Gadgety News

This is Kwari.  A first person shooter that rewards you with real cash money for success.

Looking at the site and the promo vid clips it looks like the developers have put some thought into the game and pay engine. The most important part I think is an anti-cheating system which, if fool proof, could be pretty rewarding in itself for Kwari’s writers. 

The game features challenges, traps (which drain your money), in-game cash prizes and pickups and something called The Pill, which is like a super game jackpot. 

A very interesting aspect of Kwari is the way the game deals with the uber-players out there.  The developers claim to have completely leveled the playing field so that n00bs have as good a chance to earn some folding as seasoned gamers.  This is something that I’ll have to check out!

Here’s some blurb:

Kwari has been designed with a singular purpose in mind – to give you the opportunity to translate your shooter skills into some serious cash. Everything about the game has been tailored to that effect…We generate money from the game purely through the sale of ammo. The price has not been finalised yet, but it will not be expensive - after all, charging too much to play the game would severely dampen the interest in playing it. The ideal that we’re working towards is that the cost of ammo will be significantly outweighed by a successful, profitable single match.

Kwari Via Red Ferret

FoxNews is ramming the fact that online gaming can lead to death and other nastiness. 

The report picks out a few extreme cases where people who met via online worlds ended up doing something bad so therefore games such as World of Warcraft should be banned. 

There’s a very halfhearted attempt to give ‘the otherside’ of the ‘debate’ but that’s quickly made to look irrelevant.  To be honest, we’ve heard similar things throughout the ages from looking directly at the moon will make you mad, listening to Black Sabbath means you’re a Satanist and Rap makes you automatically up for a drive-by and doing other things will make you go blind.  

As in most articles like this there is little in the way of real proof to substantiate the report. 

In fact online gaming and their worlds have become more popular whilst violent crime has actually been in a decline.  Hmmmm…..

Click the link to read the damning report.

Now, I’m quite partial to a bit of ‘Counter Strike’ and ‘Day of Deafeat’ but would never see it as a ’social’ experience (unless hitting your buddy with a headshot via a Desert Eagle counts).  doof on the otherhand has other ideas - they’ve decided to mix the web-crack that is social networking with online gaming to be rewarded with the aptly titled  ”social gaming”.

(doof) “looks and feels more like a desktop on acid than a website” and brings to the table extensive customisation and self-branding options.

As well as having the expected features like chat, gifts, avatars and photo posting, there’s the gaming experience that is said to be more advanced than ever before. There’s a range of games from every genre that can be one player or against others, your score ratings are posted and matched world-wide.

doof founder Liad Shababo comments, “Social networking can become dull and gaming can get too intense — doof is about fun and taking the time out of the day to chill and socialise”.