Globulos!

December 16, 2003 2:54 AM

Globulos! [SWF] Welcome to the world of highly addictive, simple time wasting!
posted by Resonance (24 comments total)

If I get fired I'm sleeping in your shed.
posted by biffa at 3:50 AM on December 16, 2003

OMG, this is good. My working day has officially ended.
posted by trioperative at 4:01 AM on December 16, 2003

Oh dear - as if that wasn't bad enough, there's a whole host of other GlobZ games on offer.
posted by Resonance at 5:21 AM on December 16, 2003

This rules.
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:45 AM on December 16, 2003

Oh, my hours, my precious billable hours ...
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:56 AM on December 16, 2003

really fun. although someone immediately asked me if i was gay when i joined a game.
posted by sklero at 7:01 AM on December 16, 2003

Queer Eye for the Globulos Guy?
posted by wendell at 8:27 AM on December 16, 2003

or Totally Globulous?
I'm so sorry...
posted by wendell at 8:29 AM on December 16, 2003

I've been playing this about a week now, its so addictive. The soccer mode primarily is my timewaster. My only problems is that its crowded a lot of the time, and occasionally you will hit large amounts of lag (maybe a two minute pause while before anything happens). Its a lot of fun though.

Oh, and with any free online game, 99% of the people there are underage kids trying to verbally assault you and your sexuality, as sklero noted.
posted by Darke at 8:32 AM on December 16, 2003

Square Eye for the Round Guy?
posted by Spacelegoman at 8:33 AM on December 16, 2003

I rock at arena. I suck at football, and no one wants to play the other options.
posted by riffola at 8:34 AM on December 16, 2003

this... freaking.... rules....
posted by twiggy at 9:08 AM on December 16, 2003

good bye, productivity
posted by Aaorn at 9:28 AM on December 16, 2003

this rules
posted by nthdegx at 9:34 AM on December 16, 2003

Anybody get what you're supposed to do on the intro page (you know, the one with the yellow planet and stars)?
posted by LittleMissCranky at 10:47 AM on December 16, 2003

Anybody get what you're supposed to do on the intro page (you know, the one with the yellow planet and stars)?

If you move your mouse, you can change the direction of the planet. Click and pop the red bubbles to get points. If they pop on their own, then you lose a life. My highest score was 17.
posted by JakeEXTREME at 10:54 AM on December 16, 2003

Darke: Globulos is extremely good, but they could take a few lessons in organisation from the Internet Go Server. I may be wrong, but I think much of the delay isn't Net lag, but down to the system letting a user set up a game, then hog it by refusing to start play until the right opponent comes along. No doubt they'll run into all the same problems as IGS, such as 'escapers'.
posted by raygirvan at 11:14 AM on December 16, 2003

Jake - I didn't notice that game, quite fun. I got 19.
posted by Orange Goblin at 11:22 AM on December 16, 2003

53!
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:27 AM on December 16, 2003

250!
posted by riffola at 12:23 PM on December 16, 2003

I promised myself I'd stop at 300.

I closed the window at 2003.

It doesn't get harder. I lost four lives before 300, and then started focusing, and didn't lose another life.
posted by Ptrin at 12:59 PM on December 16, 2003

Resonance, where did you find this? Great post.
posted by eddydamascene at 3:23 PM on December 16, 2003

In the SomethingAwful forums, glad you enjoyed it.
posted by Resonance at 4:24 PM on December 16, 2003

raygirvan, I wasn't refering to that, although they should do something to make game creation easier.

I was referring to the game just basicly pausing halfway through a match. Its happened to me a few times, along with other people a lot. (I know its not lag in the true defination, but I'm lazy when I right =p)
posted by Darke at 7:46 PM on December 16, 2003