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Night of Cavemen – Continuous Shepard Tone

This can be considered as an upgrade to the Shepard tone used in the snake game that I made previously. The sound is produced the same way. It is a collection of sine waves played together to produce an infinite increase or decrease in tension. Here, I attempted to make it continuous. Continuous: The snake […]

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Psychedelic Snake Charmer – Customized Shepard Tone

The music of the game is not beautiful enough to be described as music, but just a sound. Working on a primitive technology, which is not actually meant for full-fledged game development, limits the usage of sound. It is possible to use pre-recorded sound in the game, but I decided to program it instead because […]

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Psychedelic Snake Charmer – Colours

A game can be made of any number of colours, minimum being three, two for contrast, and one for transparency. Can we make a game with only one colour? That’s another question to think about before you sleep. Let’s solve that another day. This game uses five colours – background, the walls, snake, food, and […]

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Games

Psychedelic Snake Charmer

When adapting a retro game, first thing that came to my mind is how I can make it different in a way that make the game more engaging. The word psychedelic is a term used to describe any experiences that happen to open your mind and give rise to new and unconventional thoughts. It is […]

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Moral phil Science

The Cable Car Paradox just got Real

We all are aware of the famous Trolley Problem that sent us on a long trip of moral dilemma. It is a highly debated subject amongst moral philosophers. The problem has spun many variations and internet memes around it. The problem goes as follows. There is a trolley heading towards five random (by random, it […]

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The Perfect Playlist

Browsing through YouTube, I often come across some very wonderful ideas and narratives. They do a great job helping one shape his mind and thought. So, I made a playlist of such items and named it The Perfect Playlist. The adjective “perfect” is just metaphorical and I don’t claim it to be perfect or near […]

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Science

Pale Blue Dot: What it means to me?

That photograph you see here, it was the last one taken by me before I left my home, the solar system. I was six billion kilometres away from Earth, making me the furthest on object that the human race has ever sent. To the right, in the middle of the brown band, you can see […]

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