Unhandled Perception

Starting out creating an interactive experience, of any sort really, can be rather daunting. In this tutorial, we’ll run through the basic components of a game, so we can get a handle on what the next steps are when you make the jump from the training tutorials to your own projects.

Often people have trouble when conceptualizing a game. The idea, after all, is often the easy part. It’s actually making it, and figuring out where to start, that is the hard part.

Very interesting read.  Just makes sense.

Link: http://www.raphkoster.com/…

Every position of Rubik’s Cube™ can be solved in twenty moves or less.

With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cube™, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves.

Glad to see Google’s researchers handling the pressing issues.

Link:  http://www.cube20.org/

Guess what color represented by the hex value.  Try level 48.

Link: http://yizzle.com/whatthehex/

Not for a new game, but for a ‘vision’ for a new film. Looks cool. Hope this movie gets made.

Across Age offers 15 hours of playtime, HD graphics, exciting story, sweeping soundtrack/SFX and tons of diversified locations, monsters and riddles. Step into the role of 2 switchable characters: swordsman Ales and magician Ceska, each with own fighting and special skills that are needed to solve tricky puzzles and successfully battle fierce monsters. This cooperative element is one of the key features of the game. Another key feature is the possibility to travel through time and revisit places, enabling exciting events and riddles.

So far this is the only App I paid for in the App Store (only been downloading free apps).  This is a fun and addictive RPG game that reminds you of the original Zelda.

I hope there is an Across Age II in the works – developers, hint…hint.

At iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/…

Developer: http://www.fdg-entertainment.com/en/…

It works, a little slowly but it does work.  File this under: doing it to see if it can be done.

Link: http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

(thanx to DonationCoder for this)

Born in the early 1970s, I’ve experienced only a few world-changing events along the lines of the automobile, the telephone, and the television. Sure, I was around the campus computer cluster when NCSA Mosaic was installed in 1994, but the Internet didn’t make a grand entrance.

Link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2213124/?Gt1=38001

A new analysis of number randomness in Sudoku matrices could lead to the development of more difficult and multi-dimensional Sudoku puzzles. In a recent study, mathematicians have found that the way that numbers are arranged in Sudoku puzzles is even more random than the number arrangements in randomly-generated matrices. The counter-intuitive discovery may enable researchers to develop algorithms that generate Sudoku matrices with fewer clues, making them more difficult to solve.

Link:
http://www.physorg.com/news185217892.html

Where will this be in 5 years?

Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game! c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.

Link:
http://c-jump.com/

$17,500 for a video game is just plain crazy.

Link:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/…

He’s little, he’s metal, and he’s lost. Being a small robot isn’t always easy. Being a small robot marooned in a surreal world of clockwork, inventive mechanisms and challenging puzzles, even less so. In Tinker, a free puzzle game that pushes the boundaries of robot deduction, you’ll guide your robot through switches, contraptions to reach the exit. He’ll only do what you command. He’ll only go where you tell him to. It’s up to you to get him home!

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-us/Games/Pages/tinker.aspx

There’s something about the feel of a Rubik’s cube that just can’t be replaced with a touch version. Don’t see this going anywhere except filed under ‘that’s cool but useless’.