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the Sixth of September, 2003 |
I thought he was trying to trick me into playing another Sokoban
clone, but Zarba's
Genetic
Spaceship Miracle SHIPPU is actually an ingenious evolutionary
shoot-em-up - your lego-block spacecraft starts as something tiny
and mundane, but is (after building up enough energy) able to absorb
oncoming baddies and crossbreed with them. It's left as an exercise to
the gamer to determine the phenotypical similarities that signify a usefully
viable crossbreed - get too cavalier about it, and your laser-spitting
behemoth will suddenly revert to a pea-shooting runt.
Very good game idea; as much an evolutionary gardening and
pattern-matching exercise as a pitched laser battle. It feels a lot
like declaring war on the world of Dawkins' biomorphs.
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| Friday |
the Fifth |
"They are liquid, semi-visible goliaths that rage through
the streams and chunks of ordinary traffic, with the effervescent
tendrils of mile-long tails whipping behind them like Chinese
dragons."
Beautiful piece on Traffic
Zoology, by MFDH.
Driving on motorways in France, it was striking how neatly their toll gates
sliced any emergent traffic patterns up, giving a visible driver-soothing
endpoint to any traffic jams. [via Webb]
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| Tuesday |
the Second |
Chrissy's 26 Things, gathered during an afternoon
in Lewes with fierce enthusiasm, have finally been dragged off the
camera and uploaded. I only managed 1 Thing of any consequence; a
wonderfully Keystone Kop
transport
police poster from Lewes rail station. Maybe I'll get the full haul
during the next one.
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The spontaneous
generation of Sokoban clones continues,
and I am helpless; Ben suggested that a hybrid of Sokoban and Snake might
be worthwhile - an unstoppable block-pushing snake proved to be entirely
too annoying, though, so
Snakoban is a
warehouse keeper with a long green tail, instead. It'd probably be better
with carefully designed levels rather than a random ongoing mess, and could
use some proper graphics, but I hate Sokoban. I will not write any more Sokoban clones. I will not write any more Sokoban clones.
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