pure evil

so i was catching up on my blogs a few days ago when i happened on scottie hui's blog: it's a spur thing.  in it, he linked to an interesting looking game called "dad 'n me".



i thought ... wow, those are some interesting graphics, so i click on the link to go check it out:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/254456

the game is pretty fun, but kind of short.  as far as i can tell, it's only one level long.  the boss took about three tries to beat, but eventually i figured it out.

so ... because the game was so short, i started poking around newgrounds to see if there were any other games that might be interesting.  one of the highest rated games on there was a game called "gemcraft".  the name sounded interesting so i clicked over to check it out.

omg that game is pure evil!!  it's super addictive!!!  it's basically "desktop tower defense" (which sucked up about 2 full days of my life) on crack.  i started playing the game around 2am or so.  the next thing i know it's 2pm THE NEXT DAY!  12 hours of my life GONE in an instant!!  when i finally tried getting up my knees, back, elbow, and wrist were all cracking.  it actually hurt to move!

the most dangerous thing about the game is that even though it's a flash game, you can actually save where you left off!!  in those 12 hours it looked like i made my way through about 25% of the map.  and judging by how much harder the levels were getting ... i figure if i let it, it'd suck away about a week of my life.  and normally when i start a game, i usually just play like crazy to try to finish it as soon as possible so i can move on with my life.  that's why i never touched games like world of warcraft since they have no ending.

in this case, though, i have too much work to do to lose a week on a game.  so after realizing how addictive it was, i started a new game and resaved over my old save games -- going from level 34 back to level 1 in the process.  hopefully that will help me resist this game.

ok, ya ... just wanted to share that.  but ... if you have a week of time to kill, click on this link and check it out:
http://armorgames.com/play/1716/gemcraft

(if you work for alivenotdead.com, please don't click on the link) 

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