The Two Facebook Applications I Love

Farm-themed games were already common even before these two Facebook apps existed. My favorite was the "Flower City Garden" where a player starts from a very small farm with simple flower plantation. The game progresses as the player sells perfectly grown flowers using the right fertilizer. Another farming-themed game I played is the "Funky Farm" where there are already plants and moving animals involved.

For me, Facebook is famous for its third-party applications and became even more famous when a company developer "Slashkey" developed the game "Farm Town". Running in an Adobe Flash platform, this game is not just a one-man-game but rather, a multiplayer online game. A gamer can also chat to other online users while playing.

Screenshot of my farm with a small house and potato seeds planted at the plowed soil.


Other online users can be hired to work in your farm.

Another similar game in facebook app is "Farmville". The game is still online only that you cannot see other online users playing. I still love to play this game because it has better graphics than "Farm Town". The two applications are more or less related in terms of features.

Wheat crops ready to be harvested.

Rice fields and a tent in my farm.

These two games just show how powerful and flexible flash games are. Before, Flash software is just an application used to animate things that will be embedded in a website, but now, flash has a wide range of capabilities. Continue Reading

Play Bingo Without the Noisy Tablets

Requirements: Buy a bingo card. That's it!

I made this game for almost 2 hours because I already forgot how to code using actionscript. This version has simple animations. Animation, music and graphics will be the bottleneck for the next release maybe. I tried playing this game using my brother's playing bingo cards, and it works great, only the whole game was plain and boring.

This flash game is just a replacement of the person who reads or announces the numbers. In short, this is not a whole Bingo game. You need the actual bingo cards and obviously I don't sell those things. I think these cards can be found in bookstores and they're cheap.

I know that game is boring, just wait for the next release... Continue Reading

The Name "Rookie Blogger" and How Far Are You From Me

Visitors are wondering why I name myself or this blog "The Rookie Blogger". This blog is less than 8 months old and I call myself a ROOKIE! Well, the word rookie in basketball or any game is different from the rookie I am referring to. To be able to understand the word rookie I am pointing to, one must be able to know a little about Pangya (Albatross 18). In this MMORPG, the 'Rookie' is the lowest level (Rookie F specifically). I cannot use the word 'beginner' because in Pangya, there is a 'Beginner' level (the level after rookie).

To make this explanation not boring, I created a list of pangya levels with blogs that I have visited. The blogs in each level are not randomly placed, there is a certain secret criteria. As what I have said, I am in the rookie level. Check your blog or the blog of your friends if they are on the list. If your blog is not in the list, it doesn't mean I don't like it or something, maybe, I haven't seen your blog or I totally forgot it (sorry...).

[click on the levels (e.g. rookie, beginner, junior...) to view the blogs, then click the blog you want to visit]

You might be wondering why no one is in the four topmost level. The Pangya forums can answer this question but because I have to be informative so that this blog is worthy to exist in the world-wide-web, the reason is that no one has ever reached these levels. Pangya Korea is the first Pangya server to have this game and still they don't have a user that reached the 'Master' level up to this day. I am playing this game for almost two years but still, I am in the 'Beginner' level. Leveling-up in this game is very hard and takes a lot of time and effort, just like in blogging.

Please feel free to comment. Please, as much as possible, don't post violent comments. You should be proud if your blog is above the 'Rookie' level. You can react if your blog has a broken link. Continue Reading