Bloxxorz!
I played Bloxxorz for a little while today. I’ll agree, it’s relatively addicting. I really enjoy puzzles and stretching my brain a little, so it was fun. Some of them were painfully easy, but I think that meant that as I played, I was learning how to think ahead in terms of the games’ rules, which is a good thing. I stopped after about Stage 23, mostly because I was bored and I wanted to go do other things. It was an hour well-spent though, because it made me think a little about games in general.
You can look at my last post for my feeling on this regarding social factors, but I believe that games don’t have to be super-high tech with the best graphics and engines ever created. Is it nice? Yes. Necessary? Not at all.
Personally, I think of it like the cliche of being a little kid. You could buy a really great toy, only to get home and end up having more fun with the box. Sometimes, the simplest things are entertaining, and that’s not bad. If we couldn’t enjoy simple things, complex things would never be invented, and it’s nice to return to something so relaxed after playing a game with many complicated rules.
