Posts Tagged ‘Uhfgood’

Entropy Poker A.I. – Sounds very umm… computery

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Our next banner entrant is Ergod with Entropy Poker A.I.  I’m not really sure how to classify this.  It’s not strictly a game.  Sure Poker is a game, and sure you can play against the computer.  In fact as far as I can tell you don’t play against humans at all (Of course the only way you could do that is over the internet, but I digress).  Generally speaking this is a simulation designed to help you get good at poker by offering AI in the form of simulated neural nets.  Well if you don’t know what all that means, it simply means it tries to copy brain processes to provide it’s artificial intelligence.  Firstly I don’t think that much of this, not because it isn’t useful or what it’s for, but mostly because it’s not really set up as a game.  I wouldn’t run this software if I wanted to relax from a day of hard work.  I would, however, end up using it so I could up my game when I play poker with real people, which is precisely what it’s made for. 

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Meteors – First their came Asteroids, then there came METEORS!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Another banner entrant another day another asteroids clone.  This one entitled Meteors from Platymuus Software.  Who hasn’t played some variant of Asteroids?  No really who hasn’t because when I find you I’m going to come to your house and punch your lights out!  Okay maybe turn your lights off.  Literally like flip the switch which will teach you to not play Asteroids. Wait that didn’t turn out right, we WANT you to play Asteroids at some point in your life.  THE Asteroids – only one of the defining games of the last century.  One in which an indie game company made a similar game called Debris and got caught up in a lawsuit by Hasbro who then owned Atari and was suing anything that moved, story is here.  Anywho, Meteors is another Roidlike (no not Roguelike, that’s another genre entirely) and we will see just what it is like after the the break.MeteorsSS01

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ColorRide – Rainbow manipulation

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Our next banner entrant was EUO, an ultima-ish retro multiplayer rpg however when looking at everything that is involved with the game I will have to push the review for that off for a bit, while I play it.  In the meantime we go to the next one after, called Color Ride by ExciteMike (Mike Meyer).  Normally I don’t do “screen savers” as such, but since it was entered and since it is interactive I decided to go ahead and do a review of it.  There was an image on DeviantArt called “Color” that was kind of neat looking.  Mike wanted to see it in action as a game but apparently a game never exactly materialized, but what turned out was a cool looking interactive demo.  More after the jump.

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