| As the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland continues to erupt and the smoke over much of Europe continues to hang in the air, approximately 16,000 flights each day are being canceled turning many air travelers’ lives upside down. In the wake of such an important event the gaming world is gearing up to launch games around the challenges faced by the passengers and more importantly, the pilots.
Games2win (G2W), one of the top 20 online gaming companies, announced on 22 April, 2010 the release of its online game ‘Volcano Flight Control’ on its game portal – www.gangofgamers.com. The announcement comes a week later since the discharge of a massive plume of ash and dust by the volcanic eruption which caused air traffic chaos in the last few days and there is no certainty as to when normal flight schedules can resume.
This is not the first instance when a major event has made the gaming world go crazy. Does the shoe-throwing incident at Bush’s press conference in Baghdad in 2008 ring a bell? Within a few hours of the incident the internet was ablaze with a plethora of shoe throwing games. Thanks to the tech-savvy and the believers of out-of-the box thinking game designers who let the gaming addicts enjoy the hurled-shoe madness again and again.
When the Satyam scandal rocked the corporate world there were a never-ending series of jokes, games, SMS, MMS and caricatures of the Satyam Boss doing the rounds in the virtual world. A bunch of IT-whiz kids created a game "Nail The Thief" around the scandal. The game was about hitting Ramalinga Raju, the tainted Satyam boss, with rotten eggs as many times as possible within 30 seconds.
The gaming world has always been very receptive to the events making headlines in the world of politics, sports, business, travel or any other popular spectrum. It can be one of the reasons why G2W designed a new online game ‘Volcano Flight Control’ centering around the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.
‘Volcano Flight Control’ is about piloting a flight across volcanic clouds and navigating the plane so as to avoid any damage created by the ash and get the passengers safely to the destination. The level of difficulty increases as the player navigates the dust clouds across the skies. The scoring system is based on ‘miles’ piloted by the player and the more the number of miles, the more points the player scores. The game is adventurous to its core and keeps the player at the edge of his/her chair till the end.
The game is also available on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/volcanoflight. On Facebook the players can fly their aircraft as far as they can and then ask their friends (via wall posts) to beat their score.
So, try your hands at this latest adventure-packed game and get the feeling of being the ultimate volcano navigator! |
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