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• A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery
• Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and frame-by-frame animations
• Handcrafted, pressure-free puzzles
• Unique delightful landscape-shaping mechanic
• A compact game experience perfect for a wanderlust-evoking escape
• Original and emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC
• Crisp drawings rendered in native resolution - even on your 4K monitor

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• OS *: Windows XP SP2+
• Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
• Memory: 1024 MB RAM
• Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
• Storage: 2 GB available space
• OS: Mac OS X 10.8+

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A story game about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans.

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A heartfelt game about life, loss and hope.

Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward. During this compact gameplay experience, you’ll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man’s Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man’s heartache, regret, and hope.

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Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward. During this compact gameplay experience, you’ll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man’s Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man’s heartache, regret, and hope. *** - Apple Design Award 2017 - Best Art Award 2017 Sense of Wonder Night - Excellence in Art Award 2017 Busan Indie Connect - Best Art and Innovation Award 2017 BIG Festival - Media Choice Award 2017 Indiecade Europe - Leftfield Selection 2017 EGX Reezed - GDC Selection 2017 Unity Showcase - Official Selection 2016 PAX - Digital Selection 2016 Indiecade - Official Selection 2016 Day of the Devs

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The Apple Design Award winning story game now available on Arcade! A soul-searching adventure about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. Immerse yourself in a visual narrative as you uncover, stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interact with the serene, whimsical environment as you solve playful puzzles and shape the landscape around you, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward. Find yourself transported to a vibrant and wishful world as you immerse yourself in meditatively delightful gameplay and inquisitive, quiet puzzle solving. Explore life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes as you experience his heartache, regret, and hope. Features: - A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery - Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and animations - Handcrafted, pressure-free puzzles - Unique landscape-shaping mechanic - A compact game experience perfect for a wanderlust-evoking escape - Original and emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC

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1. Old Man's Journey Walkthrough overview

Welcome to the official TA walkthrough for Old Man's Journey, a puzzle adventure developed by Broken Rules. It should come as no surprise that you play as an old man on a journey, reflecting on life's precious moments and broken dreams all the while. The title's simple, yet the rich story is told through beautiful visuals, with frequent breaks encouraging calm contemplation along the way. Mechanically, the game revolves around the ability to move hills, cliffs, and structures to create a path from point A to point B.

Nearly all of the game's 12 achievements are missable, but can be earned easily through simple actions as you make your way through the story. There is a chapter select in case you miss anything on the first run. Expect between 1 and 2 hours for the full 1000 GS.

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Old Man's Journey , a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving.

A visual narrative about life's precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man's life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man's path forward.

During this compact gameplay experience, you'll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life's complexities through the old man's eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man's Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man's heartache, regret, and hope.

• A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery
• Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and frame-by-frame animations
• Handcrafted, pressure-free puzzles
• Unique delightful landscape-shaping mechanic
• A compact game experience perfect for a wanderlust-evoking escape
• Original and emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC
• Crisp drawings rendered in native resolution - even on your 4K monitor

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Old Man's Journey: A Heartfelt Puzzle Adventure

Old Man’s Journey is a soulful puzzle adventure game that takes you on a journey of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Developed by Broken Rules, this game is available on Windows platform and falls under the action game subcategory. The game has a full version license.

The game is set in a beautifully crafted world that is soaked in a sunny glow. The gameplay is all about solving puzzles in a pressure-free environment. You get to interact with the whimsical world and solve puzzles by shaping the landscape. The game takes you on a visual narrative about life's precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans. You get to uncover the stories of the old man's life through beautiful vignettes of his memories. The unique landscape-shaping mechanic is delightful and adds to the overall experience.

Old Man’s Journey is a compact game that is perfect for anyone seeking a wanderlust-evoking escape. The game's emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC and hand-drawn art with frame-by-frame animations make it a visual delight. The crisp drawings are rendered in native resolution, even on your 4K monitor. If you're looking for a meditative and reflective experience, Old Man's Journey is the perfect game for you.

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This ruminative travel game is beautiful, poised, and a little predictable.

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Though Old Man's Journey is a short adventure, it's a gorgeous and memorable one thanks to its heartfelt storytelling and intriguing puzzles.

