Comments on: frequon invaders

By: Arch Robison

Arch Robison — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:04:37 +0000

My latest game is not as abstract as Frequon Invaders, but still off the beaten path. It’s a game of reflection seismology. Play it to learn what it means.

It can be downloaded from http://home.comcast.net/~arch.robison/seismic_duck.html

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By: Arch Robison

Arch Robison — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:41:50 +0000

I’m happy to hear that people generally find Frequon Invaders playable. I hit upon the idea when I was experimenting with games based on coordinate transforms on the mouse. Most were obvious things like rectangularpolar and other curvilinear schemes. When Fourier transforms occurred to me and I wrote the first version, I wasn’t sure if it would make any sense to anyone. But it seems to have worked out as something intuitive.

My latest effort is a much more traditional predator-prey simulation that can be downloaded from http://arch.robison.home.comcast.net/ecomunch.html .

By: Dustin Long

Dustin Long — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:55:05 +0000

*This* is what I wish Immortal Defense played like, instead of a Tower Defense clone. Given its plot, it would have made a lot more sense.

By: Onymous

Onymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:49:58 +0000

Huh, last version I have of this on my computer is 1.3 and I’ve never managed to get above about 30. Just downloaded version 2.0 off the website and got 51.
I think it comes from around invader 20/25-ish there’s like half a dozen on screen at once, and in 1.3 it seems to stay that way till you die, in 2.0 it’s just a short burst then the view port changes size, which isn’t equivalent in difficulty at all.

By: Dario

Dario — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:50:29 +0000

I got to catch a few of whatever it is those things are, but I can’t really say that I understand the game. No, I don’t.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:56:31 +0000

+10 for the small size of the exe!

By: Digital Tools

Digital Tools — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:02:50 +0000

Frequon Invaders: Experimental gameplay with complex math…

Frequon Invaders 2.0 Ingame Well, Frequon Invaders is different. It is something, that would not come out of a normal game-designers head without going through deep fundamentals of complex math. It is experimental gameplay in the deep sense of meaning….

By: L

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:55:27 +0000

Whoa! You know about Frequon Invaders too?!

I’ve been playing the Mac version since like six years ago.

Thanks for reminding me of it!

By: sylvainulg

sylvainulg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:15:55 +0000

fourier transform is what is used to render spectrum analyzers in our media players. It transforms a wave (expressed temporarily, as you’d see a wave on the water) into the amplitude of its individual frequencies (low-freqs on the left, hi-freqs on the right, typically).

I guess what the author intends by “fourier domain” is actually the frequency space (hence the “frequons”)

HTH