https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/games/ Recent content in Games on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/07/15/hiscore/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/07/15/hiscore/ tl;dr You can save your high score in games made with R. See the package {hiscore} for a demo. Boot up I wrote recently about how R is a game engine and started a list of games written in R. All good game engines should let you save a high score, right? So I’ve done exactly this for a tiny concept package called {hiscore}1 that contains a simple game of luck https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/04/02/splendid-r-games/ Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/04/02/splendid-r-games/ tl;dr R is ‘a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics’. Ahahaha, no it’s not, it’s a game engine. I’ve created a ‘splendid’ list of games you can play—written in R—to prove it. Help expand it. Stats only! R is not a general, multi-purpose programming language. It was written to do statistical analysis and make charts. You are literally not allowed to do anything else with it. You should use <LANGUAGE> instead, which is much more suited to your specific use case. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/19/keypress/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/19/keypress/ tl;dr The {keypress} R package by Gábor Csárdi records input from a simple keyboard-button press. You can use this to control games, like the ones in the tiny {hokey} package. Whaddup gameRs? I’ve made some silly games in R using the {R6} package for encapsulated OOP. For example: {ActionSquirrel} a 2D action-adventure game (blog, source) {safar6} a text-based recreation of Pokémon’s Safari Zone (blog, source) an ‘Automatic Bell Dispenser’ to mimics the cash machine used in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (blog) In {ActionSquirrel} you move a character around a 2D grid. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/14/wordle/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/14/wordle/ tl;dr Two toy R functions for playing with Wordle results: twirdle() extracts gameplay data from tweets, and eldrow() finds potential prior guesses given the answer. What’s the Wordle? Nothing is more zeitgeisty right now than Wordle, a once-a-day web-based five-letter-word-guessing puzzle-logic game. The app lets you copy your results in a consistent format for pasting into a tweet or whatever. It begins with a string of meta information, ‘Wordle X Y/Z’, where X is the edition number, Y is the attempts taken and Z is the maximum allowed guesses.