Tag: game
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Beating Children at Mastermind [Video]
Video version of Dan's recent blog post about writing software to help him cheat at Mastermind.
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Beating Children at Mastermind
Sick of losing Mastermind to his kids, Dan cheats by implementing a brute-force solver he can run on his phone.
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Printing Maps from Dungeondraft
Tips on using Dungeondraft to make RPG maps you can print for tabletop use.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Taking a Jackbox Zoom Party to the Next Level
Dan hosts a lot of Jackbox games over Zoom, and he's got some pro-level tips to share with you.
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Tick Tock
Dan reviews Tick Tock, a cooperative puzzle game that he and Ruth played for their Date Night this week, and recommends you give it a go!
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Mow-Rio Kart
Dan's ride-on lawnmower is less cool the one in this video, which plays Mario Kart.
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Twinebook - Printable Interactive Fiction
Twinebook lets you use Twine to make printable adventure gamebooks. Is there mileage in expanding on the prototype, Dan wonders?
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The Ballad of John Crawford
Dan and his friends play a second game of Dialect, this time as a criminal gang on Portsmouth docks.
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We Are The Martians
Alec, Matt R, Penny, and Dan play The Outpost scenario in Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies.
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Banners Begone!
Dan shares a progressive web-based clicker game he played recently.
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SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator
SpaceX released a free simulator game of the ISS docking procedure. It's pretty challenging.
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Cheating Hangman
Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.
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Twee2 - Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a piece of software, and reacted by reimplementing that software from scratch. Twee2 is his attempt to make it possible for people to write Twine 2-style interactive fiction from a command-line interface.
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Post-It Minesweeper
Dan implements a computer program to help him make a Post-It-based version of a computer program. Then sticks it to a computer.