gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » game-for-the-weekend http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Game for the Weekend 3 iSketchhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/08/game-for-the-weekend-3-isketch/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/08/game-for-the-weekend-3-isketch/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:00:52 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/08/game-for-the-weekend-3-isketch/ I know that this is the second online game of the weekend in a row but this is just to much fun, and that’s what games should be all about fun. iSketch is an online multiplayer game. One person sketches a word and the others have to guess what it is. The first one to guess right gets the most points and the others have 20 seconds to guess it as well before time runs up. If they guess it as well they are awarded lesser points than the first person.

The word in question is not shown of course in the chat, all other invalid guesses are. You get some fine tools to draw the word(s) like different colors, a spray can, pencil and so on. Could be that this thing is more powerful than paint. Most rooms that are available are English rooms but you also find German, Spanish, French and custom ones.

The game features several modes, the most popular one to draw one word but there are variations of that mode were players may have to draw more than one word or have only five sketches to draw it. Games have a difficulty rating (easy, normal and expert) and can be themed as well. You may join themed channels like Christmas, Poker or Cartoons if you like.

The game has a huge user base. More than 1500 were connected to the game just a few minutes ago while I was checking it out. Game rooms have normally a limit of ten players but sometimes you find more than that amount in a room. This means that not everyone is going to sketch a word but all are able to take part and guess them.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/08/game-for-the-weekend-3-isketch/feed/ 2 Gftw 1 Future Pinballhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/24/gftw-1-future-pinball/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/24/gftw-1-future-pinball/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:10:24 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/24/gftw-1-future-pinball/ You are probably staring at the topic and wonder what Gftw means. I decided to create a new series of articles that appear every friday, the Game For The Weekend Series. I will write about a cool free game on every Friday because I think that is the best time to try something new. This week features the game Future Pinball which looks surprisingly good for a freeware game. The game can be run on every Windows system starting with Win98 and can only be downloaded using a torrent they offer on their website. Don’t worry, it is only about 15 megabytes.

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The game features one table and you have the opportunity to download user generated tables as well. The main websites links to other websites that offer user generated tables, one that was offering lots of recreations of existing pinballs was irpinball. Take a look at the Tables section at the official site to visit all the links.

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