Tagged: Open Source

Hextris is the best open source game in a while

This Game Is More Addicting Than 2048, And It’s Open-source too

The next great open-source game has arrived. Earlier this year, the world was engrossed by 2048, an open-source puzzle game which attracted millions of players, and perhaps billions of games. Now comes the recently-created Hextris, a hexagonal version of the hit game Tetris. The premise is simple. Use your arrow keys to rotate a hexagon as lines of color fly at you. Line up...

open-source version of 2048 and 1024 is 16384

A Devilish Twist on 2048

Well, you thought 2048 was as hard, and addictive as puzzle games got. You haven’t yet come across 16384. 16384 is 2048, except the board is four times larger. I’m talking about 64 slots to worry about, and 64 slots that you have to fill to lose. It’s a four-times bigger board, but whether it’s four times as fun? That’s up to you to...

How the BitCoin Crash is the Opposite of Modern?

Today’s post is written by guest author, Simon Burns. Over the course of the 1630’s, tulips grew in value for no apparent reason. The resulting “tulipmania” built prices up to 10 times the salary of a skilled worker or several thousand times their original trading price. This exponential run was much more to do with the perceived investment value of tulips than the market...

Hundreds Pay to Not Run in Non-Existant Marathon

Do you dream of running a marathon, but have no athletic ability or will to do so whatsoever? On February 2nd YOU can make people think you ran a marathon as a part of the 1st Annual Run-Free Fake Marathon. I’m not even joking. This Kickstarter Project is a Psychological Experiment into how many forged photos and tweets and updates it takes to “make...