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I am making a game where a ball rolls along the ground collecting coins. The ball is inside four walls. I want to know what the equation for the ball hitting the wall and coming back is. I want the speed and to find the angle aswell. The ball stays at a solid speed of 10 and has a mass of 1 kg...

I have made a rithmomachy board, also known as the philosophers game. The game can be described as "chess combined with number theory": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy Unfortunately, all people that actually know how to play this game have died more than 400 years ago. ... or have...

This is more of a user experience question. I'm starting to remake a game (see http://playclassicsnake.com/play ) that works on mobile just as well as desktop. On desktop, one controls the snake (the lime green links) with the arrow keys, but I need a different way to do it on mobile. I tried...

Homework Statement We have a game in which a player plays against a dealer. The goal is to get closest to 100 without going over. The game goes like this: A random integer is generated from 1 to 100 (including 1 and 100) which is given to the player. The player can either "hit" or "stay." If...

For anyone who enjoys watching speedruns of video games, new and old, the annual Summer Games Done Quick charity event just started today. You can watch live here: http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick The schedule of games can be found here: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule See you there!

An interesting article on an elliptical pool table along with the math to understanding how to play on it and the physics which alters game play. http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jul/16/loop-new-cue-sport-pool-ellipse-elliptical

KOLYA AND VITYA PLAY THE FOLLOWING GAME. THERE IS A PILE OF 31 STONES ON THE TABLE. THE BOYS TAKE TURNS MAKING MOVES AND KOLYA BEGINS. IN ONE TURN A PLAYER DIVIDES EVERY PILE WHICH HAS MORE THAN ONE STONE INTO TWO LESSER ONES. THE PLAYER WHO AFTER HIS TURN LEAVES ALL PILES WITH ONLY ONE STONE IN...

I don't fully understand hyperbolic space. I saw a numberphile video about it. I thought It would a cool idea to make a video game based around hyperbolic space. I was going make it in html5/css/javascript. I know I need to learn a lot of math. I was going to render the hyperbolic objects in a...

I came across this new programming puzzle game on steam. http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ The constraints of the machine make for some interesting programming puzzles. You get a grid of nodes. Each node can execute 10 or so really basic instructions (MOV, ADD, SUB, JMP, SAVE, SWAP). You...

Has anyone else here gotten addicted to this game? I started playing a few weeks ago, and just came this close to getting a 4096! Just needed to get another freakin' 8, but ran out of space.

Hi all, Where to begin? I got my B.S. in applied Physics with biological and chemical engineering focus as well as a minor in Biomedical Engineering. I was on the job market for a year and after having no success applied to a graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. So currently I am in my...

Hi All, First, the context for this question can be found in Wilde's Quantum Shannon Theory text on the arXiv, specifically the section starting at the bottom of page 98, entitled "Entanglement in the CHSH Game". My particular question relates to Exercise 3.5.11 on page 100 of the same...

Hello, I was interested in making a game that renders 3d objects in the way they would look like in viewing them in real life. Rendering 3d objects takes lots of memory and processing power, and it may lag easily. So, I was wondering, what should I do to maximize efficiency in rendering 3d...

Homework Statement . The game of Clue involves six subjects, 6 weapons and 9 rooms. One of each is randomly chosen and the object of the game is to guess the three.[/B] a) how many solutions are possible In one version of the game, after the selection is made, each of the players is then...

Last weekend I saw my own grandson playing an american game (gta v). He had for getting points to choose between torturing some one with electricity or to pull him teeth. I think that in the next release he will have to slay journalists or to rape people in front of their children.

I made a game in Unity in C#. It's meant to be simple and hopefully fun. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.QIPS.Boole I will really appreciate the feedback.(The obstacles move in a sinusoidal pattern)

I am trying to get a formula to estimate the heat lose in an airship. Is a mod for KSP, things that have into account: pressure, wind speed, temperature, air viscosity, thermal capacity of the atmosphere, gravity, etc. There are things that can be ignored as shape (or just use constant...

My SO showed me this on reddit and we had fun with it. If you were sent back to the early 19th century naked and alone how would you convince someone that you were from the future and not crazy? No tricks allowed (meaning you can't pull a raygun from your colon). Let's hear it.

Kerbal Space Program has been successful, but I wonder if anyone has messed with a game called "Space Engineers". It's a sandbox space engineering game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/ @collinsmark

I love playing chess. I like playing blackmar diemer gambit and the ruy Lopez as white. As black,against white's e4 I play the Sicilian defense (dragon variation) and against 1.d4 I use Slav defense. What's your favorite chess opening? (are my openings good?)

1: If u: omega---> reals is a Von Neumann Morganstern Utiliy function and L is a lottery, prove that expectation E is "linear" ie: E(Au(L)+B)=AEu(L)+B2. Given none:The Attempt at a Solution : My attempt at a solution has gone nowhere. I found a stanford and princeton game theory notes that went...

So, every time i get a new game i have to change the controls, because the default controls for moving are wasd, but i prefer esdf. To me wasd makes no sense. first off, esdf are the home row keys so my fingers naturally go towards those. the only way this could possibly make sense is if you...

Suppose we have a game, played in which Alice and Bob play mixed strategies: (sorry for the dots, but I don't know how to put a table or tab spacing in this text box) ..............Bob ..........Dove, prob q......Hawk, prob (1-q) ...Dove , prob p......(2,3).........(4,5) Alice ...Hawk, prob...

