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fun

Everything currently filed under fun.

2026–ongoing

Happy Land

A cookie clicker multiplayer game for streaming — tap, idle, buy upgrades, chat — still early and mutating.

Mashed together

Cookie clicker, a casino, Monopoly houses, and chat, on one map you can tinker with on stream.

2026–ongoing

An early click-the-picture demo for students practising named bits of the body. Timed, scored, ranked a bit like Times Tables Rock Stars. Started in 2026 with Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health; hosted as a CEDS demo while the idea is still being talked through.

Mashed together

Times Tables Rock Stars, named bits of a body, and a PHP page dressed like a skills lab.

2023–ongoing

Clingo

Clingo is clinical bingo for health students. Instead of numbers you get phrases you might hear on placement. Scan a QR code for a card, someone at the front runs the caller, and when the card is full you shout CLINGO. ScLINGO is the same game with Scouse.

Mashed together

Bingo night, clinical phrases, Scouse, and a QR code on a phone.

2025

Chat with Jekyll and Hyde

Clinical ethics scenarios for health students. You pick a messy situation, a bad doctor has already given terrible advice, and you talk it through with a chatbot that is meant to be the better colleague in the room.

Mashed together

Ethics cases, a pile of terrible advice, and ChatGPT as the colleague who has to unpick it.

2023

What's my Protected Characteristic?

A classroom spinner for the Equality Act. You spin a protected characteristic, get dealt a clinical scenario and a practitioner role, then talk about what that combination actually means in the room.

Mashed together

A fairground wheel, the Equality Act, and a clinical scene you then have to talk through.

2013

Fandom scraper and Corrie faces

I wanted structured data about Coronation Street and Fandom does not have DBpedia. Infoboxes are still in there, so I wrote a Python scraper, then later pointed a Haar cascade at a clip to see if it could tell Emma from Steve.

Mashed together

Soap-opera wikis, infoboxes, a Python crawl, and a face detector pointed at Coronation Street.

2019

Vetscape

A veterinary case as a text adventure. Lennox Harlowe was written in Twine, put into Cordova so it could run on a phone, and there is a Unity/Fungus 2D version in another repo.

Mashed together

A vet case written as a branching story, then wrapped so it can run on a phone.

2025–ongoing

Twitch Games - Harold & Olympus

A local OBS browser overlay where chat plays a ridiculous retro text adventure together: wandering around, voting on directions, fighting bosses, racing, doing pub quizzes, and slowly becoming an adventuring mob with levels and grudges.

Mashed together

Twitch chat driving a text adventure on an OBS overlay, with YouTube chat mixed in.

2014

Exploring Wrestling Stables

I pulled wrestling stables out of Wikipedia via DBpedia, mapped who had been teammates, and posted the giant graphs on Reddit. Wrestling fans spotted missing Ric Flair, argued about stables versus factions, and the messy Wikipedia data turned out to be the interesting bit.

Mashed together

Wrestling stables, Wikipedia, and a giant network map that Reddit fact-checked.