https://techcitement.com get excited Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:22:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://techcitement.com/entertainment/pac-man-face-stabbing-and-no-physics/ https://techcitement.com/entertainment/pac-man-face-stabbing-and-no-physics/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:46:28 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=15752

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 […]]]> https://techcitement.com/entertainment/pac-man-face-stabbing-and-no-physics/feed/ 4 https://techcitement.com/culture/physics-and-fetch-quests-a-slower-speed-of-light/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:02:40 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=15416

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 […]]]>