Johnny Five-Ace be gamblin me?!?!

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The elevator panel at work belongs in the video game hall of fame.

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Bejeweled, the web version - somehow I like its feel better than the standalone version, or Bejeweled 2. Here's a recent game I played:

edit, 18/08/07: getting better : )

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After careful finetuning of my search string, I've concluded the highest number Google can stomach is somewhere around 1.79769313 × 10³⁰⁸.

How did I get this number?

Well, the equation grew organically: Siliziumleben posted his results for teaspoons in a cubic lightyear. Then femtoliters in a cubic megaparsec. I upped the ante to femtoliters in a cubic teraparsec, but there was still room. I had to figure out how far up and down in the naming of multiples of a thousand google can go.

Turns out it's yotta (10²⁴) in the > inf direction and yocto (10^-24) for values approaching zero. So, there I was with yoctoliters in a cubic yottaparsec. By that time, it had become less a race of getting the most outlandish units to clash and more of a race for the highest number Google could produce. I added multipliers to push beyond 10³⁰⁰, and finally found a brick wall. Google would tell me that there were infinitely many cubic yoctometers in (18 !) times googol (cubic yottaParsecs). The rest, as they say, is history!

Here's the exact search string that I ended up using:

((12.2444329202069885 * (16 !)) + (17 !)) times 1 googol (cubic yottaParsecs) = 1.79769313 × 10³⁰⁸ cubic yoctometers

Extending the 12.24somethingsomething multiplier beyond 16 digits of the fraction is left to the reader as an exercise : )

Update: I have been informed that Google works with 64Bit numbers, and that the highest number Google can deal with is therefore 2^(2^64) - 1. While you can't plug that into Google Calculator (the intermediate result 2^1024 is too large to handle), you can approximate it with (2^1023) * 1.999999999999999 = 1.79769313 × 10³⁰⁸.

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Head over to Orisinal, where for the first time in like a year a new game has appeared. Play it and bow to my record!

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Nein, es ist ein Spiel!

2004 habe ich dieses Weihnachtsspiel für die Bengsch Werbeagentur gemacht (Grafiken, Sounds und Programmierung). Mir macht es immer noch Spaß : )

Mein Rekord liegt im Moment bei 22350 Punkten : )

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She's his now : (

The original

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Super Mario Land - 3D!

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Bubble Bobble is such a great game. I love the music, too. In what the Comics Industry calls a "reimagination", here's Bub!

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I started writing a jump'n'run game in Flash a while ago, using André Michelle's excellent gamepackage (sadly discontinued). Controls: use the cursor keys to walk, hold 'c' to run, use the space bar to jump.

Here are some sprites that I made for the game (some enemies, goodies and scenery):

Unfortunately, I'm not likely to finish this on my own any time soon, so if anybody out there is a capable Actionscript programmer and looking for a fun little project to help on in their spare time, drop me a line.

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Look at THIS. This is the best thing I've ever seen in any game. The guys who made this have a good eye, a lot of patience, and not a lot of other stuff to do, apparently. Seriously, it looks like a Playstation commercial, and one of the better ones.

Do check it out.

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