Gamedev Like it's 1977: CHIP-8

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HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Seems to me guess-and-check really only gets bad as N approaches M. But you can solve that easily: If N > M / 2, then do guess-and-check for (M-N) and then invert the bits. Now your worst case scenario is N = M / 2, which really isn't all that bad. You're doing on average just under two checks for the last bit you set, and less for the bits before that.

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:28

HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Enjoyed the ending. Wrapped up the story nicely.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 03:40

HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Oh wow I'd read that one before but completely forgot about it.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 04:03

HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

sighnoceros posted:

I've finished SPACE DEFENSE!

w/s to move up and down, e to fire. You now have to defend against multiple enemies and can have multiple bullets on screen at once.

It was a pretty fun experiment for only taking a couple days, especially having no experience with this type of programming in the past.

Try it out here: http://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/index.html?gist=6a4a180bb8b94c005410

Pretty good, but could you maybe lengthen the pause after you lose? I barely have enough time to see my score, sometimes I miss it.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 21:50

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