indie games: Ikariam – post 61

I loves me some video games… but I don’t always have time to play them.

Boo!

But I just so happen to come across this little browser game the other say that allows me to play the game while I’m doing other things… like working. ^_^ The game is called Ikariam.  I guess it’s like Civilization but simpler.  You start the game on an island with other people that are playing the game.  You get your own little chunk of land where you can start you town.  Then you start o build other buildings that allow you to research topics that will allow you to build more things, manage you people better etc, etc.

Each island has a wood mill that you send your people too so they can gather wood so you can build your town up and a special material that your people can gather as well.  Our island has crystals.  You have to watch though.  The more people you send to gather materials the less money your town will make.  Oh, and everyone can contribute to the development of the mill and make it larger.  The larger it is the more people can work at it.

Once you get going you’ll soon realize they you’ll need other materials so you can build some of the top of the list buildings.  That where trading comes in to play.  You can then trade with people from other islands so get the materials you need.  You can also build up your army and pillage your neighbour or make allies though diplomacy.  It’s pretty neat over all.  I don’t usually play these kinds of games but I thought I’d give this a try.  Oh, did I mention it’s free?  I like free ^_^

So how can I play this during work?  Simple.  The game continues to play even when you’re not logged on, so in the moring you’re people will have gathered all night like the good little subjects that they are.  And research and building things take a loonnngggg time to do.  I built a wall around my town and it took 45 min.  I’m researching maps for my town and it’s taken almost a whole day.  I tend to like this style of play because I can set up something and then do some work and check on it every hour or so and see how things are coming a long.  ^_^

If anyone is interested in the game, I’m on the Zeta world, under the name Hondo and my town is called Kaien’thon (which is Mohawk for garden). ^_^

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