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GMTK 2020 Game Jam Post-Mortem
Me and some friends made Takes Two to Disco for the GMTK 2020 game jam, with pretty good results for our first time working together. The music came together really well and the experience is pretty chaotic. Looking at the comments a lot of them focused on how difficult the...
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A Number Riddle - Closest Without Going Over
Been thinking about a riddle recently. What is the largest number still strictly less than 1 that can be described using n mathematical symbols? To keep it managable I’m thinking about limiting it to basic symbols of arithmetic 1234567890^*/+-.!. In essence the riddle is to create a number closest to...
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Nash Equilibria and Optimal Strategy for a Game I Just Made Up
I thought of a rather simple game which I gave the uninspired name “chip game” and have been wondering about the probabilities behind different strategies. The game goes like this Take a board with N spaces. The defending player has D chips which they place in secret on these N...