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2048 for physicists
- Phargo 13y agoThis is oddly much easier to understand and focus on.
- jasonkostempski 13y agoI came here to say that. Looks like the colors are all that's needed for the game to be playable.
- mhewett 13y agoThat was a lot of fun. It would be nice to have a small explanation of the particle equations on the page for the non-physicists in the audience.
- SifJar 13y agoThat wouldn't make much sense, seeing as these combinations aren't physically accurate. You don't make an electron neutrino by combining two electrons, for example.
- gum_ina_package 13y agoI thought the Hexagon 16384 game was pretty innovative, as well as some other 2048 forks, but this is just getting out of hand.
- bfish510 13y agoI actually think this is quite clever. It's not a tech improvement but its a domain shift that fits well. I took something from it, in a different way than other clones did.
- frozenport 13y agoHis combinations make no sense. Just a random strings.
- seppo0010 13y agohttps://i.cloudup.com/BdsYF1nusy-1200x1200.png https://i.cloudup.com/BdsYF1nusy-1200x1200.png
- marcosdumay 13y agoThat's wrong. I already looked, and you still won and lost at the same time.
- deletes 13y agoAre the collisions at least plausible?
- mek 13y agoOMG I AM LOVIN' IT! (TM)
- k0mplex 13y agoApps are now memes
- ars 13y agoCan you use a larger font? It's OK for the words to go to two lines.
- midas007 13y agoYeah, maybe just use the symbols and have that as "alt" / accessibly text.
- volune 13y agoThis would been cooler if it actually followed physics in some way other than simply using physics terms. Combining 2 gluons makes a proton? This variant is just nonsensical.
- fdej 13y agoCould someone please make a meta-2048 where each possible tile is one of the different versions of the 2048 game?
- zxexz 13y agoAnd each move you make in the meta-game releases the same move in to each of the tiles. "Game over" blocks could either end the game or be merged into something scarier.
- jffry 13y agoHere you go: http://jffry.github.io/2048-Meta/ http://jffry.github.io/2048-Meta/ (I admittedly did very little for this: https://github.com/jffry/2048-Meta/blob/master/js/html_actuator.js#L64 https://github.com/jffry/2048-Meta/blob/master/js/html_actua...)
- zamalek 13y agoLooks like we have solved the origin of the universe. Everything is just one massive 2048 game.
- doorhammer 13y ago2048's all the way down
- cmapes 13y agoI realized that 2048 has quickly become the first code-meme of HN.
- iLoch 13y agoHuh, turns out I actually don't give a shit about the numbers and I just like mashing bright colours together.
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- symmetricsaurus 13y agoAs others have said this game has nothing to do with physics except for the names of the tiles. If the progression followed particle masses it would make a tiny bit more sense but it doesn't. The neutrinos for example, are much lighter than their counterparts. I guess that masses would not make sense to use since the Higgs boson is not the heaviest known particle at 125 GeV, that distinction goes to the top quark at 173 GeV. A more realistic game based 2048 and physics might be hard to make. Colliding particles does not work according to some recipe like: electron+positron makes a muon or something like that. Instead there are a large number of possible recipes(Feynman diagrams) for every collision. In fact we have can have any reaction that is allowed as long as you conserve energy, momentum, angular momentum, electric charge and a few other exotic quantities. Each of these reactions can be assigned a probability and you cannot know beforehand what the outcome of a certain reaction will be. Adapting this into a 2048-style game is not obvious. A game that would actually work is adding up neutrons and protons into atomic nuclei. Having a nucleus with 2048 nucleons is of course not very realistic but if you add in the decay of unstable isotopes only reaching Uranium-238 may be hard enough.
- mschuster91 13y agoDoes anyone have a overview of all the 2048 offsprings created so far?
- cfj 13y agoSome can be found on http://2048.directory/ http://2048.directory/ There's also a subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/2048 http://www.reddit.com/r/2048