Puzzle Pirates goes Beta
July 17th, 2003 by AlkiniDaniel James, CEO at Three Rings Design, Inc., wrote in to announce that theirpirate-themed puzzle MMP game Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates(screenshots) has gone in to the beta testing stage:
Avast ye! I wanted to give ye the scoop on our big news: we went Beta!This means that folks can turn up at puzzlepirates.com and play rightaway. It also means that we’ll be launching soon, hopefully soon tobe followed by a shift away from the ramen diet.For those of you who need refreshing, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is aPirate-themed massively multi-player game in which Puzzle games occupycenter stage. PP has been rock-solid stable in alpha testing for nigh onnine months.
Three Rings is a small independent team with a focus on fun gameplay. ThePirate movie timing is just coincidence, but Puzzle Pirates being more funthan other MMPs is not.
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July 17th, 2003 at 1:27 pm
Mozilla just tries to download dclient.jnlp, so how to start this game?
July 18th, 2003 at 12:08 am
ok, im assuming you didnt read the information on puzzle pirates with regards to how to do this. Please refer to the very_good documentation on their pages with regards to installing this. Assuming you install JRE correctly, you can use javaws to start the game if your too lazy to go to the url, or you can go to the url.
July 18th, 2003 at 10:30 am
follow da instructions on their page which points you in all the right directions. 8)
July 19th, 2003 at 3:37 am
So I have java 1.4.2 installed okay (and I can run java applets fine in my browser), but it still just wants to download the dclient.jnlp file when I click, instead of doing something clever with it.
I give up. :(
July 21st, 2003 at 4:52 pm
cute game..not sure why I had truble initally but it moght have been permission issues…cute little game for a diversion or just something different ..:))
July 22nd, 2003 at 9:52 am
This IS pretty neat (got mine working too, eventually). The most fun is probably getting together a bunch of pirates and playing the drinking game, and then getting angry when losing and picking a fight. YARRRRR!!!
July 22nd, 2003 at 9:55 am
So!! linux gamers.. how are you? what games are you playing? or wish that you got more time to play? let me here!