WARNING: Loud and obnoxious 8-bit music on autoplay when the page loads.
"8-bit music" is a non-sequitur.
Non-sequitur? More like oxymoron, am I right?
2-Year-Olds Convert Binary To Hexadecimals In Game Experiment
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#32Please let this be real, and back on the iOS App Store soon. My kids would so play & learn from this, just as they've spent lots of time on DragonBox learning core concepts of algebra.
The most annoying thing about April Fool's Day is everything that should be real but isn't, and everything that is real but shouldn't.
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#33So I assume this is an April Fools? Not sure, and I hate expanding efforts on filtering April Fools. Tried the game, it's nice. Got 1 point on my first try, somehow managed 15 points on the second. I don't think a baby would get any points, so I'll go with April Fools.
If it is an April fool, then it is not entirely off the mark as satire. It isn't uncommon to see reviews of apps like Dragonbox and Slice Fractions where bloggers claim "my 5 year old can do algebra"[ ] or "my 3 year old can do fractions". [ ] My son could play Dragonbox when he was 3, so I am not knocking the game, but I am skeptical it will be of much use when he does algebra in school.
My 5-year old daughter played through Dragonbox pretty quickly and afterward I went through some concepts with her like x/x = 1 or 1x = x.
When shown to her using fractions of a drawn circle or simple multiplication of real objects, she seemed to understand the concept in the abstract.
However, once I introduced something like ayx/yx = a, it seemed to trip her up, even though the motions in Dragonbox made sense to her.
That said, I'm not sure I understood why x/x = 1 until much after 5 years old, so maybe there's something to be said about going through the motions of computation before truly understanding the general concept.
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#34So I assume this is an April Fools? Not sure, and I hate expanding efforts on filtering April Fools. Tried the game, it's nice. Got 1 point on my first try, somehow managed 15 points on the second. I don't think a baby would get any points, so I'll go with April Fools.
At 0:32 in the video of the child playing, the rockets line up before the target number is visible on the screen.
Perhaps the child figured out the PRNG.
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#35Maybe it's an april fools, but the game is actually there, and it's playable. The solution is to memorize the 4-bit sequence of each of the 16 digits, type the left nibble with your left hand and the right nibble with the right on the number row. It takes a few minutes of practice
You have just learned how to use chmod correctly! The only difference is chmod uses octal, instead of hex.
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#36Nice game! As it stands, later 'enemies' appear higher than more recent (and therefore more imminent) ones. The downside is that you sometimes can't read a number properly because it's occluded—with that font, the bottom of a character is not sufficient to identify what the character is.
My suggestion is to have the enemy z-index start at a high number and decrement per enemy (eg, z-index = 1000 - enemy_number). Trivial fix, and that way more pertinent enemies are on top with their numbers visible.
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#38WARNING: Loud and obnoxious 8-bit music on autoplay when the page loads.
Nearly gave me an heart attack
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#39Being able to rebind the keys would be really nice. The keys are decently intuitive, but it sucks pretty bad if you have a split keyboard.
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#40WARNING: Loud and obnoxious 8-bit music on autoplay when the page loads.
"8-bit music" is a non-sequitur.
"Music which is reminiscent of a game console from the late 80s until the early 90s, where the sound was produced by dedicated 8-bit sound chips, working alongside 8-bit primary CPU and using 8-bit DAC for conversion to analog output."
Is this better?
Or how about just "8-bit music".