Games Definition and 170 Threads

I just made a knock-off of Minesweeper called Gopher Hunter. It's pretty sweet because the "mines" move around and the board is updated in real time. It's pretty fun... at least as fun as the original. Yay! Anybody else write little things like this from time to time? Care to share your ideas?

http://www.viddler.com/explore/Joystiq/videos/1118/ Wii is coming out with the motion plus and Microsoft has a new device which provides somekind of a virtual reality experience ... now I am not an avid gamer but the first impression that I am sensing from the Natal video is that it seems...

I have a Playstation one sitting in my basement right now and I'm thinking about using an emulator to play the games on my computer. The problem is that it sounds complex to dump the BIOS in order to play them on my computer. Is there a simple way to do it, and is it really illegal to download...

Anyone ever play the Playfish games on facebook? http://apps.facebook.com/geochallenge/?pf_ref=fs1491591491 I am very good at Geo Challenge! 32,215 points! For you guys who have facebook, you should check these games out. Try "Geo Challenge" and "Who has the Biggest Brain?". It will...

hi how r u? may be i don't know u but i know that ur feelings r so much close to me. ok i am RAJ KUMAR, I have one MSDOS games CD in 1999, that contains many MSDOS games including EA sports cricket 96. Its volume label is terminator. I have wandered all over the place & yet to find a solution...

This game is where you try to hit a target on the ground, very simple but addicting. Called Arcshot, I did not make this, I found it on the web and though it was fun so i put it here for others. Key: -> is Sto < or > is less than or more than * is times ^ is a carrot If you can't find...

How do I add games to my TI-83 Plus Silver? Are there any instructions on how to add them? How do I play them once they are on my calculator? I lost my calculator software drivers CD, and I don't recall what else was on that CD. Could I get another copy of the CD online for freeware? If so...

okay, ill try to explain this situation a best as i can. so, i started talking to this girl. I am not quite sure how it all started but i seemed cool so, i went with it. a cool thing (i thought so) was the fact that we hang out with a lot of the same crowd. so i got to see her often and see...

I was in the attic the other day and came across my old Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 games consoles (I also came across a Spectrum but thought that was just too old). I made the mistake of telling my two girls who insisted they wanted to try them and so for the past week they have been playing...

Online dominoes games ……….Anyone? Hi everyone, I am a real game freak and like to play the games that provide a competition for me. I have had my hand on several games online and was looking for more. I am now getting an urge to play dominoes and want to know if there are any cool sites that I...

Board Games on the Computer... I've been looking around trying to find good PC versions of various board games that will work on Vista, especially multiplayer ones. I have had very little success. We have a working Monopoly and a working Risk but these both get rather dull and mindless...

Do you know any really complex, innovative and playable computer strategy/RPG games worth playing? When I was a bit younger I used to play quite a lot and I think I've played every major title there is, from Civilization through Heroes of M&M to Planescape:Torment. Now most games seem to be...

I was wondering for which two-player/two-option games (symmetric, ...?) definite solutions for the best strategy can be found? (like a single equation for which probability for the choices to use)

Does anyone know of any good number games or thinking games (i.e. tic-tac-toe) to kill time when you're bored? Something that doesn't even require a pen and paper if possible...

100 students are surveyed about their sports. Each play at least 1 of the following sports. football, cricket and rugby. 56 play football, 51 play cricket, 55 play rugby, 24 play football and cricket, 21 play football and rugby, 28 play cricket and rugby. How many play all 3 games? I tried to...

With some additional software and hardware modifications, this guy creates a virtual reality display using his Wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&NR=1 Okay, so when are the new VR shooters cooming out? I'm tired of trying to peek around corners in vain. The technology for...

Which forum game do you like best? This is where we find out. ------- Emote Wars: Some of you have played this before. Two different emotes are chosen, and you make the course of events that choose the winners of the war. https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=184053" Bar Fight...

as a disclaimer, I'm not sure if this is where i should be posting this... i will be tutoring a kid (13 years old) in algebra soon, and i was wondering if there were any games or techniques that i can use with my student that have shown to work in the past with you, or others you know. i...

Can someone help me find credible stats on the avg. number of hours people spend watching tv & playing games? I need credible data that I can cite. Please provide the URL so that I can refer back to it. Also, any other statistics on how computer games/usage, TV, or technology on how they...

Hi I was wondering which of the following titles I should buy with regards to building a fairly simple physics engine for a game idea I have. I don't want to rush in I want to spend my money wisely. The titles are (roughly) as follows: Real Time Collision Detection Game Physics Game Physics...

I have fond memories of playing educational games back when I was young (~10 years ago), like Mutanoid Math Challenge, Operation Neptune, Gazillionaire, and so on. They had these wacky, colorful premises like facing off in a math contest against weird-looking aliens so that Earth wouldn't get...

anyone watching the games tonight?? Champions League:One great game for Bayern tonight, after the penalty I thought they were dead, but a goal few seconds before the game ended was unbelievable.. What happened in the other games?

Dear All, I'm still only on my second book of learning C++ although I've had plenty of programming experience writing snippets for games before. The first book was about 350 pages and introduced to me to everything up to and including OOP and inheritance. Now I'm reading one targetted at...

