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A Slower Speed of Light. Download the latest beta releases For MacFor WindowsFor Linux A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game prototype in which players navigate a 3D space while picking up orbs that reduce the speed of light in increments.

A Slower Speed of Light

Custom-built, open-source relativistic graphics code allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed. Visual effects of special relativity gradually become apparent to the player, increasing the challenge of gameplay. Download our PowerPoint presentation about the relativistic effects in the game: PPT PPTX OpenRelativity A Slower Speed of Light was created using OpenRelativity, an open-source toolkit for the Unity game development environment. Requirements A Slower Speed of Light has been tested on computers with the configurations listed below. Screenshots Posters Credits Gerd Kortemeyer Product Owner Philip Tan Staff Liaison Ryan Cheu Programmer Ebae Kim Artist, Designer Zach Sherin Programmer, QA Lead. The Unfinished Swan. Wave World Official Website. All Games Are About Death [Fundamentals. Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of graphic novels.

All Games Are About Death [Fundamentals

A common whipping boy theme in the media regarding games is that they are violent. Why must they always involve killing, ask the exasperated. Why can’t games be nice? Games certainly can be nice, but take a step back from the visceral element of the violence question and what they’re really asking is: Why must games be based around death? The reason is that death produces focus and causes change. It may be as visceral as a bloody spatter, as ordinary as a rotting crop or as abstract as a penalty shootout, but death is everywhere in games.

The Focus of Death Death, according to the Buddha Gautama, is the only true certainty in life. The understanding that you might die lenses your focus and brings you into the present. Fail to shoot an enemy and you will die. So a significant part of why we get into the zone when playing a game is that life has become clearer. Death as Karma So what about failure? Do Not Fear Death. ISS Startrails - TRONized. Mass murder in World of Warcraft hack. October 8th, 2012 at 1:52 pm - Hundreds, perhaps thousands of players were murdered over the weekend in Azeroth, after hackers with level one characters strolled through World of Warcraft’s major cities, slaying players regardless of level, equipment or abilities.

Mass murder in World of Warcraft hack

Described by the person Eurogamer spoke to about his involvement in the deaths, as a “kill hack,” it didn’t lead to any permanent damage to players or their accounts and within a few hours Blizzard closed the loophole and banned the accounts that perpetrated it. The images and video left behind by the killings though are quite chilling. Orgrimmar, one of the game world’s busiest hubs was decimated during the attack, leaving the place full of skeletons. NPCs and players alike were struck down by the man-made plague Those behind the hack also cleared a couple of difficult dungeons with level one characters in just a few minutes, but were unable to hit all of them before Blizzard cracked down and banned the accounts.

Art du jeu, jeu dans l’Art - de Babylone à l’occident médiéval” : Musée de Cluny, à Paris. Les jeux de hasard et de stratégies sont une composante essentielle de la vie quotidienne des hommes dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge.

Art du jeu, jeu dans l’Art - de Babylone à l’occident médiéval” : Musée de Cluny, à Paris

Ils furent très tôt associés à des thématiques universelles telles que la puissance, l’amour, l’art divinatoire et la notion de destin. À travers plus de 250 pièces présentées dans le frigidarium des thermes de Lutèce, l’exposition évoque toutes les facettes de l’histoire du jeu. A l'occasion de l'exposition, un échiquier géant, installé dans la cour d’honneur du musée de Cluny, permet aux visiteurs de s’initier aux échecs ! Cette exposition est organisée par le Musée de Cluny et par la Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais. Commissaires Isabelle Bardiès-Fronty, Conservateur en chef au musée de Cluny, Paris Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi, Hagop Kevorkian Research Associate, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Jeux transmédia. Conférence : Nouveaux joueurs, nouveaux jeux. Depuis maintenant cinq bonnes années, le jeu vidéo change de visage petit à petit.

Conférence : Nouveaux joueurs, nouveaux jeux

Que ce soit du côté de la dématérialisation, des nouvelles manières de jouer mais également l’apparition de nouveaux profils de joueurs, l’industrie a très rarement subie de telles modifications. L’occasion de venir assister à des analyses sur les nouveaux joueurs et les nouveaux jeux vidéo du moment tout en découvrant les dernières nouveautés. Tables rondes de 10h à 13h Pour débattre et parler de ces nouvelles tendances, deux tables rondes ainsi qu’une présentation de Planète 01 l’Odyssée Numérique de Globert, seront au programme avec nos intervenants. Les nouvelles interfaces A partir de 14h Enfin, pour mieux cerner tous ces changements, plusieurs plates-formes utiles seront à disposition. Entrée libre et gratuite - Incription par email : contact@afjv.com Comment vous rendre à la cité des sciences - Plan - Adresse - Transports Vos commentaires. Claxiz-games.