Free Play Friday: ThinkTanks.

Hello and Welcome to our first Free Play Friday.

This week, I am going to talk briefly about a game from the InstantAction website. A little BackGround for you: InstantAction is a website that allows you to play free, browser-based 3d games. It is the product of game developers Gargage Games. All that is required, is an internet connection, a plugin, and a one time download for each game.

The game I want to talk about breifly is called ThinkTanks. In ThinkTanks you pilot a small SD(super deformed) tank... with a brain on top (get it? :) ).

Loosing my mind in ThinkTanks

Think Tanks is pretty simple. Essentially, you just drive you tank around, shooting tanks on the opposing team. ThinkTanks has two modes. DeathMatch, and Scrum(Capture the Flag). Each level has some power-ups (Area Of Affect weapons, rapid fire, etc). The action, is pretty fast paced, but nothing revolutionary.

The most amazing thing for this game (and all of InstantAction) is the fact that they are fully 3D Games that run in your browser, with out the need to install a full game. ThinkTanks was orginally a PC/Mac game with a single player adventure mode as well as the multiplayer modes you see in the InstantAction versions.

A Lot is going on in this 3d Browser Game

So far, I really enjoy ThinkTanks, and the rest of instant action. Its still in Beta, so their are some bugs, but I think it definitely will expand as more people use it.

InstantAction uses a revenue model that we are seeing more often free online games these days: Free to play, extras you pay. This appears to be a more and more viable model for online games, and works out well for people like me who just want to casually play some new games every now and then. So, Come and join me in a game of ThinkTanks!

Thats it for the first week of Nerd's Natterings! I hope you all enjoyed it. Come Back, tell your friends, tell THEIR friends. See you all next week.

~K