Comments on: MeFi: The Game

MeFi: The Game

blahblahblah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:15:28 -0800

Playcrafter is now in open alpha. Playcrafter allows you to easily create Flash games with a drag-and-drop online toolkit. Some of the neater ones to play include games like Unstack and Matcheroo, and, of course, my original creation MeFi Plate of Beans. Do you think you can do a better MeFi game? [God, I should hope so.]

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:41:07 -0800

Your direct link to your game doesn't seem to go anywhere in particular. I can see the game ID in the URL, but that doesn't seem to mean anything to the flash navigator.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:45:01 -0800

Odd, seems to work for me in multiple browsers, and the "number of times played" on the game seems to be shooting up (wooohooo, now all I need to do is monetize the suckiness!), so some people are playing. Incidentally, I also started a helicopter game where you have to fight against the giant heads of cortex and mathowie, but it was actually worse than MeFi Plate of Beans. Feel free to take the idea and run with it, though.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:46:33 -0800

Yeah, it works for me, too.

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:47:08 -0800

Ah, I figured it out, it was NoScript. Sorry!

By: preparat

preparat — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:50:40 -0800

I was playing, and I liked its suckiness.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:51:31 -0800

The Plate of Beans game is annoyingly addictive.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:42 -0800

Heh. I'll have to play with this later when I'm not totally at work. Maybe I can recreate the Timeout Playroom.

By: hifiparasol

hifiparasol — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:07:42 -0800

I have never been more comprehensively terrible at a game than I am at MeFi: Plate of Beans. Seriously, it's tragic.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:07:48 -0800

I totally fail at Mefi Plates of Beans. *sigh*

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:09:09 -0800

Stop overthinking it.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:46 -0800

I am pleased to present MODERATOR BATTLE 3000!!!! Shoot the spinning heads of Mathowie and cortex before they shoot you. Destroy the MeFi spheres for bonus points. Watch out, cortex spins amazingly quickly, though the head of mathowie is notoriously inaccurate. Again, I am sorry.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:32:53 -0800

Ooh, I rock at Plate of Beans. Moderator Battle 3000 is cool. I like how shots will occasionally bounce off my rotors if directed from above.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:34:33 -0800

MODERATOR BATTLE 3000!!!! Shoot the spinning heads of Mathowie and cortex WHERE'S JESSATRON? Dude, the cortex head chips zapped the crap out of me within 2 seconds of starting. Just blam. No remorse. The mathowie head chips couldn't hit me for anything. I swear the mathowie head chip shot me and it just bounced off, and then the cortex head zapped me. No fun without the Jessatron though.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:36:36 -0800

Who do you think is flying the chopper? (Work bedamned, I had to peek. Beauty, blahblahblah.)

By: Elmore

Elmore — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:03 -0800

I was playing Plate of Beans, and I was the suckiness.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:55:38 -0800

I really do like how plate of beans only has 2 levels. Indeed just pull back and let it rip.

By: absalom

absalom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:08:00 -0800

Nice shoutout to the MeFi steam group. Count me among the terrible at PoB.

By: ThusSpakeZarathustra

ThusSpakeZarathustra — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:57:29 -0800

Damn you PoB. Double Damn you, MB 3000.

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:02:40 -0800

Hey, don't blame me!

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:03 -0800

No other contributions? When a FPP mentions something like limericks, everyone participates. But choose something really geeky, like games, and I am the only one who makes something. There can be only one conclusion: I am the alpha geek. Bow before me, MetaFilter!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:59:51 -0800

Sorry, I'm working on my blog about the X-Files.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:10:22 -0800

Amazing AI on MB3K, I go after Mathowie, and cortex takes me out from behind. It's just like MeTa.

By: slogger

slogger — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:07 -0800

I love the music on PoB. I want that playing behind me as I walk down the street and wave to my neighbors.

By: notashroom

notashroom — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:33:00 -0800

Nice how you can edit the game after you lose to make it easier to win. I am teh winnah!