Game Definition and 651 Threads

Dear All, I'm still only on my second book of learning C++ although I've had plenty of programming experience writing snippets for games before. The first book was about 350 pages and introduced to me to everything up to and including OOP and inheritance. Now I'm reading one targetted at...

I would like to learn more about the uses for the applied mathematics of Game Theory. I am most familiar with this excellent reference [inside viewable on Amazon]: Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory (Classics in Applied Mathematics) (Paperback) by Tamer Basar, Geert Jan Olsder Question 1...

I have a great deal of respect for John Baez and This Week's Finds [TWF] and his colleges, David Corfield and Urs Schreiber, at n-Category Cafe [n-CC]. I struggle to understand the mathematics since my perspective is more physiological than mechanical physics. I probably misinterpret much of...

Fill the word ,game... In this thread am going to have a new word game...can say it as a word game...hmmm... I'll think of a word and will post it here...not fully...i.e I won't fill the whole word...I'll be leaving dashes in between the letters...you must finally guess the total word by...

The aim of the game is simple (similar to the Math Q&A game). I will post a brain teaser, the first person to give the correct answer gets to set the next question, the first person to then answer this question correctly gets to set the following question... ad infinitum. A few rules before we...

Hi all, ok there are 3 piles containing objects; Pile A, Pile B and Pile C. Let the Nim-sum of all 3 piles be denoted as X. Let Pile A and Pile B and Pile C contain objects. ( In Nim-Sum ) A + X = D B + X = E C + X = F As we are currently in research of a math project, we...

I can't remember the name of the game, but I think it was made in the 90's. It features a flying ship where you attack ground and air targets. You get multiple upgrades that upgrade weapons, etc. It was in 32bit color, I think. I had a dream about this game but could not remember what it was...

What is the name of that game where you have a triangle shaped board with 15 (10?) holes and 14 (9?) pegs, and you have to jump each peg and your goal is to be left with one peg? Usually found at Cracker Barrel, and some other restaurants. Often says if you leave one you are a genius, 2 smart...

Hi all, I want to make a very basic text editor for editing save game files. I already know the locations in the file I need to edit, but I'm not sure how to go about finding them in a bit file(right term?). I'm pretty familiar with general visual basic.net programming and I can get along well...

ok i wasnt sure which forum to place this in so I am putting it here now. I am currently trying to help my boyfriend figure out something. his project is to design and build a game cube to usb adapter that will work with stepmania (a dance dance revolution simulator that you can download for...

I am currently trying to help my boyfriend figure out something. his project is to design and build a game cube to usb adapter that will work with stepmania (a dance dance revolution simulator that you can download for free online). he has already correctly mapped out the buttons in his code...

Hey guys how's it going this is my first post so take it easy on me :wink: . I'm in my last year of electrical engineering technology, and we need to design and construct a final project. On the list of possible topics was the idea of a bio-med game interface. It would be biomed probes detecting...

Hey, I am making a simple game engine for a university computer graphics course, and I'm running into a (simple?) problem with rotations of boxes. I am using bounding box collisions, where a vertex of the box which enters another box receives a force to push it away. At the end of each...

Alright, basically you have to think of a song that in some way relates to a planet, star, moon, astronomer, concept, theory, astronomical term, etc. Expect some to be funny. I'll start off: I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2 - Dark matter/energy Here comes the Sun - The Beatles...

I am trying to remember the name of this old (probably dos, but I can't remember) computer game. At the start you could click on 3 different factories. A blimp one, the Cart one of the Airplane one or something like that. Then after that you have to go through the 2d level collecting parts...

Tri-Achnid, an Adobe flash physics-based game http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tri-achnid&btnG=Google+Search I just think that this is the best piece of media I have seen in a very long time. It is hard to maneuver your tri-achnid at first but it is cocaine once you get the hang of it...

I am going to make a php web based game. All i am looking for is some advice to help me get off to a good start. Like, What i will need, where to look for information.

I was reading about the undergraduate research opportunity at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and I ran across this fun flash game. It simulates a tokamak, and you can control the power used for heating, magnetic field intensity, and plasma density...

This month’s playboy has an article (well…pics too) of several upcoming video gaming girls…including those from God of War, Splinter Cell, Scarface, and a few others. Not sure where they got the images from (I haven’t seen any birthday suits in the games I play…but maybe there’s unlock codes out...

Hello. If someone can explain me the solution of this situation please tell-me ! Two football teams are playing a football game. Team A is by far better than team B (let's say New England Patriots against a college Team). Score starts at 10 000 to 0 for New Engalnd. True or False: If...

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Hi there, This question is giving me some trouble... 1.1-6 A game consists of rolling a pair of dice and moving a game piece the number of spaces according to the total number of dots on the dice. In order to move the game piece on a player's first turn, the player must roll a 1 or a 6...

I wandered if anyone could give me as much as possible info on the task I need to investigate at: http://maths.fallibroome.cheshire.sch.uk/leapfrog.swf I have worked out that frog 3 blue frogs and 3 green frogs it will take me 15 moves. I have worked out that frog 3 blue frogs and 4...

I'm making a simple dice-game with MATLAB and I want to extend the functions of it. What I have now is that I throw 5 dices (each dice gives a value of 1 to 6), and I make MATLAB display the value of each dice, e.g [1 3 5 2 1] and count how many of each value are represented e.g in my case...

