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Game To Play During Lunch?

Posted by Zonk on from the not-to-eat dept.

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?"

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  1. Marathon/Aleph One by danaris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not state of the art, but pretty darn fun. If you don't know about it (which you should), it's the Marathon series of FPS games that made Bungie really famous before the big buyout (or sellout, depending on how bitter I'm feeling on any given day). They open-sourced it, and a community built it up to what is now Aleph One.

    Should run on some pretty old hardware, and netgames are as long or short as you want them to be.

    Dan Aris

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  2. Re:Buy a deck of playing cards. by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, do. Do talk about Magic. We played that game every single day during lunch back in High School. Great way to spend the time.

    Oh wait, women. Hrm. Those were the only times I could forget about them. I guess it depends on your mood.

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  3. Re:Buy a deck of playing cards. by imr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's also good to forbid stress during digestion, especially since one hour isnt enough. At least try to have your belly have some rest after this probably poor meal that you stuffed in it too fast.
    So yes, a quiet card game is very good for that.

  4. Get some great board/card games !!! by pruneau · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Like some people pointed out, why spending you free time in front a computer: get you some great board games/card, and have some fun !

    We have been doing this since 2003, and it's a "tradition" that attracts more and more people (depending of course on the workload). Here is a list of games that did very well:

    • all time winners are Carcassone and its Hunters and gatherers variation.
    • Magic comes close second. It of course requires some deck creation time, but hours of fun are waiting ahaead.
    • King Me ! gave us some interesting insights into cours politics
    • We did play some more games, and are now in the process of testing Talisman just by saving the state of the game after each lunch.

      If you are interested, just tell me, I'll keep you posted.

      Have cool lunches, guys !

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  5. Re:Buy a deck of playing cards. by Ratbert42 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the more interesting non-computer games I've seen lately is 1000 Blank White Cards.