February 11th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Cafe.com is a free social networking game community that allows you to chat, meet people and play games. There are hundreds of easy and fun individual/ multiplayer games to choose from e.g. Swordfish, a Tetris like strategy game in a deep sea fishing environment and Ironsides, a Pac Man maze like game with an 18th century naval warfare theme.
Each player creates a 3D avatar, thus defining your online profile, appearance and persona of your character. Throughout the game, possessions can be accumulated by purchasing items to further enhance your gaming experience. These items may give you an advantage while playing with opponents. For example, some items may increase your gaming speed, some may obstruct their game play or freeze opponents. The virtual setting is such that each player that wants to play a game, needs to go into an individual room. These rooms are available for players to chat, launch multi player games and can contain up to 6 players.
For those who want to have some gaming fun while meeting others, this is a great place for it. The whole online setting makes one feel lively and cheerful with its bright/ fun colors. I am not sure whether it is a good or bad thing giving players the ability to cheat (with those virtual items) but it does make the whole gaming experience more challenging.
Nevertheless, Cafe.com is one of the few online gaming sites suitable for teens, toddlers and adults alike. I can see this place becoming pretty addictive for some (as I found out myself!). So go ahead, don’t take my word for it, give it a try.
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3 Responses to “Cafe.com: An addictive online gaming community”
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ray said: @ 5:51 pm
February 11th, 2007
this is really interesting; thank you for posting about this. As a future educator, I am extremely interested in the possibilites. Thanks.
Ray
http://therealrayhedrick.blogspot.com/
Kristyn said: @ 12:59 pm
February 12th, 2007
Thanks for the link, Foo! It looks really interesting, though it looks like something that could become addictive without moderation (I wish I had moderation, lol).
Aniela said: @ 10:24 pm
February 13th, 2007
This site reminds me a lot of pogo.com. It’s pretty much the same thing, you play for points which you can redeem for prizes/cash but the core of the members are hardcore players who buy the paid pogo membership.
Still, a fun site to go to and play some games. And if you win some points, they have weekly “lottery” tickets which you purchase with your points, and the prizes are cash (i think between $50-250).