While most on-line gamers prefer the more visual (and usually 3D) games that are a-dime-a-dozen these days, employee gamers like me prefer the more laid back (and usually textual) Browser Games. Reason: company firewalls.
'Tis very frustrating when you have most Internet sites firewalled by the IT Department. God only knows what the IT guys do with all that extra bandwidth. It most likely has to do with "download" and "porn" being in the same sentence. Anyway, I am not a techgeek, otherwise I'll be in a better paying job in IT. I, however, have something techgeeks don't--the impeccable logic and heightened senses of a pureblood slacker, just like Spiderman and Free Willy combined.
So one day I was trying to (desperately) surf the net, when I finally found this particular game, Knight Fight. Nice! In my remaining 4-hour shift I was able to create a knight and level it until 8. Let's just say those last 4 hours was not something the company would term as "productive."
This really got me going. I asked myself what made the game push through when so many before it had failed. After some checking, I stumbled upon the term "browser-based games." My ever-reliable Internet references say that it worked because the game's website does not install anything on your computer. It plays everything over the net so no blocking scripts are triggered (in our office's firewall at least).
And so here began my crusade of finding these browser-based saviors, which I will be sharing in this blog.
'Tis very frustrating when you have most Internet sites firewalled by the IT Department. God only knows what the IT guys do with all that extra bandwidth. It most likely has to do with "download" and "porn" being in the same sentence. Anyway, I am not a techgeek, otherwise I'll be in a better paying job in IT. I, however, have something techgeeks don't--the impeccable logic and heightened senses of a pureblood slacker, just like Spiderman and Free Willy combined.
So one day I was trying to (desperately) surf the net, when I finally found this particular game, Knight Fight. Nice! In my remaining 4-hour shift I was able to create a knight and level it until 8. Let's just say those last 4 hours was not something the company would term as "productive."
This really got me going. I asked myself what made the game push through when so many before it had failed. After some checking, I stumbled upon the term "browser-based games." My ever-reliable Internet references say that it worked because the game's website does not install anything on your computer. It plays everything over the net so no blocking scripts are triggered (in our office's firewall at least).
And so here began my crusade of finding these browser-based saviors, which I will be sharing in this blog.
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