My Favorite Casual Games - PopCap Games

Once again, I'm procrastinating and I'm about to play some casual games. Recently, I wrote a bit about why I like casual games. I really do love them. They are a good way for me to unwind. TV used to do it, but sometimes it just doesn't work because it's way too inactive. At least if I'm playing a game, my mind is working a little bit. Maybe that's the key. My mind needs to completely relax so I can go to sleep. Casual games give my mind a chance to stop running at full tilt by occupying it with mundane tasks. Awesome!

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. What are my favorite casual games? I absolutely love PopCap Games. They are fun and addictive. I also thing they do a good job with their pricing. They always have free games online. The price to download them is usually less than $20, so you don't have to feel bad about the purchase.




The sad thing is, I have a PlayStation 2. I have bought those $50 games in the past for it. But, I never have as much fun with those games as I do with a good PopCap game. Funny how that works. Don't ask me to compare PopCap games to the Wii, though. I'm not sure about that. Maybe they are two different animals.

so, my favorite games are:


Peggle - I'm still working on the last level in the Challenge mode. I just can't get 750,000 points. I have been working on this for 2 years. Ridiculous. But, you'll find me playin Peggle for hours sometimes. I even have it on my phone.

Peggle Nights - I'm working my way through this one. I did Adventure Mode, and I'm working on Challenge Mode. There's a neat new character with a cool power.

Dynomite - I don't know why I feel compelled to play this one all the time, but I literally have to shut my computer to stop!

Chuzzle - Cute... addictive. Why are the Chuzzles looking at me like that? Play Chuzzle Free

Bejeweled... who can resist it? Free Bejeweled 2 Download

Well, I'm done with this posting. I'm off to check out Plants vs. Zombies. With a title like that, how can I resist? Games are on sale...check it out!

October 2009 Update

The goal for this month was to apply the $5 bucks a day method to my existing website marketing projects. I am using this method to organize my internet marketing tasks. This is helping me to create some focus for the limited hours I have to devote to my projects. I basically spent one week focusing on article writing, another week on blogging and finding affiliate links, a third week on designing the logo and the fourth week joining forums.

In September, I did a whole lot of research on things I could do to inexpensively start making money using internet marketing. Near the end of the month, I began to focus on adding content to my sites and writing articles to link to my sites. October's focus was to continue adding content to my sites (for example, make it a regular habit to write blog posts and articles). In addition, I had a goal of increasing traffic to Pug Market. To do this, I wrote articles in various places and had social networking accounts set up. I had my brother do this for me, because he likes doing that.

During the social networking setup, I also created a logo for the site. It's come in handy, because I use it at some of the article sites and for anything else that I use to create incoming links, like forums.

So, what were the results? I increased my traffic to Pug Market by almost 100%. You could argue that this was not difficult to do, because I didn't have much traffic to begin with. But, I feel pretty successful. At least I saw results from my efforts. I spent many hours writing and working on the logo. Not an excessive amount, but I probably spent an average of at least 2 hours a day on the site.

Other than the Pug Market stuff, I did write a few postings for this site and for Nononsense Mom. I wrote a couple of eHow articles and I got my first article accepted at eZine articles. I joined HubPages and wrote my first Hub about Internet Marketing. Finally, I did quite a bit of writing for Textbroker. I'm getting bored with Textbroker, though. It's not that I don't like the writing or like getting paid. I just get irritated when I realize I'm writing for someone else's internet marketing projects. I should use that energy to write for my own. Ahhh... the conflict between guaranteed money and long-term money potential...

Now that things are settling down, all I have to do is concentrate on adding content and participating in forums and social networking. I can probably cut my time working on the site in half. That will leave me with more time to devote to Flowing Creek or other projects.

When I started writing this post, I was researching the common sizes for banners used in internet marketing campaigns. It seems that a logo is not enough. Now I need some banners. I might as well make them the right size! That's probably a good topic for an article or blog posting.