July 28, 2004

CamelControl 1.0

As the new hired hand, you’ll be assigned to care for the farm’s notorious camel herd. To keep the camels happy, you’ll need to lead the camels out to the grass field to graze. However, your task will not be an easy one. Far from being lemmings, camels have minds of their own, and will go in whatever way their stomachs please. To control these camels, you’ll need to make use of your fence digging and posting skills, mushroom finding abilities, and nimble fingers. If you succeed, you’ll be well on your way to camel poke fame.

Like a defective pair of treacly clown shoes, Eugene Liu’s CamelControl is maddeningly difficult to use. The player of this camelid amusement is expected to arduously situate fence segments and piles of stagnant mushrooms in such a manner as to persuade the herd of sweaty mammals to move towards the pasture.

As one would expect, numerous barriers stand in your way. Namely:

  • The camels wander aimlessly most of the time, only walking straight for a few moments after their consumption of fungi.
  • Fence sections can only be moved after a frustrating 15 second wait. Once this arbitrary delay has expired, the camel in question has generally galloped to the least inconvenient section of the screen.
  • The horrifyingly plodding music is believed to contribute to the formation of lymphatic nougats.
  • A plurality of camels walk in a rather splay-legged and gouty fashion, leading the frustrated player to repeatedly scream “mon dieu!” at increasingly shrill frequencies.
  • CamelControl’s time limit seems generous, until one is down to the last seconds, watching yet another camel obstinately slip around the verdant pasturage. This, basically, is when most people snap.

Eugene Liu — you may think you’re “special” with your “java” and your “camels.” Well I’m here to tell you buddy: PIGEON EGGS ARE WHITE AND BORING. Also, your game is not so hot. We recommend that you relieve the burning sensation by squishing this tough-actin’ 10.2 rating between your bunionated hammertoes.

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Comments

Best post!

Posted by: Huck on July 28, 2004 10:51 PM

Aieeeeee! I have a big weiner! Heeeeee-ya!

Posted by: longdongsilver on July 29, 2004 12:19 AM

Hey, if you just consumed some "fungi", I'll bet you'd only be walking straight for a few moments too. Lighten up on the poor camels. Sheesh!

Posted by: U. D. Mann on July 29, 2004 08:10 AM

I'm working on 'Badger Control'.

Unfortunately I have no programming skills, poor motor control, and no imagination so the release date has been postponed indefinitely.

Posted by: www.badgerbadgerbadger.com on July 29, 2004 08:14 AM

Just imagine the soundtrack for "Badger Control." It could be an Internet sensation!

I have a short mushroom...

Posted by: shortdongsilver on July 29, 2004 10:10 AM

Where can I download Fancy Checken Audio?

Posted by: Pan Fried on July 29, 2004 10:37 AM

Chechen audio?

http://chechen.8m.com/music/

Ah, the sonorous music of Yurt-Da.

I, being a person who has actually ridden a camel, will defend Mr. Liu by stating that a camel is indeed a difficult animal to control. Two thumbs up for this realistic camel-herding simulation.

Posted by: John Henry on July 29, 2004 10:55 AM

I'm siding with Mr. Henry (of no fixed name, apparently) on this one. However, my camel may have been difficult to control due to having recently fed it pigeon eggs, which, as we all know, will make a camel launch into a frenzy.

Posted by: AyAn4m1 on July 29, 2004 11:19 AM

the 10th level features hillbillies trying to whack your camels.

Posted by: pran on July 29, 2004 12:34 PM

I meant chicken (note the Audio Hijack Pro ad), you camel-jockeys, but I'll check out the Chechen music, anywho.

Posted by: Pan Fried on July 29, 2004 12:38 PM

try playing hillbilly whack and camel control at the same time !

Posted by: pran on July 29, 2004 02:06 PM

Hillbilly-Controlled Camel Whack! Now there's a game for you!

Posted by: Mickey Knox on July 29, 2004 06:34 PM

Can't we just shoot the camels? We don't actually have to kill them, just blow out their knee caps or something.

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on July 30, 2004 03:02 AM

As my name suggests, I have a fondness for desert life :)

So this app made me smile, and I can forgive its shortcomings. The author could have at least modified the default "Untitled" title in the window, though.

