Human Age

Enj and I persist in our affection for the whacky little French game Human Age, which is plodding and dull compared to games where you actually do things, but which never fails to make me smile if not laugh at its sheer silliness. It seem to me that many of the players are in health care related jobs, and I think the very low stress and structured nature of the game make it a kind of relaxing brain massage.

I'm in the Egyptian Age and refuse to evolve yet although I could at any time. Enjah is in the Greek Age, as she likes to dash on ahead. She also has characters in Egyptian and Celtic Ages, and I have one in Celtic. Celtic Age is the one people seem to like least as progress is slow, so my old Celtic man may just remain there to give a leg up to Eggheads who are passing through. He mainly fights - almost 80 fights last month, and goes on Punitive Expeditions, and heals people in the hospital.

In the Egyptian Age I'm married to Enjah's alt Beldar, and we had a child (haha!). She wanted to call it Blammo, but I pointed out that Blammo is a girl's name, and thought that we should call a boy Snaskers de la Rue. The baby turned out to be a girl, though, and we took care of her until she left home and began sending scarabs home. Abruptly one day she sent us a rude message and disappeared - ingrate. Egyptian hunting consists of wandering around in a 2d landscape choosing to go after animals of various value. Hunters are alloted ten action points; each try uses a point and may or may not result in prey in the bag, and may or may not result in injury. I hunt hippos, rhinos, elephants, crocodiles, and once in a while a dog or a lunar shark.

Yesterday I got a PM purportedly from an admin that contained a link to a Russian viagra website, so even the funny little world of Human Age is assaulted by spammers. Email the game dev, though, and he immediately fixes problems that arise.