I now have a house. It's a very very very fine house. With two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard...
Sorry. Flashback.
It is a nice little house, though, and I was fortunate to get one with a fruit tree and a spice tree. I can also ride the subways, but I don't need to yet.
The problem now is I don't know what to do with myself. I think the issue is that I don't know what I can do. There's a lot that can be done, I just don't know what the possibilities are, so I don't know what to aspire to. I should focus my skills toward a goal, but I don't have one.
My new goal is chickens. I'd like a few chickens in the house, and for that I need Animal Husbandry. I was learning Better Learning II, but I have since switched to Animal Kinship III. Something nice that I noticed is that your time spent learning is not actually wasted. Once I'm done with AK3, I can go back to BL2 and pick up where I left off. But I need AK5 to get Animal Husbandry, so I'll be at this for a while. I want chickens for the grain, really. To make buns, for sammiches. I like sammiches. I'm also going to capture a few piggies. I don't know if I'll go full-on farmer and do the meat collector/piggy feeder thing just yet. I might also need a bigger house first. For now, chickens.
I find that with these types of sandbox games, much like life, it's better to divide your "play story" into a bunch of smaller goals and work toward each one. You can have a grand design, but break it up into milestones and it'll make the experience much more rewarding. My problem is I want to do everything. Unlike the other games, though, you only get one Glitch.
Once I figure out how to get screenshots (I think it's the Print Screen key ;) ) I'll start posting pictures. I'd like to show off my house and my current avatar, and I had thought to post "avatar of the week" shots if I see fun costumes.
Now Tiny Speck needs to add in furniture and the ability to decorate your house. I like my house, but the rook decor is a little creepy.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Getting around...
I'm level 5 now and I still don't know what I'm doing. I'm having fun, though. Mining seems to be the most efficient way to make some cash right now. I'll check out cooking and blending soon. I don't have a goal for myself just yet beyond exploring and experiencing everything I can.
I started the road to getting my papers so I can ride the subway. The bureaucracy involved is hysterical, and I'm having great fun going through the process. This game is my type of humor.
For those of you who, like me, want to keep track of where they've been to better explore, you may want to download this handy location tracker. In the Glitch forums are a couple of Greasemonkey posts with other handy scripts in them. I may have to bookmark a few things soon.
While I'm at it, you should have this link handy, too: The (unofficial) Glitch Strategy Blog and Wiki
I started the road to getting my papers so I can ride the subway. The bureaucracy involved is hysterical, and I'm having great fun going through the process. This game is my type of humor.
For those of you who, like me, want to keep track of where they've been to better explore, you may want to download this handy location tracker. In the Glitch forums are a couple of Greasemonkey posts with other handy scripts in them. I may have to bookmark a few things soon.
While I'm at it, you should have this link handy, too: The (unofficial) Glitch Strategy Blog and Wiki
You're so vain...
I have a new avatar now.
Customizing your Glitch is done through two methods: the Wardrobe and the Vanity. The Wardrobe is for clothes and the Vanity is for appearance.
In the Vanity, you can customize your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair and skin color. There are a lot of options to choose from, and more if you're a subscriber. Once you picked a part, you can adjust the size and height of it. For hair it's just color. I was a little disappointed to see no color option for eyes, especially since you can make them really big.
The Wardrobe has options for hats/masks, coats, shirts, pants, footwear, dresses and skirts. Boy is there a selection! There are plenty of free clothes for you to mix and match all sorts of different looks. Most of the clothes must be purchased with credits, and many of them are subscriber-only.
The biggest thing I noticed in doing this is that there is no gender in Glitch. You are what you want to be. You can change your appearance at any time, so you can be a boy one day and a girl the next. That sort of freedom is liberating and wonderful.
I'm looking forward to changing my appearance a lot and playing with styles. I really like what Tiny Speck did with avatar customization and hope it just gets more robust.
Customizing your Glitch is done through two methods: the Wardrobe and the Vanity. The Wardrobe is for clothes and the Vanity is for appearance.
