Game Definition and 693 Threads

any prerequisites to cover the following Course content: The courses examines the theory of games and its applications in economics: Game trees with perfect information, NIM, combinatorial games. Backward induction. Extensive and strategic (normal) form of a game. Nash equilibrium...

Now I've played this awesome game recently, called Halo: Combat Evolved ( I'm sure a lot of people have played it already). It's based on intergalactic warfare. A lot of adventures of Master Chief (the main guy) happen to be around on this ring shaped planet-sized thing called the Halo. And...

Homework Statement Five players each have a different (given) number of mice in their bags. Each player also has his own hidden mouse treat behind his back, which mice may or may not be able to sense. All players open their bags at the same time, allowing mice to move freely between bags if...

I'm aware that the P( winning a game of craps by rolling a sum of 6) =P(getting 6 the first time and 6 the second time) or P(getting 6 the first time, get some number other than 6 and 7 the second time and get 6 again the third time) or P((getting 6 the first time, get some number other...

Hi, Please see the attached picture. Table 1 in the picture shows the payoffs of a 2-player game, similar to the Rock Paper Scissor game. In this game, the two player (Stephen and Maude) show either one or two fingers at the count of three. If the sum of the total fingers shown is an even...

Hi I have just started a game theory module and have been given the following exercise. Can anyone help me with the following question. I have a feeling I can use a minimax argument to answer this but I am not sure how to go about this. Suppose a two-player zero-sum game has the following...

the 10 X 20 lattice game has the following rules: - two players alternate picking points (x,y) in the plane. the points must have integer coordinates(lattice points) and we must have 1 ≤ x ≤ 10 1 ≤ y ≤ 20 - first player must begin from (1,1). that is, player 1 can choose any point with one...

I think the video is clear enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qHrBhgwq__Q. Looks like a nice game.

Hello everyone, I want to ask questions about my task. Below are the description. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Kirman. The aim of this task is to create a dice game in a casino and model this using probability. It is important to examine how best to run the game from both...

Homework Statement you throw several coins into a pool for a diving game. how does their apparent depth (if you are looking from the edge of the pool into the water) compare to their actual depth? a. it appears deeper b. it appears shallower c. there's no difference d. depends on the...

I'm having some trouble figuring out several different things. 1) How big an army can I make based on the amount of gold I have. 2) How much of each resource will I need to purchase to create said army. 3) How much of 1 resource would I need to buy given how much of the other I already have to...

New game "Shoot the electron" Hi there, I am interested in some feedback (not to harsh I hope) on a "shoot the electron" game. http://www.animatedphysics.com/games/shoottheelectron.htm Basically you are attempting to ionize hydrogen by shooting an electron at the electron within the...

Homework Statement {(-3,-4),(-7,2)} Find the value of the game (basically saying find x*) Homework Equations E((x,1-x), 1)=E((x,1-x),2)) The Attempt at a Solution Basically I used dot product of (x,1-x) and column 1 (-3,-7). I got 4x-7 for that, which is my E((x,1-x). Then I found the dot...

I don't want to use any game engine. I want to use only C++ to make a 3D Game. How can I do so? I have made many 2D games, like chess, connect 4, mario, snake, etc. But how do i do 3D and make things like DOOM? I use the OLD Turbo C++ Compiler, not Dev C++

Cheating in the game :) I play this game, Minecraft, and I have to find a place called stronghold, which can only be found by throwing "eye of enders" in the air, that go in the direction of where the stronghold is hidden. The only problem is, those eyes are very rare and difficult to get, so I...

Homework Statement My Textbook gives the following example problem: Cournot Duopoly with incomplete information. The profit functions are given by: u_i = q_i(θ_¡ - q_i - q_j) Firm 1 has one type θ_1 = 1, but firm 2 has private information about its type θ_2. Firm 1 believes that...

Calculating the optimum angle (resulting in the minimum time) for a linear-pathed spacecraft (unaffected by gravities) to leave a planet performing uniform circular motion to reach another planet undergoing uniform circular motion. I am really struggling to work my head around this problem...

I am facing difficulty in solving this problem.. Anybody can help? The problem is as follows: There is a circular 1D chain of two types of persons (say + and -). for example something like +-+--+---++++-+-+ etc. but this is circular. Now each person jumps with probability, + jumps with 'x'...

Hi guys I'm trying to program a Roulette game on Python My programs asks for inputs and I gave names to these inputs. The point is, since I didn't assign these names before, the following error occurs: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'color' referenced before assignment I tried to get...

So I am playing this game. Guess the signal from its amplitude spectrum(FFT). Signal is periodic. I am currently playing with square wave and what are its characteristics. I am using MATLAB function square to do this. I set the sampling to 500 Hz. So above 250 Hz I get aliasing...

Alright guys and gals, the name of the game is Signatures! It's easy. The only requirement is to have a forum signature! Simply interpret/modify/add to/make fun of/whatever the previous poster's signature!

Recently I have been feeling fairly depressed about my future in the mathematical sciences. I am a second year undergraduate studying mathematics and physics (double major), what is more, I am almost 21. In hindsight I wasted a year traveling with friends after high school, and whilst I enjoyed...

By now, I've listened several times to Brian Greene's talk about the OPERA experiment. And, although I largely agree with him, there's one nagging question I have: Gravitation was, at a time soon following the Big Bang, a repulsive force. The existence of "Dark Energy" suggests the...

Homework Statement At the start of a gameshow there are 10 contestants of which 6 are female. In each round of the game, one contestant is eliminated. All of the contestants have the same chance of progressing to the next round each time. Given that the first contestant to be eliminated...

