Saturday 4 August 2007

Ragdoll physics

Firefox just crashed again while I was busy typing away. Pants.

Anyway, spent the afternoon at Will's where we spent most of the time cackling hysterically at the ragdoll physics in Flatout: Ultimate Carnage. The racing itself is a bit like Burnout with ultra destructable scenery, but it's the stunt party games that are best. The basic aim of the game is to launch your hapless driver out of a speeding car into a dartboard, curling rink, or rings of fire. Good fun.

I looked briefly into ragdoll physics and found two games called Stair Dismount and Truck Dismount. You can push a guy down some stairs or make him drive a truck into a wall.

We also played with the AT&T text-to-speech demo. If you want a laugh, cut and paste a question about embarassing feminine problems and get it read out by Charles.

Listening to Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. Always liked them, though I'm not convinced about Billy Joe Armstrong's new look. I'd quite happily play Mike Dirnt's signature Precision Bass though, it's pre-1957 based shape with a post-1957 pickup. Very cool.

No comments: