games
Tons of FP fun
A programming language zoo, a week of FP heaven, rewriting PHP with Haskell and a game for kids of any age to learn the untyped lambda calculus. Did I ever mention it’s a good time to have a fascination with functional programming languages?
Compare and contrast
Compare. “Suburbs built on top of military/industrial complexes”:infranetlab.org/blog/2009… - intriguing yet awful. Quirky and cute - “people re-enacting Far Side comics”:www.flickr.com/groups/fa…
Contrast. Assaf Arkin notes that the current “recession may bring us more apps that put function over form”:blog.labnotes.org/2009/01/1… Hopefully this means we won’t hear about Rich Internet Apps (blech!) for a while. On the other hand, hopefully we will see more apps that leverage “game mechanics”:bokardo.com/archives/…
I am going to call Ghostbusters
At the risk of rambling too much about games: DO WANT.
The Ghostbusters video game for the Sega Master System was pretty much the first video game I played.
Aye, ye are a scum!
ScummC: A Scumm Compiler - write your own SCUMM games! Man this takes me back to the first two Monkey Island games. I still think the best examples of the point and click adventure game genre were from LucasArts. (Via _why)
Ballmen for Half Life 2
Ballmen Mod - a Half Life 2 mod where you can walk on walls and do all sorts of insane jumping due to weird gravity. Please tell me someone is making a Möbius strip map for this mod. I'd always wanted to make one of those for Quake 2.