In the Vanity, you can customize your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair and skin color. There are a lot of options to choose from, and more if you're a subscriber. Once you picked a part, you can adjust the size and height of it. For hair it's just color. I was a little disappointed to see no color option for eyes, especially since you can make them really big.
The Wardrobe has options for hats/masks, coats, shirts, pants, footwear, dresses and skirts. Boy is there a selection! There are plenty of free clothes for you to mix and match all sorts of different looks. Most of the clothes must be purchased with credits, and many of them are subscriber-only.
The biggest thing I noticed in doing this is that there is no gender in Glitch. You are what you want to be. You can change your appearance at any time, so you can be a boy one day and a girl the next. That sort of freedom is liberating and wonderful.
I'm looking forward to changing my appearance a lot and playing with styles. I really like what Tiny Speck did with avatar customization and hope it just gets more robust.
First Impressions
I got my shiny sparkly golden ticket to the world last night and played for a little while.
The very first things that hit me were the visuals and humor. This game is gorgeous and funny. It could very well be the most beautiful flash game I've ever played. Not that I play a lot of flash games, certainly not of this caliber.
Making a Glitch is easy. You just pick from one of four different avatars. You can customize them later, which I haven't yet done.
The tutorial is fun and engaging. You start off in a brain and walk out into the world, where you pet a piggy, water a tree and squeeze a chicken. Yes, they are making that joke.
Which brings me to the humor.
This is an adult game. You have to be at least fourteen to play, and under seventeen requires parental consent, although I just saw one of those checkboxes so I'm not sure how they enforce the parental consent part. While it has a cute and cuddly visual style, this is certainly not a family game. That's not to say that you shouldn't let your young adult play. I don't think this is inappropriate at all, and so far it's no worse than any PG-13 movie. There is booze, and there are drugs ("no-no powder"), and there is a lot of innuendo, but everything is so tongue-in-cheek that it's of the "if your kids understand it's not our fault" variety. I personally love it, and I'd be happy to let my fourteen-year-old play if I had one. This is up to the parents, of course, but there's no explicit sexual tones and no violence. Just good old-fashioned playground humor. I can't speak for the community yet, but I was impressed by the maturity level of the forums.
Now, the big question is: Is the game fun?
Maybe.
This is a sandbox game. There are quests to do, and there is a vague overall plot/goal which is laid out in the tutorial, but there's no real story to it. Much like Eve Online, the game is what you make of it. Unlike Eve, you can't make any money off it. ;) Okay, there are a lot of differences, but the type of game is the same. You do what you want to do and things will happen.
Hardcore players will probably get bored. Casual players will love it. My initial impression was "hey, I'm in Farmville!" The biggest focus is on crafting. Mining, gardening, farming, cooking, creating. There's a lot to do, but it's the sort of thing that's considered the province of casual games. For the curious, there's a lot to explore, too. Also like Eve Online, you get skills to research, and the research is done even while you're not playing so your Glitch continues to grow and improve while you're away.
In the next couple weeks, Tiny Speck will open up a feature that really sets their game apart. You create the world as you go through group quests. The world itself is divided into "streets" and it's up to the players to create those streets. I'm not sure how this works yet, but I understand there are crafting options and a group vote and the street turns out to reflect what avenue the players took to create it (see what I did there?).
One last thing, speaking of streets... the game is 2d. In a genre where 3d rules, it's refreshing to see a break from the mold. I wasn't really crazy about the 2d aspect in a combat-heavy game like Maple Story, but I think it works well here. The streets are laid out intelligently and I get a really nice old-school vibe in that there are hidden areas and pathways to explore in the individual streets. Hopefully they'll add more hidden secrets and alternate pathways.
I'll be customizing my avatar next before I resume playing. One of the great benefits of this being a flash-based browser game is that there is a lot you can do on the website without actually logging in to the game, like avatar customization and picking skills. Another great benefit is that you can play this anywhere on any computer with a browser and flash installed.
