Think Like a Videogame Physicist

Over at Dot Physics (which might be the best physics blog in the world at the moment), Rhett Allain has a pair of posts exploring the physics of Fantastic Contraption. The posts don’t really lend themselves to excerpting, so you need to go over there and read them, but I think they’re brilliant, and deserve… Continue reading Think Like a Videogame Physicist

Emmy-saurus, Courtesy of Spore

“What’cha doin’?” “Huh? Oh, I’m playing with the Spore Creature Creator. It’s a videogame thing, that lets me design little computerized critters.” “What sort of critters?” “All kinds of things. I could even make one that looks sort of like you. Here, take a look.” “Oooh! That’s neat. I should have bigger claws, though.” “Well,… Continue reading Emmy-saurus, Courtesy of Spore