Arcade Stuff

[mirth]

better?

[Bruce Brakel]

One other teeny tiny thing, the old arcade remembered the last page you were on and took you to that page when you entered the arcade.  The new arcade always takes you to page one.  Saves me a click since most of the games I play are on the same page. 

[mirth]

Hmm, that one I don't know how to fix.

[J.R.]

Mirth,

No biggie, but I get this error trying to submit my score on Plasmanaut v2.  Not every time, but more than once.

Illegal variable _files or _env or _get or _post or _cookie or _server or _session or globals passed to script.

[stpitner]

I think the error you're seeing happens once you get to a certain level in that game.  Any scores below a certain point it will submit, but anything above it chokes.  Maybe there's anothere comment about it in this thread or a different one?

[J.R.]

Dang.  Now that you mention it, that does sound familiar.  But this is the first time I ever played that game.

Ok.  Never mind.  "Known issue"

[Bruce Brakel]

If you want to compete in mahjong you'll need a doubles partner.  Kelsey and I teamed up and broke the Three Minute Mahjong barrier.   

[tacimala]

I had a really good score on Mahjong before the Arcade had that hiccup a few months back. I'll have to see how I can do against the Brakel tandem!

[Bruce Brakel]

I had a really good score on Mahjong before the Arcade had that hiccup a few months back. I'll have to see how I can do against the Brakel tandem!

The current Mahjong high score was singles.  I may have said so in the comments.  I got an easy layout and just clicked continuously. 

Right now I'm trying to push the Otello high score way high.  I have a game open at work and I'm going to play it for about an hour a day until I make a dumb move.  I can only score about 1200 points per hour, but with some concentration I should be able to get the score up in the 10,000 range by sometime next week. 

[Bruce Brakel]

It seems I'm only good for 2 or 3 thousand points at Otello before I make a dumb mistake. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I made it my Labor Day goal to take Radial Snake away from Brett!     Mission accomplished.

I've figured out some strategy for Jewels.  Maybe i can get the high score there before the end of the week.

[Bruce Brakel]

I pushed Otello up to 4000 but had to go to bed.  Better to take the score than have the computer reboot overnight on a power fluctuation or something.

I have an Otello game going right now where I'm at 2,500.  I've made two dumb mistakes but survived both times.  I've figured out a successful opening for the one configuration where you always lose, that one where the stones are in the corner of the inner box and you have to give the computer a wall stone on the first move.  The successful move is counter-intuitive because you have to count on the program making the wrong next move every time.  But it does! 

These are my two big mistakes that stop me from playing forever:

1. Aiming for the minimize button and hitting the x by accident.
2. Navigating away from the page instead of opening a new window.

I'm serious.  Other than that, I'm pretty much unbeatable at Otello with this lame program.  It would be so easy to program a better AI for this game too. 

My Ultimate Billiards score was based on nearly running the table on every screen.  If you play a good game in Ultimate Billiards remember:  you have to scratch on Level 10 with one black ball left on the table.  If you sink all ten balls on level 10 your score cannot be recorded. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I really wanted to put up a 10,000 score on Otello.  I made a dumb mistake and died just short of 9000.  I'll probably be done playing Otello for another year or so, unless someone decides to beat my score. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I like Mumu. Mahjong, Jewels, Quix, and Znax. I play a few others, but these are my favorites for passing time

If you like Mumu you might also like Combine on Discgolfersr.us.  The games are under the drop down tab for Media.  I have the high score by default right now, but I cannot tell the yellow from the green, and the game begins with yellow and green, so I'm sure 8,000 is nothing.

[Bruce Brakel]

If you enjoy Ultimate Billiards, you'll probably like at least one of the games available under Master Pool on discgolfersr.us. 

[tree]

I can't access discgolfersr.us from work......discontinuum I can

[Bruce Brakel]

If you enjoy Ultimate Billiards, you'll probably like at least one of the games available under Master Pool on discgolfersr.us. 

Master pool is one of the better pool flash games i've played.  The dimensions of the table, pockets and balls are right.  The balls roll -- good graphics there.  And the programmers got one thing right I've never seen right in a computer pool game:  soft corners on the side pockets.  In real pool the ball can be sitting up against the outside corner of the side pocket and if you hit it hard you can push it right past the felt into the pocket.  In most computer pool, that corner does not give to let the ball through.  Another interesting thing is it is possible for the ball to leave the table.  Most computer pool games won't let the any balls go airborn.  All it lacks is english.  Hammerhead pool was really good for the english. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I was going to play a stupid computer game or two, but the arcade seems to be broken.  That, or my computer is broken.  Anyone know which?  I cannot get any of the games to work.