I’m going to step out of my normal subject matter and blog about a game I just recently discovered on the Internet. I don’t generally have too much time to play games but I’m not a complete book worm either. The game is called IKARIAM and is a free web-based game.
It’s a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game in the same genre as Sid Meier’s Civilization and built completely around Javascript with some very nice graphics. It can be monotonous for some but it’s also a very easy game that is played in real-time. It provides a nice balance of action and strategy and was truly fun to play. It appealed to me in that I could spend just a few minutes every day (or every few days) and enjoy it just as much if I had spent a few hours playing it.
What was just as interesting was the enormous support for Ikariam within the Greasemonkey community. Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that “allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML based web pages”. I personally use a number of Greasemonkey scripts that really enhance my web browsing activity.
If you’re feeling stressed out and have a few minutes to waste I would highly suggest you make your way over to IKARIAM, you’ll probably feel like a little kid again — or perhaps like the emperor Julius Caesar!
Cheers!
UPDATE: May 2, 2008
I’d like to thank ecmanaut for his hard work. Here’s the link to his Kronos Utils project on Google Code;
http://ecmanaut.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sites/ikariam.org/kronos-utils/kronos_utils.user.js
And don’t forget his two other scripts;
http://ecmanaut.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sites/ikariam.org/ikariam_friend_list.user.js
http://ecmanaut.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sites/ikariam.org/ikariam_score_linker.user.js
Cheers!
Update: May 21, 2008
Here are some additional links to the Kronos Utils for Ikariam;
http://code.google.com/p/ecmanaut/source/list
http://corentin.jarnoux.free.fr/kronosutils/index.php
Cheers!