PlayTechs: Programming for fun

Last week I ended with the vector equation I've been stuck trying to solve. v m is the unknown: The equation describes accelerating a...

I just finished playing Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime , a Nintendo DS game from Square Enix. It was a blast; neither too long nor too d...

Our story so far In the last installment we looked at Triplanetary , a board game with a Newtonian movement mechanism. A computer playing ...

Sorry for the missing week. I threw out my back and was away from the computer for almost all of that time. I'm recovering nicely now....

James McNeill can't come to the computer right now. He wanted to talk to you all about Pathfinding. What he should tell you is that ev...

Older games such as the early Ultimas had one tile for each type of terrain. Here's a screenshot of Ultima IV: The look of the terrain ...

Geometry A tiling of regular hexagons can be laid out on a rectangular grid: Via the Pythagorean Theorem , the relationship between horizont...