Eek’s World

Google Chrome

Is one of the youngest browsers there is. Google launched the first “UNBETA” version in December, since then they have continued to release fixes and upgrades to that version. But there is a time when you have to move on… Move to the next level. So a week ago they launched a new BETA of Google Chrome. If you didn’t tried Google Chrome until this day, you should. It’s a very elegant browser and very fast indeed. The main disadvanteg it has (that also makes me to stay at Mozilla Firefox 3) is that the Google Chrome doesn’t support the capability of extensions… And i am a little obssesed with this extensions, they really make the internet a better place for me. I have 7 addons that i use a lot… The addons are: Download Statusbar, Fast Video Download, FIREBUG!! (ESSENTIAL), FireFTP (a very usefull one indeed), Greasemonkey, Sothink SWF Catcher and View Cookies and besides that i have some more which i use but not so often

If Google Chrome had the capability for addon support, it would have passed Mozilla Firefox instantly. I have both browsers now… I wanted to test the new Google Chrome… Which has a far better speed improvement than the last one (Especially at JavaScript loading – that’s a WOW), additional browsing tools such as basic form autofill, full page zoom, autoscroll, and a new way for tabs I like tabs I think everybody does.

So… JavaScript loading is very interesting, i really wanted to see how it compares with Mozilla and i found the best place for it! Indeed… I think it pushes Google Chrome a little closer to Mozilla’s #1 position :d

That place is called Google Chrome Experiments, a webpage full of Javascript experiments a set of visualizations, some games and other Javascript related stuff. And yes, i tried the website with both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 3, and the differences really come outside… Google Chrome beeing so much faster than Mozilla. An experiment that i consider not only very good looking, very realisting, and a very smart ideea is the Google Gravity Experiment made by Hi-ReS! (weird nickname ideed)… If you don’t wanna go to the website you can look at a little movie here:

So as a final ideea… If you are still using Internet Explorer you should really get Google Chrome or if you are using Mozilla Firefox 3 but you’r not so obssesed with all your addons, you can give Google Chrome a try!

And no, I’m not getting any money from Google after I wrote this “review”!

Worlds!

Okey… Maybe some of you know about this project, some maybe only just guess of what will be and maybe some of them don’t know a thing about it.

So… This project is about a Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG), actually a browser based game. It all started some time ago, when i was playing Tribal-Wars… I think everyone around here heard of it or even played it. Well… I considered a very good game from a lot of different points, but i was dissapointed about the graphics of this game. It was to static, and i was playing it a lot (around 5-10 hours a day) and that much time on such a static browser game makes me think about interesting stuff and animated stuff.

So i camed with a plan. Build up a team and start making a shocking game for all of those who like browser-based games. So, the team is sort of like this: Me (Eek) and my best friend (HUN73R)… The fact is were a little too few… So by this post i’d like to invite a friends of mine (shockingly enought, i met him on tribal-wars – BlAkY) if he says “yes” i’ll be very happy about it.

So… What’s the game about?

First we started with some brainstorming in HUN73R’s kitchen… And we came out with some cool ideea:

- Many basic ideeas from Tribal-Wars, actually it will be and advanced Tribal-Wars

- more units to build, more building to build, more things to upgrade, and a new map… THE UNDERGROUND We first imagined this game beeing somewhere in “Lord of the Rings” time…

- the first thing that will blow everyone’s mind is that it will be very interactive and animated (it will be build half of it in flash)… How you see the village in Tribal-Wars in a small window, well… There will be the flash We were thinking to give the players the options to see high-scaled battles… But we will think about it because it’s very very very very very veryyyyy much to work at…

And some major thinking at the AI (Artificial Inteligence – Computer) part… So that it will be a little force there… “The Gate Keepers”

Okey… This was our first ideea… Now this things started to change and because there are tons of browser-based games out there i would like to add some interesting stuff to it:

1. A sort of real-time space traveling / conquering / fighting (exactly like in StarPort)

2. The colonization of planets… So it will be a 2 in 1 game. One a real-time that needs a lot of atention and interaction most of the time, and a more peacefull one like in Triburile… You can choose between those at the beginning of the game or after a large amount of dezvoltation

The good ideea i was thinking about it was that you can make teams of 2,4,8,10,20,40,60,120,240,480 and so one (maybe not as many) and one will be the real-time fighter that colonizez fresh planets, and the other will the “dictator” that takes care of the colonies of each planet and the battles upon that planet

I think it is an exciting fact that a browser game can offer both of these features…

I opened up a newsletter (click here for it) for all of you guys who would like to take part of this game and recieve news, updates and other stuff… The veterans that will be with this project from the beginning will have only things to win from it

Now i will upload a picture of tribalwars and a picture of starport for you people to have an ideea:

PS: Looking forward of seeing some comment (both ideeas, things you like and things you don’t like about this project…). Let’s make your ideea count!