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Simplicity is the biggest strength of Old Man's Journey. It doesn't require you to be a genius or a master gamer, but to have a penchant for something more oft-kilter. That it manages to be a satisfying experience all without saying a single word is remarkable and definitely worth a look.

Old Man's Journey proposes a unique experience that features an interesting plot, a magnificent visual component and a series of challenges that will quickly conquer the player. While its lifespan my feel short and its price a bit too steep, Old Man's Journey is another game that is more than worthy of an opportunity and which deserves its place within the Nintendo Switch.

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If you're looking for something substantial in the gameplay department, Old Man's Journey probably isn't for you. Its main mechanic is neat, but it doesn't build upon it and due to the lack of any surrounding substance, you'll be left feeling short changed. But for those that connect with it, Old Man's Journey will offer up a memorable experience that comes equipped with a meaningful message and a stunning graphical palette.

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Old Man's Journey is a small, quiet game that you can tell was a work of passion. Sometimes the best way to get someone to listen to you is to whisper. In a just world, this spare kaleidoscope of memories and manipulated hillsides will garner as much attention as bigger games beset with earth-shaking explosions. As we all learn in time, it's often the smaller chance encounters that make the most impact on us. Especially when we look back.

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Some puzzles are found along the way, but finding the gentleman's true purpose is what the journey is truly about. If it clicks with you, you will likely walk with the same appreciation I did. The message is truly wonderful, and that left me a little satisfied at the very least.

State of the Art: Old Man's Journey

How its gorgeous scenes were made

Old Man's Journey [ official site ] caught my attention before release entirely on the strength of its aesthetic. It reminded me of board game illustrations, of children's books, of a particular Courbet painting, and of colour palettes remembered from trips to the sun-baked south of France. The game itself offered a touching tale told through environment and memory as an elderly man strapped on his rucksack and headed off.

The landscapes you encounter are both the setting for the game and the game itself because you play by raising and lowering the layers of scenery. Where the curves of two layers intersect the old man can hop between them, dodging obstacles and navigating around errant sheep. I sat down with Clemens Scott, the game's art director, earlier this year to find out more about how he made the hillscapes work:

Just as an FYI, parts of this piece are information taken from the GDC talk he did about the game's development just before our interview augmented with my own observations as a player. He actually answered a lot of the questions I'd had as part of that presentation so we used our interview time for a) fleshing out some of those ideas and b) finishing slightly early so we could go on the beautiful LeRoy King Carousel outside the Children's Creativity Museum next to the conference centre. Fun fact: you can donate money and thus name an animal on the carousel for a whole year. If I could afford to do that I would name one of the camels.

Back to the game art!

Okay, so here are some screenshots from the finished game:

And here's a gameplay teaser trailer so you can see how players interact with those layers as part of the game:

But here's the starting point:

To go from those monochrome humps with the little pink figure and the blue golf hole flag objective marker is one of those things which seems more straightforward than it was because fundamentally the elements are all still there and they use similar shapes, but they have been dressed to suit the game. However, as Scott breaks the art development process down, you start to understand how the aesthetic evolved and how the visual art supports the non-verbal storytelling.

That starter image actually reminds me of old watercolour exercises where you use various strengths of colour wash to create the suggestion of a landscape receding. If you like that sort of layering effect there's a lovely Twitter bot which George Buckenham set up called Soft Landscapes – it produces a new one every six hours.

Obviously that basic idea was going to need to be worked into a format which supported the idea for the game, though. Old Man's Journey needed to encourage players to head into the landscapes – a sense of wanderlust was important, especially at the beginning because it's what motivates the player to start. But the aesthetic also needed to encourage the player towards a slower playstyle, moving away from progress-oriented play and towards a contemplative mindset. Scott described the overall effect Broken Rules wanted as being "A game for the reading nook" which I really like.

As a guiding thread for the game the team took inspiration from thatgamecompany and came up with an emotion curve for the game. The curve could then act as a reference point for conversations and decisions so that whatever was being created would be in service of the broader trajectory of the journey.

As the first step on from the initial set of grey layers, Scott turned to vector graphics. It was a method he was already familiar with from previous projects so it made sense as a starting point. That's interesting to me because it meant starting from the gameplay blocks and try to work up from that rather than heading immediately into more free-form concept art and working back to meet the game aims.

