I have played a few games online - not the big role-playing ones (I don't have enough time to devote) but other, shorter games. In the iGoogle homepage I set up, there's an online version of Tetris - one of my all-time favorites. And when I was working on a catalog listing of a game my library purchased for use in the library, I found there was an online version. So I tried it. It's addictive! I had to buy my own copy. I have sucked up many hours playing Zuma. And I hear that Bejeweled is also fun. Find them at Pop-Cap Games.
I'm off to try Puzzle Pirates again....
[next day] Well, Puzzle Pirates didn't work when I tried it again yesterday and it didn't work today - on either my Mac or my PC. I tried both playing online and downloading their free client. So then I went to Second Life, registered, downloaded stuff, waited for the email verification.....and it won't play either. It could be there's just too much Internet traffic or - perhaps more likely - our computer systems are blocking these kinds of sites. And my Internet access at home is dialup, so way too slow to do online gaming.
I remember seeing a lot about Second Life a couple years ago, maybe when the Info Island was first set up, and then it really dropped off. I had totally forgotten about it. I was thinking that it was perhaps not as popular as it used to be, and then the Info Island blog talked about a big unveiling that happened two days ago.
We will hopefully be providing some gaming opportunities in our library in the future - first for teens but perhaps expanding to other groups, such as seniors. Gaming for seniors is a big thing now.
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