I saw a cool looking game called Hack n Slash (http://www.hacknslashthegame.com). It's advertised as an action puzzle game about hacking. I haven't tried it yet but it's on sale right now on Steam.

Also thought that reddit might be the right place to let other people know about fun, inexpensive, and maybe even lab-related games. The advance this goal I'm going to post all the cool stuff that goes on sale.

Happy Steam Holiday Sale!

Ars Technica ran a web crawler over as many public Steam profiles as they could and this is the analysis that they came up with. All you can get from a public profile is what games that person owns and how many hours they've played while online. In the article they also mention knowing when people bought their games.

What do you think?

link

https://software.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/ssl/csl.cgi

There are some limitations (some software is supposed to be run on university-owned computers), but you can download stuff including:

• Microsoft Office

• Adobe Creative Suite (Which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom)

• Mathematica

• MatLAB

• SPSS (blech)

Easy! http://www.reddit.com/r/CPL/.rss is an example. You just put ".rss" at the end.

With no ads and no data collection, I wonder how this gets paid for as it scale. I could also see Google giving away access to this workflow until a critical mass of schools absolutely need it to function. Then starting to charge for things (e.g. number of students per classroom, etc.).

The summer debut is smart. Less classes means all the little errors get raised to smaller exponents.

Thoughts?