As you can probably gather the result was this bright and blocky image which offers up some legibility and there's an understanding of how the pieces might fit together as interactive components.

Here's another:

You can see a contrasting approach in the work by Lip Comarella from Salon Alpin, a production studio located nearby. He went with a far more painterly sketch which offers up a sense of mood and this idea of an expansive landscape ripe for exploring.

Scott explains that he then tried to bridge the gap between the two approaches, applying what he'd seen in Comarella's version to the more gamesy initial work. Comarella also worked up some concept sketches of the old man and other elements which you can see over on ArtStation . You can see how he has changed from the previous version and how the new look incorporates the fact that the team had, by this point, developed a far more detailed character profile to work with.

Here are the older versions with that blocky vector style:

And Comarella's version:

Here you can see how Scott was applying elements of Comarella's work to those functional templates for the levels. To give a little bit of explanation, some sections of the game have waterfalls. If you try to walk along the top of a waterfall the water knocks you off that ledge and you land at the base. It can either be an obstacle to avoid or a necessary element of traversal.

Scott's own verdict is that it was closer but still not quite right. He needed to find an art style which he, as the art lead, could make work (and which the rest of the studio could work with). Edging towards that stable style was very much a process of refinement over time, and in response to particular challenges.

One of the slides I really liked was this one:

It was from when the team were figuring out whether they wanted to work in 3D and so you get these character stand-ins who reminds me of Cluedo player tokens. But there's also something there, in the motifs and the colour palette which reminds me of Magritte.

Anyway, you then get to this image below which is attempting to solve the problem of giving a player something to head towards that isn't an artificial blue flag. That element was a short-lived success because although it meant there was a sense of direction and an object of interest, the appearance of a village meant there was now a scale that the old man would need to conform to as he hopped across layers of landscape distance. He would be perfectly distinct on the layers nearest the screen, but hopping backwards he would need to either shrink to being barely visible or tower out of all proportion over the rest of the scenery.

You start to see some elements that remained in the project, though. In particular Scott points to the colour gradients on the layers. It's easiest to make out on the yellowy layer in the middle ground which shifts from yellow at the top to green towards the bottom. The vibrant colours and this sense of light along the tops of the layers where you tread stayed in the game.

It's around this point that Scott points to the Panda Bear video for Boys Latin directed by Isaiah Saxon as another inspiration:

Line drawing experiments followed, and I think these images actually help show the problem of scale once you add detail. Over on the right you have a worker in the vineyard so the old man would need to be that height or risk looking bizarrely gigantic. By the buildings on the third layer back he would be so small you'd have difficulty selecting him and by the fourth layer which is the destination he'd be all-but invisible.

Looking to the village itself, I remember really liking how the layers lead you upward as you play. I'm so used to things which side scroll and there's a significant amount of that in Old Man's Journey but you do also get these lovely climbs and descents which provide a strong spatial contrast. They also remind me of tiny French and Maltese villages I've visited where I've needed to clamber up sun-bleached steep streets to reach a particular cafe or bed and breakfast. The pastel-hued Italian coastal villages of Cinque Terra were a direct inspiration here he says. The header image on the Lonely Planet page about the place is absolutely gorgeous.

Having an environment with these steep pathways interspersed with overlapping buildings was useful in teaching players where they can stand while manipulating the slopes. Roofs were consistently safe, immovable objects while roads and paths could be raised and lowered as long as you weren't standing on them.

Scott started with a smaller sketch and then extended it at the base and at the top so players would have a place to come from and a destination in the hotel which sits at the very top of the building. The expanse of sky is part of building that feeling that the space continues even if the player can't reach it.

The top of the village was where one of the less successful 3D experiments came in. There's a little camper van which comes and picks a guy up and you can see in the gif below a little gif of the van going back and forth, but the way the 3D is functioning, you see a lot of one side of the van and then the other - far more than you should if the van were travelling in a straight line. To me it looks like it's both going in a straight line and moving along a really pronounced curve to get that effect. Eventually the decision was made to stick with 2D for most things.

