Posts in the Games category

After the World Cup, we had a small FIFA tournament, consisting of 6 people, in order to crown the Champion of FIFA at work. It's a game we occupy some of our lunch with and it's a great way to take frustration out of the work place while getting a bit of team bonding going.

Since we had a bit of a break between the World Cup and the EPL season and FIFA 11 had yet to be released, we used our copy of FIFA 10 as the platform for the tournament. And what a tournament it was!

In all honesty, as much as we complained and for all of it's flaws, FIFA 10 isn't too different from FIFA 09. It's better, for sure and it's different enough to distinguish itself from it's predecessor, but most importantly, the game play improved and the game was still fun to play.

Can the same be said for FIFA 11?

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From a casual browse around the net, I found a game built in Flash which had been ported onto the iPhone. It was a simple puzzle game, but I have never been able to find it again.

From my searches to re-discover that gem, I came across Bubble, a game in a similar vein and probably more refined than the one I was looking for. what makes it even more impressive is the fact that it's all JavaScript based and seems to work flawlessly.

The game doesn't seem to be bloated with lots of code, and works great in FireFox. I haven't tested it in other browsers, but I don't imagine there being many, if any, issues.

The people behind Bubble have also introduced a log stacking game, which isn't too shabby itself! The presentation is lovely and the use of JavaScript is truly inspiring to me. I wouldn't mind taking a crack at re-producing the Bubble game, but I very much doubt I'd ever make it as elegant and easy to use!

One of the best things is the fact that it should work on a iPhone/iPod Touch because it doesn't require Flash, just a browser with JavaScript enabled. The size of the games, I'm guessing, should match the screen on these devices and would look pretty sweet.