OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20308/Economy_Suffers_Another_Blow_Peggle_Nights_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:19:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Best peggle review ever http://osnews.com/thread?331060 http://osnews.com/thread?331060 http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7-Pegg... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments Would you consider this .. http://osnews.com/thread?331061 http://osnews.com/thread?331061 .. a cognitively developmental game? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (de_wizze) Comments RE: Would you consider this .. http://osnews.com/thread?331062 http://osnews.com/thread?331062
.. a cognitively developmental game?

I prefer service-oriented, integration-leveraged, domain-neutral, value-added knowledge augmentation instrument. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments Why should I bother? http://osnews.com/thread?331072 http://osnews.com/thread?331072 They made the game 'bejeweled' which I have on my cell phone - I never bothered to buy it as it is super buggy, and doesn't even match their documentation provided - for example, when a drop set comes in and makes another match it drops your time and gives you points, but ultimately kills you. If they can't get a simple demo right, why should I bother buying the full thing? Or anything else they make? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TemporalBeing) Comments RE[2]: Would you consider this .. http://osnews.com/thread?331073 http://osnews.com/thread?331073
I prefer service-oriented, integration-leveraged, domain-neutral, value-added knowledge augmentation instrument.

Hmm... You must be talking about Extreme Tux Racer or Super Tux Kart, right? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (irbis) Comments Comment by BSDfan http://osnews.com/thread?331098 http://osnews.com/thread?331098 This site has gone down the drain... Thom is a bad influence.

Peddling proprietary crap? haven't you learnt anything yet? Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments RE: Why should I bother? http://osnews.com/thread?331100 http://osnews.com/thread?331100 There are two play modes in Bejeweled: Simple and Timed. It looks like you have been playing Timed mode where the time slowly runs out as you play. See if you can switch it to Simple mode.

http://www.popcap.com/faq/bejeweled/1033/pc/readme.html#I/GM Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xifu) Comments RE[2]: Why should I bother? http://osnews.com/thread?331138 http://osnews.com/thread?331138
There are two play modes in Bejeweled: Simple and Timed. It looks like you have been playing Timed mode where the time slowly runs out as you play. See if you can switch it to Simple mode.

http://www.popcap.com/faq/bejeweled/1033/pc/readme.html#I/GM


From the website:
You can replenish the Bonus Bar by creating sets and combos


However, that is exactly what is NOT happening - thus my original post. It doesn't replenish the bar, it takes away from the bar; especially when the new blocks that are dropped in create a new combo. It's not a matter of jumping to a new level; it just simply doesn't do what the documentation says it is suppose to be doing.

Also, there is no ability to change modes in the demo version. From the phone's "Help: Modes" section:

Normal: Create matches with no time pressure...


Normal mode is the only available mode. In play, it doesn't seem to wind down time; but matches take away from the bar at the bottom - the more of them, the faster it goes away. I could also quote other parts of the documentation on the phone that completely contradict that behavior as being the way it is suppose to play.

I would probably have bought the game a long time ago if the game functioned right. But if they can't seem to a demo version right, then how could they expect to get paid for someone to buy the non-demo?

At least IMHO, they shouldn't. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TemporalBeing) Comments Now you did it http://osnews.com/thread?331627 http://osnews.com/thread?331627 Wow great, now you did it. I hadn't heard of this game before and decided to give it a try - now I'm addicted. And I'm due to finish my thesis in three weeks, how am I going to do that now? Hope you're happy! ;-)

BTW, works flawlessly under Linux with Wine. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mintar) Comments