Sunday, February 27, 2022

Math: Square Roots with Babylonian Method

Graph depicting how to do square root of 20 with Babylonian method.

Everyone knows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with pencil and paper; but do you know how to find square roots without a calculator? (Incidentally, I highly recommend reading The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov, a short story about a future in which humans are so reliant on computers that they have forgotten how to do arithmetic.)

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Recommendation - After Dark



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Definitely one of the better zombie apocalypse interactive fiction out there! Here are a few screenshots. Alas, it is still only just a demo version.






Friday, February 18, 2022

Recommendation - Formicea

 


https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47590/formicea

The swarm.
A unitary force of countless entities.
Nightmarish creatures from the darkest depths.
All working towards a greater purpose.
Simply fulfilling their role in a complex system.
Abducted from the world I know I am now forced to become a part of this.
Forced to help these horrors to increase their power.
However, they are not mindless killers.
There might be a way for me.
I could influence them from the inside.
To prevent that anyone has to die.
To protect the ones I love.
Maybe I can adjust.

If not for the eggs.

ChoiceScript Stories



Sitting quarantined in Fiji, what else is there to do but check out some videogames, especially my favorite kinds of interactive fiction. I discovered that there is a coding language called ChoiceScript which can be used to code in particular these multiple choice games. I discovered this through playing a number of games made by the company Choice of Games.

I discovered there is a site of free amateur written games coded with ChoiceScript. When I get back and assuming time permitting, I would love to code up one. Here are a few examples:


Mind Blind
https://dashingdon.com/play/wildelight/mind-blind/mygame/

Monday, February 14, 2022

Recommendation - Keep Breathing

 


Keep Breathing follows lung cancer survivor Eury as she returns to her sleepy hometown, dreading coming home to her parents and the complicated past that still haunts her. Even with every amenity afforded to her by modern society, Eury has a hard time staying alive. But when the townspeople are driven insane and begin attacking one another at random, Eury is cut off from everything and everyone she holds dear, and left with a dwindling supply of oxygen.

Hardships and heartaches, bloodshed and violence, once she’s through it all, will Eury be able to Keep Breathing?