Tag Archives: Gaming

Solving Mushroom Man 113 with Dynamic Programming

Here’s something that might sound strange. Today, while playing the retro puzzle game “Mushroom Man” — a great throwback to “Chip’s Challenge” — I noticed how similar one of the levels was to solving a programming contest question. In level 113 “Don’t …

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Reversola – Reverse Engineering Sola Rola

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Introduction I was browsing the Kongregate forums one day, when a post caught my eye. It was a list of broken games on the site that still had achievements to earn, and the clever ways that people had found to …

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2011 WTF Games of the Year

I have updated my annual list with 3 games! This year’s winners are a pair of deceptively simple but frustratingly difficult games, QWOP and GIRP. Plus I added an extra one to 2010 for fun. Click below to see these reviews …

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2010 WTF Game of the Year

I have named the 2010 WTF game of the year. It includes cars and zombies.

Robot Wants Fishy – complete map

Complete Map (warning: huge picture 662 KB) for Robot wants Fishy, including all item locations.

Solving Continuity Levels with Dijkstra’s Shortest Path

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(This article was originally posted here.) Continuity is a new Flash game that I was playing recently. It combines platforming and puzzle in a novel way – your character must jump from platform to platform collecting keys to open a door, …

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