Binary Computing
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My first ever game! It is supposed to be more on the educational and relatable side of things.
The premise is that in the year 20017, Nuclear Power is the only way the world is equipped to sustain itself, but the reactors have almost all completely run out of Uranium. Luckily they can calculate the exact location of a huge deposit of Uranium, but with barely any electrical power, they are forced to calculate it by hand. But since most of the globe's population is uneducated and preoccupied with living their "socially acceptable" lives, a group of intellectuals create the ultimate supercomputer. Instead of using electricity and computers, they instead use human brains! They create a game for you and everyone else on earth where you simply add numbers between 2 and 15 within the time limit. Should be easy.
The catch is, every number is written in Binary.
Tip:
- Don't try to convert the numbers into Base 10. Use AND/OR gates in your brain to calculate it instead (Just like real microprocessors). If you are super nerdy like me or have no clue as to what I just said and have 18 minutes to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ&t=167s (see example as well)
I hope this game is fun (it is for me but I am a geek like none other) and I hope that you can appreciate the insane amount of processing your computer does all the time. I estimate that a phone's processor could beat this game on the hardest difficulty and with the most number of rounds before a single frame is shown.
FOR MAC USERS:
Sorry I was unable to export a Mac Version from processing. But you may be able to download one of the other versions and as long as you have Java 8 installed it will likely work.
An example:
In case some of you don't know how to add in binary or care to look it up I've included an example in a text document in the folder with the download files.
Made using Proccessing 3.3.3 and Adobe Photoshop (latest version)
I opted out of audio because, well, I couldn't figure out how to make it work so I don't have any...
And finally, for those who are supergeeks like me, there are a handful of easter eggs (particularly with the difficulty names) that if you do some math and Binary conversion you can get a kick out of it hopefully.
The premise is that in the year 20017, Nuclear Power is the only way the world is equipped to sustain itself, but the reactors have almost all completely run out of Uranium. Luckily they can calculate the exact location of a huge deposit of Uranium, but with barely any electrical power, they are forced to calculate it by hand. But since most of the globe's population is uneducated and preoccupied with living their "socially acceptable" lives, a group of intellectuals create the ultimate supercomputer. Instead of using electricity and computers, they instead use human brains! They create a game for you and everyone else on earth where you simply add numbers between 2 and 15 within the time limit. Should be easy.
The catch is, every number is written in Binary.
Tip:
- Don't try to convert the numbers into Base 10. Use AND/OR gates in your brain to calculate it instead (Just like real microprocessors). If you are super nerdy like me or have no clue as to what I just said and have 18 minutes to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ&t=167s (see example as well)
I hope this game is fun (it is for me but I am a geek like none other) and I hope that you can appreciate the insane amount of processing your computer does all the time. I estimate that a phone's processor could beat this game on the hardest difficulty and with the most number of rounds before a single frame is shown.
FOR MAC USERS:
Sorry I was unable to export a Mac Version from processing. But you may be able to download one of the other versions and as long as you have Java 8 installed it will likely work.
An example:
In case some of you don't know how to add in binary or care to look it up I've included an example in a text document in the folder with the download files.
Made using Proccessing 3.3.3 and Adobe Photoshop (latest version)
I opted out of audio because, well, I couldn't figure out how to make it work so I don't have any...
And finally, for those who are supergeeks like me, there are a handful of easter eggs (particularly with the difficulty names) that if you do some math and Binary conversion you can get a kick out of it hopefully.