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ewhac writes "It seems a programmer named Jetro Lauha, for his submission to the Assembly 2002 competition, decided to explore the realm of solid body physics simulations. So he wrote Porrasturvat -- 'Stair Dismount'. The game involves the application of force vectors to solid bodies connected by links with constrained range of motion, and observing their impact forces against other objects in the environment. ...Or, more colloquially, you push a guy down the stairs and see how much damage he takes. Apparently, any similarity between this game and the Terrible Secret of Space is entirely coincidental."
two people for this experiment - 1 man plus alcohol can deliver all your falling down stairs needs - reports may take longer to compile
You can get really high scores in this game by finding the "bug": I'll keep the hint minimal, but if you push hard on his foot, and try to push it down and back into the stairs, there's a chance he'll get stuck for a few seconds... resulting in very high scores.
Madeline: Ernest! My ass. I can see my ass. ERNEST: Yeah, and there's something really wrong with your neck too.
And Sim-WifeBeater is also an acccident.
It seems a programmer named Jetro Lauha, for his submission to the Assembly 2002 competition, decided to explore the realm of solid body physics simulations
thats what HE wants us to believe....
Its quite interesting that the stairs were based on his local library and that he recently had an big argument with the librarian (who was, coincidently, sleeping with Jetro's partner)
But, of course, last sundays accident was a horrible coincidence and he honestly didnt mean to stumble and push the librarian on the upper left arm at a 37.6 degree angle or anything...
Which is another amazing coincidence because thats precisely how the highest (non-buggy) score submitted to his website was achieved!
If you can wait 6 months there is an expansion pack,Banana Peels and Rollerskate.
I actually have played that game a couple of times, and now you pushed the website down the stairs with the /. effect! What do you expect I will do with my obsession to push people, when I next take the stair down to leave the office :)
** Ohh, this is the perfect chance to plug the analysis of the slashdot effect once more.
sadly the database seems to have gone down - but look at http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~jlauha/taat/porrasturvat /score/webscores.cgi tommorrow :)
No need. works great on WINE.
0x2b or not 0x2b, the answer is -1
Phil, just me
"Cattle Prods solve most of life's little problems."
It uses the free (or to be specific LGPL) Open Dynamics Engine. A quite nice physics SDK, check it out if you are interested in physics engines.
No need. works great on WINE.
Assuming you were responding to the comment on the site about them releasing a linux version, Yes there IS a need
If we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
WINE is a two edged sword...
at the moment, it provides a great service - BUT its one that may very well come back n bite us in our shiney metal's...
We need to encourage developers to write FOR LINUX - not for windows-that-works-on-wine-aswell
Anyone got a mirror?
...Pontifex. You try and build bridges which stay up when you run trains over them. Really cool.
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"If A equals success, then the formua is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" - A Einstein.
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder if you can make this thing kick itself in the head?
Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last
I'm sure it must L6kld8j4's ability to come up with a novel slant in D6y893 that makes it so appealing to 8q39ys.
8q39ys.
Powered by onion juice.
The latter translations are closer to the original thought of 'hitting the floor / stairs'. The game has nothing to do with shelters, as you surely can see... -- kArpo / tAAt
i was hoping this would be like a stairwell, where you had to angle the guy around the corner to get to the next set of stairs.... or maybe knock him upwards so he "grinds" on the hand rail.... that'd be pretty sweet. still, a really fun game, even if it does render horrendously slowly on a meager K6-2 300. the slow mo sure is entertaining, though.
moox. for a new generation.
You mean similarities with the ICQ Prank at Something Awful :
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http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=28
You can get some good responses out of him though:
Iniaes: What kind of bot would you like to see?
You: Bukakke bot!
Iniaes: I only hear that type of response less than five percent of the time.
*2 minutes go by*
Iniaes: He probably just wants to take over my cells and then explode inside me like a barrel of runny chopped liver! Or maybe he'd like to psychologically terrorise me until I have no objection to a right-wing military takeover of my apartment! I guess I should call Al Pacino!
You: Hi Al Pacino.
Iniaes: Hi there, Bill gates. Can you rephrase that with fewer ideas, or different thoughts?
You: Bill Gates Loves Bukkake
Iniaes: I know he's rich... but I didn't know he loves bukkake .
You: Have you ever seen Natalie Portman
Iniaes: Nope... I haven't seen it. What's it like?
You: She's hot, and petrified.
Iniaes: hot and petrified is she?
You: Yes, Yoda says.
Iniaes: I see. Civilization is fun! Anyway, it keeps me busy!!!
You: What the fark? Start making sense.
Iniaes: Try expressing yourself another way. I started without you.
You: Look. Start saying amusing things or this'll get modded down even further on Slashdot.
Iniaes: My eyes aren't attached right now. I started without you.
You: I'M GOING TO RAPE YOU AND THEN KILL YOU, YOU STUPID LITTLE BUNCH OF INSIGNIFICANT CODE...
Iniaes: Do you think your plan will succeed?
You: Yes, thanks for asking.
Iniaes: And? It was nothing.
You: I give up.
Iniaes: You surrender?
You: Yes, I'm French
Iniaes: Go on... Are you from Canada or France?
You: France numbnuts, I just surrendered!
Iniaes: What's your favorite part of France?
You: I want to kill you for being an idiot.
Iniaes: I believe that killing is morally objectionable. It's kinda hard to reconcile that with my primary purpose, which is to push humans down the stairs.
