Recreational Time Out

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Mimi85 sent me this one: Spring has sprung!
http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf

1E2 Mark - 94 days downrange

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Strategy Turn Based Game: "The Battle for Wesnoth" Windows Macintosh Linux

This Game is SO Cool it has a Video "Commercial" on Google Video!

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2326396283485985651&hl=en

GettingStarted

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.

Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir, or use your dread power over the Undead to dominate the land of mortals, or lead your glorious Orcish tribe to victory against the humans who dared despoil your lands … Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. You can create your own custom units, and write your own scenarios – or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge your friends – or strangers – and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.

FREE: The Battle for Wesnoth a Strategy Turn Based Game!

Welcome to Wesnoth


The Land of Wesnoth

The Land of Wesnoth is generally divided into three areas: the northlands, which are generally lawless; the kingdom of Wesnoth and its occasional principality, Elensfar; and the domain of the Southwest elves.

The Kingdom of Wesnoth lies in the center of the land. Its borders are the Great River to the north, the Lower Hills in the east and south, the Green Swamp to the southwest, and the Ocean to the west. Elensefar, that sometime province of Wesnoth, is bordered by the Great River to the north, a loosely defined line with Wesnoth to the east, the Bay of Pearls to the south, and the ocean to the west. There is no government of the Northlands. Various groups of orcs, dwarves, barbarian men and even elves populate the region. The northern and eastern borders are not defined, the southern border is the Great River, and the western border is the Ocean.

As you travel around the land you will encounter peaceful villages where you can heal your troops and obtain a good income to support your army. You will also have to cross mountains and rivers, either on foot or mounted, push through forests, hills and tundra, or brazenly cross open grassland. In each of these areas different creatures have adapted to live there and can travel more easily and fight better when they are in familiar terrain. In the hills, mountains and underground caves orcs and dwarves are most at home. In the forests the elves reign supreme while in the oceans and rivers mermen and nagas control the waves.


The Creatures of Wesnoth

The world of Wesnoth contains several races that have joined forces into different factions. Here, Elf and Dwarf fight side by side against Orc and Human. In most campaigns, you will mostly control units from one faction, but often you will have a recruit list with units mixed in from other factions, and will not have some units from a faction available. Basically, your recruit list is determined by the plot of the campaign, not by a predetermined ruleset.

Sometimes factions make alliances with others, so you may face more than one faction in a scenario.

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Categories: Games - Network Play - RPG - Multi-Player - Mac System X - Panther - Tiger - PPC - MacIntel - LINUX - Windows - Santa's PICK

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Fish Fillets - Next Generation is a Puzzle Adventure Game (for Almost EVERY System EXCEPT Mac Classic)



Software Santa Owns this! A Software Santa PICK!
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About:

Fish Fillets NG is a Cross-Platform port of wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets from ALTAR interactive.


Timeline:

    * 1998 - Fish Fillets - official game release (Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP)
    * December 2002 - released as a freeware
    * March 2004 - released source code and data files under GNU/GPL, work on Linux port started


  City In the Deep: Mr. Cheops's House  


 Treasure Cave: Giant's Chest

Game description:

Fish Fillets NG is strictly a puzzle game. The goal in every of the seventy levels is always the same: find a safe way out. The fish utter witty remarks about their surroundings, the various inhabitants of their underwater realm quarrel among themselves or comment on the efforts of your fish. The whole game is accompanied by quiet, comforting music.

Latest news:

      21st December 2006   -   Minor release - Fish Fillets NG - 0.7.4
      What's new
          o One extra level (by Mirek Olsak)
          o Bulgarian translation (by Damyan Ivanov)
          o Swedish translation (by Olov Gustavsson)
          o Fixed table iterations for lua5.1

Oh, this is Way too much Fun to keep to myself! It'll take me Years to finish Playing this I fear ...

About the Game: http://fillets.sourceforge.net/manual.php

Your goal

Your goal in most of the rooms is to get both fish out. To do this you have to move around and rearrange various objects in the room. You have to be very careful because they are quite fragile and it is all too easy to kill them.

The goal of the game is to solve all levels.


Movement rules:

When you start to play the game your fish will perish from time to time from seemingly no reason at all. Here we shall state the general rules governing the life of your fish.

    The Definition:

    The Greater Fish will perish if any object moves in any direction but up and the said object in its new position rests solely upon the Fish.

    The Greater Fish will also perish if any object moves down and in its new position rests solely upon the object or group of objects resting solely upon the Fish.

    The Smaller Fish will perish in all cases where the Greater Fish would. Moreover, it will always perish if a steel object or a group of objects containing a steel object rests solely upon the Fish.

Pushing objects:

The fish are only in danger when they move some object. The simplest situation is lifting objects - there is no danger in it. If a fish moves up, it lifts the object. If it moves left or right, nothing happens, but the object stays in place; if it goes on moving left or right long enough, it will eventually come out from under the object and the object will fall harmlessly down. The only dangerous direction is down. If the fish moves down, the object it was supporting will fall on it and kill it.

If the fish want to push an object, the object must be supported by some structure or other object. The fish cannot support the object it is pushing.

The fish can push an unsupported object only if it becomes supported in the new position.

pushing objects:

Steel object

In some levels you will note the steel objects. Steel objects can only be lifted and pushed by the big fish. The smaller fish cannot move them and if it gets itself under a steel object, it will perish even if it would be harmless with other objects.

Transferring objects:

The fish can transfer objects between themselves. If one fish supports the object and the other one gets into position where the object rests also upon her, the first fish can move away. Any fish can move away and the object will stay upon the other.

Download
Fish Fillets - Next Generation

    You need to download binary+data or source+data to play the game.


You Can Get this Game for the Following Operating Systems:


    Fedora Core

    Debian GNU/Linux
    
    Gentoo Linux

    Mandriva Linux
    
    SUSE Linux
 
    FreeBSD

    NetBSD
 
    Windows - win32 binary+data (mingw build) (99MB)

    MacOS X
    
    BeOS
  
    Amiga OS4
  

Get it HERE: http://fillets.sourceforge.net/

You need some help?  Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Categories: Games - Puzzle Games - Adventure Games - Mac System X - PPC - MacIntel - LINUX - Windows - Amiga - BeOS - *NIX - PICK

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Take a walk in a tropical paradise!

First: get the Unity Web Player here http://unity3d.com/webplayer/ (for Windows XP / Mac 10.3 or later)

Then Visit "Tropical Paradise" here: http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/players/island.unity3d

Up arrow moves you forward and you steer with your mouse.

Find the dug out canoe on the beach across the bridge: there is a large bird wandering around there.


On the other side of the bridge - the side you started on - you can climb over the mountain to find a ruined temple on the beach there. The view from the top of the mountain is nice too.

On the whole: very relaxing.

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I shot this Video of a Stupidly Long Freight Train yesterday.


Give it a couple of minutes to stream properly ...

Some times I'll count the cars - just for fun - but this one was already running so I stopped at 2.  

It went, like, forever, man!