Note: At the bottom of this post is a scan of the problem from the textbook, and then in the next post are scans of previous pages from the textbook, but (unless you're familiar with game theory) you probably should read my own words before you read the textbook scans. I have an equation: u1 =...

This speculative effort may be only wishful thinking, but if mathematical [geometrical] objects can be represented by Lie [and other] Algebras and Groups as well as by Mathematical Games, then this may aid in the search for a GUT / TOE. This effort is not rigorous, but a tenuous association...

Hi , I have a problem coding a part of a simulating game: In the game of craps, a "Pass line" bet proceeds as follows. The first roll of the two, six-sided dice in a craps round is called the "come out roll". The bet immediately wins when the come out roll is 7 or 11, and loses when the come...

How much math and physics will I have to take? I don't mind taking some courses in these areas, since I already am, but I'm not sure how many I should be taking. Will it have to be very high level math or physics? More what I'm asking I guess is, what specific types of courses would be the most...

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(we had these threads some time ago...:rolleyes:) http://www.stickpage.com/championarchergame.shtml What do you think of it?

There's a variety of NP-Complete problems like the Clique problem, the Hamiltonian cycle problem, Satisfiability, etc. Recently i discovered a simple puzzle problem that is NP-Complete (the proof involves a straightforward reduction of the Clique problem). Anyway, i built the actual puzzle...

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Ok, well, I've solved a few glitches that were present in my game, although, there is one other things I need help on. (working on windows, compiler:dev-C++, using win32 API). 1. How do I get my program to play a midi. I know how to play a wav file, but can't find the right info on this.

Hello everyone. I have got quite far with a game of tetris that I am making (I'm writting in C++, and on windows, using Dev-C++ IDE and windows API). I am just touching it up, and then it will be done. One of the problems which I am having, is that when the blocks hit the bottom of the window...

I recently took a bunch pictures of various aircraft, munitions, engines and a few space thingies. Thought I'd put them up, and make something of a game out of it, since it seems like there's a not too small aircraft enthusiast gang here. The Rules: 1. Each question consists of no more than 3...

Okay, you're in a game show that is akin to Deal or No Deal. You are given 3 suitcases to choose from, 1 of which contains a million dollars, the other two are empty. Once you have chosen a suitcase, the host (who knows beforehand which of the 3 suitcases contain the million dollars), opens one...

In this game, I make up cryptic clues that reveal the usernames of PF members. Other folks guess the names and provide the reasoning. See Part I for examples and some solutions. When I'm tired or worse, exhausted, I'll open the clue making to the rest of you. Here's an example (courtesy...

In the spirit of the "What was it" thread: It was either 2 drinks or 12 feet, and the best known name of a man.

Here's a interesting, and very disturbing, new development from the Left Behind novel people. http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/29/195855/959 (warning - disturbing, extremist website) You assume this is obviously a hoax, something from the Onion? In that case, even MSNBC fell for it...

Ok here are the rules: Guess a number (integer) between 0 and 100. The number closest to 80% of the average of all the numbers guessed by the players wins :biggrin:. Example: Say the numbers I got are: 10, 50, 60, 80, and 25. The average is 45 and 80% of the average is 36 so 25 would win...

Riddle game - Something for you scientists :) Hey guys! I found this online riddle game. I figured people on this forum might like it. You need to be a good thinker to solve this baby. Just enter transylvania and try to find an answer to the riddle you get by looking at the given picture...

people said that most great ideas and developments in sciences (especially physics and mathematics) are made by young men. For example, Einstein, Heisenberg, Newton, Ramanujan, and so on. Nowadays, we see that most peiople get their phD at nearly 28. Do you think 28 is stilla Golden...

I used to play a game, where you put "ships" in cortesian plane, it can be either 1,2,3,4 - boxed-ship. You play with opponent, who then guesses the coordinates of the ship, if he/she guesses right, your ship is destroyed. What was the name of it? Does anyone want to play? :rolleyes: Thanks,

A solid wheel on a game show is given an initial angular speed of 1.25 rad/s in the counterclockwise direction. It comes to rest after rotating through 3/4 of a turn. Find the torque exerted on the wheel given that it is a disk of radius 0.73 m and mass 6.4 kg. I got 0.5654 as the answer...

Hi All I'm trying to creater online racing game based on car physics. My car already running on the straight, but as you know racing tracks had some corners (doh !). How my model pass the corner you can find in this tread https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=117606" But As i know...

[SIZE="3"]Counting Game This forum word game is simple. You start of with "1" and the next person posts the number following it (2), the next posts the number following it (3) and so on. No double posting If an incorrect number is posted, then carry on with the correct number. I'll...

http://ebaumsworld.com/games/orboxb.html This game is pretty interesting and really makes you think in the later levels. I'm absolutely stuck on level 19. If anyone wants to directly go to level 19 and see what I'm doing, the password is "tgb517". It's really hard because you have to imagine...

Pretty basic relativity questions. Have any of you read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Great book by the way. But I'm questioning if the issues with relativity in the book are accurate. In the book, a military legend, Mazer Rackham, defeated an army of alien bugs 80 years ago. Realizing...

The Earth, Moon and Sun's "gravity" game. Hi all, I was thinking today that even though the moon is orbiting the Earth, because we are its nearest body mass, is it affected in any way by the Sun? In other words, to me it seems strange that just because the Moon is under the direct pull of...

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