Games

Between having two jobs, a volunteer commitment, and a kid I don't have a lot of free time. When I'm not using that free time for something else, I play two games obsessively. Kingdom of Loathing is one, and Desktop Tower Defense is another. Both are free.

The first, Kingdom of Loathing, is a very silly but very fun and comprehensive role playing game. You create your character, and choose one of six classes: Disco Bandit, Accordion Thief, Turtle Tamer, Seal Clubber, Pastamancer, or Sauceror. Depending on your class, you'll have certain abilities and skills which you can use to fight monsters and create interesting food, booze, weapons and outfits. Thanks to something called Ascension, once you have defeated the Naughty Sorceress - the pinnacle of the game - you can reincarnate as a completely different class. I've been playing for three years with the same character, gizpotato.

Desktop Tower Defense is a puzzle-maze type game. You have a board, and on that board you construct a maze for "creeps" to go through. The maze consists of towers which shoot the creeps, (hopefully) killing them before they reach the other end. No account creation needed, just choose your language and difficulty (start on easy, and work your way to Medium) and start playing. It'll take a while before you can survive to the end on Medium, and once you do that, it's a matter of getting the highest score possible. The group of scores I've been contributing to is "monkeyfilter" (the online message board I found the game on). My current highest score of 5700 ranks 22nd.

Now that I have passed on my addictions, my job here is done.