I’ve been trying to write scripts that can automagically create revision games for a while now. One of the problems I have is getting datasets of questions together. I’ve been sniffing around wikipedia/dbpedia as a way to populate revision game questions. Recently I’ve been interested in building ‘What is it Read more…
I’ve had a few attempts attrying to describe a view on gamification in my blog, but never really felt like I’ve got it across very well. Many academics talk of persuasive games and draw on the themes of rhetoric, but I’m not sure that is the same thing. Plus I’m Read more…
If you ever procrastinate on Youtube you may have come across ‘reaction’ videos, these videos rang from setting somebody up to do something and recording their reactions, such as making them play a scary game , recording reactions of audiences at events or simply recording yourself playing a game/watching a Read more…
I have a very old mediawiki instance on a backup drive that I need to get the content off somehow, even though the content is old it is still relevant and I would still like people to be able to view it. It is slightly out of date so it Read more…
A couple of years ago I wanted to install Learning Locker on OSX, I blogged about it to help me remember what to it and I found it pretty useful to return to when I got stuck. I need to install Learning Locker again, but looking through my old post Read more…
Blockchain is one of those things that more and more people I trust have started saying ‘have you seen this thing? I think it’s important!’. These are my first thoughts after a quick look. While I kind of knew blockchain was some kind of database thing that bitcoin used it Read more…
I’ve been playing with submitting games to the main phone market places for about a year now and I have had a really different experience with all of them. I’m very much developing gamesfor a hobby, and I expect that due to technologies like Unity there are many other people Read more…
Facebook for Unity 7.0.2 is still in beta and isn’t officially for public consumption yet, however, Facebook for Unity 6.x.x doesn’t support Unity 5 meaning that many developers have been forced to take the jump early. I’ve noticed quite a few people playing with the latest Facebook for Unity are Read more…
Recently I’ve been playing around with the Unity Fungus asset. Although it works very well and I have not had many problems with it, the application is just coming out of Beta and there are a few gotchas. On the forums there seems to be one recurring bug people keep Read more…
8 years ago I was heading in to summer working hard on my MSc project. My head space was completely absorbed in it for two reasons. 1) It was a interesting subject, 2) I didn’t want to think about what happens next. The whole looking for a job after University Read more…
