Played a little bit more with Unity. I’ve been getting into ‘steering’. Here is my attempt to create some cats that will randomly move around a room and not bump into walls. (but they are currently walking through each other… Another video to shame me into doing more:
As a child I embarked on many trips to the chocolate wonderland of Cadbury World. Part of the attraction is a history lesson in Cadburys rise to power which is presented through a self-guided tour through various rooms decorated with figurines that on the press of a button describe who Read more…
This weekend I stumbled upon a fantastic game called Dwarf Fortress. The game is a management/city building game. First the game must randomly generate a persistent world that spans a very detailed 1000 years of history. You then take a bunch of dwarfs, find a mountain, start digging out your Read more…
Although I loath doing any kind of design work, one of my pet hates at the moment is still the term ‘Mobile First’. The idea from what I can gather is that web designers should make sure that all their content is designed for mobile devices and then can Read more…
I finally got around to playing with the HTML 5 canvas element and attempted to build a quick game to compare the process to my past experiences of Adobe Flash. I was quite surprised with how much I was able to do using only canvas, WebGl, the gamma JS library Read more…
Over the past few months I have developed an interest in agent-based modelling using tools such as Netlogo, RePast or Swarm. These tools combined with increases in processing power make it incredible easy to get started and soon sucked me in. Agent-based models are computation models that are used to Read more…
Wanna see what happened to my server? It took 4 days to for it to became a Nazi Fort : ( I kept out of the world and decided to let players do whatever they wanted to my world. This server was put up early in the life of Minecraft Read more…
PROD is a project directory-monitoring tool for JISC funded projects; and used within JISC CETIS to aid in programme support. I feel that although the tool holds a great deal of interesting information on projects it is sometimes hard to convey that information to people who do not use the Read more…
The Village Pump is an information hub for activities relating to the Flexible Service Design programme. The hub is a go to place for FSD related articles, events and contact information. Articles in the hub are aggregated from sources using their RSS feed and currently we gather information sources such Read more…
I recently read a blog post about intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. I’ve come across and heard a lot of talk following a similar thought pattern to this blog post, the common theme being that extrinsic rewards can be counter productive with a suggestion that we could learn from video games Read more…