Posted by: bedouin on July 30, 2004 12:18 PM

How about head-to-head woodchipper mode? Norm tries to steer the camel into the woodchipper and Norm's opponent tries to steer Norm into the woodchipper.

Posted by: www.badgerbadgerbadger.com on July 30, 2004 01:07 PM

We could put Norm *inside* the chipper, and challenge him to pull both the camel & the opponent in with him (in any order he wants)...

Posted by: no body on July 30, 2004 03:34 PM

Is it time yet to talk about having sex with camels? I don't seem to be getting all of my memos lately.

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on July 30, 2004 09:16 PM

Inane comments and ads?!

Posted by: on August 1, 2004 12:26 AM

I'd walk a mile for a camel.

Posted by: Uncertain Future on August 1, 2004 03:36 PM

I'd walk a camel for a mile.

But only if you paid me.

Posted by: aussie boy on August 1, 2004 04:57 PM

What's a "camel?"

Posted by: on August 2, 2004 11:01 AM

Is it me or is one of those camels bending over to take a dump?

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 2, 2004 05:19 PM

Dear Friends;
I have some personal news that I need to share with you, and I wanted you to hear it directly from me. This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas. I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1% of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was). I will not require any chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

The far more common form of pancreatic cancer is called adenocarcinoma, which is currently not curable and usually carries a life expectancy of around one year after diagnosis. I mention this because when one hears "pancreatic cancer" (or Googles it), one immediately encounters this far more common and deadly form, which, thank god, is not what I had.

I will be recuperating during the month of August, and expect to return to work in September. While I'm out, I've asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple's day to day operations, so we shouldn't miss a beat. I'm sure I'll be calling some of you way too much in August, and I look forward to seeing you in September.

Steve

PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.

Posted by: Steve on August 3, 2004 02:11 PM

Steve,

Why did you do it? Why don't you return my calls? I miss you.

Call me.

Love,
islet cell neuroendocrine tumor

Posted by: on August 3, 2004 03:07 PM

not the last post

Posted by: Bigfoot on August 4, 2004 12:05 PM

I'm going to buy CamelControl as educational software for my children.

Nobody needs the skills you develop at school, at home or in SimCity, Doom or Warcraft.

CamelControl = life as it is.

Posted by: Doxxic on August 5, 2004 01:46 AM

soon to be released: lama control.

Posted by: pran on August 5, 2004 03:49 PM

wot we really need is wanker control !!!
then there will be no more posters on pvt cars, etc

Posted by: nota wanker on August 5, 2004 03:51 PM

I wholeheartedly agree with that last poster.

With Wanker Control implemented, we would not have had to read his monkey-spanking efforts.

Posted by: aussie boy on August 5, 2004 04:41 PM

i guess aussi boy would need sheep control to keep track of his girlfriends/boyfriends and family members.

Posted by: whatawanker on August 5, 2004 06:12 PM

i resent the fact that you assume we sheep would lower ourselves to accept you vile human scum.

Posted by: aussie sheep on August 5, 2004 06:21 PM

don't touch my sheep.

Posted by: aussie man on August 5, 2004 07:21 PM

Why lama control?

Why not llama control?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lama

badger

Posted by: www.badgerbadgerbadger.com on August 6, 2004 09:10 AM

Camel, lama, badger, sheep, wanker control... that's not enough! Why not ALL-control?

Oh sorry, I just remembered that's already licensed exclusively to run on Bill Gate's desktop.

(If ALL-control is controlling *everything* and Billy boy is using ALL-control, then who's controlling Billy boy?)

Posted by: Scientyprickally Correct on August 6, 2004 09:25 AM

Whatawanker, I think you are confusing me with a New Zealander. Could that be because you're cross-eyed from the pursuit of your addiction?

Posted by: aussie boy on August 8, 2004 01:43 AM

Guilt by association?

Posted by: longdongsilver on August 8, 2004 01:36 PM

Hey you camel honking pussy wips, let's see action on this comment section. No more of your namby-pamby "oh look at me I have a big wiener comments." Well Oscar Meyer has a job for you that you will probably fuck up in the end, so make those damn comments anyways.

