I’ve just burned a little too much time on a very silly game about a very English sport – but it’s a fine opportunity for a little good-natured competition between RPSites. It’s pretty much what you’d get if you shoved cricket into Sumo Tori Dreams – that same comedy-physics sense of drunken, incapable men unwisely attempting physical activity. Only in this case there is actual skill involved too.
I’m currently watching Twitter-friends warring over high scores: the number to beat is 255, apparently. Can you do better? Yeah, you – you with the face. I certainly can’t.
Yes, this is probably the first and only time we ever post about cricket.
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I seem to be stuck around 135ish. The finickity nature of the mouse and the fact that it starts with out any sort of pause see, to be hampering me a bit. Sure I can crack 150 at any rate.
Isn’t this by the same dude who made that ragdoll 100 meter race game which you’ve covered before? I think he had a very similar game on his website. Or maybe I’m just confused…
I’ll just add here, as I did at length on QWOP, that foddy.net/Benzido’s third game Too Many Ninjas! is also awesome. JJ, it’ll really remind you of the IK+ ball thing because that’s basically what it is.
126 on my first innings. Hurrah! However, I’m in the office so I shan’t be spending any more time playing this. I’m not important enough to have a corner desk where no-one can see what’s on my monitor. So – work!
However, this has incentivised me to reinstall Rag Doll Kung Fu when I get home tonight and maximise the ROI of my KPI metrics. Or something.
Brain melts
@phuzz I remember playing Graham Gooch: World Class Cricket on the Amiga, is that the one you are thinking of?
Pretty shit at this game, but managed to break the 100 mark eventually, which will do me.
QWOP though is another story. After seeing comments on it I decided to hunt it out and I ended up spending about 30 mins on it last night and not getting any further than 11 meters, with most of the time falling straight down the second I started. I can already hear it calling me back for more of the same.
Are there any good cricket games around at the moment? Not much of a fan myself, but I am sure my brother would love a cricket game.
This actually makes me sad. It’s a sport you can get drunk to /for days on end/. Cricket = best.
Also, that Sports Explained site is amusingly limited in its grasp of cricket. “There are no balls. The pitcher is even allowed to bounce the ball on the ground before it reaches the batter.” – or, to be more accurate, the bowler (pitcher) is /supposed/ to bounce the ball on the ground – full-tosses can be penalised by the umpire as a ‘no-ball’ (i.e. free points for the batsmen). Said site also fails to explain the difference between a boundary for 4 (ball rolls out of bounds) or boundary for 6 (ball flies out of bounds without hitting the ground). Tch.
193.
WoS PWNZ J00.
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Hmm. Got 152 first pop. It’s too loose for me to put any time into it though. Why are you bobbing around like a jelly man?
That did nothing but make Cricket even more confusing to my weak American mind.
Holy shit, this game is a time destroyer. As clunky as it is, I find some kind of fascination in its physic nature and the “feeling” of hitting the ball. Scoring a 6 is really satisfying.
205 so far, would like to appear in top 10 but the frontier of 200 is a tough one.
I spent far too much time on this ages ago.
Still do from time to time.
Well I got 220 http://flickr.com/photos/uppi17/3179773989/
And how does Yes, this is probably the first and only time we ever post about cricket. match up with Related stories: Anyone for Cricket Demo? (trad.)?
We’ve established a couple of times before that the lobes of the RPS hivebrain don’t necessarily read each other’s posts. Especially if one of them’s Alec.
nargh, 169 is my best. This is infuriating.
882 at a 3.23 run rate which adds up to a lovely 2848.
Screen shot available upon request.
There should be a Wii cricket game. There probably is. I don’t know.
@Nosebleed I think you’re on about the unlimited version on foddy.net. This one is limited to ten overs, therefore the most you can get is 360 (6 every ball, 6 balls per over, 10 overs).
253! SO CLOSE.
260. I am going to stop playing this now. This was my game of the year, I think.
Our office has got a bit obsessed by it.
I am top score with 1075 (runs not with run rate).
2nd: binks: 639
3rd Raj: 623
4th Ad: 576.
Screenshots exist