I’m adding code to the train game that will add segments to the track network. At moments like this, where I’m adding in a new feature, I often get a little stuck not knowing where to start. In these moments, I usually open any text editing app and…
Continue readingThe title of this post is misleading; it implies that I’m just starting work on this game. The reality is that I started work on this game over 20 years ago (around 2004) and I just took a bit of time off to wait for 3D rendering to…
Continue readingI played Unconscious Mind twice before writing this. Both times were with one other player (2p games). Unconscious Mind is a medium‑to‑heavy eurogame with very little randomness beyond the shared tiles and cards available to all players. The game’s theme centers on treating and curing people receiving mental‑health…
Continue readingI just wanted to make a note of the Antikythera mechanism tree structure as it is currently generated in the Linkage (Mac) simulator. The code is not handling multiple gears on the same connector, so this is not completely resolved. But it is a good example of how…
Continue readingIn about 1994, I wrote software for Windows 3.1 that let me add icons over an image in the app window and then create timed sounds and effects using these icons to represent the locations of the outputs. I built a crude timeline editor that triggered items only…
Continue readingI watch a lot of TV, and I can suspend my disbelief quite easily. I’ll watch MgGyver (the new one) build an energy-beam weapon out of a junked microwave oven and a car battery. But sometimes a TV show is written in a way that totally breaks the…
Continue readingI was playing a complicated board game, Inventions: Evolution of Ideas, and I noticed something about another player that I’ve noticed before; They are Game Rules Optimistic. I’ll explain: The game has a map, and on the map are some tiles. The tiles are double-sided, with very different…
Continue readingI’ve been posting videos on YouTube () showing some working features and some failing features of the Linkage app for the Mac. Here is one of the latest: Even though this looks like a simple mechanism with a sliding quick-return that makes a link oscillate, thus moving a…
Continue readingA few decades ago, I remember, probably incorrectly, a court case where the police wanted to (or did) track people using GPS units that they stuck in the suspects’ cars. The case boiled down to this: a court order is needed to place a GPS unit on someone’s…
Continue readingWith the mechanism in the image, there are three sliding connectors affecting link 1 (on the left). This is an interesting mechanism to simulate. In this situations, the calculations are easy because D and E both have the same slide radius. With the same slide radius, we can…
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