“Character animation in video games—whether manually key-framed or motion captured—has traditionally relied on codifying skeletons early in a game's development, and creating animations rigidly tied to these fixed skeleton morphologies. This paper introduces a novel system for animating characters wh more...
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Collective choice systems have been around for a long time. Since at least the birth of democracy in ancient Greece people have made joint decisions about important issues, and since at least the knightly tournaments of the late Middle Age more...
dawn of politics ii: what if john mccain, hillary clinton, and barack obama were factions in the rts game warhammer 40K dawn of war? | Popehat by squidlord
“Alright, so now you have a sense of who the players are. Now it’s time to see the actual game, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of their strategies. But before I drop the science on you, let’s get some more...
“Following this afternoon’s sports theme, we get something a little more meaty: a trailer and some screenshots for the upcoming Bloodbowl game. This if, of course, is the Games Workshop boardgame in which the denizens of fantasy RPG-world tear each more...
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Dawn of Politics: An analysis of the 2008 Presidential Primary using screenshots from Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War | Popehat by squidlord
“Politics are like real-time strategy games. They involve a careful gathering of resources and split-second decisions of their use. Ideally, the combination of tactical strategy and a more urgent pace than turn based would produce a typical match like speed more...
Playing over these moves is an eerie experience. They are not human; a grandmaster does not understand them any better than someone who has learned chess yesterday. The knights jump, the kings orbit, the sun goes down, and every move more...
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Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you listen to game developers, it apparently is a foregone conclusion - if a high quality PC game doesn't sell as many copies as more...
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Now we've come full circle; that war video has been made into a video game level in Call of Duty 4. Same visuals, same basic setup of bombing people on the ground but avoiding a church, even some of the more...
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“Welcome to your source for all Sins of a Solar Empire (SoaSE) ship, structure, & research references, as well as Strategies & Tactics. We are calling on all Sins fans, enthusiasts, and experts to help by contributing your knowledge of more...
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Kung-fu Master meets Sex Offenders Register | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Lost in SPAAAACE Week. by squidlord
“I’m the Mekuri Master, the Skirt-Flip King. The name isn’t their idea… It’s mine. I’m a man who was born to lift skirts. You think any so-called “rules” are gonna stop me? When classes get out, I race through the more...
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