What started out as a very simple exercise in dumb game-making became a complicated exercise in dumb game-making, and I want to follow this thing through and polish it up a bit better. But the deadline for this week’s B.C. is here, and I present to you the demo version for “Fall Free.”
Story: You are a green-haired anime ronin with magical head powers falling down a long, seemingly endless hole. You are being pursued by robot angels and soldiers.
Controls: Left and right move. Down triggers your head magic, and allows you to smash through the brown wooden boxes.
For the edification and amusement of those beautiful crunchers who aspire to scientific literacy I am providing a brief guide for understanding the direction of cutting edge research in superconductivity. The current trend is in studying iron arsenide superconductors, all of which are mostly two-dimensional or sandwich-like. Below some of these crystal structures are illustrated along with short explanations to inform the non-expert.
“Alright people. We have a problem.”
Mr. Douglas did not look pleased.
“What do you mean sir?” Asked Stephenson; the accountant that nobody liked. “Our profits for last year were an all-time high. We’re making money hand over fist. Kids can’t get enough of us.”
“True, we’ve become known as the premier comic book company. True, our movie department has successfully taken off. I have more money invested in my yacht than most people will see in their lifetimes. But good times don’t always last gentlemen. We got the numbers back from our Marketing Research Department and they’re not good. People are getting sick of super hero movies. They’re getting sick of super heroes all together! We’re looking at the abyss gentlemen and we don’t even know it. It’ll be like the mid 90’s all over again!” Continue reading
Beautiful Crunchers 