{"id":825,"date":"2008-05-31T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2008-05-31T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T17:43:18","slug":"cosmic-osmos-hex-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Osmo&#039;s Hex Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle.png\" alt=\"Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle\" title=\"Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanista.com\/Product.aspx?puri=poe:\/\/GameProduct\/12753123\">Cosmic Osmo&#8217;s Hex Isle<\/a>, the latest game from Myst creator Cyan Worlds. It has a very different feel than the Myst games, a lot more dialogue and bright colors and a lot less exploration and puzzle-solving. The game is very pretty, using the newest version of Cyan&#8217;s Plasma engine, and (unsurprisingly, due to a faster dual-core processor and four times the memory) runs better on my Mac than on my PC.<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay is much more similar to a &#8216;casual&#8217; game than a normal video game, in that the story is extremely simple, and the game mechanic is very straightforward. Touch all 6 blue &#8216;hexes&#8217; (hexagonal tiles) to complete the level. Of course, it gets more complicated as the levels go on, with moving hexes, hexes that disappear after you step on them, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The game is very fun, and for a game of its caliber, it&#8217;s very pretty. Unfortunately, the only website it&#8217;s available from is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanista.com\">Fanista<\/a>, which I think is possibly the <em>worst<\/em> online retailer I have ever had the misfortune to be forced to use. Maybe you can find it on eBay?<\/p>\n<p>Having played Cosmic Osmo&#8217;s Hex Isle, the only remaining Cyan game I have not played yet is the original Cosmic Osmo, which will be on Gametap next month. Can&#8217;t wait!<br \/>\n<\/center><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/Cosmic Osmo.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received Cosmic Osmo&#8217;s Hex Isle, the latest game from Myst creator Cyan Worlds. It has a very different feel than the Myst games, a lot more dialogue and bright colors and a lot less exploration and puzzle-solving. The game is very pretty, using the newest version of Cyan&#8217;s Plasma engine, and (unsurprisingly, due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,9,8],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-myst-gamescyan-worlds","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}