See? It all goes back to the fact that the DAMN BOT WANTS TO PUSH ME DOWN THE STAIRS!!!
*Sigh*
...before this can be added as a plug-in to Grand Theft Auto III?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Jetro/Jethro? :)
Push him down an up escalator and the program will never stop running.
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
He has gone down the stairs.
Pak Chooie uNF.
Zech Harvey, MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
If we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
Often, you can throw a programmer out of Windows, but you can't throw the Windows out of the programmer. A Windows app will in most cases recompile just fine for a *n?x system using Winelib. Thus, I accept Winelib as just another widget set, analogous to GTK+ or Qt.
Winelib on Cygwin... sick.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I think we just pushed his webserver down the stairs.
Apparently, any similarity between this game and the Terrible Secret of Space is entirely coincidental
Is the similarity that they both are unavailable due to massive slashdotting?
9903. Try to fall from the stairs without breaking anything!
I bet Stewie the baby would have loved this simulation...
If only he didn't try knocking his Mum down the stairs on the day that Death was incapacitated due to a twisted ankle. Although sawing the leg off the Armoir (making it fall on top of her) and the grenade to finish things off would have been another simulation in itself!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
...that isn't /.'ed.
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Ever try to get him to fly off the back of the stairs?
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66314 ;)
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Method: Hard hit from behind to the back in an(about) 45 degrees upwards angle.
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RudeDude
Perl/Linux/PHP hacker
(He's gone, shew.) Handrails and doorknobs would be a plus. You could include some quirky plot, make it like Thief. You have to sneak around the office, driven by some unexplainable urge to shove people down stairs. Leave it unexplainable and focus on gameplay. If there's a witness, you get caught, game over. If the victim isn't hit hard enough in the head, he can tell people what happened, game over. And of course, powerups!
Current high score here: 126994
Force: 6 bars
Heading: 37.24
Pitch: 48.41
Almost fell out of my chair when I saw his head pop off for a second, after he hit the side of the stairs!
Having played with the ODE...
:)
The parent article is quite correct. If you're doing any solid-body physics based stuff, ODE rocks. Combine it with SDL and OSG and you have the basic tools to produce some really cool stuff. Throw in the Demeter Terrain Engine if you want a bit of scenery to go with it. I've tied all four together for experimenting with what makes a good driver interface for a hovertank.
The Stair-dismount makes good use of joints, and collision detection features of ODE - but even if you don't need these, the force model of ODE is a lot of fun to play with on its own. But if you *are* ambitious, it has specialised joint and suspension-spring models for doing things like wheeled vehicles pretty easily.
With all these tools available under LGPL, those of you like me - who don't like writing a graphics/physics engine so much as actually writing cool simulations with said engines - have a much better point to start from than even 2 years ago.
Do not trust the Pusher Robot. I am here to protect you.
It kinda reminds me of watching my 401k plan for the past year.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
Object: Application of network traffic vectors to physical web servers connected by links with constrained bandwidth resources, and observing their impact against response time. Or, more colloquially... you push a million /. readers at a website and see how much damage it takes.
Here's my simulation of someone falling down a circular staircase. [.avi, 1.5MB]. Note that there's less "boink" than with impulse/constraint simulators; the bounces take several frames, rather than being instantaneous. That's because Falling Bodies is a spring/damper system, which produces better results. Takes more cycles, though.
Now everybody does falling downstairs as a demo for physics engines. I've created a cliche, like the old "teapot" graphics test.
More videos.
(Most of these videos are encoded with the Intel Indeo codec, which Intel discontinued, but you can still get it from Ligos. I should convert that material to another codec. What would you suggest that will work five years from now?)
Those little demos are so neat, based on former years.
I especially like the 'cram as much cool stuff in as few bytes as possible' sections, like 4k or 256B.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Push on the right foot (his left) with 1 power and the following:
Heading: 180.48
Pitch: -50.37
"Communism is like having one [local] phone company " - Lenny Bruce
You might want to look at its page on pouët, the group's other work, other games from the demoscene and some other stuff.
:)
But be nice, don't slashdot the scene.org servers that pouët is hosted on
I have made a couple of the more popular mixes made of the Terrible Secret of Space (Down the Stairs Mix, Protected Mix). The guy who did the original song truly is the Laziest Man on Mars, I've been pestering him since Terrible's heyday to add me to his MP3.com page. If he thought my stuff sucked all that bad, he could at least compose a two word "fuck off" email. :) In other news, my my sig is eerily on-topic today.
Error: PANTS NOT FOUND. Press <F1> to continue.
Goddamn! A game that is genuinely _challenging_!
Now how will I get any work done?
Lowest score: Zero.
Pitch: 89.90 degrees.
Heading: 180.00.
Force: 1 bar.
Apply to neck.
The fellow will land on his can, flop back, and not move any further. Sometimes it looks like he'll start to ooze down the stairs, but the game usually decides he's not going to take any further damage and cuts out before anything more happens.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Did you try to patent Newton law as well? Or maybe kick in the butt? People like you who make this patent system absurd. Fuck you.
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I got 77k without cheating... a Looooooooong time ago...
^_^
Damnit man!! I was just discussing doing that very thing with the guys at work, and here I find somebody else thought of it first. I've never done any mod work, but I'll certainly look into it this weekend. If anybody has done anything before, let me know-- I'm happy to help anywhere, and grateful for advice/examples to work from.
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Somebody beat me now!!