Tag: games

Cybermatrix 100

the next ouya, paging Cory Altheide

the cybermatrix 100 has the ability to make games, movies and music in cyberspace, and has the main console, the rom attatchment, the cyberportal, cyberbooth, cyber controller, for navigating the explorer of the cyber os, cyberstove, galaxy attachment for making your own devices, and has 2 cyberterminals: the private cyberterminal for games, and the public cyberterminal for socialization. you can make these medias using the cyber os proprietary engine. it also will come with 2 proprietary games: cybermatrix underground, and cybermatrix sports.

Procedural Universes

the state of procedural universes:

You’re building a blueprint. So say one of our artists will build something and that will take say a week. But what they get from that is every possible variant of that. So if you build a cat, you also get a lion and a tiger and a panther and things that you’ve never seen—kind of mutations beyond that

Fixed wrestling match

Written in 267 in the ancient city of Antinopolis, the contract stipulates the outcome of the final match of the boys’ wrestling division of the 138th Great Antinoeia games. The contract stipulates that Demetrius “when competing in the competition for the boy [wrestlers], to fall 3 times and yield,” and in return would receive 3800 drachmas of silver of old coinage

Racing slime molds

new sport: racing slime molds

The first ever World Dicty Race will require cells to navigate a complex microfluidic maze to reach a pool of chemoattractant at the finish line. Diffusion of the chemoattractant will create a spatial gradient to guide cells along the shortest path to the finish line. The challenge is to engineer Dicty or HL60 cells to be both smart and fast!

Towards the far lands

On March 28, 2011, Kurt J. Mac loaded a new game of Minecraft and started walking. His goal for the day was simple: to reach the end of the universe. Nearly 3 years later, Mac is still walking, has quit his job and has made virtual exploration his career. Kurt has been travelling since March 2011 and as of September 2018 is expected to take another 20 years to reach his destination.