Boom Blox Rox!

I rented Boom Blox on friday…

Wow, this game is extremely good. It’s a puzzle game built around a powerful physics engine, in which you move blocks around to achieve an objective. There is a mode where you have to find a way to make special blocks hit the ground by tossing a ball at the structure. If you want to get a high score, you can only use a small amount of throws. Most of the time you have to find the weak spot of the structure or find a support block to knock out and cause the building to fall down.

Another section challenges you to play a type of jenga. At the top of a structure will be a penalty block. You most remove sections of the structure to get points, but if the penalty blocks falls you lose. It sounds easy but it’s quite tricky and can be somewhat difficult to get a perfect score.

The game shows a high level of polish and does some ingenious things with what appear, at first, to be simple game play mechanics.

I haven’t tried the multiplayer yet, but it looks very fun!

The wii needs more games like this. Fun, engaging, and addictive. I definitely recommend Boom Blox to any Wii owner, you wont be disappointed.

Helping Children on Mother’s Day

Today was mother’s day, and many people presented their mother with flowers, or treated her out to a meal, or found some way to show they love and appreciate her.

It’s sad to know that not everybody can have this opportunity. Children without mothers are reminded of it on this day, and it can make it a difficult day for them.

Yesterday I went to the Wilton Manors “Children in Distress” center, where I worked with volunteers to entertain the children. The theme was a veterinary clinic, where the children could choose a stuffed animal (each one had a small rip in the fabric), and then take it over to a station where they can suture the wound closed, and then bandage it up. They also got the chance to make a collar for it, as well as decorate it with markers. I was working with a friend of mine on two PCs, where he had set up a veterinary game the children could play.

The children enjoyed it, and the volunteers had a blast! We were able to take their minds off their situation, and bring a smile to their faces. A Saturday well spent!