Title: GemCraft
Type: Tower Defense
Game Play: 8.5
Sound: 7.5
Graphics: 7.0
Presentation: 9.0
Replay Value: 10.0
Over All: 9.0 out of ten
GemCraft is nothing new in the tower defense genre, through it does bring in an interesting new mix element to the game. The game works like your basic tower defense game, where you must stop the monsters, creeps, etc (whatever you want to come them) from reaching the end of a path. You play by putting different color gems into towers to attack the advancing enemies. Each different colored gem has its own special properties. Like red can do splash damage, purple does armor deduction, yellow does chain, etc. To use your gems, you must place them in towers on the map. You can either use the towers given to you or build new ones.
Another thing is that you can place trenches on the path to slow down creeps. They way you buy towers, trenches and more gems is through your mana. You have mana cause the story has you be a wizard and you are called to stop the creatures from taking over the villages or whatever. (These games aren't really meant for their story.) You gain mana two ways, over time and by killing the monsters. Each monster gives you a different amount of mana.
By creating gems, you can do one of three things with them. You can put them into towers to attack the creeps, you can turn them into bombs to blow up the creeps or you can combine two of them to make them stronger. You can turn different gems into bombs, which you can throw at the monsters to kill them. The level of the gems depends on the strength of the bomb, along with the color for different effect, mentioned above. Combining gems is the real treat for this game, and the main thing you must get down if you wish to beat this game. You can combine the same colored gems together to up grade it better for that color of you can combine two colors, three or more. I would recommend only two colors, cause three or more, you lose the bonuses that come with each different color. Combining gems is only way to get better and stronger gems.
The other way is to buy them using mana. This is cheaper then combining cause that cost mana, but the only catch is that you can only buy gems up to grade 6. Also, as the game progresses, you may need to have more mana then what you can hold, so you will have to upgrade your mana pool, which cost mana to do so, on the plus side, this also upgrades your point modifier.
You need points to level up your wizard to get new abilities and better magic. With each level up, you get 4 skill points to use to upgrade certain areas of magic, which you can then use and must use to go back to old levels to get high scores on the levels, in which you could unlock new levels, once you get more then the needed score. This game is very thought out, the excellent replay value, and the time it takes to play this game through, gives this game 9 gold gems, out of 10.
HINTS AND TIPS
-By clicking on the wave number, you can send them in the next wave now and make a lot of points.
-By upgrading your mana pool, your score multiplier also increases
-There are medals you can earn on every level to increase your final score
-Not sure what the hue does
This has been on my mind for some time now, and I just wanted to know what others thought. I was reading an article about humans with special powers. Now I know this sounds completely ridiculous, for its real. In the article, I read about a woman in Britain (the locations may be wrong) who can see and taste music. She said that comes to her as black squares, and has no taste, while all the other notes come in many different shapes. She also says high pitch sounds taste bitter, while lower ones taste sweet. When doctors look at her brain, they saw that the three senses (Taste, vision, and sound are all connected in a way that is not like others).
In Turkey lives an artist, who from birth was born without eyeballs. Now how can a artist draw things he can not see. Well he saves just from touching objects, he is able to see the object in his mind. And if you were to look at his art, you would think it is better then "visual" artist. Some researchers wanted to know he if really understood 3d space, and so they had him draw the origin of 3d space, where a man discovered it, back in the 16th century. He was challenged to draw a building with 8 sides, and he was directly in front of one of them, and he was to draw this building from that perspective, in which he did.
Australia, there lives a human calculator. A man, who drop out of school, and was no good in math, can now compute numbers so large most people need a calculator to do. He was asked to computer the powers of a random he was given. The number was 83, and he calculated the number to the power of ten, completely right, with no error, before he was stopped. He doesn’t even know how he does it, it just happens. He is also able to just look a number of things and tell you how many there are just like that.
And in the USA, there lives a man who can regulate his own temperature. He is able to survive extreme cold due to that make that he can make himself warm. He is know as the ice man, and wants to set a world record by being the only man to run a marathon in bare feet, with only shorts on in the artic. And he did. Most people would have died or quit with an hour of that, but this man did the marathon in about 5 hours, with no harm to his body at all. (And these are just a few people, out of many. They have been a couple cases of people being able to see and taste music, and being human calculators, but being an ice man and blind painter are the only ones discovered as of right now.)
Just how do these people do it? Scientist and researchers are currently study this people and their genes to see if there is a gene that allows these people to do these shorts of things. If the researchers are right, and it is a gene, and not some kind of mutation or something else, then what will that mean for mankind in the future? What if there are more unique powers out there, gene related. If this is gene related, researchers are saying that these genes could someday be bought and be put into your kids, for them to have this power. This will completely blow Darwin’s theory of evolution out of the water. For the first time, if this is the case will people be able to go against nature and evolve when they want. Is this such a good thing, or bad? Will they no longer be survival of the fittest? Only time will tell.
5 comments:
Well, Darwin's theory already doesn't apply to humans. We care for those who are not as capable of survival as that rest, and those individuals go on to reproduce.
But, back to your post...what evolutionary advantage would seeing sounds give to that person? Would that person have any significant greater change of reproducing? Granted, the controlled body temperature could come in handy if central air/fire become uninvented/discovered, but would still give the person no significant advantage over others in terms of survival.
Finally, to implant the gene in your baby would be a luxury, and therefor cost money. So, the genes of the parents, who have money and are obviously successful, would be incorporated into those individuals who have the transplanted gene. Now, if these individuals did have a reproductive advantage, such as the simple fact they were super humans and that is what is attractive in the future, they would still pass on the genes of their successful parents.
This would mean that the more successful humans would have offspring that would be more likely to reproduce. This is survival of the fittest. The people that are successful have gotten that way because they are the best, and these traits that make them the best would live on though their superhuman offspring.
P.S. "only time will tell"? you asshole.
LOL owned on every count.
Then again, you neglect to mention that if the climate changed to the point that our AC/heat/fire no longer functioned or no longer was good enough, then the body temperature thing would come in handy. Then again, if things got to that point then one would have to hope that other life forms (specifically plants) adapted as well, or, assuming we enter a new ice age, flourish. Maintaining a high body temp requires A LOT of calories, even for people with the ability.
I would think that by the time the climate changed that much we would have invented some new way to deal with the temperature change...
Darwin's theory did at one point apply to humans. Before all that we know now, it was only humans with perfect eyesight, hearing, etc survived. (Now I’m not saying that people with these defects could and did not live, it was only a hundred times harder for them.)
Now a days, like you said, we care for people with these defects, such as poor eye sight, deaf. Now this may also become a problem in the future for hypothetical theory, what if the "normal" human no longer existed. (Normal meaning 20/20 eyesight, not deaf, etc). Is there a point where we need stop helping those not as capable to survive to protect the human race as a whole? (So every baby born does not have a defect of some kind.)
Now i understand that those abilities that I have mentioned are not that useful, except possibly regulating your body temperature, but these is the first step in what people would call "super powers". Then people that have money will be able to buy these genes to implant into their children.
Now I understand that is a lot of what if's and such, and you are mostly correct on what you say cam, I was merely stating that this has potential to change mankind forever, (will it, probably not) just think of Xmen (jk).
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