{"id":2085,"date":"2008-04-13T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2008-04-13T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T15:50:22","slug":"game-physics-half-life-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"Game Physics &#8211; Half-Life: Havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hlhmod.com\/' title='Graphic from web site'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/halflifehavoc.jpg' alt='Graphic from web site' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of my students have been getting attention for an original senior thesis they did for Multimedia. Calen Henry and Jacob Karsmeyer created a mod for Half-Life 2 to explore game physics. You can get the mod and read their essay on the history of game physics on the web site the created, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlhmod.com\/\">Half-Life: Havoc<\/a>. As of today, Sunday, April 13th they are ranked 5th on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moddb.com\/mods\/10615\/half-life-havoc\">Mod DB<\/a>. Kotaku has also <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/379100\/a-half+life-2-mod-and-a-history-of-video-game-physics\">blogged their project<\/a> which seemed to have started a long thread about whether one can trust downloads not to have viruses (and some comments about the writing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my students have been getting attention for an original senior thesis they did for Multimedia. Calen Henry and Jacob Karsmeyer created a mod for Half-Life 2 to explore game physics. You can get the mod and read their essay on the history of game physics on the web site the created, Half-Life: Havoc. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Game Physics &#8211; Half-Life: Havoc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}