That said, the way the landscapes are made utilises the kind of layering that makes me think of theatre sets, with receding landscapes on a shallow stage, or decoupage where layers of paper stack up to give an image depth.

The 3D effects on the individual elements are accomplished with shaders and so on in similar ways to traditional illustration. For example the bushes are lighter on the top than on the bottom. You layer different bits of bush, each with their own light-to-shade gradient to create the illusion of depth. So as not to have to hand-colour each one for each scene they're actually monochrome and then there's a shader which applies the colour. Here's a gif I made from the individual steps so you can see how they build as well as an image to show that same set of basic ingredients just with a different colourway applied:

But in terms of creating the broader landscapes in which those assets would sit Scott would stitch the puzzles for that level together as in Photoshop to create the basic skeleton and then sketch the landscapes on top of those digitally.

In this particular scene you're heading downwards, both physically via the waterfalls but also along the emotional curve we mentioned earlier so the colouring of the world goes from this warm and bright palette at the top to this blue-er, colder one at the bottom.

There are also checks for player legibility at this point, like making sure all of the overlapping hills are of different colours so they won't blur into one another as the player fiddles with them. You can also see how Scott was adding detail, extending the colour range a touch and so on.

What each of these scenes builds into are these beautiful, coherent vistas which fit so well with the emotional tenor of the story. When Scott and I were sitting by the carousel later on I asked whether any of the references I used to explain the game to other people were things he had drawn on while actually creating the look - any Courbet? Any Dixit cards?

He says not consciously and then adds that another reference he didn't have was Song of the Sea, the gorgeous animated film about a little boy with a selkie for a sister. Song of the Sea is a point of note because Scott didn't see the film until a few months ago, so well into the life of the project and after the art style was formed, and yet he notes "If I'd seen this before, this is what I had in my head but hadn't articulated!"

Generally what Scott has been talking about up until this point is the interactive part of the game; those malleable landscapes. But the traversal is punctuated by moments where the old man sits down and contemplates a memory. It's through these that you chart the course of a particular relationship which informs the journey. But in doing so the developers must take control away from the player and encourage them to observe the scene.

Some of the priming for reflection is done in the pacing of the game. The man moves relatively slowly and the game itself is more about meandering through lands rather than figuring out tough puzzles or mashing commands so sitting back isn't jarring like it can be in an action RPG.

In the released version of the game the team had settled on the memories appearing on screen in this different, far more painterly style, which gives them a dreamy, narrative quality. You can either linger and look or, if you tap the screen it brings up the button to press to go back out of the memory.

I love these memory scenes but I still found it hard to break out of the interaction mindset. I definitely moved time along without thinking once or twice, just because I was in the habit of clicking and responding to prompts. I found myself wishing the game had a kind of photo album once you'd finished the game so you could go back through the still images to tell that story and revel in the details.

Here are a couple of images so that you can see what I mean but obviously SPOILERS!

The other thing I'm still not sure about is how successful the art and the story combined with the mechanics of the game. I went into this in greater depth in my review but essentially I think it works better on a touch screen device but that the movement still doesn't really add much to the experience and you end up faffing with sheep far too much.

I asked about the balance of interaction and aesthetic/story when I spoke with Scott, although it was before I had played the full game so we didn't go into full detail:

"Our motive for the game design was to keep the puzzles always interesting but never frustrating. There are no brain-twisters in there. It stays on this level of experimentation, figuring out how it works," says Scott.

"I think now that I see it it's just the right amount of gameplay to transport the story and the narrative and to keep it interesting. Also to justify it as not just a walking simulator because every single screen has [a puzzle element] which is a variation on the existing mechanics."

That said, he adds that it was always going to be a tough balance to strike - if you're gaming literate you might find it way too easy and if you've never encountered spatial perception puzzles of this kind you might find it harder to get to grips with.

One last element which came up several times over our conversation was the idea of creating an art style to suit each game at the studio. The idea inched into conversation I think because I was hoping there could be more of these scenes and vistas in my life but Scott prefers to get to grips with one thing and then move on rather than applying an existing style or having something recognisibly "Broken Rules-y".

"Many artists have to have their recognisible style because that's how they sell themselves and it's what people are looking for when they want a specific artist – maybe it's more contemporary art where that is the case," he says. "[But] if I feel I've explored something long enough... I like to learn new things and experiment."

