PlayTechs: Programming for fun

Good Old Games just released Outcast , one of my favorite games of the late 1990s. They're selling it for $6 USD. In honor of the occa...

We played pin-the-tail-on-the-bunny at my daughter's birthday party a few months back. I drew the playing area with Sharpie on butcher p...

The Pinwheel Galaxy As a sidetrack from my sidetrack I've been reading about galaxy formation (among other things). Galaxies look like a...

Disparate fields that all involve growing networks: Generating Surface Crack Patterns Modeling and Visualization of Leaf Venation Patterns C...

Transcendence reached version 1.0 this past week, so I have been playing some of that. George Moromisato has been developing it in his spar...

Grrrr... not much to report. I've wondered in the past if Haskell might make a good language for writing data compilers: something to ta...

The Game Developer Conference came and went in a hurry. I was severely disappointed to find that Emily Short 's talk was on Tuesday, bef...