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Streaming Games and Talking About Warm Gun

    Hey, everyone. It is a cool, cloudy, foggy morning in the mountains. Quite typical for November, really. I've been experimenting with streaming my I-Pad games to my TV. I bought a multi-player map pack from Nova 2 for local Wi-Fi. ($1.99) I don't really play on-line but I thought we could play here at the house. One of the maps has you battling on the beach. You know I'm a beach guy. The second is these frozen, floating platforms. You can run up anti-grav ramps which launch you to the next platform, which is really bizarre. I can imagine if you had 10 players all jumping around, shooting at each other with advanced weaponry. I especially like looking down through a glass platform on your enemy as he walks below you, unaware that you are stalking him. It reminds me of working in power plants. We had floors made of steel grates. If you saw a guy on a floor below you, you could dump a bucket of water on him. If he were 3 floors lower, the water would get pretty nasty before it got to him. No, in answer to your question, we weren't very mature.
      The third environment is a group of floating rocks that are above a gorge so vast that those of you who are afraid of heights may be slightly intimidated. This 'map' also has the anti-grav jump ramps.
    I've also streamed the Warm Gun game to the TV. This game is a bit odd. It doesn't have local Wi-Fi multiplayer yet. Warm Gun has a lot of potential but needs some work. For one thing, the crosshairs for aiming are very hard to see. Secondly, there should be more characters available, other than the 4. The overall strategy of the game could use an update. I like the idea of stalking around a ghost town in a shoot-out with other players. They respawn (come back to life) after you shoot them, which is also fine, to a point. But I play it off-line and there should be a goal to 'shoot for'. For instance, you could be a sherriff. The Dalton gang is in town and you know that there are 5 of them. You seek them out and kill them with no respawn for them. If you kill all five you win and go on to another level. Since it is a post-apocalypse world with smoking cities, lying in ruins, you could have a level where there is a vicious pack of wild dogs that you must hunt and kill. Then you could have a level where you find a mom and her son. You must escort them to shelter as you battle mutant survivors. Come up with, say ten levels like this and sell a million copies for the current price of $4.99. It is a fun game and is probably worth the 5 dollars as it is, but there is a definite sense of being unfulfilled. Not trying to be mean, developers. Just wanting to be honest.
     I was just streaming the new game Modern Warfare 3, Fallen Nation. It looks fantastic on the big screen as its graphics are top shelf. By the way, the directions for streaming are in a post I did a day or two ago. I think if you have an I-Pad 2 and an I-Pad 1 as the two players, the I-Pad 2 has to be the host and the 1 needs to join his game. I am just learning this stuff myself. If all this is Greek to you, I am sorry.
    From the gaming retreat, I'm CE Wills.
    
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