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Solved Games Awari (a game of the Mancala family) The variant of Oware allowing game ending “grand slams” was strongly solved by Henri Bal and John Romein at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2002). Either player can force the game into a draw. Solved game – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My students asked themselves…
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taggd: ‘Roly poly’, designed by the Design Incubation Centre at the National University of Singapore, are a pair of egg-like objects that mirror each other’s movements, even when physically separated. Two people thus can sense each other’s presence despite distances across the world: a tap of one half will create a simultaneous reaction in the…
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8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris – home to the Mona Lisa – is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS,…
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8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris – home to the Mona Lisa – is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS,…
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8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris – home to the Mona Lisa – is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS,…
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brycedotvc: Much has been said, written and posted about SOPA over the last month or so. But what I found refreshing and enlightening about this talk from Cory Doctorow was the lengths to which he went to frame SOPA in it’s real historical context. The title of this talk says it all “The Coming War…
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dayanatuna: Did you know that you can freeze bubbles? These temperatures are perfect for using that left over bubble mix from the summer. Go outside on any day when it’s below 32 degrees F and try this: blow a bubble and then catch it on the bubble wand. Wait a few moments while it freezes-…
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Critical Game StudiesOpening day Mancala tournament I have rolled out an Alpha Version 0.9 of a “critical game studies” course. We are going to collaboratively co-create the course. I am acting as guide and co-learner. On day one we had a conversation about creating A canon (not The). I, also, shared ideas about “subject positions”…
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notgames: [Muscular dystrophy patient Mary] doesn’t care if it’s “cheating” to call upon some kind of assist mode that would allow her to make the jumps a little more easily. For Mary, she just wants to play and enjoy the game -she has no desire to enter some videogame competition where that would make a…