First Erotic Film In History

On a different subject, if you liked my post about Frets on Fire, you’ll be happy to know that there a lot more songs available now at the Frets on Fire forums (you’ll need to register to have access to that section of the forum).

For an almost complete list of all available songs with comments, jump here.

Enjoy!

Egg Way and 1980 Games

Today it has been a lazy and cranky day for me… the summer is almost over and the days are a lot shorter than before. A good day to play some online games.

Egg Way is a flash game with a very simple concept: an egg is released and we have to guide it to the frying pan by using a type of 'pencil' that creates some kind of 'foamy path' that allows the egg to roll. My only complaint would be that there is only a total of 8 levels. This and other games of exotic subjects can be found at DOFI-BLOG.

1980 Games is an online collection of games from the 80’s. Some seem to be ROMS running under a java port of a MAME or NES emulator, some others are remakes. It’s a nice refreshing way to revive some memories of those golden years of gaming. Worth of mention are Ghosts'n goblins, Contra, Scramble, and the RPG Section. Enjoy!

Guitar Hero For The Masses

The guys at Unreal Vodoo, banking on the popularity of Guitar Hero, came up with a simply amazing clone named ‘Frets on Fire’. The project was submitted as an entry for the GameDev Assembly’06 Competition, held August 3^rd to 6^th in Helsinki, Finland.

From a total of 14 entries, ‘Frets on Fire’ was selected as the winner (results) with a total of 10426 points out of 35696.

‘Frets on Fire’ truly brings the ‘Guitar Hero’ experience the masses, having both a Windows and a Linux version and requiring only an OpenGL accelerated video card (any card purchased in the last 3 to 4 years should suffice) and a keyboard.

The only downside I found was the limited number of songs (3) at the moment of release. But, because the game allows for creation of custom songs, several fan made compositions are cropping out. A good place to start is the Keyboards On Fire website were up to yesterday there were already 17 new songs in the repertoire.

‘Frets on Fire’ has an option for reporting scores to a central server, allowing the user to climb his way to the top of the World Charts. Would you be the next ‘Keyboard Hero’?

First Post

This Blog will serve as dashboard for (hopefully) numerous postings about the web, life and everything. Typical subjects will include: gaming (reviews, education), out-of-the-ordinary web findings and short rants and raves about life’s mysteries.

The title of the Blog, Wisdom Juice, is symbolic to the idea of sharing a nice glass of wisdom with any of you. A title that has been inside my mind for several years already.

Without further ado, hope you enjoy it! Comments are welcomed.

Multiplayer Sudoku

After playing Brain Age on the Nintendo DS for a while, I began to wonder why the folks at Nintendo didn't include a feature that allowed users to engage in multiplayer Sudoku matches.

Interested in the idea, I was Goggling the net when I came up with this website: Sudoku Combat, created by Marc Belmont using PHP and AJAX.

You can choose the appearance of your avatar, and then play alongside a random stranger or be given a URL which you can provide to one of your friends to play against them.You can also play alone… but that would kind of defeat the purpose of multiplayer wouldn’t it?

You have three difficulty levels to choose from, and matches can get pretty exciting even at the Easy level. As a little pressure tactic, to the right of your Sudoku grid, you can see how many completed squares your opponent has. A simple chat feature is also included.

Marc has done a great job at creating a clean, uncluttered interface to allow players to show the world how good they are at Sudoku.

One of the features I found that could get some improvement is the option to include multiple numbers on each cell. It is not as intuitive as the one found in Brain Age, as all numbers are to be written in a single line instead of, for example, having two independent lines (one for the guesses and one for the most likely answer).

Hope to see you sometime at Sudoku Combat, I usually go under the ‘wzdmjz’ moniker.