Golemizer

Just an update to the previous post. I had a chance to walk through a little bit of Golemizer, the AJAX/JavaScript-based MMO where you craft golems of ever-increasing deadliness to wreak your will upon the world – if all the other mad scientists don’t beat you to it. Everything you see, can be crafted. Even some of the animals are mechanical copies. The tutorial teaches you to build your first golem, a cute little clockwork gnome, and along the way you end up with a house, building a forge to put in the house, making a shopping-list full of parts for your gnome, and setting your gnome free to make a dent in the bunny problem. ...

From the press release (at work, so just cut/paste, haven’t played yet). Looks from the screenshots like an old Super Nintendo-like RPG. You create golems and other stuff and rule the world. Their web page has the standard Albert Einstein-looking mad scientist. What did Einstein ever do to be demonized as the stereotypical mad scientist? He always looked like a kindly uncle or something. Peter Cushing has a kind of chiseled, mean look that would be easy to draw, and has the advantage of actually playing a mad scientist in movies, and plus he destroyed Alderaan… I dunno. Leave Einstein alone!!!! Anyway. ...