If I Was Born Round, I Would Live Here
I recently had the chance to try out the MagNext computer game. There is actual real live toys that connect with magnets called MagNext that real kids play with and adults steal from them, but this is the “virtual” version. That’s me, the green marble, in the picture above!Here I am on the roller coaster at the top of the hill. In the virtual world, you take a whirl on the roller coaster, and sometimes you get to a point where you are faced with some blank space that you will perilously fall into, unless you select one of the roller coaster pieces that the game suggests. You have a few seconds to make your choice, otherwise you will die. No, you won’t die. You get three “lives” on the roller coaster. Actually, you have three balls, but it makes it seem so much more impersonal just saying if you die, you just become a new marble.
Now, here is where you would expect me to be, outside the store. I looked and they have nothing snazzy. At level one, I could buy a trucker hat or an angel halo. I bought the trucker hat because I wanted to see how it would look on a marble, but when I came out I didn’t have it on. I guess I had to earn it!
All in all, i had a good time in the little world as a marble. The only thing I was lacking was friends! Oh, I encountered other marbles here and there that were other users, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to challenge them. I think if my friends signed up, we could have a more cohesive challenge.
Does anyone want to play with me? I may change my appearance but if you click on a marble and it reveals that the its name is VintageGent, you have found me. I challenge you to a dual if I ever figure out how to do so in the MagNext world.
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