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Global Warfare on Google Plus

Global Warfare is one of the latest games on Google Plus. There are lots of similarities between this game and Evony at http://evony.com

Global Warfare is made by Kabam https://www.kabam.com/games/global-warfare which is making a total of 3 games for Google Plus (out of 18) and it has Google Ventures as a strategic investor as well (and a member on the board). Google is clearly wanting to bet on online gaming with its earlier strategic investment in Zynga as well. It also acquired http://www.labpixies.com/  (which makes the game Sudoko Puzzles and Flood It but it has more games in reserve as can be seen at https://market.android.com/search?q=labpixies, so clearly G+ is being selective on Games directory at https://plus.google.com/games/directory)

With these gaming companies and others like http://www.digitalchocolate.com/about/ and http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=company and http://www.popcap.com/ – well they are all there on G+

is gaming the ace in hand in G+ plans for Facebook- time will tell.

Evony of course was a very good game, as it was also very similar (allegedly) to Civilization, and though its advertising campaign of semi clad characters draws flak, it got the worlds attention and recall. While Evony was situated in medieval world,  Global Warfare is a modern warfare equivalent.

Features in Global Warfare-

  • Alliances,
  • multiple player online gaming,
  • social sharing and rewards,
  • in game purchases,
  •  persistent world

Some drawbacks-

  • Slight clutter in gaming space (and lack of nice fonts!)
  • Lack of help forums (or easy availability)
  • Lack of in game search for searching or navigating alliances
Overall- a nice addition to the G+ family of games

 

Top 10 Games on Linux -sudo update

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Here are some cool games I like to play on my Ubuntu 10.10 – I think they run on most other versions of Linux as well. 1) Open Arena– First person Shooter– This is like Quake Arena- very very nice graphics and good for playing for a couple of hours while taking a break. It is available here- http://openarena.ws/smfnews.php ideally if you have a bunch of gaming friends, playing on a local network or internet is quite mind blowing entertaining. And it’s free! 2) Armagetron– This is based on the TRON game of light cycles-It is available here at http://www.armagetronad.net/ or you can use Synaptic packages manager for all the games mentioned here

3) Sudoko–

If violence or cars is not your stuff and you like puzzles like Sudoko, well just install the application Sudoko from http://gnome-sudoku.sourceforge.net/ Also recommended for people of various ages as it has multiple levels.

4) Pinball

If you ever liked Pinball play the open source version from download at http://pinball.sourceforge.net/ Alternatively you can go to Ubuntu Software Centre>Games>Arcade>Emilio>Pinball and you can also build your own pinball if you like the game well enough. 5) Pacman/Njam- Clone of the original classic game.  Downloadable from http://www.linuxcompatible.org/news/story/pacman_for_linux.html 6) Gweled– This is free clone version of Bejeweled. It now has a new website at http://gweled.org/ http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gweled-Download-3449.html

Gweled is a GNOME version of a popular PalmOS/Windows/Java game called “Bejeweled” or “Diamond Mine”. The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left. Here are some key features of “Gweled”: · exact same gameplay as the commercial versions · SVG original graphics

7) Hearts – For this card game classis you can use Ubuntu software to install the package or go to http://linuxappfinder.com/package/gnome-hearts 8) Card Games- KPatience has almost 14 card games including solitaire, and free cell. 9) Sauerbraten -First person shooter with good network play, edit maps capabilities. You can read more here- http://sauerbraten.org/ 10) Tetris-KBlocks Tetris is the classic game. If you like classic slow games- Tetris is the best. and I like the toughest Tetris game -Bastet http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html Even an xkcd toon for it

That’s all for holiday season folks, the top 10 lists is based on almost 3 decades of gaming experience, but beauty is the eye of the beholder- so happy gaming for free.
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SAS Fun: Sudoko

Here is a SAS program to help you beat others at Sudoko, and impress people. It was written by a chap named Ryan Howard in 2006, and I am thankful for him in allowing me in sharing this.You can let us know if you find a puzzle it could not solve , or if you tweak the program a bit. The code is pasted below.

Have fun !

And the SAS paper on this was at SAS Global Forum 2007- the resulting
paper, “SAS and Sudoku”, was written by Richard DeVenezia, John Gerlach,
Larry Hoyle, Talbot Katz and Rick Langston, and can be viewed at
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/011-2007.pdf.

(p.s. I haven’t tested this on WPS , they still dont have the SAS Macro language ,but let me know if you have any equivalent in SPSS or R 🙂   )

*=============================================================================;
* sudoku.sas                                                                  ;
* Written by: Ryan Howard                                                     ;
* Date: Sept. 2006                                                            ;
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------;
* Summary: This program solves sudoku puzzles consisting of a 9X9 matrix.     ;
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------;
* Upgrade Ideas:  1. Add a GUI to collect the input numbers and display output;
*                 2. Expand logic to work for 16X16 matrices                  ;
*=============================================================================;

title;
options nodate nonumber;

data _null_;

    *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------;
    * input  inital values for each cell from puzzle                              ;
    *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------;

    _1111=9; _1112=.; _1113=.;   _1211=.; _1212=.; _1213=.;   _1311=1; _1312=.; _1313=.;
    _1121=5; _1122=.; _1123=.;   _1221=.; _1222=6; _1223=.;   _1321=.; _1322=4; _1323=2;
    _1131=.; _1132=.; _1133=.;   _1231=7; _1232=1; _1233=.;   _1331=5; _1332=.; _1333=.;

    _2111=.; _2112=.; _2113=2;   _2211=.; _2212=.; _2213=.;   _2311=.; _2312=1; _2313=.;
    _2121=.; _2122=3; _2123=.;   _2221=.; _2222=.; _2223=.;   _2321=2; _2322=9; _2323=.;
    _2131=.; _2132=7; _2133=.;   _2231=.; _2232=.; _2233=6;   _2331=.; _2332=.; _2333=3;

    _3111=.; _3112=2; _3113=.;   _3211=.; _3212=.; _3213=8;   _3311=.; _3312=.; _3313=.;
    _3121=.; _3122=.; _3123=4;   _3221=5; _3222=.; _3223=.;   _3321=.; _3322=.; _3323=.;
    _3131=.; _3132=.; _3133=.;   _3231=.; _3232=3; _3233=.;   _3331=8; _3332=.; _3333=9;

    %macro printmatrix;
    *----------------------------------------------------------------;
    * print the result matrix                                        ;
    *----------------------------------------------------------------;
       *---------------------------------------------------;
       * Assign column positions for printing matrix       ;
       *---------------------------------------------------;
       c1=1;
       c2=10;
       c3=20;
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