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pac-man

Fixing Pac-Man's 256th Board

Alright, this post should make clear the provocation for yesterday's digression into Pac-Man's bathroom habits. While Fletch and I were pondering the question, we both came across this site, where programmer Don Hodges says he has fixed the glitch that caused Pac-Man's split-screen bug at board No. 256.
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4:00 PM on Sun Apr 20 2008
By ogood
15,560 views, 37 comments

school daze

Irish College Rewards Games Mastery

When I was in college, I often found that video games interfered with my learning rather than encouraged it. That was a long time ago, however, and now many institutions offer specific courses dedicated to learn the craft of game creation. Now a university in Dublin Ireland is about to launch that country's very first Masters degree program focusing on interactive entertainment. Computer science degree holders will be able to join the one year postgraduate program, focusing on different aspects of the craft, such as AI, real-time animation, and tightening up the graphics on level 3. More »

12:30 PM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,788 views, 32 comments

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remakes

Retro Remakes Big 2006 Retro Remaking Contest

Retro Remakes is sponsoring a huge honking contest to create the best remake of a classic video game. There's 3692 worth of prizes to be won for "Good remakes of good games that anyone can play, regardless of their ability." More »

8:40 AM on Fri Jun 2 2006
By brownlee
510 views, 2 comments

interactive fiction

Inform7 Brings Natural Language To Interactive Fiction Programming

If you're a writer, you've probably thought from time to time of trying your hand at a piece of interactive fiction, but soon been discouraged by the right-brain orientation of your mind that makes it practically impossible for you to grok the code necessary to make your story come alive. The latest iteration of the Inform platform, Inform 7, is trying to change all that with it's supposed "natural language" programming code. More »

8:40 PM on Thu May 4 2006
By brownlee
269 views, 3 comments

playstation 3

PS3 Tough for Programmers? Pshaw!

Check out this entry on the Guardian's always brilliant Gamesblog. The author, Keith Stuart, spoke with developers who've been slaving over games for the PlayStation 3. They told Stuart that, contrary to popular belief, it's not that difficult to program the PS3. In fact, it's not all that different from writing games for the PC, since the machine uses a version of OpenGL More »

1:18 PM on Sat Jan 28 2006
By kourosh
2,009 views, 10 comments