QWOP, arguably the most difficult video game ever, was foisted upon us by Bennett Foddy in 2008. The point of the game is to control a sprinter with four keys that move his thigh and calf muscles. A few seconds in, and you’re reduced to trying to control your laughter. Most of us gave up […]
YouTuber Funk Turkey (previously) fed lyrics from AC/DC songs into a Markov chain and generated a new AC/DC song. The lyrics make about as much sense as you’d expect, but this is definitely an AC/DC song. The real test would be to drop this into a playlist of a fan and see how they react. […]
AI is one of those “keywords” that gamers like to bring up a lot, but only coders and game programmers truly know anything about it for real. While most people know AI means artificial intelligence, and most gamers know that means how the non-human bots are programmed to act in video games, what do we […]
For me, the appeal of video games has to do with escape and immersion. It isn’t just about gameplay. It’s about story, about investment, and about character. From the very beginning I’ve been drawn to video games that tell stories and introduce me to characters. And in the last 10 years video games have changed […]
While many video games based on, or related to, films have a rather bad rep for being clunky, ugly, and often just plain boring, you might be surprised to find that the new web-based flash Sherlock Holmes game, 221b, has actually employed some pretty impressive programming in its design. Called “Chatbot” technology, this allows for […]