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Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward. During this compact gameplay experience, you’ll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man’s Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man’s heartache, regret, and hope. - Apple Design Award 2017 - Best Art Award 2017 Sense of Wonder Night - Excellence in Art Award 2017 Busan Indie Connect - Best Art and Innovation Award 2017 BIG Festival - Media Choice Award 2017 Indiecade Europe - Leftfield Selection 2017 EGX Reezed - GDC Selection 2017 Unity Showcase - Official Selection 2016 PAX - Digital Selection 2016 Indiecade - Official Selection 2016 Day of the Devs *** - 2 player couch-coop - Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and animations - A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery - Crisp drawings rendered in native resolution - even on your 4K monitor 1-2 players 950MB minimum save size DUALSHOCK®4 Software subject to license (us.playstation.com/softwarelicense). Online features require an account and are subject to terms of service and applicable privacy policy (playstationnetwork.com/terms-of-service & playstationnetwork.com/privacy-policy). One-time license fee for play on account’s designated primary PS4™ system and other PS4™ systems when signed in with that account. © Broken Rules Interactive Media GmbH 2017. All rights reserved.

9 offline iPad and iPhone games to play without Wi-Fi

• If you're going on a trip and want to queue up some offline entertainment, you can't go wrong with iPad and iPhone games.
• Not all games can work offline, however. So I hand-picked some recommendations that can all be played without Wi-Fi or internet.
• You need to download them with an internet connection, of course.

The greatest strength of mobile games is their portability. Games downloaded to your iPhone and iPad are designed to be taken and played anywhere and everywhere. However, you might discover that your favorite game doesn't work unless you are connected to the internet. Given that you might rely on these games the most when Wi-Fi isn't readily available, discovering this at the worst possible time can be a major bummer.

Some games simply cannot be played offline, most notably online-only games, but there are many that offer amazing experiences without a connection. Mobile games come in as many shapes and sizes as console titles and even share a good number of games with consoles. That's why I made sure to include a good variety of genres and styles, so you can find at least one that appeals to your tastes. These are the best iPhone and iPad games you can play without an internet connection.

Make sure you download these games before you are out of internet range. Accessing the app store and downloading them will still require an internet connection before you can play them offline.

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Monument valley, m.c. escher eat your heart out.

Puzzle games are a dime a dozen on the app store, so it takes something special to stand out from the crowd. Monument Valley and its sequel do so first with their simple but pleasing art style but really hook you with their mind-bending mazes. All the areas are made up of impossible spaces and optical illusions that make finding your way through them tricky but satisfying to work out.

The premise of the game is that you, Ro, are placed on a seemingly impossible stage. By manipulating the perspective to create new pathways, you need to navigate through them to the end. Between the pleasant colors and chill tunes, this is a great way to relax while out of internet range.

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Star wars: knights of the old republic, use the force, not the internet.

What was once a cutting-edge game on the original Xbox and PC now fits in the palm of your hand. Set thousands of years before the events of the films, there's no need to know all the ins and outs of the Star Wars universe to enjoy this amazing RPG made by the masters at Bioware.

You create your own new character in the Star Wars universe, whom you will guide on a classic tale of good versus evil. However, this RPG lets you decide which side you fight for: the Jedi or the Sith. Will you be an honorable warrior of the Light side, or a selfish and powerful Dark side user? The choice is yours.

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Plague inc., morbid curiosity.

Made well before a real plague terrorized the entire planet, Plague Inc. has become a strangely intriguing game in the years following. It's all about creating and adapting a disease of your own design to try and infect the entire globe before scientists can contain and cure it. It isn't meant to be a true simulation of how diseases work, but it does highlight some interesting things about how quickly sickness can spread.

You have a few different disease types to choose from and modify over time, but actually winning is quite challenging. If you have the stomach for a game that may hit a little too close to home, Plague Inc. can give you a new perspective on how global health issues evolve.

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Offline poker - texas holdem.

You can play many games with a simple deck of cards, but remembering to pack a full deck, having the space, and other people to play with isn't always an option. When you are a poker fan, you also have to consider whether people know the rules and are of somewhat equal skill. Or, you can just play Texas Holdem Offline Poker.

