Hapland 3 walkthrough

For the walkthrough itself, scroll down.

Much to my surprise Hapland 3 has been released! It’s been over a year since Hapland 2 saw the light of the day, yet I still remember very clearly my struggles to finish this highly addictive game.

By the looks of it, Hapland 3 seems to be much more complicated than the first two parts. Complicated as in harder. Hopefully I’ll have it finished by the end of July.

Hapland 3

Now I know what you came here for in the first place, the walkthrough itself. I really do think it’s so much more fun to solve all of the puzzles by yourself, but oh well, if you persist…

The complete Hapland 3 walkthrough/solution:

  • Click on the stickman beside the carrot to make it walk to right and click on the carrot, before he eats it, click the top of the box below to hit the carrot down to the cave and at the same time click the 2 yellow flies before they take away the carrot.
  • Click the leverman until you see another carrot, click stickman to eat it.
  • Click on the right side of the box to release a flap.
  • Click leverman again until you see the arrow. Click the other red arrow to face right.
  • Click the arrow above the stickman and the stickman will go down.
  • Activate both the hover pads.
  • Click on the UFO and when it gonna abduct the stickman, click on the right yellow button under the box so that it abduct the rolling stone instead and the landmine exploded and the stickman run into the house and flush the toilet.
  • Click the doorbell, click on the stickman again so that it go up the platform.
  • Click stickman again so that it goes left.
  • Click leverman until you see shield.
  • Click on the switch beside the green arrow and click on leverman.
  • Click the tube to bend upwards.
  • Click on the UFO, when it fly out of the screen, click on the shield and click on the leverman so that the stone will hit the UFO and freezes the pond. (Timing is required).
  • Click on the shield and click the leverman two more times and this will shoot a rock and a black bomb, bounce off the shield into the basket.
  • Turn on the light above the door and the stickman will go back to the other side.
  • Click the gear on the center of the box and click the left yellow button to launch a wheel to other side of the lake.
  • Click the switch on beside the green arrow again and pull the lever until you see red bomb, click on the bomb.
  • Click the leaves above the crow and spider will come out.
  • Click on the window to drop carrot.
  • Click the spider then at the same time click the crow. Timing is important again, it sequence are done correctly then the crow will shoot down a ladder and drain the lake.
  • Click the switch beside the green arrow again to make leverman go down to the bottom of the lake.
  • Click the top of the right tree to drop fruit destroy the hover pad.
  • Click on the bell and the mechanic will come down to repair, when he is outside, close the door behind him.
  • When he is at the red arrow, click him will climb up the ladder.
  • Click him again will burn the vine.
  • Click him again he will come down.
  • Click arrow twice to point right.
  • Open the gate between bathroom window and repaired hover pad.
  • Click on the left of the crate in the cave.
  • Click the mechanic to go down the cave.

Last part is the hardest, again timing is very important. Click on the mechanic, when the cart just underneath the red blob, click on it and the orange doughnut will drop into the cart, when the cart move to the left cave and just before the opening of cave, press the leverman in the bottom of the lake so that a green doughnut will drop into the cart and release the monster which eventually smash the bottom right cave and reveal a do not press green button.

Do not push the button because it will blow up the guy in the cave. You can still finish even if you do, but if you let him live, you can see some concept art for all 3 Hapland games at the end. Click the gear at the bottom right to change the sign to blue press button. Now press it and shout: I did it!

The above review comes from a comment by one of my users.

Google AdSense will not display any ads

I’ve been noticing a strange problem with my Google Adsense advertisements. Quite often, in fact just too often, Google would not serve any ads in the right sidebar of my homepage. There would be just this blank space staring at your face. What’s weird though is the fact that the ads would display properly on any of the content pages. No ads equals no money, so that was not acceptable.

Trying out different ad combinations and sizes I’ve noticed that the ads would suddenly start appearing when there was only one ad block per page (be it a homepage or a content page). Most of the time I had three and I’ve rarely seen all of them being displayed. Placing just one helped greatly. I’m thinking that maybe Google has some content to ads ratio system in place as that would at least partially explain this behavior. Nonetheless it’s working now (meaning that at least one ad block is displaying properly all of the time).

It’s a pity that Google does not want to make more money off me letting me decide how many ads to run ;)

UPDATE: Seems I’m not the only one.

Subspace – the new meaning of life

It has all started at the Netvision conference. I was attending a lecture about advergaming (using games for advertising). The host gave a side example of an online game (almost a MMOG to be exact) called Tankmania. It’s not really an advergame, as there are no ads in the game. It was rather an example of how popular an online flash-based game can be. As soon as I had the chance I had logged into Tankmania to check it out. The next minute I was hooked. Two weeks have passed and I was playing it almost daily. The problems started appearing when the game stopped working. I could not connect for two straight days. I was desperate.

