independent software developer
After nearly two and a half years of development (longer if you include prototypes), I am releasing the alpha binaries of Infinite 8-bit Platformer for Windows and Mac. Linux users can of course continue to use the source, Luke.
I guess there is not much else to say. This is a kinda big deal for me. I would really appreciate it if you share this around!
This awesomeness was designed and laser cut by Theron Trowbridge.
Cool, I just broke my previous record for number of commits to the Infinite 8-bit Platformer codebase in one month! 40 commits and there are still 5 days left in February.
The good news is that I think this baby is almost ready for beta-release candidate one. With just 6 items left in the TODO list, I'm getting very excited!
(Perhaps the kind reader and Infinite 8-bit Platformer fan will overlook the previous three months of childbirth related decompression in which not a single commit was made. :] )
"It's done, when it's done." -- John Carmack
Some people believe that a computational model of reality is the best model.
In this model, reality itself is assumed to be a mathematical process. It is a mathematical system sufficient to describe the set of natural numbers.
Therefore Gödel's incompleteness theorms apply to this model of reality.
Therefore in such a model of reality you can never prove the consistency of the model from within the model.
Additionally, there are true statements within this model which are not provable.
This means that such a model of reality cannot possibly contain a nested copy of itself, a perfect predictive model of reality/itself, since such a nested model would allow you to break both of the incompleteness theorems.
I think that this is proof that any computational or mathematical model of reality paradoxically excludes itself from ever being a perfect model of reality. This probably applies to all mathematical models of our reality, including any Grand Unified Theory.
We can never come up with a mathematical model of reality that is 100% predictive and accurate.
How Google could become a game console heavyweight to rival the likes of Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony:
Developers could then put joystick support in their games, and people could play said games on their TVs through their Android OS set-top boxes. USB Gamepads are a stable, cheap, and robust technology which everyone understands.
This may result in a new indie console gaming golden age, with all of the wonderful new indie games of recent years running in peoples' lounge rooms on their TVs just like in the 80s. Admit it, wouldn't you love to sit cross legged together under the TV and return to the days of Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Bros., Alex Kidd, Commander Keen, and friends? Only newer, and cheaper, and open, and network multiplayer. Oh boy, that is a vision I find irresistable!
A guy can dream, right?