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My Town 2 is a simple freemium mobile game I play from time

My Town 2 is a simple freemium mobile game I play from time to time. Its kind of like Sim City but since its a freemium Tiny Tower like game, time is a factor and you can purchase in game currency to speed things up.

I wanted to post an recent image of my town "Mos Eisley" above and let you know a secret I found. I don't believe you need to build roads in My Town 2. I mean, you can in fact build roads but I haven't built any roads at all save what came with my town and nothing bad has happened.

I believe roads are simply for looks because none of my citizens or businesses suffer because I don't build roads. One benefit to not building roads is you have more room to build... Read All

For all you math nerds out there.

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/225617-hotness32header.jpg

For all you math nerds out there.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/11/2012 at 02:42pm

Awesome.

Do you Pokemon?

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/11/2012 at 07:46pm

Ha! I'm taking calculus this semester, so we recently just talked about differentiation. I have no idea why they're teaching me this stuff, but if they had told me it was to make math/pokemon jokes I might have paid more attention. :P

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 04/12/2012 at 02:32am

I played through the first one on an emulator. Collected a total of about 20 pokemon. Enjoyed it, but never really "got into" it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/12/2012 at 03:43am

Sure. I got the first blue game on the original Game Boy. It was pretty fun, I tried returning it after a few days of not really digging it. The store had just implemented a no return policy because they thought I copied the Game Boy Kart or something? Anyways, I actually got my money back though. Never after that though.

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Todays shirt woot is pretty awesome.

http://sale.images.woot.com/8-Bits_to_Rule_Them_AlllmlDetail.png

Todays shirt woot is pretty awesome.

http://shirt.woot.com/

Yeah I am pretty crazy excited for this game. Barb looks

Yeah I am pretty crazy excited for this game. Barb looks awesome.

I will use this here site to let yall know when ill be on battle.net and how the games with people I play go. A few people on the site will be playing with me, so very excited.

Talked to one such person today about the lull in great games out now. I agreed, the games that have come out recently haven't been too exciting. Maybe we are missing something awesome?

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/10/2012 at 07:10am

I like how at 2:12 he goes Super Saiyan.

Tungsten wrote on 04/10/2012 at 10:03am

There's a string coming up that has me pretty excited:
• Diablo 3
• Torchlight 2
• Borderlands 2
• XCOM
• Guild Wars 2

In the last twelve months though, I would agree. I think I really only wanted 4 titles or so.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/10/2012 at 02:14pm

I should add Torchlight 2 to my mental list. Then again, will it be on par with D3?

Tungsten wrote on 04/10/2012 at 10:45pm

I see your point, but if D3 wasn't coming out near the same time, I would be VERY excite for Torchlight2.

It is going to be cheaper? If that matters to you.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/11/2012 at 03:04am

Ill pay whatever for great games. Ill prob pick this up too. When sort of depends on how well Diablo 3 is working out. I do like that it offers LAN and online play with friends. The "netbook on an airplane" crowd comes to mind. I don't own a netbook, but if I did that might be nice.

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A few people have mentioned to me that its not straight

A few people have mentioned to me that its not straight forward how to get your imagery from your games to upload to the web and share on Cheerful Ghost.

Recently I created a blog post about it, check it out:

http://blog.cheerfulghost.com/post/20503613172/getting-your-own-images-on-cheerful-ghost

Long and short of it, nab your screen-shots, pics, etc and upload them to http://imgur.com/ Its the easiest way to upload your images on the web. Imgur is popular on Reddit and other social sites.

Hope you find this helpful, I used imgur to upload my own personal imagery for quite a few of my posts.

Often times board games dont translate well to digital.

Often times board games don't translate well to digital. Haven't played a Monopoly game I liked on the computer yet. That said, some games are simple enough to translate really well digitally and on mobile such as Ticket to Ride Pocket.

Ticket to Ride is a board game where you play one of a few railroad barons that are trying to build rail roads across the United States. At the start you pick routes and then compete with other players for completing your routes and getting points. If you are blocked and can not complete a route it counts negatively against your score. There are more rules, but thats it in a simplistic form.

The board game is a favorite amongst my wife... Read All

Recently watched a video talking about the Diablo 3 beta on

Recently watched a video talking about the Diablo 3 beta on Slashdot.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/03/2042253/the-state-of-the-diablo-3-beta-two-videos?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotGames+%28Slashdot%3A+Games%29

Its a bit dry but found the content interesting and afterward was really excited to play it. Originally I wanted to play as a Demon Hunter when I started but the reviewer seemed to think it wasn't quite up topar with the other classes. From his description I may try the Witch Doctor for my first play through.

May 15th can not come soon enough!

Good Old Games is offering the original Fallout for free for

http://static.gog.com/upload/images/2008/11/174652fc1e425eb0aefc66dca2cb7cc553b3d5bf.jpg

Good Old Games is offering the original Fallout for free for the next 48 hours:

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

While you are adding that to your account, grab all the other free GoG games:

http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue/?price=free

I picked up Empire Earth free a few months back and this is just as cool. Enjoy!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:10am

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. Just snagged it for myself. :) Another great game I may or may not have time to play sometime in the future! lol

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:15am

Yeah, having access to cheap or free games is awesome but it doesn't mean you play them all :)

Tungsten wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:00pm

I got this a few years back while waiting for Fallout 3. I had the same problem I have with RPG's now: I constantly start over, convinced there was a better way to do things. I think in the 10 hours I played it I never got more than one hour in with a character. TOO MANY CHOICES!!!

Fun though. Makes me miss turn based games. We have this obsession with real time action now. The VATS system was a decent compromise in Fallout3, but I do miss the good old tile based movement.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:11pm

Miss the old days: I do too. Seems like the only people that are doing these older styled games are mobile or indie devs.

That said we can always play the old games, well I guess until they no longer run. Been impressed how old games still are playable on windows though. It's cool.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/08/2012 at 04:13am

I need to give Fallout 1 and 2 their fair shake. I barely played them, and not until after playing 3 and New Vegas. Now that I have some distance from those, I can probably appreciate the old ones the way they deserve.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/08/2012 at 03:23pm

Makes sense. Kind of wonder how I would react to the ol Baldurs games considering I never played them. Excited about the new remake though.

Old games I played back in the day seem to hold up just fine though.

Tungsten wrote on 04/10/2012 at 12:18am

I love old games, but I've been too coddled by the new mechanics. I can't imagine playing doom without regenerating shields and health or mellee attacks. At least it had co-op.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/10/2012 at 01:37am

And deathmatch.

I hear you though, but some old games still hold up for me. Not all but quite a few.

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Farside from the early 90s.

Farside from the early 90's.

Tungsten wrote on 04/05/2012 at 09:26pm

My parents still dream

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/05/2012 at 10:46pm

LOL! Such a rad cartoon.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/06/2012 at 01:13am

I wanted to be a video game tester pretty bad. That or call center rep like the people in the movie The Wizard. After working as a call center rep I can say I don't dream about that anymore.

Tungsten wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:06pm

Ya, I've heard testing sucks too. I can imagine playing a buggy game for hours on end would start to really suck. (Though it never hurt Bethesda... ba-zing!)

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/06/2012 at 05:11pm

Hahahaha, zing but fair.... So many bugs...

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 03:07am

Sweet!

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Check out this cool article on The New York Times called

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/04/08/magazine/08cover/08cover-sfSpan-v2.jpg

Check out this cool article on The New York Times called "Just One More Game ...
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games'."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=1

Yeah ok the name isn't great, but its an interesting article. Also interesting is the HTML5 game on the page. Play it. Its a very fun idea.

PS I love silly and addictive games, they are awesome.