Archive for March, 2008

Board Games - The Best Selling Board Games Of All Time

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

It must have been a crushing blow. It was 1934, the depths of the Great Depression. Charles Darrow was unemployed. But, he had an idea. Actually, he had a board game. He called the game Monopoly. He liked the board game and felt it was his ticket to financial success and out of the desperation […]

Board Games

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

A board game is any type of game that is played on a marked surface (board). In addition to the board, there are usually pieces that are used to move across the board in various ways, depending on the game being played. There are literally thousands of board games. Some are simple and considered family […]

Settlers of Catan Strategy - Part 4 - The Monopoly and Cartel Strategies

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The Settlers of Catan has been the flagship for German Style Designer Games for many reasons, some of the main ones being its elegant simplicity and its depth of strategy. Your choice of strategies will influence your initial setup and overall game play. The separation of strategies that are outlined in this series is […]

Free Online Kid Games

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Free online computer games do not only cater to teen-agers who are interested in games with sophisticated and often complicated plots. There is also a large number of websites that offer free online computer games to kids below the age of twelve.

These games combine learning and fun so those children who play them not […]

The Game Audio Explosion - A Guide to Great Game Sound Part II: Music, FMVs and Audio Planning

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

V. MUSIC PRODUCTION

A. THE UNDERSCORE ? INTERACTIVE VS. FILM MUSIC

Until recently, you simply could not compare game music to film music. Every aspect involved in their production, from budgets to performance, made it an impractical comparison. Today, these two media have a working relationship. Games are created to support movies and movies are made […]

Monopoly and Mortgage: Playing the Game

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Remember monopoly? Remember mortgages? You know, the text that's written when you flip your title deed. Flipping the title deed means your property is on mortgage and you'll get money from the bank.

Sounds simple right? Wrong. There's much more to it than that.

Here are the things you need to know about the game and how […]

In the Eye of the Beholder

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

In July of 2005, the Road Traffic Management Corporation reported that, during the 2003-2004 crash statistics? reporting period, more people died on South African roads each day (one every 48 minutes) than people were killed in Iraq, an acknowledged war zone.
Historically, bad road conditions have only been responsible for roughly 5% of our accidents human […]

SKIES OF WAR - Fun Beyond My Imagination

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I am keen interested to play web games. Whenever, I become free from my studies, I spend my free time with web games. My excitement increases in my holidays because I know that I will enjoy with my interest. However, there are lots of means to enjoy holidays. I like web games most. Web games […]

Gambling Type Games for Free

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Looking for quality gambling style games such as blackjack, bingo, and poker you can play on your computer? Or perhaps your a fan of playing the slot machines? Well these games and many others are available completely free. They are FULL version games and not the games you often download only to find they are […]

Modern Marvel - The Yellow Pages

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

First was the telephone. Once Alexander Graham Bell got it working, it spread like the southern kudzu vine. In less than two years after the first “Watson, come here I need you” conversation, there were enough telephones for a “central office” and someone to connect and disconnect the callers (1878).

The fastest growing of the new […]