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Under Pressure – Analysis of Windjammers

Joshua Noyes Posted on December 7, 2018January 12, 2024

I’ve had this post in mind for a little while now, since Windjammers was recently rereleased on the Nintendo Switch. For those who aren’t aware, Windjammers is an old NeoGeo arcade game by Data East released in the mid-90’s. The game plays like a cross between Frisbee ™ and tennis – the players throw a […]

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George R. R. Martin’s “Wild Cards” – A Model for Drug Use in Video Games?

Joshua Noyes Posted on June 11, 2018January 12, 2024

So, due to my apprent pathological inability to finish any novel not written by Stephen King or Kurt Vonnegut this year, I found myself listening to the audiobook version of George R R Martin’s Wild Cards I, to apparently avoid finishing James Clavell’s Shogun. Now, it’s actually proper to say that Wild Cards is curated […]

Diary # 5 – Drunk Walks and Battle Royales

Joshua Noyes Posted on May 23, 2018December 7, 2018

The last few days I’ve been toying with various “Drunkard’s Walk” algorithms. Well, technically I spent about an hour toying with various Drunkard’s Walk algorithms, and then about 2 days fighting with the obnoxiously convoluted and irritatingly documented “matplotlib“. I’m probably going to switch to plot.ly, but that’s not really germane to the topic at […]

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Diary 4: Programming is Fractal

Joshua Noyes Posted on May 18, 2018December 7, 2018

It’s been a while since stuff has happened on the site, and for that I do apologize. There was a family tragedy which has taken up a lot of my emotional bandwidth of late, and editing the podcast was something I just wasn’t up for. However, one is finished and will be up soon, and […]

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It’s Difficult to Explain

Joshua Noyes Posted on March 5, 2018December 7, 2018

Something that Luke and I often discuss – aside from best sci-fi TV series (Babylon 5, obviously), favorite Doctor (Kenzo Tenma, though Jon Pertwee is an acceptable answer), and why everyone we know is crazy (I blame Monty Python) – is game difficulty. And, more specifically, why I’m wrong for liking difficult games.

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Diary 3: Luck is also a skill.

Joshua Noyes Posted on January 28, 2018January 12, 2024

Sadly, nothing I can really show off today. However, I can report that I’ve made quite a bit of progress on the programming front. I’ve been throwing together a bunch of simple little math-type modules, and I’m hoping that soon I’ll have all the ones I need to start doing more with them.

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Diary: Golf or Die-gest

Joshua Noyes Posted on January 16, 2018January 28, 2018

After a couple more days of poking around with Python, and the tutorial I discussed last post, I’ve come to a realization that is going to surprise some people. Programming is actually difficult to learn. To be fair, it’s not like I didn’t already know this. I tried a few years ago to learn a […]

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Diary: Making Limoncello out of Lemons

Joshua Noyes Posted on January 13, 2018January 19, 2018

Recently, after some of our discussions on the podcast, I decided that it was finally time for me to start putting my money where my mouth was and learning how to actually develop some games. I chose roguelikes. As we’ve discussed many times on the podcast, roguelikes are a genre that I enjoy, and they […]