@szbarnaus 8 July 2021

I was thinking, as I threw myself back to earlier times, about a great video game I played. This has multiple layers, because I’m interested in the gamification concept and this time I started to put pen on paper to write some useful articles, materials about the concept, but it’s fun to design a system for me, so whether or not I’ll finish it’s worth it. (Please, tell me in the comments, if you are interested or not - that way I’ll finish it for sure or I don't mention it anymore .D). Another layer is that I like video games, simply just for fun. But I didn’t have the time to fully emerge in one, so I rather just take a peek into the story and art of it … and I stuck with collecting. So this is why I started a business with the idea to talk about collecting these things… because they always were and nowadays became even more relevant. But anywayZ, this is quite a funny and interesting thing. I wanted to choose a game, which was designed for the iPad, because mobile and tablet games are not open to retro game collecting as far as I know due to the format. I can easily pick up a GameBoy and play Tetris or whatever... but there are quite some early games on mobile, which are faded in tech history forever. But those are important as well... don't they, what do you think? Back then, I had a white iPad2, and well, it was quite new, so I was always searching the App Store, like news. I saw something, I just downloaded, tried and if it was a keeper ok, if not I deleted it. One day a company, Hammer&Chisel launched a MOBA for tablets, called "Fates Forever" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qscs6ezrEE ) I knew DOTA, so I expected something great form this as well. We had great LAN parties in the university, with food and beers in the middle of the summer in a dark room… well, fun memories for another time.... but all of a sudden, this fun experience was on the tablet, and it grabbed my attention, and it turned out it had great graphics, and cool sound, and magical characters… and 'oh shit it's 10 o'çlock already?!' (you know the feeling...) I remember it was quite a weekend .... a friend gathering was cancelled, and after a really hot week, there was a huge raining all weekend - so I played mostly. I was hooked to my iPad with this new game. I had to wait 5 minutes on the loading screens, soo much fun.... BUT this is not the story! And I'm sorry I was chitchatting here, so the story is quite interesting, and maybe I’ll write an article about this, because> it turned out, that Hammer and Chisel is called Discord today! … and because the game didn’t was a success - I think the launch was still early - they pivoted to other solutions … this is why entrepreneurship, the world of gaming can be so inspiring. Although the MOBA didn’t become a success, Discord is popular. So in today's TBT, I want to remember that YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP (and I'm quite on low level at the moment in life, business and energy, so bear with me, OK? ) there are great games, great mediums in every format out there…. so you never know how long you can play with them. There were even some games (Shadowrun: Hong Kong for example) which I bought and due to lack of free time, I kept in my game folder to take a look later.... and one day, it was taken down... Bummer! What early games you still remember on a tablet, or phone which is no more? Did you play 'Fates Forever?' BTW - the title says it all… Good job there…. Noise is a perfect place to be because in the meantime I made this silly noise, I realised how many noises I still have to do … so let’s get to work! I’m gonna throw back myself in those projects. You just stick around, drop some comments and have a great day!