I really like this game. It may not be for everybody, but I think it'll turn out to be something I'll play for a good long time.
The very first things that hit me were the visuals and humor. This game is gorgeous and funny. It could very well be the most beautiful flash game I've ever played. Not that I play a lot of flash games, certainly not of this caliber.
Making a Glitch is easy. You just pick from one of four different avatars. You can customize them later, which I haven't yet done.
The tutorial is fun and engaging. You start off in a brain and walk out into the world, where you pet a piggy, water a tree and squeeze a chicken. Yes, they are making that joke.
Which brings me to the humor.
This is an adult game. You have to be at least fourteen to play, and under seventeen requires parental consent, although I just saw one of those checkboxes so I'm not sure how they enforce the parental consent part. While it has a cute and cuddly visual style, this is certainly not a family game. That's not to say that you shouldn't let your young adult play. I don't think this is inappropriate at all, and so far it's no worse than any PG-13 movie. There is booze, and there are drugs ("no-no powder"), and there is a lot of innuendo, but everything is so tongue-in-cheek that it's of the "if your kids understand it's not our fault" variety. I personally love it, and I'd be happy to let my fourteen-year-old play if I had one. This is up to the parents, of course, but there's no explicit sexual tones and no violence. Just good old-fashioned playground humor. I can't speak for the community yet, but I was impressed by the maturity level of the forums.
Now, the big question is: Is the game fun?
Maybe.
This is a sandbox game. There are quests to do, and there is a vague overall plot/goal which is laid out in the tutorial, but there's no real story to it. Much like Eve Online, the game is what you make of it. Unlike Eve, you can't make any money off it. ;) Okay, there are a lot of differences, but the type of game is the same. You do what you want to do and things will happen.
Hardcore players will probably get bored. Casual players will love it. My initial impression was "hey, I'm in Farmville!" The biggest focus is on crafting. Mining, gardening, farming, cooking, creating. There's a lot to do, but it's the sort of thing that's considered the province of casual games. For the curious, there's a lot to explore, too. Also like Eve Online, you get skills to research, and the research is done even while you're not playing so your Glitch continues to grow and improve while you're away.
In the next couple weeks, Tiny Speck will open up a feature that really sets their game apart. You create the world as you go through group quests. The world itself is divided into "streets" and it's up to the players to create those streets. I'm not sure how this works yet, but I understand there are crafting options and a group vote and the street turns out to reflect what avenue the players took to create it (see what I did there?).
One last thing, speaking of streets... the game is 2d. In a genre where 3d rules, it's refreshing to see a break from the mold. I wasn't really crazy about the 2d aspect in a combat-heavy game like Maple Story, but I think it works well here. The streets are laid out intelligently and I get a really nice old-school vibe in that there are hidden areas and pathways to explore in the individual streets. Hopefully they'll add more hidden secrets and alternate pathways.
I'll be customizing my avatar next before I resume playing. One of the great benefits of this being a flash-based browser game is that there is a lot you can do on the website without actually logging in to the game, like avatar customization and picking skills. Another great benefit is that you can play this anywhere on any computer with a browser and flash installed.
I really like this game. It may not be for everybody, but I think it'll turn out to be something I'll play for a good long time.
Welcome!
I'm not sure what this blog will turn out to be. I know what I'd like it to be. I'm starting it with the intention of jotting down my thoughts about a wonderful new game. I'd like it to turn into sort of a culture blog, relating the "three ews" of Glitch: News, reviews and interviews.
We'll see if all that happens.
For now, I'll just write what I feel like writing, and you read what you feel like reading. Deal? Deal.
Anyway, welcome to the blog. This is all about Glitch. My name on there is Crifmer, which is pretty much my username everywhere, so I'm not hard to find. Why Crifmer? Because I've never seen anyone else use that name, and it's always open. But as for where it comes from, that's a story for later.
So I'm Crifmer. Nice to meet you. Stay a while and listen.
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