What programming language should I learn if I want to make a free game app? Is it Objective-C? I have learned HTML, CSS and currently learning HTML5. I heard that Objective-C is hard. Should I learn Objective-C after learning HTML5 if that's the programming language to make a free game app with...

Remember Voyagers? Travelling through the endless void of space, carrying the species-scale equivalent of teenage poetry etched onto what is called the Golden Record. Full of naive hope and good intentions, cute to think of, but increasingly embarrassing to look at, it was sent in an...

Hey PF! Can you help me with something: Players alternately choose 0's or 1's. A play of this infinite game is thus a sequence of 0's and 1's. Such a sequence can be considered as the binary expansion of a real number between 0 and 1. Given a set ##E## of real numbers satisfying ##0 < x < 1...

Consider a scenario where two individuals—Robert and Stuart—are under- taking a joint project, where the value generated from the project depends on the effort expended by both individuals. Let x be Robert’s level of effort and y the level of effort of Stuart; the value of the project for each...

I tried using $\frac{1}{13}$ x 30 + $\frac{12}{13}$ x $\frac{47}{51}$ x -10 but it didnt work.

One number is chosen from 1 to n, n is large, and I want to guess that number. If I get to choose one number and then I'm told if the number is bigger or smaller, then the best strategy is to try to halve the range at every step and then the average number of guesses would be roughly...

Recently, I have came across an interesting game that can be played fairly easily between two people. Here is how it is played: Both you and your opponent pick a four digit integer with no digit repetition. Then, you perform specific "guesses" so as to determine what their number is. A guess is...

Homework Statement Draw out the game tree for tic-tac-toe Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I'm just thinking about it and I don't know how to start. To draw out the entire gametree, we'd have thousands and thousands of branches. So based on symmetry there is only 3 starting points...

I just want to know what are the possible courses that one should take to have a background that you need to be able to work in the gaming industry?

Hey guys, I am working on a video game which is based on electrostatics. You play a charged sphere and you can change its charge to interact with other charged objects, sticking to walls and ceilings and orbiting around other charges etc. I am curious what you think of the concept, and which...

Anyone here wants to play word for word game in Latin perhaps?

Hi everyone. I've just signed up for and downloaded Steam as I'm new to the whole RPG thing I was hoping people might be able to recommend their favourite MMO RPG games. I'd prefer f2p ones to start as I'm totally new to it. Which games do you guys love and what are good games for beginners like...

In carrom game, we have black/white small disc pieces, just imagine we have a single piece of it on the board.We hit that pieces with a striker on one side of the four wall. And the pieces goes on hitting side of the wall, number of times. If I'm right, there cannot be a general formula...

Type! Hello, people first four PFers to post the word "jinx" will play game in which me and the first four people (users)will type a word which any PFers can tell the meaning( just for fun). Rules: 1.not everyone will be online so not mandatory every one will play together. 2.well forget what I...

I've started to get back into chess. I never had any formal training and was never very good. A friend of mine has got me playing against him via a phone app a few times a week. What is a good basic strategy for me to use? Especially interested in early game. Thanks!

This (in my opinion) is the most beautiful, relaxing, and soothing song from any video game in history. Video game music has really come a long way. From the game Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Don't get me wrong I love school and I love learning. Going to college has changed me into a better person, however sometimes I just don't like the format. One of my personal pet peeves is when there are only 2 exams in the course. The mid-term and the final. I don't like this set up because...

Hello. I'm currently looking for a textbook which emphasizes microeconomic theory on a more advanced level compared to the mass-marketed books, (e.g. Mankiw, McConell, ...) and a textbook that contains more game theory. Does anyone have suggestions?

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share this really cool game MIT Game Lab made, it's called A Slower Speed of Light: http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ Sorry if this is already commonly known among people interested in SR (probably is- but maybe there's a few people who...

Hi I play a video game (DDO to be specific). In this game I can chose one of 2 options the first (Keen Edge) increases my Critical hit rate by 10% permanently, the second option (Exploit Weakness) increases my critical hit rate by 10% each time I do not make a critical hit (e.g. Attack 1 crits...

I wanted to model a particular game and determine the probability for each team to win. I have no idea how to do the determination of probability part, but here's the game broken down: There are 3 types of players, T's, D's and I's. The amount of each type of player is as follows: 1/8 D...

Hello! (Wasntme) I am looking at this exercise: A board game can be played with $3,4,5 \text{ or } 6$ players. There is a winner at each round of the game. A group of $115$ children decides to organize a tournament of this game,for the emergence of the champion of the game,so that at each...

I've started to make a "Snake" game (example: http://www.kongregate.com/games/uchiha/classic-snake-game) and reached a dead end. I'm not sure the programmatically best way of figuring out where the snake's "food" should next appear. It should of course appear anywhere on the screen that doesn't...

Context: Question: Code I have thusfar: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <string.h> #define MAX_STAT enum { STR, DEX, INT, CON, WIS, CHA, LEVEL, MAX_STAT }; struct Character { int level; int class; int HP...

Hey all, have a problem to solve for my new game game. really appreciate if someone can help me solve this issue: * i need to calculate the probability for a given combination 1. Total number of balls in the box = 80 2. Total number of chosen balls 45 3. for simplicity we have only...

I came across this very fun and interesting game called Microshogi. I will not describe the rules because they're here on wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_shogi I advise not using Japanese characters or pentagonal pieces. Just make rectangle pieces, use english letters and use a...

Howdy, all! So recently I got into disputes with players about a situation that occurred in a tabletop game we are playing. I won't bore you with the details but it boils down to this: The effectiveness of an empty, wooden sheath in penetrating and impaling the human heart. A bit of...