is a Mage, by the way. The game system is quite complex and (so far) seems well balanced. Here’s player stats:

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The bottom line is this game is fun, and free. If you play it (and you should), send me your hero code so I can register you as a friend 🙂

It’s More Fun To Compute

Another graduation gift I received is the TI Voyage 200 calculator. This is pretty much the Rolls Royce of calculators, and (I firmly believe) may be the best chip-based calculator ever made.

This shot shows it next to my iPad, which itself displays a life-sized image of the calculator. How meta!

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It’s a super device that can do almost anything you can imagine. A machine brain that makes me, a mere human, humble.

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Newer TI calculators are more like tablets, with colour screens and apps. This guy is old school, and although it can run apps (downloaded from the PC) via USB, the main function of the device is in a dedicated chip.

Did I mention the manual is 1080 pages in length? 🙂

Anyway I’m going to write a basic game for this one day. You can expect a blog entry if I succeed…

8 Bit Fortress

While I sit here waiting for others to get their damn work done in time so I can do my own (grumble, grumble)… why don’t I show off my new home?

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There it is. Click on it for a mega-sized version. I haven’t named it but I will right now: Cloudgate!

This is, of course, my creation in the fantastic iOS ‘game’ Junk Jack. I built the whole thing out of blocks and parts collected and fashioned myself. It started off as the (now) dungeon, before becoming the castle/house thing aboveground. Note the finer touches, like grass on the roof and glass walls on both sides of the second floor.

My plans are grand! In time I will remove all earth below the house, and have it floating like one of those castles in Dragonlance (or rocks in Avatar…). I will then build a bridge between the castle and the remaining land out of pure gemstone. I shall call it Bifrost, and it shall shimmer like a rainbow. The cavern below the house will be flooded, and nearby I will have a pen of livestock that I will harvest for food to fuel my spelunking into other worlds to obtain more raw materials.

On the very top of the castle I shall build a tower up to the heavens. It will be crested with pyramids and guarded by gigantic, ancient statues. On the very top I will place a gigantic unblinking lens forged from a single massive diamond. It will forever look out amongst the clouds.

Most of the above is currently possible in Junk Jack. Some will come with updates. It’s a clever, clever ‘game’, highly recommended if you like exploring and building.