Tag: Games
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MapsTD – Tower defence on Google Maps
MapsTD, or Maps Tower Defence, is a game built on Google Maps. The aim is to protect your home from invading creeps by building towers, which attack the creeps. It is the most successful project Duncan Barclay built from scratch, having had 100,000 unique visitors with 180,000 games loaded within 4 days of launching. Technology…
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2012 Robogames!
RoboGames is the Olympics of Robots – we invite the best minds from around the world to compete in over 50 different events: combat robots, fire-fighters, LEGO bots, hockey bots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and even androids that do kung-fu. Some robots are autonomous, some are remote controlled – but they’re all cool!…
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Modern Warfare 3 Passes $1 Billion in Sales in 16 Days
By NICK BILTON, NYTimes screenshot via Activision Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game’s distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, took 60 days to reach the same milestone. The sales did not just shatter previous…
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Summertime and Escape the Room Games
It is summer and while I didn’t get my level II programming class approved this year again, I am still fascinated with the idea of having students create Escape the Room Games on phones. IF someone wished to look around this summer I hope they look at a few of them. One great place to…