Sites Unseen

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Drivey - More Than A Sim, Not Yet A Game
[drivey.com]
Drivey is a game that isn't really a game yet. The developer is posting his demo versions as the software progresses, and although there are no game elements like scoring or racing, there is something that captures your interest about this driving simulator. It has an ambiance, a real feel to it, and it's fun in a sort of trance-like way to watch the car continue around the looping track and make it speed up, slow down and veer around. It's a tiny Windows download, and runs directly from the executable.

Ten Most Kickass FPS Weapons Ever
[doiop.com/FPSguns]
Games.Net has a whole list of top ten feature stories. Some of the more interesting include Ten Hugely Over-Rated Games, The Coolest Modern Video-Game Characters and Games to Play When You’re Stoned. I really liked the Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever list. The thing most impressive about this particular list is its inclusion of such a wide variety of games. Top ten weapons include the Voodoo Doll form Blood and Blood 2, the Shrink-Ray from Duke Nukem 3D and the Pistol from Halo (I’m playing this right now game, but it really doesn’t feel that special).

How did they leave off the arsenal from Unreal Tournament, and you can’t talk FPS weapons without at least mentioning the Deagle (Desert Eagle). Boom, headshot! [From Kotaku.com]

Second Person Shooter
[doiop.com/SPS]
Some people just have too much time on their hands. Julian Oliver, not content with the normalcy of first-person shooters, has decided to create a second-person shooter. The way his current idea works is that you see things through the eyes of your enemy and vice-versa. To play, and kill one another, you and your victim have to remain in eye and gunshot of one another.

Master Chief Reveals his Identity
[doiop.com/MChief]
This is just wrong. No wonder he wears a mask. [Also from Kotaku.com]

Comic Strip Generator
[doiop.com/trafficJam]
The whole comic strip generator thing isn’t new, but this one features a very slick Flash interface, stylish heavy black vector style line art, and plenty of options. It produces some pretty impressive output, and there is a gallery. So far, “Traffic Jam” by Vidra is my favourite.

Wallpapers by VladStudio
[vladstudio.com/home]
Some days you really just want to change things up. If you want to have a desktop background that will have people asking you where it came from, give the collection of desktop wallpapers from VladStudio a try. Beautiful "Low quality" (1024 x 768) images are available for free.

Space Worms game
[doiop.com/SpaceWorms]
This is simple game in which little dots chase you. These dots do a lot of calculations chasing you, so although that makes the game fun, it also becomes quite difficult. And after each level, they add another dot to increase the difficulty. I got stuff in level 4.

Jerk-o-Meter
[doiop.com/JerkMeter]
Those crazy kids over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are taking a really odd idea and putting it into action. They are developing a Jerk-o-Meter to determine how engaged a person is in a phone call. The program analyzes variable such as speech patterns and voice tones and rates the person on a percentage scale. To be honest determining if someone is engaged in a conversation is pretty easy. Rather than develop this project, why not just ask the person on the other end of the phone if they are listening. If they say yes, then they are listening. If they say no followed by curses of some sort, then they generally aren’t. MIT should hire me.

Great CG Ads
[doiop.com/MilkAds]
These great CG ads with dinasours, cave men and, well, milk cans. Not really historically accurate, but nice to watch. The downloadable ads are 10-20 mb quicktime videos.

QuickTrailers
Movie trailers are fun to watch. But downloading them is a bit tricky. Apple’s official site has a huge library of trailers at [apple.com/trailers], but searching through that site and finding the direct download link for the trailers would be tricky for inexperienced users. [Quicktrailers.tk], a site by Amer Habib, comes handy here. This is a site in which you can get a lot of download links to movie trailers, all in one page. Neat!

Create your own Bush speech...
[doiop.com/BushSpeaks]
It’s a George W Bush Sound-Board, a pretty good one, featuring the most “intellectually challenging” of George Bush’s quips. Notable quotes are “of of of of”, “I think I I I”, “rally the threat of terror” and “9/11 was so unbelievably good!”

Published in the Rising Stars of the Daily Star on August 25, 2005