A Look at the Online Game " Acrophobia"
receive a vote, if you vote for the top vote getting answer you receive a point. There are also a couple of other ways to gets points as well, but you’ll need to play the game to find out.
Once presented with a group of letters you then have 60 seconds in which to respond to the acro (an acro is what the letters are referred to as). If you don’t respond you will not receive any points. The voting round allows you time to look over each answer and decide which one you would like to vote for. Once a person has reached 30 points they and the next highest scoring person enter the face off round.
The face off round is the same as the other rounds except the only people who can actually play the game are the two high scorers. The rest of the gallery simply vote on the best answers and a winner is determined. The player can not vote at all, unlike in the regular game. After a group of three acros a winner is announced. In the many, many games I have played I have yet to win. Wow, that was a painful thing to admit, but I am stronger for it.
Chat is a huge part of the Acrophobia experience. It’s easy to get into and fun to participate in. Chat happens within the game itself and can easily interfere with the game. Many folks seem to come more for the social aspect than for any real competition. No, you probably aren’t likely to learn about astrophysics but the chat is fun nonetheless. Everyone is friendly and they very often try to encourage newbies. It’s rare to find but many people there still seem to remember what it is like to be a newbie, which is nice.
Chatting can be kind of scary though: to think that a 15-year-old Back Street Boys and Ricky Martin fan from One Stop Sign, Arkansas is actually kicking your butt! Maybe she was lying and was actually 55. Yeah, that has to be it, she was lying. She was actually a 55-year-old grandmother with a law degree from Harvard, she’s a Rhodes scholar and she’s a Cambridge English professor working on a post-doctorate degree in advanced computer artificial intelligence studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yeah, that just has to be it. I feel much better
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