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Free Sky: A New Hope

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I’ve been working on a reboot of Free Sky, codenamed “Shiny”, and things are coming along nicely. I’ve learned a lot about program structure in the last two years, and I’m finally beginning to understand the MVC (Model-View-Controller) way of making an app with a graphical interface. A lot of problems that seemed unapproachable two years ago now open themselves [...]

On February 20th, 2009, this was trivial. | Comments Off

Announcing Dyce.

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I recently mentioned that I had a nifty little dice library and parser sitting around, waiting to get cleaned up and released as open source. Well, thanks to the common cold, I spent a good portion of today sitting around the house.

When I wasn’t sleeping, I was learning how to package a python library for [...]

On December 9th, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: dice, dyce, library, open source, parser, python) | Comments Off

Using tags for metadata and lookup.

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With my object system prototype, I wanted to explore the possibilities of tagging. An article in AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 (”A Flexible Tagging System for AI Resource Selection”, by Paul Tozor) spurred my imagination: the article poses the scenario of a first-person sneaker. The player sneaks up on two guards and overhears them complaining about the cold. The straightforward [...]

On December 8th, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: Chris Crawford, free sky, game, game entities, grandiose plans, object, possibilities, prototype, resource selection, system, tagging system, things) | Comments Off

Another abrupt hiatus.

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I haven’t posted since the election. I’m afraid that an imperfect storm of events have kept me away. For one, I burned myself out on the internet in the ramp-up to the election. For another, I decided that November would be National Change Your ISP Month (NaChYoIspMo). I’m now quite happy with WebFaction, and just [...]

On December 4th, 2008, this was trivial. | Comments Off

The ad-man cometh

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As you might notice, I’m experimenting with placing ads on newstalk. I have this hazy idea that it would be nice for my sites to pay for their own hosting (~$15 a month, currently), with the idea of eventually upgrading to a more featureful account and making some improvements in the way I currently run [...]

On October 30th, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: contextual ads, Google, guarantees, hazy idea, improvements, loyal readers, newstalk, pagerank, placing ads, unique visitors) | Comments Off

Free Sky: Ambition

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So, there’s this computer game I’ve been working on for the past three years. The working title is Free Sky, and the concept is very ambitious. Too ambitious, in fact. I have had several aims with this project, with varying amounts of success:

On October 25th, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: ambition, Chris Crawford, Firefly, free sky, game, game design, game industry, kitchen sink, Mike, patience, possibilities, setbacks, telling) | Comments Off

Focus, Redux

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Nearly three years ago, I wrote about focus. This is my update on all that, and my rationale for reviving a near-dead blog. If you don’t want to read this lengthy screed, I’ll sum it up here:

I have to start writing again. Regularly. Newstalk is my chosen venue. If I don’t write here several times a week, please harass [...]

On October 21st, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: Firefly, focus, free sky, future, game, novel, storytelling) | Comments Off

Narrative forms in extended storytelling: notes for an essay.

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These are notes on several forms of extended storytelling I’ve observed in episodic television. I’m fascinated by the techniques used to tell these stories. The essay may never materialize, but some day I’d like to use some of the latter techniques myself.

On October 19th, 2008, this was trivial. | (Tags: featured, storytelling) | Leave a comment

Evolution is too cool.

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So everyone’s talking about a certain recent poll purporting that 51% of Americans reject the Theory of Evolution. To provide counterpoint to this little bubble of furor (the poll only had 808 respondents–hardly a useful sample, I should think), I have to wonder: to what percentage of Americans does it actually make a noticeable difference whether the theory of [...]

On October 24th, 2005, this was trivial. | (Tags: Big State University, chess, stylistic device) | Comments Off

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Free Sky: A New Hope

Announcing Dyce.

Using tags for metadata and lookup.

Another abrupt hiatus.

The ad-man cometh

Free Sky: Ambition

Focus, Redux

Narrative forms in extended storytelling: notes for an essay.

Evolution is too cool.

Housekeeping.

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