This is a no-frills poker app that does exactly what it says on the tin. It sets you up at a table, gives you a stack of chips, and starts dealing. You can even play tournaments with the AI if you think you're ready to go pro.

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Tetris meets sudoku.

Why pick one amazing puzzle game when you can play both at once? I admit this combination doesn't sound as obvious as chocolate and peanut butter, but trust me when I say it works. Best of all, it's as addicting and replayable as both games it is inspired by.

The idea is that you have a Tetris-like grid with blocks you need to drop, only instead of making a row to delete them, you need to line up numbers that are in those blocks. It sounds more complicated than it is when you play it, but you'll be hooked from your first game.

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Old man's journey, a leisurely adventure.

Fans of classic point-and-click adventure games will adore Old Man's Journey. You need to help the titular old man navigate various landscapes using simple touch controls to manipulate the environment, somewhat similar to how Monument Valley works.

Most of the game involves moving hills and animals to let the man get from one side of the screen to the other, but it also slows down for moments where you search for something in the background to trigger a memory. This will fill in some of the old man's life, helping you understand who he is and what his journey is all about, all without a single line of text or spoken dialogue.

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Go with the flow.

I couldn't help myself but add just one more puzzle game to the list. There are so many good ones that I don't think you could blame me, and Flow Free is quite different from the rest. As with the best ones, the idea is simple: you just need to connect all the same colored points together with unbroken paths. The tricky part, of course, is doing it with every color at once.

You can get the feel for the puzzles with the early levels, but then move on to the harder stages that are much bigger and have way more colors to connect in mind-breakingly hard patterns. These might stump you for a while but will give you a massive rush of accomplishment when you finally crack the code.

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Brothers in arms 3, answer the call of duty.

You can't get your Call of Duty fix while offline, but you can still get your adrenaline rush with Brothers in Arms 3. This is the third entry in a long-running shooter franchise, but you don't need to have played any of the previous games. You're dropped into WWII to participate in some of the most iconic battles of the war.

This is a third-person shooter as opposed to a first-person shooter but has as much spectacle and tight gunplay as any other game. The campaign is a decent length, with a good amount of variety between each stage to keep the game feeling fresh. You'll grow attached to the various "brothers" you meet and fight with in this epic adventure.

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Gta san andreas.

Who hasn't heard of the GTA franchise at this point? If you're newer to the series, you might have missed out on San Andreas, which is a shame because it still holds up as one of the franchise's best. While it might not be as robust and detailed as the newest game, it still has some unique features and a story worth seeing through.

Set in the titular city of San Andreas, you follow CJ in his struggles with various street gangs, cops, and basically everything else in his life trying to pull him into the world of crime. You're free to follow the story or go off and create your own fun in the open world that acts as your personal playground for mayhem and destruction.

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The world’s oldest man says the secret to his longevity is luck, plus regular fish and chips

LONDON — The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday.

Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the new holder of the title by Guinness World Records. It follows the death of the Venezuelan record-holder, Juan Vicente Pérez, this month at the age of 114. Gisaburo Sonobe from Japan, who was next longest-lived, died March 31 at 112.

Tinniswood was presented with a certificate by Guinness World Records on Thursday at the care home where he lives in Southport, northwest England.

Born in Liverpool on Aug. 26, 1912, a few months after the  sinking of the Titanic , Tinniswood lived through two world wars, serving in the British Army Pay Corps in World War II.

The retired accountant and great-grandfather said moderation was key to a healthy life. He never smokes, rarely drinks and follows no special diet, apart from a fish and chip supper once a week.

“If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much — if you do too much of anything — you’re going to suffer eventually,” Tinniswood told Guinness World Records.

But ultimately, he said, “it’s pure luck. You either live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it.”

The world’s oldest woman, and oldest living person, is 117-year-old Maria Branyas Morera of Spain.

Years after life-saving double lung transplant, Lawrence man reflects on journey, urges people to donate organs

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David Jensen looks into the eyes of his granddaughter Andrea.

David Jensen’s double lung transplant nearly 10 years ago did more than save his life. It changed it — in ways he never imagined, even when he was perilously close to dying and clinging to every last little dream.

