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Scribble Ships

ESRB Rating:NR - Not Rated
My Rating:Everyone
Genre:Arcade
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Summary:When you were in school, you probably spent some of the class periods drawing random things on spare pieces of notebook paper. I know I certainly did. What do you think might happen if those little space ships you were drawing suddenly came to life and began battling each other for supremacy of the page? You'd have Scribble Ships, a game about doodles trying to ink each other out of the picture.

Brief thoughts:This game features cartoony space ships shooting each other with blobs of ink, making it about as violent as classic games like Asteroids.

Today's Featured Glossary Entry

Random Number Generator
A random number generator is a function that provides a computer program with a steady stream of random numbers. These are used for everything from encryption to your favorite music player's shuffle feature, making them a core part of software as we know it today.

However, most random number generators do not actually produce truly random number sequences, as this just isn't possible using math alone. To compensate for this defect, they use fancy equations and a seed to produce what looks like randomness. A popular example of such a function is the Mersenne Twister.

More advanced methods of generating random numbers tend to be pretty bizarre, such as Lavarand, which generates random numbers by taking pictures of a wall full of active lava lamps.