Source code of Games! Gaming! I would like to have some Games..coded in C++... If someone have those..please post it here for me...please...:shy:

I am looking for a way to kill some time lately. I enjoy PC games with fairly difficult puzzles. I recently enjoyed "The secrets of Atlantis"... Fairly basic game but a lot of puzzles and quite fun. Does anyone know of any good puzzle type games? I even enjoy games such as Sudoku, so feel free...

I bought the RPG game Morrowind two days ago, and I'm playing an average of 7 hours a day since then. I don't remember the last time (except when I was a kid) a game managed to fascinate me. I fear I shall lose my life if I continue doing so. But the game is just so...so...you just have to...

Homework Statement Find the number of ways n different games can be divided between n different children so that every time, exactly one child gets no game.Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Here, since exactly one child gets no games, n games are distributed among (n-1) children...

Actually, I wasn't sure where to start this thread - here or in general discussion. Anyway, I just stumped across some old CD with a bunch of 'old school' MS-DOS games and flashbacks just started to appear after I browsed through the folders. These games simply rule. So, what were (or still are)...

[SOLVED] Games: Gravity is a chain reaction within an equilibrium of chaos&amp; entro Roulette is a 50/50 game if you are playing black vs red, except for the one green slip of the wheel, but the odds of hitting that are very remote. So here is an experiment you can test out at home. Get 21...

We had the correct information long before the war. The Bush administration choose to ignore it. http://www.nbc6.net/news/10243429/detail.html#

ABC reported tonight that adults are taking up their favorite childhood games again. http://www.boonecountyky.org/parks/Programs.aspx?ProgramID=15 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1638246 http://www.underdogseattle.com/kickball/...

I want to create a online multiplayer games with php but I don't know how to let the members know their opponents' move realtime ? Please help me !Thanks

I am interested in learning about the probabilities involved in card games, i.e., poker. However what would I be required to study for gaining this knowledge of how much chance is involved for certain combination of cards, and I really have no idea on what I could begin looking at. I was...

Anyone play them? What's your favorite? Personally, I'd have to say morrowind/oblivion are my favorite role playing games. Fav of all time would have to be star craft and quake world team fortress

I had this idea a long time ago that it would be fun to make a video game that would be relativistic - you'd be going near the speed of light, all sorts of different things would happen. Is there anything like that? Or the same thing for quantum mechanics, you are very very small and in a...

Is is possible for a game to be fair but not futile?

I've never really understood them. Its like the olympics with all the decent competitors taken out except Australia and England. I'm betting most of the Americans on here haven't even heard of them. So is anyone here following them? I ask because the Commonwealth Games village is just around...

Its seems to me that, unlike physicians, who have ER, Scrubs, etc., lawyers, who have, Law and Order, Boston Legal, etc., and, cops, who have, CSI, Cops, etc., Physicists don't get much of a spotlight in the area of public entertainment. The one exception I can find are these two computer...

http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html My top score, 1,181. Try and beat that

I got into computer games about 4 years ago. I was 15 back then and I wasn't relatively short. As years went on, it seemed like most people around me were getting taller and my height was unchanged. This bothered me a lot but I looked closer and I noticed that the ones who spent their free time...

Who do you think will win? The Swedish team was recently presented: Goalies: Stefan Liv, HV 71 Mikael Tellqvist, Toronto Henrik Lundqvist, NY Rangers Defenders: Nicklas Lidström, Detroit Mattias Norström, Los Angeles Mattias Öhlund, Vancouver Kim Johnsson, Philadelphia...

I have recently become rather addicted to this one game and I started to think... why do I want to win this game? It's one of these real time strategy games where a game will last about 4 hours to a few days depending on how much I play. At that point I wondered ... why do people take time out...

Hello. Anybody know of any fun, and somewhat easy, games to program (I will be using Java if that matters)? I was thinking some card games, like blackjack or poker, any other ideas? To get an idea of the level of easyness I am looking for, I have made Sudoku, and Conway's Game of Life. I...

Are there any math games (say, computer games) that are for big people? I don't want to hear about multiplication tables, or Math Blaster... I'm tallkin': "Oh no. Our hero's house is burning down: Can you help him solve these nasty tripple integrals in time :eek: ?" kinda stuff. Well, just asking.

So you've played Freecell, right? I would like to prove or disprove that every possible Freecell game is winnable. If there exists a game that is not capable of being won (within the normal rules) I would then like to count the number of games which are possible to win. Ideas? Here's a...

You know how people who nmakes games connect games played on computer by computer kyboard to game pad buttons I mean it be keybord, but now plug in game pad, how the buttons function like keybord ? what is inside to make it work ?

Hi, I'm new to PF. So here goes... If i get a new game, i usually play if a lot (since it's new and all). I probably play it late. That night though, i get a lot of trouble sleeping. I keep waking up (sleep walking, or some form of that) and i'll have my hands infront of me thinking...

Recently, a authority claims, a Korean boy played online games in net cafe 50 hours continuously, soon he wanted to go to toilet, then he died on the floor because of heart disease. The doctor thinks, he was to tire because of playing games, so his heart stopped function. Many old news again...

i'm doing a debate in class next week on video games i'm arguing for video games i need to present the benefits of having video games and positive effects that i has had on society as well as possibly preparing for attacks by the other team. can you guys help me out? give me starting...

Does anyone think they know how long until we have great virtual reality video games? Something where you can somehow experience the game fully and practically "be there" busting down a door or shooting up a buncha mafia gang people... Something where you can literally feel the game. I...