Flippy Bit
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Flippy Bit And The Attack Of The Hexadecimals From Base 16
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We at Q42 have teamed up with Russian psychologist Kateryna Afinogenova to create this experiment to test her recent study in which a group of 420 kids were shown to have a natural talent for doing bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimals.
"Seven percent of the test group could bitshift" she said to Scientific World News in an exclusive interview, which caught our nerdy attention. Especially the following statement:
"While adults have trouble with binary numbers, from around the age of two, children can not only calculate on a binary scale, but even translate from binary to hexadecimal - and back."
We were able to contact her and collaborate remotely on this experimental game that allows kids to literally do that conversion. Afinogenova requested to omit a tutorial to further emphasize the adoption difficulty between adults and children.
We were amazed by the results. You can be amazed too! Play the game and find out!
Hi
We at Q42 have teamed up with Russian psychologist Kateryna Afinogenova to create this experiment to test her recent study in which a group of 420 kids were shown to have a natural talent for doing bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimals.
"Seven percent of the test group could bitshift" she said to Scientific World News in an exclusive interview, which caught our nerdy attention. Especially the following statement:
"While adults have trouble with binary numbers, from around the age of two, children can not only calculate on a binary scale, but even translate from binary to hexadecimal - and back."
We were able to contact her and collaborate remotely on this experimental game that allows kids to literally do that conversion. Afinogenova requested to omit a tutorial to further emphasize the adoption difficulty between adults and children.
We were amazed by the results. You can be amazed too! Play the game and find out!
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4.4
402 total
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4 78
3 23
2 12
1 20
Joshua Wright
Cute Bin-to-Hex Trainer This is an amusing way to push a familiarity between hexadecimal and binary notation. As far as a percentage of children appearing to be skilled in this area, I think that most simply notice a pattern rather than do the math. Fundamentally, this isn't much different than grouping similarly colored or shaped objects. While unrelated to the intent of this game, I think that including a 10-key pad to punch in the base-10 value (a launch confirmation?) after setting the bits would enhance the experiment.
BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret
Hilarious I can't stop grinning at the absurdity of a weapon system that requires bitwise programming to fire. I was surprised at how far I got. To get a higher score swipe adjacent bits instead of tapping each one. E.g.: for FE just swipe all bits from left to right, it will fire before you get to the one bit.
James McWhinney
Really fun Really fun game, and I feel like I can kid myself that I'm improving a useful skill too :p. Would love to see more game modes e.g Decimal to binary, or octal. EDIT: my highscore is now 26, and it seems impossible to beat, as the aliens come down the screen almost faster than the rockets fire. Could be improved if the number of aliens increased rather than just their speed.
Jesse Kramme
Too fast too soon! Like other reviews have said around the 24-26 mark things just get unfair-seeming. There's a difference between a game over where I know I made a mistake and a game over where it's just like "Oh, that sucked" and they seem like the latter most of the time. Some rebalancing would be great because you just run into it like a wall every time.
Martin Kool
Haha my little girl taught me how to play! At first I was stumped to see my girl simply playing FlippyBit while I couldn't hit even one alien! But after a while I was starting to understand the mechanic and why she seems to know what missiles to launch :)
Martin
I have managed to get up to 25 points, but I can't get any higher. The problem is, that the missiles are just too slow. When I manage to enter the binary. The alien is already half a screen away from destroying my base and while the missiles gather, the alien manages to demolish my arsenal.
User reviews
Cute Bin-to-Hex Trainer This is an amusing way to push a familiarity between hexadecimal and binary notation. As far as a percentage of children appearing to be skilled in this area, I think that most simply notice a pattern rather than do the math. Fundamentally, this isn't much different than grouping similarly colored or shaped objects. While unrelated to the intent of this game, I think that including a 10-key pad to punch in the base-10 value (a launch confirmation?) after setting the bits would enhance the experiment.
Hilarious I can't stop grinning at the absurdity of a weapon system that requires bitwise programming to fire. I was surprised at how far I got. To get a higher score swipe adjacent bits instead of tapping each one. E.g.: for FE just swipe all bits from left to right, it will fire before you get to the one bit.
Really fun Really fun game, and I feel like I can kid myself that I'm improving a useful skill too :p. Would love to see more game modes e.g Decimal to binary, or octal. EDIT: my highscore is now 26, and it seems impossible to beat, as the aliens come down the screen almost faster than the rockets fire. Could be improved if the number of aliens increased rather than just their speed.
Too fast too soon! Like other reviews have said around the 24-26 mark things just get unfair-seeming. There's a difference between a game over where I know I made a mistake and a game over where it's just like "Oh, that sucked" and they seem like the latter most of the time. Some rebalancing would be great because you just run into it like a wall every time.
