Last weekend I have been to my hometown (Mangalore) and that Saturday being the Cricket World Cup final I was shocked to see a small tournament being organized for local area teams at the katte (small ground) near my house. It was held as a night event meaning that the matches started only after 10:00pm, which was not surprising considering that during day time Mangalore gets pretty hot and humid; pretty much impossible to play in those conditions. Hence night cricket was a good idea.
The rules for this mini tournament were pretty simple:
- Each team got 4 overs to play.
- The bowling was to be done underarm and from the spot (i.e. bowler is not supposed to come running and bowl).
- If the batsmen hit the ball outside the circle for a six, he would be out and his team would get no runs for it.
Pretty simple rules for everyone to understand and play. There were numerous games which got played and I hear that the matches went on till 8:00 in the morning, which is pretty much shows how many teams were playing and how much people are crazy about cricket.
The winners went home with a cash prize of Rs. 3000 and runners up with Rs.1500, I am not sure of the amount. But I am still wondering how could such cricket crazy people not be watching the world cup final; must be that they were sure Australia would emerge winners. Anyways it is nice to see such events happening in the town, which you wouldn’t see in larger cities like Bangalore.
Weekends are usually boring and sleepy, so what do you do for some fun, well you can play computer games for timepass. So from now on whenever I find a good game I will be doing a write up on some of the small and simple games which offer awesome playability. This week I will be writing about Classic Clickomania developed by Matthias Schussler.
The game looks simple and you might ask what is so challenging in this game. Well it all comes down to the purpose you want to play it for, if you are playing for time-pass and fun then just go on clicking and try you luck and get best scores. But if you really want to clear all the blocks then you will have to be very clever calculating the impact of each removal, this is where it gets a bit tricky, complex and very challenging. This game can be played by all age groups, which is a big plus point.
To test the game I played it five times, my worst score was 35 blocks and the best was 1 blocks. So that makes me a good player huh 
Hey this looks good but does it play well?! Vdrift has just been updated for Linux and its’ a car game based on the Vamos engine. It features heightmapped landscapes surrounding the track, a realistic physical simulation of the car, track timers and replays. Currently features the Nurburgring track and a Mustang-like car which handles well - to a point. 
It is vacation time, and it has been raining heavily for the past four days and I was getting really bored when I started my GNU/Linux machine so that I can read some unread mail, I was scrolling through the menu when the word ‘Games’ caught my eye , obviously my eyes lit up. I went through the menu list and clicked on the game “Frozen Bubble”.
I started the game, the main screen looked really cool!!, i did not expect a free game developed on Linux to look so good moreover the background music was really flowing well with the main screen. I selected the single player mode and started playing the game. The navigation was easy, left and right arrow button moved the shooting mechanism and the up arrow key shoot the bubble. I played for quite some time before I had to stop to have my dinner. 
After dinner I again played the game for much longer time. I could never have imagined that such a small and simple game would keep me hooked for this long and i assume that the beauty of small games is that even though they are small they have the “magic” to keep you hooked, it is visible even in the mobile arena where you can find thousand of people playing the snake game. Coming back to this game it is interesting to note that in the single player mode the levels are selected randomly each time you start a new game, but if you want you can start a game from a particular level (for this read the manual). To conclude, this was an nice gaming experience, but know what there are lots more games in my Linux machine which i am yet to play. So have a nice bubbly time. 
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