Posted by: Norm O. Tidwell on August 9, 2004 08:11 PM

Click Here

Posted by: on August 10, 2004 06:22 AM

To answer the question "what is a camel" in the most simple terms possible ... it's Sodamn Insane's wife. Yes, they practice poligamy there (marrying more than one camel), so they all are his wives.

Yes Norm, that one is taking a dump. Do you mind? Even camels need their privacy, you know ...

(Personally, I got a kick out of the "camel dump" falling from the top of the screen ... oh wait that's supposed to be a fence!)

I won't download it until the third "sequel" to the game, which is slated to be named "Chicken Control". I hear you can lop off their heads to make the game more challenging in that version (a feature not supported in Camel Control).

Wanker Control was put on indefinite hold due to some wanker crying about discrimination or something like that. Deal with it, you wankers!

Posted by: Walking Contradiction on August 10, 2004 10:26 AM

Dammit you underarm bowling ex-convict aussie boy-fancier, its the Scottish who like a 'wee spot of ewe', not us kiwis.

We actually prefer winging across the Tasman to nail your brain dead whining sheilas while you are all distracted feeding performance enhancing drugs to your cyclists and stealing our famous racehorses and pavlovas.

Posted by: newzealander on August 11, 2004 03:51 AM

Uh, now there's no reviews on the front page... Please post reviews a little more often, we'd all like that.

Posted by: Shum on August 14, 2004 03:03 AM

Ah, newzealander, it seems that you are yet another victim of our cunning plan to let you *think* you're nailing our "sheilas", etc.

First of all, no New Zealander has yet managed to escape the Bondi Trap. And what, I hear you ask, is that? Well I'm so glad you asked!

The Bondi Trap is the illusion -- created by adding powerful hallucinogens to the beer of any person entering Australia and who is heard to speak of "fush 'nd chups" (translation: fish and chips), the "sivun didly suns" (seven deadly sins), or asking to borrow a "pin" (pen) -- that Australia is Bondi, and vice versa. No New Zealander ever makes it out of Bondi.

For those readers who are unversed in the details of suburban Sydney, Bondi is a Sydney suburb inhabited in large part by New Zealanders collecting unemployment benefits from the Australian government while holding large, rowdy, beer-soaked parties in which they pretend to be superior to Australians, but which are really long, loud laments that the Land of the Long White Cloud is as lame as the left leg of a lost Laotian lama.

And the person who invented Sheila Suits for Sheep has made a fortune in the Bondi car-boot markets (held every second Sunday in the car park of the Fleeing Ewe Hotel, a well-known haunt of expatriate New Zealanders). We Aussies always get the last laugh on our Trans-Tasman cousins. Well, nearly always (there is, sadly, the matter of the Bledisloe Cup), but that's really not the point. It's the meaningless competition that's the fun, after all!

Posted by: aussie boy on August 18, 2004 09:18 PM

Ignore me. I'm just seeing if HTML codes work in these posts.

Posted by: HTML trialist on August 19, 2004 12:03 AM

Apparently they do.

Woohoo!

Posted by: HTML trialist on August 19, 2004 12:04 AM

"The Fleeing Ewe Hotel"! That's awesome.

Where the heck is everybody?

Posted by: longdongsilver on August 19, 2004 01:39 PM

Apparently the camels have eaten them. Never mind. We can amuse ourselves by baiting Kiwis until they are regurgitated or passed from the orifice to the rear.

Posted by: aussie boy on August 20, 2004 12:19 AM

Aussie boy, all I can say to that fetid extrusion of malformed syllables about Bondi beach is that I came, I saw, and I left hastily, and it wasn't fellow wandering sophisticates from Bright Pure Aotearoa I saw there, but a vast steaming heap of castoff humanity from your great unwashed southern land, armwrestling with the cockroaches for the best views from under the table.

Anyway, it seems South Africa has the last laugh this time. So thats why they call it the "Tri Nations".

Posted by: newzealander on August 23, 2004 04:52 PM

Boorrrrinnnnnnng

Posted by: on September 17, 2004 02:36 AM
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