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Who is Chris Crawford?
I’ve realized that many people who’ve read StoryCalc: A New Hope might not know who Chris Crawford is or what he’s accomplished. Chris is a game designer and if it were not for his passion, hard work, and insights over the … Continue reading
StoryCalc: A New Hope
For the past twenty-six years Chris Crawford has been fighting the good fight, trying to jumpstart an interactive storytelling revolution. He says he’s failed and that his age, his perfectionist nature, and the complexity of the problem were the perfect … Continue reading
Siboot in 2017?
I’m thinking of finishing the version of Siboot that I was creating with Chris Crawford’s Storytron technology back in 2009-2010. Part of me thinks it’s a crazy idea and part of me thinks it’s a totally cool thing to do. I’ve always … Continue reading
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140 Words Per Day
I’ve always wanted to write more whether it was in my journal, on this blog, or expanding on some of the story ideas I’ve had over the years. I probably have fifteen to twenty books on fiction writing and grammar. Many … Continue reading
Gossip Among Sapiens
I started reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens a couple of days ago and came across this on page 22: Our language evolved as a way of gossiping. According to this theory Homo Sapiens is primarily a social animal. Social cooperation is our … Continue reading
Elm – Mapping Anonymous Functions
In my prior post I wrote about creating a recursive function in Elm to iterate through a list of records and update a single record that met the search criteria. I’ll admit that I was quite pleased with my solution … Continue reading
Elm – Recursive Functions
In one of the Elm For Beginners exercises I have to update a player record’s name field with the modified player name and all I have is the playerId to search on. Here are the Elm type alias for the … Continue reading
Elm
I’m 78% of the way through Elm For Beginners, a free course about the Elm programming language. I first read about Elm in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks but did nothing with it until this week. My reasons for learning Elm are … Continue reading
Do!
Andrew Scott and Benedict Cumberbatch read Sol Lewitt‘s April 14th, 1965 letter to Eva Hesse.