Video Games
Berkshire county has a history of video game programming dating back to Larry Teich's monthly cassette “magazine” for the TRS-80.
The above image shows game programmer and Googler Aaron Santiago playing a Tomytronic 3D in the Simon's Rock game lab.
This page contains several of my personal video game projects, some of which were created with undergraduate students.
@postpostdoc on AtariAge.
MazezaM SOS
MazezaM is a block pushing game in which entire rows move together. Malcolm Tyrrell released it under the GPL and since then it has been ported to 40 different platforms including Pico-8 by Kevin Dorland ('15) and the Arduboy by Aster Greenblatt ('15).
MazezaM SOS is a new game in development for the Mattel Intellivision (1979). It adds a 2-player mode in which the main character Hannah must rescue students who are trapped inside of the levels.
A preliminary version was submitted to the IntyBASIC Programming Contest 2018 and can be viewed on YouTube. The final version will be released by Intellivision Revolution. The image shows preliminary box art by Steve Jones.
Pancake Panic
Jacob E. Goodman introduced the problem of pancake sorting in a 1977 paper under the pseudonym Harry Dweighter ("harried waiter"). In the same year Joseph Weisbecker created the Chip-8 virtual machine language for video games.
Pancake Panic finally brings these two contemporaneous ideas together. A preliminary version was submitted to OctoJam V and the latest version can be played online here. A future release for the RCA Studio II (1977) is planned.
Huhoo is Hoo?!
Huhuu is the Finnish word for an owl sound, which is Hoo in English. In this memory game the player must match animal sounds in different languages. For example, Myau (Russian) matches with Nyan (Japanese) since they are cat sounds. Watch the game on YouTube.
Planet Gray Code
Join the Star Plan team on an exciting scientific mission to Planet Gray Code. Learn about the inefficiencies of human counting from Lieutenant Commander Speck, then you will train with Master Yoyo until you and Captain Cork are ready to play a deadly game of wits with the aliens from Binaries.