Small
Update: Work is crazy busy right now with preparations for the upcoming
semester and lots of staff meetings.
In the
field of gaming, I have been inspired by Tobold’s numerous positive posts about
Card Hunter and I decided to give the game a try. Apparently, so did lots of
others which led to the minor inconvenience of log-in queues from time to time.
Blue Manchu said they were working on increasing the server capacity. Since Card
Hunter is a Flash-based browser game, one can always use the waiting time to
catch up on some reading.
The game
itself is graphically rather simple but it manages to capture the nostalgia
associated with early versions of Dungeons & Dragons quite well. It is
free-to-play with an in-game shop and some sort of extra subscription, but up
to now I have not felt the need to pay anything. Like Tobold, I might pay
something mainly to express my support. Currently, I have three characters in
my party – a Dwarf Warrior, an Elf Wizard and a Human Priest – all of them
level 8. I do not know whether this is the best combination, but it serves me quite
well so far and it seems the most immersive.
All in all,
I can highly recommend Card Hunter to anyone who enjoys a tactical, turn-based gameplay
experience. It’s simply oodles of fun. I shamelessly stole that last expression
from my favourite person on the internet. Now who might that be?
