Posts in Games
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Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy
On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API credits before it finally worked. Music was a close second, the part I was least happy with. So when I set...
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Creating Cheats for my Own Game Boy Game
While the computer games I played in my childhood often came with cheat codes baked into the game that allowed you to pass parts where you got stuck, for handhelds like the Game Boy specialized hardware was needed. One of my most prized possessions from my childhood was such a...
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Revisiting a 20-Year-Old NDS Project with AI
Almost twenty years ago, during my PhD in bioinformatics, I needed to brush up on C++. Our lab was doing comparative genomics, studying how genomes evolve at the structural level, particularly the effects of whole genome duplications in plant genomes. One of the key tools we used, i-ADHoRe 2.0, had...
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The Royal Game Boy of Ur
Years ago, a documentary on “The Royal Game of Ur”, one of the oldest known board games, nearly 5,000 years old, instantly piqued my interest. When I later heard Dr. Irving Finkel discuss it on a podcast, the fascination came flooding back. But this time, I had an idea: build...
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How to Upgrade Your Nintendo 3DS with USB-C Charging
Are you tired of fumbling with your Nintendo 3DS charging cable? Do you wish you could use a modern, reversible USB Type-C connector instead? With a few common tools and a little know-how, you can add a USB Type-C port to your Nintendo 3DS charging cradle in no time! In...
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The KeyForge hiatus: impact on deck registrations
Is has been a few months since FFG announced KeyForge would be paused, or in their words going on hiatus. Though as decks are still being registered we can get a glimpse of the effect of this announcement on the game. In a previous post, a model was made that...
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Where are my Magic: the Gathering cards ?
Since a few months I’ve been selling some Magic: the Gathering cards on CardMarket. Last week I realized I could extract the address from buyers from eml files (exported emails) with orders. From those the (approximate*) location using Google’s Geocoding API can be found and plotted using Altair. This gives...
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DeckLock part 4: Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood has been gaining a lot of traction as a Trading Card Game, and I recently picked up two preconstructed decks to check out the game. It also would be great to add this new game to DeckLock as it seem interesting, and I’m pretty sure I’ll pick...
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KeyForge: How many decks were printed ?
KeyForge is often advertised as having 104 septillion possible decks per set (that is 104 followed by 24 zeros), but how many of those decks actually exist? Fantasy Flight Games never released data on how many decks were printed per run. Though with Dark Tiding having Evil Twin decks (exact...
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2020
- An Agent Based Model to look at Gwent Pro Ladder (results) -
- An Agent Based Model to look at Gwent Pro Ladder (code) -
- Gwent: Pro Ladder Analysis and National Rankings -
- DeckLock part 3: How about a game of Gwent? -
- DeckLock part 2: Magic the Gathering -
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