Et Tu, Macarius?

It's about new discoveries and new beginnings for all. Set up your town hall, let the citizens come. Build an academy and put scientist to work learning new techniques and discovering things like paper, ink, warfare, seafare and even how to fly. Train your armies and build new ships with the supplies you reap from the forest or the quarry, then make your alliances and either battle and pillage or explore and colonize. It's the new browsergame called Ikariam .

Set in the "ancient world" it allows you to make your own city and, hopefully, make her prosper through discovery, expansion and alliance. Introduced to the game through one of my favorite blogs, The Gimcrack Miscellany , about a week ago, I decided to give it a go yesterday and am already getting impatient at having to wait for things to be build and discoveries to be made in my academy. It's an interesting game with great graphics (for a browsergame interface) and I hope to continue building wealth and making treaties and building colonies and palaces soon. So here's to you Gimcracker, thanks for the new time-waster!