This week ANGELINA and I are featured in the Tech section of UK science magazine The New Scientist, which is a huge honour and was a huge amount of fun to do. As part of…
Category: <span>Research</span>
GARNET & Space Invaders Now Online (Again)
I’ve had real problems getting the arcade games running anywhere outside of my development environment, so I set today aside to remedy that and I can finally offer up what I think is a working version…
Space Invaders Released!
I’ve finally added in some rudimentary AI hooks, which has let me finish off Space Invaders and move on with the game engine. You can download and play Space Invaders here as a runnable JAR.…
YAML Space Invaders In Motion
I finally got around to recording a video of the YAML Space Invaders interpreted and running. I needed to patch up a few things before doing it – and you’ll see that everything is still…
Indie Science (And The Science Of Being Indie)
I was interviewed for Develop Magazine last month and it’s just going out in their latest edition. It was all very fun to do and the final piece is a great description of where my…
Questions and Answer Sets
This post might get a little bogged-down in logic programming, but stick with it. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting two articles last week by Adam Smith and Michael Mateas of the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC…
ANGELINA At EvoGames 2012
I’ve just received notification that ANGELINA’s second paper, Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design, has been accepted for an oral talk and inclusion in the proceedings for EvoGames 2012. I’m delighted! The…
ANGELINA’s Game Engine
Things are going well so far. Almost two weeks into the new year and the new version of ANGELINA (which is version three, not two as I said before) is coming along well. It can…
Game Blueprints – YAML and Space Invaders
I’ve been spending a lot of time this week working on the new version of ANGELINA. I’m trying to make it more flexible than before, but it’s throwing up a lot of philosophical challenges too…