It’s an experience the 63-year-old is eager to share so that others can truly grasp the vital importance of organ donation.

In 2014, Jensen was waiting for a lung transplant — desperately, but not passively, waiting. The life-giving organs did not seem likely to just come to him. So he tried to go to them, moving around the Midwest twice before finding the “best set of lungs.”

In 1998, Jensen was diagnosed with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or AAT, a genetic disorder in which the liver fails to release a protein that protects the lungs from inflammation caused by infection and inhaled irritants. The condition can also cause problems for the liver itself. In the years to come, Jensen’s lungs deteriorated until the only remaining option was to find two new lungs.

Jensen spoke to the Journal-World in 2014 as his dire condition boosted him to No. 1 on the transplant list. He talked about how the disorder had stolen his strength, his livelihood and his independence.

Now he talks about how sweet life is and how grateful he is that someone’s gift gave him so many more years. Years to be with his four kids. To walk his beloved dog, Pete. To skydive.

“I get to be able to observe things that I wouldn’t have been able to see before. I have a new business (property maintenance and management) that I’m running now, and I get to watch my children live their lives, my grandchildren now living their lives,” Jensen said. “My babies are having babies.”

David Jensen’s grandchildren and step-grandchildren.

With five grandchildren and another on the way, Jensen said that seeing family members he might never have met may be the best gift he received from his anonymous donor.

The greatest lesson he received, though, was patience.

Early in 2014, Jensen was waiting for a set of donor lungs to come to a hospital in Denver. At first he tried living in Lawrence with a planned emergency flight to Denver for when lungs became available, but eventually he just moved to Colorado.

At one point, the hospital called with news that a pair of lungs might be available, but when Jensen told them he had just recovered from shingles, the person who called said, “Oh, OK, we’ll get back to you,” but never did. One of the more frustrating things about waiting for organs, he learned, is that you have to be in optimal condition, relatively speaking, to increase your chances of a successful transplant.

“I waited in Denver for nine months, and there were no lungs available,” Jensen said.

While waiting, Jensen began to look at other transplant surgery centers. He said he found a hospital in Indianapolis that had performed three times as many donor surgeries as the one in Denver the year before.

Jensen then moved to central Illinois, where he had family living nearby, about two hours away from the hospital. Then, for a second time, Jensen said he was called about a potential transplant but a minor health problem prevented the surgery.

David Jensen skydiving in November of 2023.

David Jensen’s dog Pete.

“I went to the hospital and had a CT scan through my chest and they found just a little tiny bit of infection … And they said, “Well, we’re going to have to send you home. We found a little infection,’ and that just took the air out of my tires,” Jensen said.

A few months later, Jensen recalled, he was on oxygen 24/7 and couldn’t ride a bike more than 100 feet.

“I was trying to ride with an oxygen tank strapped to the back of it,” he said. “I remember I was just trying to keep myself going and keep myself focused on something else.”

Then one day, after some angst over the bike, he walked into his house and answered a phone call.

“I remember getting off the bike and coming inside. And the third time they called I was real angry, and I said, ‘What the hell are you calling me for? You’re bothering me,'” Jensen said.

But that call was it. Finally, that was the call.

“The two times I was passed up, it really left me hopeless, honestly. But then the third time, when I did get the transplant, the doctors told me it was one of the best matches that they could have found for me. So, I got the best set of lungs I could have received only by being passed up two times from other donors,” Jensen said.

What stands out to Jensen now about the surgery are a nurse with an “angelic voice” who assured him everything would be OK, the two scars on his back where the surgeon made his incisions and, now, the immunosuppressant medicine that he has to take for the rest of his life to keep his new lungs working.

“When they removed my old lungs, they looked just like pieces of chopped liver. They weren’t an organ. They were just mush,” Jensen said.

David Jensen the day his breathing tube was removed after his lung transplant.

It’s an image that has stuck with him, right alongside a feeling that has stuck with him: survivor’s guilt.

“It’s like when a soldier comes home from war and all his buddies have died and he’s the only one alive. He wonders why he’s still alive,” Jensen said.

After the surgery he was at the transplant center for a checkup, and while he was waiting he could see into a conference room with the hospital’s latest batch of transplant candidates. He said he knew that out of the 30 people in the room, the hospital would probably only select two of them as viable candidates.

