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Pirates!

Posted by michael on from the keelhaul-the-landlubbers dept.

fm6 writes: "Worried that too much computer gaming stunts your social skills? Try Pirates! You simulate a voyage of discovery, trade, and plunder by walking around a physical gaming area carrying a PDA equipped with a proximity sensor. Encounters with other players (including naval battles) happen when the two players actually approach each other. Here's an article on Business 2.0."

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  1. Privacy? by LarsG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know that Scott said that we should 'Get over it', but anyway..

    Anyone know the technical details on this stuff wrt 3rd parties getting hold of your location information?

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  2. Pirates Ho! by NickisGod.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This looks good: http://pirates.devolution.com/

    Not as offtopic as the topic I hope :)

  3. Re:I liked this game better... by BenCaxton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate the idea that I would be considered "old school" (I'm not that old) but I used to actually play this on an apple II and I still think it was one of the best games I've ever played. Just recently I got sick of the newer games and just had to find a copy of it to play. I like it for the same reason I like alot of ATARI 7800/2600 games, they actually had good game play. There was some sort of interesting plot, some strategy, openendness, some thumb candy, and you never got stuck in some position where you couldn't make any progress (I can't tell you how many games I've given up on because I just can't figure out where to go, I like challenges in games, but finding the damn "magic" pixel I need to click on to continue in the game is not my idea of fun, same thing with navigating some maze like geography... I didn't shell out all that money to play lab rat), and it didn't have to rely on flashy graphics to make it fun, it was just fun to play. I think a lot of that is lost in games
    in new games because so much effort goes into making them look pretty, (ohh wow... I can have blood and guts splattering at 80fps... this must be good!!!!!) and the end result is soemthing that is less interesting then a decent game of hearts. Now why would I shell out $50 for that?

    Just one more thing,... It bothers me that the copy for the PDA actually copied the name right down to the "!" at the end and didn't give any credit to the origional game. I couldn't even find any mention of the origional on the web page (and no, I didn't read the pdfs, maybe the mention it in there).

    Any I'm done ranting... I'm gonna go play a game of cribbage.

    -Ben

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