Freelancer's Office: Blog

The folks over at the Game Giveaway of the Day err, weekend, errr… occasional weekend… yeah, The folks at Game Giveaway of the occasional weekend, have a new offering up for players that want some semi-mindless puzzle solving.

Funny Creatures, or, as I prefer to unofficially dub it, Hairless Hamsters.

Funny Creatures is a puzzle solving game with two levels of difficulty to it, easy and hard.   The goal of the game is to move the little critters (a circular creature with large eyes and small hamster-like feet poking out from it in four directions) around until you get it to stop in the round ‘base’ plate of the same color.

Some levels have arrows that will redirect the Creatures into the direction the arrow indicates, making it a bit harder to move them where you want them.  In all levels the same basic rules of movement apply.  Creatures move in a straight line until they meet an obstacle - either a wall or another creature.  You can not move say one square at a time, when they move they move as far as the open floor allows.

A nice “I’m asleep and wanna distract myself from going to bed” game, but not something to rush out and buy in my opinion.

Good points:

• Solve any puzzle you feel like working on, you do not have to solve puzzles in sequence.
• No timer, just a count of how many moves were needed to complete the puzzle
• East enough for small kids to play, but not so easy it would put adults to sleep
• Music is pleasant to listen to and not distracting - set volume in options
• Floor grid can be turned off/on in the options
• Full screen toggle in the options

Strikes against the game:

• Complaints have been made by other users at the giveaway site that it is not Windows 7 or Vista compatible.
• Simplistic no frills game with a too easy to reach ‘booooring’ margin

All in all it is worth a try if you like to veg and do not have something to do such as write a novel, get an article started, post to blogs, watch Netflix online or play Sims3 …. I have all of those other things, so I’ll head off and attack one or more of them and let you check out the Funny Creatures game some more yourself if you feel inclined.

I’ve trashed the main Freelancer’s Office site and have began a major redesign on it. Next step - this blog. That will take a bit of time, though, so the blog is safe for now. Right now I am uploading a new site program that will, I hope, help me in making this site more useful for not only myself, but freelance writers in general.

Wish me luck on that working.

Okay, now that the frustrated growl is out of the way, I’m going to go back to work.

June has been… chaotic. But, things have settled down now so I should be back online and ready to dive back into my work as a freelance writer once again. Anyone comes near me with any kind of scheme to make me miss getting work done they better be ready to be bit.

:::dives into the websites that are too neglected:::

I just spent three days trying to make my router work properly. Very big headache and a mess to get the thing to work right, but in the end I have won the battle. I had to go into the settings for it and reset the thing to factory defaults, then I had to manually reconfigure things to the way they are supposed to be until I had it back up to where it should be and working right. It is working now, though, so I’m happy about that. After three days of fighting it I had determined that maybe it had burned out completely or something. Thankfully it just had to be completely reconfigured from the factory settings up.

Since the start of May I have been working toward starting up a business making quilts, it has been a rocky startup, but so far I think I’m getting there. I’ve been making quilts for family and myself for years, and now I am planning to turn that toward a second income source.

I’m not about to give up my writing, but I need to get another source of income if I want to ever stand a chance of owning my parent’s home. So, enter the quilts. Which is actually a very fitting business for trying to earn money for the house, since I got into quilting by making a quilt for my mom for Christmas one year.

I think that she would be very encouraging of me pursuing quilting as a home business. And I will need to pursue it from home, since the plans I had for participating in the Saturday Market in my local town seems to be more of a hassle than potential profit at this point. $25 each time I want to set up there to sell, with only a small handful of fellow vendors and half the number of people stopping in at the market. I would love to go every weekend, but between the low return on investment and the hassle of getting someone on the weekends that wants to hang out with dad so he does not have to go to the market from 9am to 7pm…. ::shakes head::: It is just much easier to run the business from home with an online storefront.