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Geeks of the world unite!!

John Painter 2.24.10

Geeks of the world unite!  It takes some guts and skill to develop a game around Erwin Schrödinger classic cat experiment designed to illustrate the incompletenes of the theory of quantum mechanics. Enter SouthPeak Games vision of Schrödinger's Rat (.99).  Head spinning yet?  Your IQ might just end up a couple points higher on the Wechsler Scale if you play this game a lot.

Taking on Schrödinger's classic experiment, digitizing it, along with turning it into a social networking experience and extra geeky (and correct) graphics, I found myself enjoying it - mostly. 

There was one drawback, and it's serious.  Here's what I experienced using an iPhone 3G running 3.1.2 - I got a lot of lag in the maze - the ball was not rolling smoothly or as accurately as to how I was tilting my iPhone.  I'm not certain what to think because this lag happened while I was in the maze, which most of the time, incidently disproved Schrödinger because it was pretty clear the rat was dead.  I never managed to re-animate more than 901 rats.  But the potential and initial wow factor is there, I think if you like hard core geek stuff and good science your .99 are worth it.  If you're more an average person just looking for a maze type game, this probably won't work for you.

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John Painter
http://www.johnlpainter.com

Though I was born and raised in the mid coast region of Maine in the fishing village of Owls Head, I’ve traveled North America and Central Europe quite a bit. I've been married to Katalin Vecsey (a Professor at Bates College) since 1991, and in 2002 we had our first child, Kelen, we also have a Mini-Schnauzer named Spaulding.

Having grown up in rural Maine, I enjoy being outdoors, fly fishing, hunting, hiking, kayaking, snowboarding, you name it. Having been an undergraduate in Olympia Washington (just South of Seattle), and lived and worked in both Cologne, Germany and Budapest, Hungary I also have a love the metropolitan life.

Currently I’m a doctoral candidate for the Doctor of Arts degree in leadership studies at Franklin Pierce University, in Concord New Hampshire http://www.franklinpierce.edu/ my dissertation topic is on the Doctor of Arts degree itself, since it is a uniquely American degree with roots in the Great Depression as an alternative to the ubiquitous Ph.D.

My other interests include fine art and video, some of my artistic work in videography can be viewed on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/johnpainter

You can follow along with what I’m up to on iPhone Life or Twitter http://twitter.com/johnlpainter

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