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Game To Play During Lunch?
Menace writes "Every work day myself and a few other co-workers get 1 hour for lunch. We typically end up with about 20-30 minutes for some form of entertainment during our lunch hour. We are looking for some more multiplayer PC games that can give us a fun and thorough gaming experience in a 20-30 minute sitting. We currently play a few games such as Tetrinet and Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. Please keep in mind the systems we are able to play these on aren't geared for gaming and can hardly run WC3. What games do you play during your lunch hour, or can suggest that meet the specified criteria?"
... First one to ascend gets a free lunch!
Sort of a turn-based online game. Everybody's playing it...
Your turn
There are countless games you can play with a $1.00 deck of cards.
Dude, this is Slashdot.
So A, we're only willing to use cards on a computer screen. And so we can all play, we'd need to make it networked and each play from our own computers. And because that would feel kinda lonely, we'd need to add headsets and VOIP so we can mock our fellow players.
And B, if we were to deign to use physical playing cards, we wouldn't actually buy them. Instead, we'd register a SourceForge project to host open-source artwork that we would in theory use to print them ourselves on a printer at work. Except that we'd only finish the number cards and three of the face cards before we ran out of steam and just started hoping somebody would send us a patch for the rest.
Other than that, it's a good idea.
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