Tesla: The Weatherman is from a new indie developer, Thoughtquake Studios. As you can see from the above trailer, it's a 2D platform game where you control Nikola Tesla as he tries to stop a a lunatic Thomas Edison. Tesla takes control of the elements and makes Mother Nature his bitch, allowing him to defeat enemies and solve puzzles with lightning, rain, sunlight and magnetism.
Not much to look at, but the game has potential. You can pick up a demo of Tesla: The Weatherman over at Thoughtquake's website. The full game, also available on the site, runs $9.99.
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It's Nikola Tesla, not Nikolai. He wasn't Russian but a Serb from the Austro-Hungarian province of Lika which is now in modern day Croatia. I had to say this. Stalin loves you.
Tesla remained bitter in the aftermath of his dispute with Edison. The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla, who was quoted as saying:
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene ... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense.[95]
Shortly before he died, Edison said that his biggest mistake had been in trying to develop direct current, rather than the superior alternating current system that Tesla had put within his grasp.
He also created an earthquake generator which nearly leveled the city around him while leaving his lab undisturbed. And our modern microwaves are based on his Death Ray prototype. I just used one to cook a chicken sandwich. So tasty.
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1:30 AM on 04.08.2011
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'Retconned'? I'm pretty sure this is how shit went down.
Obviously this is set before Tesla made Angier the magic machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ
Glad someone linked that. Easily the best of the Drunk History series!
Pretty bad deal. I wonder how different modern technology would be if they hadn't thought of him as a mad scientist.
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene ... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense.[95]
Shortly before he died, Edison said that his biggest mistake had been in trying to develop direct current, rather than the superior alternating current system that Tesla had put within his grasp.
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