Archive for April, 2006

End of April Fight for Top COSMIC PLAYER

April 30, 2006

Dont let the month end without making your move for top 4! I WILL send out the top winners Glossy Prints of best alien – along with the MARCH winners and the WINTER CRUNCH winners. I Promise! We got breathing room on our MOSI science center project ’til the end of July.

ABOUT.COM picks Cosmic Encounter Online # 2 in Top Ten Graphical Games

April 27, 2006

Dave Spohn, ABOUT.COM’s Guide to Internet Games picks Cosmic Encounter Online # 2 in Top Ten Graphical Games. According to Spohn, “There are scores of graphical games available on the Web which can be enjoyed by anyone with a browser and the necessary plugins. These (selections) are some of the most compelling and [...]

Recruiting New Members

April 21, 2006

When you see non members in the lobby – and dont have time to play with them, offer to go in to start a game with them. I find that playing with the member aliens is a good incentive to join up. And most free players never have the chance. Its also a good way [...]

Big Project

April 21, 2006

We just got a massive project designing WeatherQuest http://www.mosi.org/disasterbnnweatherqust.html for the MOSI Science center in Tampa. As you probably have noticed we have been AWOL from Cosmic for a bit. This is a good financial deal for Future Pastimes and will consume our (Greg Bill and me) time through June 8th. I am late with [...]

March Winner…. yuropa

April 6, 2006

yuropa with 85,602 m-rics takes the March crown as Sorcerer beating out Knightshadow as Pacifist, by 917 m-rics. Third place was held by TheDukester as Warpish and 4th went to SL as Loser.

Sleepy Weasel Winter Crunch Winner

April 6, 2006

The final Winter crunch league game was won by Sleepy Weasel. Runners up were yuropa, zxzxi and TheDukester. Participants are welcome to post a blow by blow description.