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My Kingdom For the Princess 2 Game Review

Arthur is back and he’s once again ready to flex his organizational muscles in My Kingdom For the Princess 2! A honeymoon with his princess gets interrupted by disaster after disaster, and Arthur is required to rebuild various islands in order to save the princess. Use your time management skills to control workers, collect resources, manage buildings and defeat the local wildlife in this fast-paced time and resource management game!

The first My Kingdom for the Princess game was a breakout hit, introducing us to a game that managed to combine time management, resource management and adventure gaming into one great entertainment package. The sequel is no less impressive, building upon the successful formula and adding new twists along the way.

The game begins right after the conclusion of the previous game, with Arthur and the princess flying in a hot air balloon to some tropical islands for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, their holiday is cut short when their balloon crashes and they find themselves stranded on the islands. More disasters happen soon after, and Arthur has to help the locals rebuild the islands in exchange for their aid in getting him and the princess back home.

The game is played on a handful of islands, each of which contains several levels of increasing difficulty. You are required to complete quests in order to pass these levels. Examples of the quests include repairing bridges, constructing buildings and defeating enemies. These objectives have specific requirements; for example repairing a bridge will require a certain amount of wood and food, and a worker to perform the action. Similarly, defeating an angry bear will require a hunter’s skill, and enough gold to pay him.

This brings us to the resource management, which is the main part of the game. There are 3 resources: gold, wood and food. Every action you take in the game will involve either acquiring or using these resources. You’ll need food for the worker to clear debris, wood to build the hunting lodge, and gold to pay the hunter to kill enemies. So how do you get these resources? You could send your workers to collect any loose resources lying around. But more importantly, there will be resource buildings that you can construct. A fishing hut will produce food at a constant rate, while the sawmill does the same for wood.

As you can imagine, properly managing your resources will be the key to winning each level. There are also elements of puzzle gaming here, and you will need to properly plan the order of your actions. Do things in the wrong order and you might find yourself without wood and having to wait for the sawmill to slowly produce enough for you to continue. This is fine if you have all day… but you don’t. This is a time management game after all, and you will have to race against the clock to complete all the objectives in the set time.

Fortunately, you will have extra help in your rush to complete your objectives. Every time you perform a task, your power bar will increase. You can use this power to activate various cool effects such as making your workers run faster, having resources refill faster, hiring an extra temp worker or even stopping time itself! The more powerful the effect, the more power it requires and the less often you can use it.

In later levels, as the objectives become tougher to complete, you will be able to get extra help as well. You will be able to upgrade your buildings, making them produce more resources and housing more workers. It’s not plain sailing all the way though. The later levels are really mind-boggling, and even if you manage to complete them, you can still try to complete them in even less time to achieve expert ratings. And if that is too easy as well, the developers have also posted their own score records for you to beat!

The game is a nice unique blend of time management, resource management and puzzle solving. It is also supported by graphics and music that are bright and vibrant. Overall, My Kingdom For the Princess 2 will satisfy any time management fan, especially those who like the original My Kingdom for the Princess game or similar games such as Be A King. Get the Mac version here.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

You can read more about My Kingdom For the Princess 2 at http://www.game-tycoon.com/my-kingdom-for-the-princess-2.html

About the Author

Steven maintains the time management game review website at http://www.game-tycoon.com/ – a website devoted to strategy, simulation and time management games for the PC and Mac. You can read game reviews, download games and play them online.

What’s the difference between 10k 14k and 18k yellow gold?

My girlfriend said that for her engagement ring she wants a yellow gold diamond wedding band style ring with princess cut diamonds in it and a plain band for the wedding ring.

Pure gold, also referred to as 24 karat or 24K, has many unique and desirable characteristics that make it valuable. For instance, it doesn’t tarnish, it is non-allergenic, it is very malleable/workable, it polishes to a mirror-like shine, it is rare, and it is highly valued in every country in the world. However, it is very soft and pliable in its pure 24K state and is generally considered to be unsuitable for wedding bands and other jewelry. As a result, e-wedding bands doesn’t offer wedding bands made from 24K gold.

In order to make gold jewelry that is durable and long lasting, gold is combined with other metals–called alloys–to make it stronger and change its color. Alloys add strength, but dilute the value of the gold and may cause jewelry items to eventually tarnish and/or cause allergic reactions. In an attempt to achieve the best balance between the strength of alloys and the valuable and desirable properties of gold, three different karat gold combinations have become standard: 18K, 14K, and 10K. All three of these karat golds are available in white gold or yellow gold. White gold alloys are typically stronger than yellow gold alloys, so a white gold ring will be slightly stronger and last a little longer than a yellow gold ring. E-wedding bands offers many wedding band styles that are available in all three karat gold combinations so you can choose the style you want in the metal you want!

18K Gold Wedding Bands contain 75% gold and 25% alloy. 18K gold is the softest and purist of these three karat golds and is the most expensive because of its high gold content. It is typically used in higher-end jewelry such as fancy diamond rings or where a richer yellow color is desired. For instance, when combined with platinum it can create a stunning and contrasting two-tone look. It is the most resistant to tarnishing of the three karat golds, and although it is the softest, it is still hard enough to be used for rings and wedding bands. 18K gold wedding bands will show wear marks sooner and wear out slightly faster than 14K and 10K gold bands, but they are still the preferred choice of those wanting something a little finer.

14K Gold Wedding Bands contain 58.3% gold and 41.7% alloy. 14K gold is generally considered to be the ideal karat gold for rings and wedding bands because it is strong yet will not easily tarnish. Probably 90% of all the gold engagement rings and wedding bands sold in the United States–whether yellow gold or white gold–are made with 14K gold. It still has a good yellow color for those wanting yellow bands instead of white, and when choosing the best karat gold for wedding bands based on all-around beauty and practicality, 14K gold can’t be beat.

10K Gold Wedding Bands contain 41.7% gold and 58.3% alloy. 10K gold is the only karat gold that contains more alloy than gold. 10K gold wedding bands are typically requested by individuals looking for a slight discount from 14K gold prices. It is the least pure and therefore the least expensive of the three karat golds and is the preferred metal for class rings and other jewelry pieces where a lower cost is desired. It will tarnish more quickly than 18K and 14K gold jewelry, and 10K yellow gold jewelry items are slightly more pale in color than 14K yellow gold jewelry items. 10K gold is generally considered to be harder than 14K, but there is much unresolved discussion within the jewelry industry about whether or not it actually wears longer than 14K.

With the internet making it possible to buy gold jewelry from anywhere in the world, many manufacturers are now using international gold marks to show the purity of their gold jewelry items. In these cases, the fineness of the precious metal content is expressed in parts-per-thousand. This marking system is universally recognized, is actually more accurate, and we have listed the applicable marks here along with their corresponding karat marks:

24K = .999
18K = .750
14K = .585
10K = .417
We mark certain bands with these marks, so if you receive a ring from e-Wedding Bands with an international marking stamp inside, rest assured that the quality is the best available!

White Gold Rings and Rhodium Plating
Because white gold is made from yellow gold and various alloys, white gold in it’s natural state has a slight yellow tint. It’s not a true white metal like platinum or silver. To enhance the whiteness of white gold jewelry, and no matter where you purchase white gold jewelry, it has become standard in the jewelry industry to plate (or cover) white gold jewelry with another metal called Rhodium. Rhodium is very white, reflective, extremely hard and virtually tarnish free, so it’s the perfect protective coating for a white gold ring.

This Rhodium coating may eventually wear off and need to be re-applied through a simple re-plating process, if the bright, whiter look is desired for the piece of jewelry.

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