At the end of the second day I decided that it was time to try some other MMOG. Back in the day (in 1996 and 1997) I used to play Subspace. Very intensively, I might add. I could play for 12-13 hours straight. I stopped playing it when all of the official servers went offline. Back then I have thought that the game has been discontinued, but now I was on a mission to find out what has actually happened to Subspace. 10 minutes reading the Wikipedia entry and my hopes were up as the article was very clear that the game is still alive and doing quite good! And what’s more, it is still being actively developed and is completely free to play! The very next minute I was downloading the Continuum client. Upon firing up the game old memories started coming back to me. I was almost crying. Subspace, my only true love…

Subspace in all its glory

I knew my life has found a new meaning.

BTW: You can usually find me playing SSCU Trench Wars under the very meaningful nickname: XML over HTTP.

EDIT: If you want to know more about Subspace, you can watch this great introductory movie.

Tic-tac shock

Now some people know that I am a tic-tac addict, so one could make the assumption that I know how each tic-tac looks inside. Wrong! As of lately I had simply no idea. It all happened a little while ago. I’ve just bought a pack of extra strong tic-tacs, came home and emptied out some of them onto my hand. And there it was… this one very awkward tic-tac. Unlike all the others it was… brown! Without thinking I threw it into the thrash can. As I was eating the other ones it got me thinking though. How come this one was different from the rest? What if others are brown too? Scary thought,… but I just had to be sure. I broke three others in half. What a shock it was to find out that every one of them was brown inside! My world view has been shattered.

The shocking truth, pictured:

Tic-tac shock

Now you may not believe me and say that this picture is fake and all tic-tacs are actually white inside – that is your right. I advise you, however, to break your own tic-tac in half and see for yourself ;)

Less is more

John Borrell, my boss and owner of Wine Express, a small wine selling company in Kartuzy, Poland:

The visit to TerraMater reminded me of what Wine Express is all about. We are not the biggest wine company in Poland and we don’t even have the widest selection of wines. But I think we are the company that is closest to the people who grow the grapes and make the wines that we sell in Poland.

In the past year alone we have personally visited more than a dozen wineries in New Zealand, Italy, France, Argentina and Chile, and in doing so got to know a lot about both the wines and the people who make them. We have also introduced scores of our clients to these winemakers and producers.

Small is the new big. Indeed.

Introducing movie ratings

Those who know me are also familiar with my love for movies. That’s why I’ve decided that it would be great to write a web application, that would let me easily rate them. That includes, but is not limited to: AJAX, automated title fetching from imdb and a firefox bookmarklet. Original inspiration came from Kottke. He had this kind of system on his blog for as long as I can remember (besides the sole idea, I might have also stolen those star images, I’m not quite sure now, though). It took me a little while before this project came to realization. Implementing it as a WordPress plugin seemed like the best idea. This way I can share my movie ratings with the whole wide world. And so I have finally dealt with my procrastination and simply wrote it. You can see the result just below the first note on the front page. In the foreseeable future I plan on releasing this plugin to the public (GPL). There are still some things I need to implement (RSS feed, for one). Although, if there’s any demand (at all), I might release it sooner rather than later.

UPDATE: WP Movie Ratings has been released as a WordPress plugin.

Google ban lifted

For the past two or three months this blog has been sandboxed by Google. Searching for terms, which usually put my page high in the results lists, yielded my blog at the very end. Googling for my own name became disgraceful. I was last on the list!

I believe it might have had something to do with my Google Ads. While experimenting with them, I might have overcrowded my page, so ads to content ratio became too high. Although it doesn’t make much sense for Google to ban me for using their own ads, yet I still believe it to be quite possible. Conspiracy theory in its fullest.

However, it’s all in the past now. Sandbox is lifted. My AWStats are showing me a 8x-10x increase in traffic coming from Google in the last 24 hours and my page is back at the top for few essential queries. All of that makes me a very happy person.

Goals for 2006

This year, let’s make something different. How about a list of New Year’s goals? Just for a change. Not that I did not make lists like this one in the past, it’s just that I have never shared one with the whole wide world. So here it goes:

  1. Increase my income by at least 20% (might be hard as the stock market was surprisingly generous last year),
  2. Make my diet a little bit more vegetarian (increasingly),
  3. Try out the 5–Day Juice Fast (drink only fresh fruit/vegetable juice for five days straight),
  4. Become an early riser,
  5. Try, for at least 14 days, polyphasic sleep (Wikipedia definition) – this one’s huge

I’m keeping my fingers crossed in order to achieve at least some of those goals. And just so there is no confusion, yes, Steve Pavlina is my personal role model and a true hero. I’m very proud to be following his footsteps.

My ancestor on Wikipedia

Nothing indicated that this particular ego-search on Google would be any different from the countless others made in the past. It was quite a surprise though, to find someone new occupying the prestigious, first spot on Google Polska in the search results for my last name. I have already accepted the fact that this blog is far, far behind (currently it is the seventh returned result), but this particular contestant was quite shocking. I’m talking about the Wikipedia entry for Leon Gościcki (sorry, only Polish language version available). What is surprising is that he actually is one of my ancestors. Namely, he is the brother of my great-grandfather. It’s a strange feeling to know that he was someone famous enough to have a separate Wikipedia entry (in local, Polish edition, but still). We share the same blood!

I’m shocked.