When I was younger, my friends & I would carry this game around on our pocket USB drives so that we could quickly launch it up on our school's computers any chance we got. Good times. It's a surprisingly intricate game, but I mostly just like to blow stuff up.
We had Halo CE on flash drives and on the school file server in the depths of the Robotics club shared drive. It was great until they found the file and made us delete it.
Back on a FIRST Robotics trip, we all had laptops with trackpads playing Halo CE in the car, with a LAN setup via power inverter. We successfully ran between 2 vehicles with a semi in the middle at one point with no noticeable lag!
> It was great until they found the file and made us delete it.
I got lucky with my school, the teachers/sysadmin were defacto okay with us storing a game on there, at least until enough other students found it and caused network problems.
> Back on a FIRST Robotics trip, we all had laptops with trackpads playing Halo CE in the car, with a LAN setup via power inverter. We successfully ran between 2 vehicles with a semi in the middle at one point with no noticeable lag!
Me & my buddies had bootable DOS floppy drives with Scorched Earth installed. It was funny to see the reactions of others when we were playing the game on a "broken" computer (damaged hard drive).
Whenever I am at lan parties my buddies want to play CS 1.6 and I don't understand the appeal. They only play de_dust2 too. I find it so boring. Everyone buys exactly the same weapons (m4a1 for antiterrorists, ak47 for terrorists). Everyone runs pretty much to the same spot, there's an exchange of blows, one team wins. Repeat. They don't even try any other maps or other weapons or anything.
The go to LAN game when I went to uni was GTA I! I was taking a non tech course but I still remember vividly this was my first interaction with typing in an IP address. (you had to enter the IP address of the game host on the lan to connect to it)
Exactly the same story here for me and everyone I went to school with, and I have absolutely no recollection of where it came from. Presumably the same package that contained instructions on how to draw the Cool S.
This is great, thanks. I started off as feeling very destructive, but I found the tools to let things grow, then things became overgrown, and I became destructive again. It was fun to have a piece of wood with plants on it on fire. I tried to put out the fire with water, but the water would cause the plants to grow, which would make the fire grow.
Might be half CPU there but also half that the JS Engine on Android is much slower than iOS’s. In all JS benchmarks the iPhone outclasses the Android devices by amounts greater than the CPU advantage.
Seeing how much progress has happened since then, it’s all really impressive!
The current iPhone 11 Pro seems to be locked at exactly 60 FPS and you can’t get it to drop.
Geekbench scores for your iPhone rage near 540 single core and 986 multi core. The current iPhone is 1330 and 3434 respectively. I would guesstimate that unlimited, FPS would be somewhere near 120 for the current iPhone. The app is very fast! I bet it could run on an Apple Watch!
I remember playing with this game back in high school. Was my first practical introduction to logical operators and binary. Ended up spending so much time trying to build some basic electronics once I found out how to build logic gates.
There's a Powder Toy subcommunity which focuses on building computers in-game. The state-of-the-art (subframe) involves exploiting particle evaluation order to create CPUs that can run at 1 instruction per frame. I even wrote a Forth implementation for such a 16-bit 8K RAM computer. Good times.
Hadn't thought of this game in a long time, and didn't know it was open source! Props to the team for their continuous updates over the years, looks like there's a lot of new stuff since I last played this.
The Powder Toy came out about 3 years after The Powder Game and there was "The Falling Sand Game" considered to have kicked off the genre to popularity (video: https://external-preview.redd.it/KbiveNFl8yr3yJ0znWqoZM-7sIa...) which came out about 2 years prior to either (~2005).
Of course nothing is ever fully original and you can continue to trace back to an older "classic" if you like.
