If you’re having trouble with memory and attention, you’ll want to try out Dragon 3D and Maya, both these fabulously effective MetaTools are Attention and memory builders, and you’ll feel the effect in the very first work-session.
MAYA is the result of over 20 years of game programming, meaning that well over 3,000 hours went into the production of this incredibly complex and sophisticated Orb. It may look retro, but it’s as update as any 3D engine out there. The point of the “look” of my Orbs is that they are Archetypes, not Earthbound images or rendering. Don’t expect every world to look like the one you happen to be in right now.
Maya takes place in an alternate dimension of time and space; you spawn into a tiny village — tiny, but somehow disturbing. The houses are by no means primitive — they’re made of dressed stone, large stone blocks, bespeaking a very advanced and highly cooperative society.
Yet no one seems to be at home.
We come to discover that the countryside has been overrun by dragons, kobolds, trolls and other horrible monsters, not to mention the zombies.
Ding-Dang it, I went ahead and mentioned the zombies.
Well, as long as I’ve already said the word “zombies”, I might as well own up here; the whole dang place is riddled with zombies, and the fact is, the zombies are far worse than the dragons.
The Zombie Bosses are about 20 feet tall and they are very hard to hurt. Making them die is a project in itself.
If this were an ordinary video game, it could go viral, but it isn’t for the masses. It’s ready for you now. Are you Ready for Maya, the Dance of Illusion???
DRAGON 3D is the first of my videogame MetaTools; first created on the Amiga Platform in 1987, it may well be the very first actual 3D game ever made, but that’s not important right now. What is important is that I’m updating it with the new engine and the new features allowed by that engine, including submersible liquids with below-water visual and physics effects.
Dragon 3D is a full 7 levels contained in one giant Orb. Unlike its earlier incarnation, it is now quite sophisticated and difficult to complete and, among my videogame “runs” and “adventure Orbs”, this Orb makes by far the largest demand on your memory skills, along with demands for increased effectiveness and efficiency in the realm of hand-eye coordination and quick decisions, not to mention your patience and willingness to continue to plow through mindless tedium until it becomes fun.
In Dragon 3D, you’ll be expected to remember where the traps are and get there ahead of the dragons, as it were.
Unrelenting shocking ambushes at every turn, this Orb will teach you to expect the unexpected and to learn to easily anticipate where disaster will strike next, and you’ll take the remedial action to counteract the negative effect.
Why dragons?
Good question. If you’d rather face zombies, check out Zombie Jamboree, destined for spring 2015 release, and it’s not just dragons in there. You’ll find vicious rottweilers and other delightful pets throughout Dragon 3D, though — not to worry.
In addition to finding other creatures in there, you’ll be glad to meet seven totally different breeds of dragon in an increasingly more difficult-to-penetrate body armor, each with its own peculiar brand of murder in mind, unless you happen to be a rich virgin with a fantastic dowry.
I grow my own dragons, so they’re quite plentiful, and I ship out hundreds a day to my Outland Breeder Farms.
I’m working right now on a totally unkillable race of dragons. When I manage to get them to breed without destroying each other in the process, I’ll see about getting them into an Orb or two.
In all of my “MemAttention Orbs, ou’ll find ridiculous places to die along the way. In both MemAttention MetaTool Orbs described here, you will have experiences with a number of absolutely absurd deaths and equally absurd rebirths. Gosh, it’s just like the Real Thing, eh?
In fact, it is the Real Thing.
Oh, sure, not where YOU sit right now, but in your in-game incarnation, it’s very real and if you’re not attentive, your Avatar will get hurt a lot more than it needs to, and even if you don’t feel the pain, your Avatar does. Be kind and considerate toward your Avatar. Treat yourself well, with respect and care, or no one else is likely to.
Live and Learn.
That’s not just a good idea; it’s the Law.
See You At The Top!!!
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