Ingress is the augmented reality game from Niantic that came before Pokemon. It’s less random, has only two factions and a great community. One of the clever things Niantic got right was to introduce sponsored items rather than adverts to the game play. The most powerful shield you can hope to deploy, right now, is […]
Kick-ass Disney princesses with weapons
Deviant artist Jessica Madorran, aka Meo Mai, is an American character artist. Her collection of Disney characters juxtaposed with fierce looking weapons is fantastic. The good news she takes commissions at sensible rates. Sadly, if you’re hoping to feature her work in a RPG you’re going to publish then you’re out of luck as she […]
Here’s how you can make a bow and set of arrows using natural tools
Have you been following Primitive Technology? The one man series shows how you can start off with nothing except the woods you are sitting in and build shelter and weapons. We already have some tools at the start of this video. We’ve got fire and plenty of sharp stones to use for axes and knives. […]
Enough science to magic up an ice sword
Have you wielded an ice sword in an RPG or watched an anime where one was summoned? The scientific problem is pretty straight forward. The solution; toilet paper. It’s just possible that after this video from Sufficiently Advanced gamer groups around the world will be adding Pykrete to their vocabulary and list of ways to […]
Made real: The gun from Psycho-Pass stuns
I rather enjoyed Psycho Pass. At a first glance it is set in a wonderful future in which the police leave you entirely alone because they can tell who’s guilty. At a second glance things get dark quickly. It’s not just your intent to do something criminal but the possibility of you doing so that […]
Crazy home invention: 40W laser shotgun
This shotgun is many times more powerful than the lightsaber styropyro had already built. As Chris Mills over at Gizmodo points out a 40 watt laser is hugely more powerful than the 0.005 watt lasers you can buy from stores but still a far off the US Navy’s prototype cannon that blasts at 30,000 watts. […]
Explaining the Archer’s Paradox to younger gamers
The Archer’s Paradox is this; there’s a bow between your arrow and your target so how come the arrow goes straight? Slow motion and some science can explain this. While the folk at Smarter Every Day didn’t intend for this video to be aimed at games (oh, pun), I think we’re a good audience and […]
How to build a fully operational gas rifle out of pipes and propane
In this video the Backyard Scientist uses every day items to build a series of rifles. Are they powerful? By the time the video finishes we’re able to launch golf balls further than the video can track and we’re blasting holes in beer cans. Also; pretty blue flame. If you want to build one of […]
Have we got archery all wrong?
It’s been a few years since Geek Native asked do RPG designers need to rethink archery mechanics?. At time Danish archer Lars Andersen was in focus. He’s back again with this video. It should make us wonder whether we know anything about archery at all. The video admits that measuring the stopping power of Lars’ […]
Is there a connection between workout preferences and weapon preferences?
In December 2014 Geek Native held a competition to give away a number of copies of To Go Viking from Safecracker Pictures. To Go Viking is a documentary that follows a group of Viking reenactors as they travelled the world and battled. To enter the competition readers had to answer a poll. They had to […]
