May 7, 2014 Lyn Plays PlayTown
So since I’m a person with full time employment and part time study now, I don’t have time to do the Dire DVDs anymore. I’m sorry. You must have noticed how short they were getting. Next week’s would have been “This movie is pretty terrible” and that’s it. What I do have time for is games! There’s always time for games. So while Dire DVDs is on hiatus, I will be doing Let’s Play videos. Mostly I will be playing games I have not played before, because it’s funnier that way, but this week I’m breaking that rule right out of the gate with a social MMO I’ve been playing for a month or so. Here’s a video, for your eyes.
Price: Free to download / Free to play (they say it always will be, so presumably the “Advertise Here” boards will generate some income for them, or they may go to microtransactions, I don’t know)
Client: PC and Mac
Get it from: www.playtown-game.com
As noted in the video (which you not only watched, but watched twice), the game is currently in Open Beta, so there’s a fair amount of glitches and limitations. For one thing, there’s no skin tone so everyone gets to be an odd shade of yellow. The city is currently small, but new areas are coming. The community is overwhelmingly friendly and positive, which is a nice change. Of course there’s jerks, but there is a handy ignore function.
As an MMO, it’s entirely leaning on the social side. It’s a chatroom with minigames and levels, basically, which is no bad thing and makes a nice change from “Kill 8673 Kobolds”. It’s entirely possible to enjoy the game casually or hard core, or somewhere in between. I’d recommend dipping your toe in if you’re after something different, or would just like to look like a round blowfish for a bit.
Do you play anything fun (and free)? Suggestions are most welcome!
Written by: Lyn
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Kirk Fatool
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I’m a little late to the bandwagon but, I’m really enjoying Clash of Clan. There’s a lot of waiting involved. But with a full time job and infant in the home that’s perfect for me.
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Lyn
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Kirk, I should have replied to this when you posted it, I promise I wasn’t ignoring you!
I’ve faffed around a bit with screen recording on phones, but my phone is just too old and tired to deal with it. I stopped before actual smoke came out of it! I’ll make a note of Clash of Clans though, in the event I upgrade my phone I’ll give it a burl!
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Kalei
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Hey, I know this is random and out of the blue, but do you still play Playtown? I thought your video was cute and it showed a good bit of the features. I’ve been playing for three months and things are pretty much the same, though some things have changed (like you don’t need a coin for the fountain now). I also saw some of your forum posts (which is how I found this video) and you and Eve seem like really cool people.