Mixed Day

5th May, 2007

Ok, so its my brother’s 18th birthday which means that instead of revising for the AI exam I have plenty of distractions.

Some good news in the form of our idat205 Eden Game has been uploaded to the Eden Project’s website, and has been featured in a BBC news press release!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6629765.stm

 

New Website Design in production

Meanwhile I am working to produce a new website design, which I am happy fulfils every intricate criteria I am striving for, and replace the current site which was a result of mashed together previous attempts with the aim of trying to keep everything active. So essentially EVERYTHING needs to be replaced and unified. This is of course while I am heating up the search for a placement.

Other Stuff

Seems relevant to the impacts of digital media as studied in idat203 –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm

An Update

27th April, 2007

Having worked right up to the deadline on the final courseworks for idat203 and 205 I’m pretty glad thats all over. And some good feedback from the few results I’ve had back.

AI Coursework

Exercise 4 – Tic Tac Toe AI – Play this simple noughts and crosses game against either an intelligent computer player, or one who choses moves at random.

Exercise 2/3 – A-Life and Genetic Algorithms – Demonstrates the evolution of insect-like organisms through the process of selection and mutation. Start by clicking ‘Initialise’ and then trying to catch 4 parent organisms before clicking ‘Replicate’ and watching the outcome of your selection.

Exercise 1 – Flash Arrays for Vectors and Matrices – A demonstration of the use of vectors and matrices, an important component of AI.

Eden Game Project Thoughts

6th February, 2007

Some Ideas for Game Formats

The games produced by Eyemaze are visually intriguing logic puzzles and I can see how such a mini-narrative puzzle might be applied to a crops and global warming story.

In particular, take a look at growcube,http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html

Because we needed to know for research, and it was damn difficult to find when I searched, the correct order for growcube is: guy, water, plants, pot, tube, fire, bowl, bone, ball and spring.

eCo

22nd January, 2007

eCo

Is the name for our environmentally aware software and web design company, the task for which is to design an online interactive game for Eden Project. Nice and round shape to it I think (the word and capitalisation of the ‘C’), lending itself to a nice glassy spherical icon logo.

soft221

Handed soft221 coursework in at last, and now onto the final essay. It makes one wish http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html was a bit more comprehensive… Soft 221 work can be seen here, but try using firefox or IE6 for this rather than IE7, unless of course you have specifically re-allowed java applets to be run.