On Galcon: An Essay In Two Parts

Spacemen are bad to the bone, let no one tell you otherwise!

The guys here at the NYC office have fallen in love with a little game called Galcon. For those of you who haven't been graced by the almighty, holy light that bleeds through your screen when the game is being played... I'm truly sorry.

Get on that, like ASAP.

We've started ending every day (and beginning most) with at least one game. I'm pretty sure the boys from Bryn Mawr missed their train home one day because we couldn't stop playing. Who knew that triangles flying through space to fill colored circles could be so addictive?

"Not I," said the pig.

We just got a ton of new interns today and we're trying to break them in with a few 4v4 bouts (we've never played more than 3v3 before today). Sadly, I wasn't able to play (and it doesn't look like I'll be able to play at the end of the day either) because I'm currently using Ben's (djbmel1212) MacBook Pro. Oh well, I'll be working from home for the rest of the week anyways (the office is so crowded with all the new guys, it's insane).

Anyway, back to the glory that are colored triangles.
It's not the easiest game to pick up right away (unless you're amazing at games like Risk [by the way, another awesome game to play when your internet is down]), but once you start getting the hang of managing multiple planets... it's just pure bliss. Every time we're getting hit hard there are cheers and jeers, and every time someone is going down fast there are yells of "guys, send me some guys now!"

I'm really not sure how our co-workers put up with all the noise we make.

I swear, if this keeps up we're going to start skipping meals in favor of ruling outerspace.
Who needs food anyway?

~Joe~

Galcon is coming soon to InstantAction

Comments

[mmkaka]

I googled Galcon and downloaded the free trail and it's fun (but hard at singelplayer) i think it will be cool at multiplayer!

[mmkaka]

is there going to be a beta test i have seen a forum saying "Post to join beta" is it true?

[sky_lark]

Yeah, I'd love to be in the beta test!

Also, what time are you folks on? I'll need to get my rank back up to admiral, but I think I can beat you. :D

[James]

Yay, GalCon! I was just thinking how much it would fit in here the other day, what with Zap and all.