“I was just sitting right there watching the people inside of the room and seeing myself in there, realizing I was one of the two people who got picked, and I went through survivor’s guilt wondering why,” Jensen said.

Through therapy he learned to accept that the so-called guilt wasn’t from having done something wrong but, rather, was a true feeling of compassion.

“I learned that survivor’s guilt is the deepest empathy a person can feel,” Jensen said.

Jensen said he now wants to connect with other transplant survivors in the Lawrence area to help raise awareness about the need for organ donation and also to raise awareness about the disorder that he has.

“Other people who may have emphysema, I understand now, that there’s a high percentage they could have Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and could be treated for it,” Jensen said.

He said identifying the disorder in its early stages could prevent the worst from happening. Members of his family have since tested positive for the deficiency, but with that knowledge they can plan for a better future.

“I grew up in a world of blue-collar work where I was contaminated. I smoked, drank alcohol and I was a welder for a while, so that was not good for me,” Jensen said.

For those facing similar despair over their health and the wait for life-saving organs, Jensen has a succinct message: “Don’t give up. Don’t give up.”

And for those considering signing up as organ donors, an even more succinct one: Do it.

April is Donate Life Month when supporters work especially hard to raise awareness for organ, eye and tissue donation. To register to donate or to learn more about the benefits of donating visit www.donatelifeks.org .

photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

David Jensen on April 5, 2024, in Lawrence.

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A 111-year-old is now the world's oldest living man. Here are his 3 tips for living a long, happy life.

• John Tinniswood has recently become the world's oldest man at 111.
• Tinniswood shared his life advice for younger people.
• It includes having a broad outlook, doing everything in moderation, and always trying your best.

In the UK in 1912, the Suffragettes were vandalizing post boxes to win the right to vote, and the Titanic was registered in the port city of Liverpool before its maiden, and only, voyage. Also registered in Liverpool in 1912 was the birth of John Tinniswood, who has just become the world's oldest man.

Tinniswood, who lives in Southport, UK, was born on August 26, 1912, making him 111 years and 226 days old. Guinness World Records declared him the world's oldest man earlier this month, after the titleholder, Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, died at the age of 114 and 311 days.

Tinniswood is also the world's oldest surviving male World War II veteran . He served in an admin role for the British Army Pay Corps, which involved doing accounts and logistics, including organizing food supplies and locating stranded soldiers. He then worked in admin and accountancy for the UK's postal service the Royal Mail, as well as Shell, and BP before he retired in 1972.

Tinniswood was married to his wife, Blodwen, who died in 1986, for 44 years. The couple had four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The staff at his residential home describe Tinniswood as a "big chatterbox," according to Guinness World Records. And, even at 111 years old , he is mobile and independent, managing his own finances and getting out of bed unassisted.

Tinniswood is unphased by his new title, and told the Guinness World Records it "doesn't make any difference to me at all. I accept it for what it is."

Tinniswood has 3 pieces of life advice for younger people

Doing everything in moderation is Tinniswood's biggest piece of advice for people wanting to live as long as him.

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"If you drink too much, or you eat too much, or you walk too much, if you do too much of anything, you're going to suffer eventually," he said. So, "never over-tax your system" for a healthy life, he told BBC News.

He doesn't follow a specific diet , and told Guinness World Records: "I eat what they give me, and so does everybody else" — apart from eating the British classic, battered fish and chips, for dinner every Friday.

However, he doesn't smoke and only drinks alcohol rarely, two things which are known to be great for longevity.

In 2022, he told BBC News that it's also important to "broaden your vision."

"Don't stay with one thing all the time, or you'll be on a narrow path," he said.

But no matter what you're doing, "always do the best you can, whether you're learning something or whether you're teaching someone," he told Guinness World Records. "Give it all you've got. Otherwise, it's not worth bothering with."

This echoes research linking a positive mindset and a sense of purpose to longevity .

Ultimately, though, Tinniswood thinks he reached his advanced age out of "pure luck."

"You either live long, or you live short, and you can't do much about it," he said.

Business Insider previously reported on the longevity tips of Elizabeth Francis, the oldest woman in the US.

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