Hello all.
I am a backer of the wildly successful campaign for a pocket-sized 4X game called Tiny Epic Kingdoms. I created a set of solo rules for the game that add just a bit of complexity, while maintaining the feel. I call it ‘Siege Mode’…
Phew! Busy week with preparations for a go-live at work.
Last week I was poking around some with the Elo rating system, attempting to make it work for multiplayer, ranked games, where rank means a player has, at the end of the game, a numerical rank, such as first, second, third, etc. Here’s what I came up with. Note, it diverges from Elo in several points…
It’s been a week, for sure:
Hello all,
I’m going to take a step back from what I usually write on here to spitball a bit about something that’s been wracking ‘round my noggin lately: time, and its implications…
Another week, another log:
So, the past few weeks I’ve been building a computer.
In my head and in software at least. See, I’ve been going through the fantastically written and wonderfully organized text The Elements of Computing Systems. And up until yesterday, I was travelling through it at an impressive clip — one chapter/project a day, and I only missed a single day…
It’s been a week, so here we are again:
On to my third review… I had been meaning to read this book for some time, and am I ever glad I did! Petzold is a good teacher and a better writer, with a friendly, conversational voice that lends the reader a sense of coffee-shop talk through the whole thing, as if the author was describing to his buddy how a computer works from the electron on up with scribbles on napkins in some off-the-beaten-track café. It’s the right tone for the job too, as it’s a pretty heavy subject. Let’s give it a quick look…
Kind of a slow week, it seems. Here’s what I did: