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Not much to report lately. There have been no play sessions, and work on the ex-Scrabble magic system has been sporadic and slow (mostly on the bus). My term ends next Friday, so Im trying to catch up on my huge grading backlog. Still, most of last week was devoured by Battle for Wesnoth. I found this computer game while trouble-shooting an old Linux laptop of mine. I wanted to see if the laptop would lock-up during use, so I was just going to play a bit of Tetris. But I had previously uninstalled all the games, so I pulled up the package manager... and happened to notice this turn-based war strategy game with a fantasy theme instead. Wesnoth is free in both senses of the word (as in speech and as in beer), and its also available for Windows. I know this because I installed it on my normal laptop after it had consumed one evening of my life. Now fantasy war/strategy might make you think of Warcraft. (The old Warcraft, that is, not WoW.) But Wesnoth is turn-based, which is much more enj...

Battle for Wesnoth is a full turn based strategy game, available on a number of platforms. Notably on Linux because we dont get many games here! You can get it in the repositories be installing "wesnoth". Graphics: The graphics are well drawn and it has the sense of a game that you would pay for. There are loads of different character types and each one has a different image, theyre not just edited with different colours. 8/10 Wesnoth has great level designs, despite being limited to a hexagonal grid Gameplay: As a turn-based strategy, Wesnoth has lots of different factors in gameplay. Units level up, and have various statistics, multiple weapons (which also have lots of stats). Playing in the night changes your units abilities, or playing on different terrain. At first it can seem a lot to get your head around but it really makes playing more fun when you have to review all the stats before you make a move. Its also got a battle calculator so you can predict th...