For four years, two veterans of the Montreal video game industry, Dominic Hamelin-Blais and Frederic Smyczynski, wanted to create “a little adventure game to play as soon as you have two minutes”.
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Micro RPG
The result they concocted part-time, Micro RPG, has been available since the end of January for iOS and Android and is quite delicious. Theobald the little peasant must defend a kingdom attacked by monsters who take advantage of the annual leave of the knights. There is the usual recipe for RPGs with the improvement of weapons and the acquisition of experience, but the mechanics are childish. “It’s easy to handle, requires a minimum of dexterity and a bit of strategy if you want to optimize your attacks,” explains Mr. Hamelin-Blais.
Keyxpat
SCREEN CAPTURE THE PRESS
Keyxpat allows you to obtain all the accented or special characters from the basic keys, by pressing more or less long.
Montreal computer scientist Nicolas Cadilhac is definitely overflowing with good ideas. After its web platforms for sharing games and plants, it is doing it again with very simple software, Keyxpat. “I had created it for myself when I arrived in Canada, explains Nicolas Cadilhac. I then had a Qwerty keyboard at home and at work. And therefore no good solution to find all my accents. » Keyxpat allows to obtain all the accented or special characters from the basic keys. You press more or less time on the “e”, for example, and you obtain variants like the “é”, the “è” or the “ë”. Clicks guide you. The software is configurable and includes six languages in addition to French.
Qbits
PHOTO EXTRACTED FROM IBM SITE
Taking advantage of the announcement of the construction of a quantum computer by IBM (photo above), the Quantum Institute of the University of Sherbrooke offers two short videos popularizing quantum programming.
The Institut quantique at the University of Sherbrooke was given great visibility at the beginning of the month, when we learned that IBM would build in this city the quantum computer which will be the most powerful in Canada. The opportunity was great to explain to ordinary people what quantum programming is, and this is what the Institute did with two videos of about six minutes launched recently. With animations and clear language, you can learn about the main concepts of this revolutionary technology and understand a little better what a qbit is. Viewing them helps to demystify obscure terms such as the Bloch sphere, logic gates, superposition and entanglement.