Solving Flip It, the Game I've formulated the game Flip It(http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-flipit/index.html) into mathematical terms and a system of equations that solve for the solution matrix(the matrix of how many times each square must be clicked to solve from a given beginning. Let...

I'm well aware of all the Hangman codes that are out there given, but I feel that I will get a better understanding of this project if I did it myself with some help. My main problem is knowing how to compare one character of array from a string text file. The text file consist of a whole...

So... um... apparently the World Series has been happening? What the hell? I haven't heard a single person say anything about it. Hell, I didn't even know baseball was being played the last few months. Is google news screwing with me or has it really been baseball season? DISCUSS!

Hi! I really need a help in solving certain task. Before the Allied invasion of France during WWII [bonus point for the month and the year of this invasion ], the Germans had to decide where to place their defenses. They had three choices: They could concentrate their defenses...

How to find out contact time of 2 Carrom men in carrom board game? I am trying to develop a game of carrom board. For this i want to know how to find contact time if Co-efficient of restitution and velocities before contact is known?

So I would imagine everyone has heard of the game show theory as it has been in various tv/movies including 21 and numb3rs. But to refresh your mind. Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a...

Hi, Before ask my question, let me explain how this game works. It exist a board with 9 positions and 9 pieces. Each position of the board is for a piece. A piece is composed by four symbols on each side. Each piece must match their neighbors, and each one can rotate. The goal of this game...

This is a game with N players where each player secretly picks a number from 0 to 100. The winner is the player who picks the lowest unrepeated number. Which number would you pick? What would be your strategy?

I'm completely new to these fourms, have a rudimentary understanding of geometry, and wasn't sure where to post this question, so appologies if this is the wrong forum, I'd be appreciative if you could direct me to the right place. My question is whether it is possible to create a circular or...

Is the universe similar to Conways game of life? Let me elaborate. For us, a second is the unit of time and its a pretty short unit of time. But then at the atomic scale, a second is a pretty big unit of time. Everything we do is in the order of seconds or maybe milliseconds. But so much happens...

Hi! I am Giulia, and I hope the following message is of interest to some given the topic.* I have just co-authored a book: "Friendly F#, fun with game programming and XNA". The book aims at teaching the F# language through a series of samples that are fully centered on physics simulations...

Oh... so Battleship, the game, is now a movie. Yes, that's right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/ TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1053203481/ Oh, and yes, it has a $200M budget. So... uhm... Yah.

Homework Statement Conservation of energy You are designing a game for small children and want to see if the ball’s maximum speed is sufficient to require the use of goggles. In your game, a 15.0-g ball is to be shot from a spring gun whose spring has a force constant of 600 N/m. The...

Hi ,I want to generate a sudoku game in c sharp.First I will make 3*3 cells sudoku simple,then whole sudoku (9*9) . I ve added to form 9 commoboxes and a star button. When ı click the start button , the programme will fill randomly two cells with 1, 2, or 3 . Then player will fill other empty...

Hi, I'm an independent game developer (currently in college) and have been trying to solve a problem and get an equation for use within my physics engine. Homework Statement Here's the problem/situation illustrated through two graphs and a diagram: http://i.imgur.com/qHAsU.jpg Homework...

I have written a computer game which involves 2D asteroids spinning and colliding with one another. Out of some kind of pride or something I wrote my own physics engine to handle the collisions, even though I never studied physics. (Please excuse therefore any incorrect terminology)...

Hello, I was just wondering what kind of language I should learn for getting into game development? I'm currently working through some pygame tutorials. Is that relevant at all? Thanks

Late to the game -- do I have a shot at a physics PhD? Hello! I've decided that I want to switch careers and work toward a physics PhD (ultimately more interested in research than teaching). Here's my situation: I studied electrical engineering at an ivy league school with a 3.75 GPA. Got...

Homework Statement Two teams, teams A and B, are competing in a tournament. Suppose the tournament is a ‘best-of-3’ series; in other words, the first team to win 2 games wins the tournament. Let’s suppose that team A has a slight edge on team B, such that the probability that team A...

Hi, I'm an indie game developer working on a free online puzzle/simulation game set in space. The object of the game is to move, resize, push, pull and otherwise manipulate celestial bodies to solve problems, like putting a planet in a stable orbit or accelerating a satellite to near...

A person has a utility function defined over her wealth given by u(w)=ln(w). Her initial wealth is $2 and she faces a risky prospect in which she will lose $1 with probability 0.4 and gain $1 with probability 0.6. (i) Show that this person is risk averse by demonstrating that her utility...

There is this game (well, use to be) where you'd have yourself and possibly others go from the east to west of the USA on a horse and cart back in the old times, and you'd be given some coins and stuff. You'd need to repair broken wheels, get medicine if someone was ill (or you'd just leave them...

It's a flash game called "QWOP" where you control the thighs and calves of a track runner to make him run. http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html You're supposed to run 100 yards and perform a long jump at the end. It is virtually impossible! The longest I ran was 5 yards before I fell flat on...

Hello! I am a programmer and I am working on a video game, up until now I have used "gravity" to make objects fall just based off simple positioning code. I want to create realistic gravity code though! Here is how the code works... You simply create a variable and assign it a value.. ex...

Hi guys, I would much appreciate your help. Could anyone explain to me how is it possible to prove that every Nash Equilibrium in Centipede involves players defecting in the first period. Also, is any strategy profile involving selling in the first period a NE? I know how to get unique SPNE...

In Norway, they are sending this series on a TV channel nobody has access to (at least, I don't) Am I missing anything? (I quite liked the books)