Games and Other Diversions

These games and other curiosities are here for the fun of it, so enjoy. However, they also demonstrate the point that having fun things at your site can help attract traffic. All these are Java applets, so Java needs to be enabled in your browser.

Absolute Space An Asteroids-type space shooter with cool graphics

Centipedo A modern version of the classic arcade game "Centipede"

Life John Conway's famous introduction to cellular automata

Mandelbrot Sets An exploration of several Mandelbrot sets

Othello Also called Reversi, a simple yet challenging game of logic

Sokoban A deceptive rock-pushing game that can be much more challenging than it appears

Word Search Find words in this traditional puzzle

xFunctions A sophisticated utility to explore functions in scalar and vector spaces