{"author_link":"\/users\/antti-haavikko","author_name":"Antti Haavikko","author_uid":"antti-haavikko","comments":[],"epoch":1512397776,"event":"LD40","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":66038,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"104774","p_author":"Antti Haavikko","p_authorkey":"1013537","p_urlkey":"320559","p_title":"Who's not afraid of maths?","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD40","p_time":"1512397776","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1013537","us_name":"Antti Haavikko","us_username":"antti-haavikko","event_start":"1512086400","event_key":"70","event_name":"LD 40"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD40","removed_author":false},"_superparent":49883,"_trust":15,"author":13537,"body":"Ah, the day after Ludum Dare! Got some well deserved rest and now finally ready to start playing and rating what everyone else has cooked up.\n\n**Here is what I made:  **\n![03-12-2017_21.49.48.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/1e4\/3\/z\/b68e.jpg)\n\nStill pretty happy with what I managed to get done. It's **kind of a match three game** where the only way to interact with the board is through some **matrix addition\/multiplication**. To anyone not familiar with matrices, these operations are by no means complicated (basically third grade maths) but there is quite a lot to do on multiplication at least.\n\nAnd you're up against an AI who can calculate all the possible moves in a blink of an eye. The way I handled the difficulty curve was I start it by picking up options completely randomly. And as the difficulty ramps up, the opponent gets higher and higher chance of actually starting to run the calculations.\n\n### So if you're not afraid of maths and have nothing better to do, please give it a go and lemme know what you think! :hugging:  \n\n:point_right: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/tic-tac-matrix\n\nAlso, good luck to anyone **still working on their jam game**.  \n>May your code be bug free and *[INSERT SIMILAR ARTSY METAPHOR]*!","comments":0,"created":"2017-12-04T14:04:16Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":66038,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2017-12-04T14:33:01Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-12-04T14:33:01Z","name":"Who's not afraid of maths?","node-timestamp":"2017-12-04T14:29:36Z","parent":56503,"parents":[1,5,9,49883,56503],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/tic-tac-matrix\/whos-not-afraid-of-maths","published":"2017-12-04T14:29:36Z","scope":"public","slug":"whos-not-afraid-of-maths","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":179401},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"66038","n_urlkey":"320559","n_parent":"56503","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/tic-tac-matrix\/whos-not-afraid-of-maths","n_slug":"whos-not-afraid-of-maths","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"13537","n_created":"1512396256","n_modified":"1512397981","n_version":"179401","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/tic-tac-matrix\/whos-not-afraid-of-maths","text":"Ah, the day after Ludum Dare! Got some well deserved rest and now finally ready to start playing and rating what everyone else has cooked up.\n\n**Here is what I made:  **\n![03-12-2017_21.49.48.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/1e4\/3\/z\/b68e.jpg)\n\nStill pretty happy with what I managed to get done. It's **kind of a match three game** where the only way to interact with the board is through some **matrix addition\/multiplication**. To anyone not familiar with matrices, these operations are by no means complicated (basically third grade maths) but there is quite a lot to do on multiplication at least.\n\nAnd you're up against an AI who can calculate all the possible moves in a blink of an eye. The way I handled the difficulty curve was I start it by picking up options completely randomly. And as the difficulty ramps up, the opponent gets higher and higher chance of actually starting to run the calculations.\n\n### So if you're not afraid of maths and have nothing better to do, please give it a go and lemme know what you think! :hugging:  \n\n:point_right: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/tic-tac-matrix\n\nAlso, good luck to anyone **still working on their jam game**.  \n>May your code be bug free and *[INSERT SIMILAR ARTSY METAPHOR]*!","title":"Who's not afraid of maths?","wayback_source":[]}