Haha my little girl taught me how to play! At first I was stumped to see my girl simply playing FlippyBit while I couldn't hit even one alien! But after a while I was starting to understand the mechanic and why she seems to know what missiles to launch :)
I have managed to get up to 25 points, but I can't get any higher. The problem is, that the missiles are just too slow. When I manage to enter the binary. The alien is already half a screen away from destroying my base and while the missiles gather, the alien manages to demolish my arsenal.
Needs a little work. Educationally it would make sense to display hexes on the tiny computer at all times even during and after explosions so you can learn from mistakes. Also the pace gets too frantic after a while, better to have a slow endurance test than an impossible race. If the aliens get too low even correct hexes result in explosions, not a great learning outcome. All in all very good though but please improve it. A high score reset would be handy too...
Really teaches you about how hexadecimal work At first I was totally confused, I couldn't figure out how the numbers and letters work together and felt like googling for a Wikipedia about hexadecimals. However, as I continued playing this game I slowly but surely managed to grasp the concept somehow. This proves that there's endless possibilities to things you can teach people about entirely through a game.
Easy to play, hard to enjoy The fkin animations make getting scores exponentially harder after 20 points because of the slow shooting animation. Scale it up with the speed of the aliens so it doesn't feel so clunky.
Simple but needs one thing I like the game but it seems as if the time it takes from getting the bits correct to the missiles coming together and shooting is constant. If this is true, then it actually increases the game difficulty much quicker than it seems. Also, that would define a definite ending to the game (where the enemy falls faster than the time it takes for the missiles to fire). So, could you please make this time proportional to the speed of the enemies?
Every time I get to 25 the missiles start to go past the alien and blow up right after them and the alien hits me. Otherwise fun game. Easy. Took me a second to figure out that since 16 was a power of 2, specifically 2 raised to the 4th, the hexadecimal digits must be represented by different patterns of four binary digits.
I cannot stop thinking about this game. I'm not a gamer really, I'm definitely no coder or programmer or computer person in any way. I love that there are no rules or settings available. You just figure it out.
Amazing, but has just 1 problem that kills it It is incredibly annoying when you have the missiles to hit an alien, and they move towards it, but the alien hits you before they hit. You feel like you deserved that number but the game messed it up.
fun, educational game, great for keeping a nerd occupied. also useful for studying for those tricky science bowl questions that ask you to convert between bin and hex....my one qualm is that past about 24~25, it stops being feasible (time-wise) to enter numbers that require turning on more than 2 or so binary bits : (
A great time time killer Incredibly clever game that really makes you learn binary to hex conversions. I'd love to see an advanced mode where the numbers come down in base 10 and you have to convert to hex yourself.
Rockets too slow Love this but the rockets take too long to combine. When the screen speeds up sometimes it takes the length of one alien to traverse the screen for the rockets to combine.
Intense Having a hexadecimal digit to four bits chart was necessary for me to start off, but now I'm able to do it all from memory [though B and D do give me some confusion.]
Fun but I think it gets unreasonably fast in the mid 20s. Even of you get it before the bomb lands you still lose.
Fun concept but falls short It is impossible to get a score outside of the mid twenties. It takes too long for the rockets to fire.
Taught me what 10years computer science could not This game taught me hex to bin calculation in 1h. Computer sciences couldn't do it within 10 year
Could do better with simple ui enhancements Absolutely needs a mute option. Would be more fun with a changeable difficulty in same options menu.
Fun game, but limited replay value Once you get good, 25 points seems to be the limit since the aliens move so fast at that point that the missiles just can't hit them before they land.
I got 26! It takes time, dedication and some luck but you can get more than 25 points.
Based on a good idea, but the implementation has some serious flaws. Still fun though, and a great way to practice hexadecimal and binary.
My kids beat me at this it's amazing to see that kids are much better at this than adults
Finally I can use my computer science degree for something useful.
A worthwhile time killer. Took me a minute to remember hex but once it clicked I was hooked.
Great fun A seriously addictive way to improve your instinctual understanding of hex.
Awesome fun :) Took a little while, but soon I was converting hex to binary with ease! 5 stars.. Or was that 00000101 stars?
You learn the concepts, but... As others have stated, it's all but impossible to do better than 25pts.
I got up to 35 and I am 11...I think I did pretty well
Great for memorizing hexadecimal Simple but helpful. Helped me memorize hexadecimal in a fun way for my Digital Design Class
I recommend use on tablet or desktop. Or Bluetooth keyboard. I wonder if a landscape friendly version could be made.
Fun and you learn. This game allows me to put what i learn to use and reinforce the akill in a fun way.
Flapcellent Love the flapping and the numbers, it brings back memories of base64
Cool But I think everything will be easier if you'll add a tutorial
Great little game Addictive and fun, and then it's educational as well.
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Updated
March 31, 2014
Installs
10,000 - 50,000
Current Version
1.0
Requires Android
2.0.1 and up
Content Rating
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