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Pac-Man, Face Stabbing, And No Physics

By on January 16, 2013 in Entertainment, Gaming, PC, Smartphones
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Stabyourself.net released Not Pacman, a free recreation of Pac-Man without physics. I know, I know. Where are the physics in Pac-Man to begin with? Hidden in plain sight and glaringly obvious when there aren’t any. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWJt_lgd4g’] What makes the game so addictive, and not just a rehash, are the new controls. You control the […]

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Physics And Fetch Quests: A Slower Speed Of Light

By on January 3, 2013 in Culture, Gaming, PC, Science
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Free from the MIT Game Lab, the PC game A Slower Speed of Light explores relativistic physics through a smaller and more localized (and familiar) medium: the fetch quest. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7jA8EHi_0′] Using a “[c]ustom-built, open-source relativistic graphics code [that] allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed,” players […]

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