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Bejeweled 2 Released
swaptastic writes "In what seems like the year of fantastic sequels, Popcap Games has released the follow up to their flagship game Bejeweled. I am amazed that they continue to create such fun games, without relying on spyware to make money. In conjunction with the launch of Bejeweled 2, Popcap has decided to donate 1 dollar for every game they sell until x-mas to the Child's Play Charity."
It requires ActiveX.
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Firefox on a Mac here. More than half of PopCap's games don't work for me. Only the java ones (Alchemy for example).
It's all a plot to make us *nix users more productive than our Windows counterparts.
Oh wait....
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
I hear that in this one you get to play as the guy who loads the jewels in at the top.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
if only we could get all of the crack dealers of the world to donate to charity for each sale...
Also interesting and of note are the fact that it's basically the same game with more highly polished graphics and sound. Oh, and Scott Kim did the new puzzle mode, which won't appeal to fans (addicts?) of the original game but which will likely rope in more 'hardcore' players. Bejeweled is the quintessential casual game, the first breakout success in a sector that went from 0 to multimillion in the last five years or so.
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I used to love bejeweled, I heard about it on penny-arcade (showing how behind the times I am) and started playing like a madman. Unfortunately if you get any good at it you will find that the game sucks. You can make combinations that should keep you going, but because the timer ran out in the middle of a sound effect or animation (not sure which) the move doesn't count and your game is over. Basically every popcap game shares this problem, including dynomite. Anyone know if the people at popcap have actually learned how to program games since those days?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Tried this and it brought my machine to a stand-still - even after turning off the sound and high res. Really poorly developed for a seemingly simply game concept. I don't remember the original Bejewled having this much difficulty running.
except worse.
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
Popcap games also make one called Rocket Mania.. unfortunately my girlfriend got me onto it and I got completely hooked.
I've never been so addicted to anything in my life.. I was seriously playing it *every* spare minute I had, losing sleep and not being able to concentrate at work.. I was always seeing little fuses wherever i looked, and I was trying to get my mind to rotate them.
I had to stop playing for my own health.. so I'm not going to get Bejeweled.
Also, the other problem with Rocket Mania is that if you are sufficiently crafty, the game never ends.. My last game went for 2 weeks with me playing at every moment.. I eventually quit and uninstalled it.
Anything is possible, except skiing through revolving doors.
Has anyone had success running it under WINE?
l A 1 0x43fa0ff4 (nil) 0x43fa1074
I get
err:exec:SHELL_ExecuteW cannot set directory L"C:\\Program Files\\PopCap Games\\Bejeweled 2 Deluxe\\Install.log"
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAc
fixme:shell:Stream_WriteLocationInfo writing empty location info
Wine failed with return code 10
under Debian's wine 0.0.20040716-1
-- Estoy feliz, feliz de que no sea cierto.
It should be noted that the nice backgrounds were all made using a program called Mojoworld by Pandromeda Software ...
It's the most hardcore procedural world generator available.
There are also power gems and the weird vortex gems. Vortex gems don't happen often enough to be more than an occasional bonus, but the power gems make a significant impact on game play. Firstly, chains of 4 don't disappear completely, and secondly any unused power gems carry over to your next level. So start saving them up for the later levels :P
Playing poker with a joker and some Uno cards
I play the timed game version nearly every day on my Handspring Visor (usually while on the commode, but thats too much information so I'll stop right there). I've only had less than a handful of the aformentioned "Close calls"- and I've been playing nearly every day for 2 years. YMMV.
P.S.- this has been the only shareware I've ever purchased.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Time to upgrade that Pentium 133 mhz of yours...
So once again, advertising disguised as news. Just throw in something about a charity and suddenly it's no longer an ad.
By the way, how is this a sequel when it plays EXACTLY like the first one?!
But my Av software wont let me install the popware adware program, least it's smart enough to know better.
f au lt5.asp?VName=ADW_POP.A
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/de
Description:
This is Trend Micro's detection for components of the legal adware called PopCap Loader from PopCap Games company. It is a Web plug-in that provides Web update features
As I've posted elsewhere in this topic, our games are now and always will be 100% free of ad-ware and spy-ware. We hate ad-ware, spy-ware, and spam as much as you do. This is a case of Trend Micro falsely reporting our PopCapLoader ActiveX component as an ad-ware installer. We are in contact with Trend Micro right now to get this issue sorted out. Rest assured that all of our games, both deluxe titles and web-based ones, are free of ad-ware.
Dave Haas
Chief Operating Officer
PopCap Games
I can't work out any kind of strategy because by the time I've thought about it, the timer is rapidly at zero.
Can anyone give me any top-tips on how to *properly* play this game well?
Thanks!
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It seems Trendmicro has withdrawn their claim.