Making AI Practical and Practicable
Jordan completed her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of New Hampshire in 2012. Since then, she's used AI to solve problems in many domains including security, medicine, & logistics.
You might recall from my last post that I said I’d be working on an RPG combat system during the month of June. I found that time boxing my personal projects seemed to be a good way for me to get work done, but I was eager to go back…
What Worked Time bounding the whole project Roughing out one chunk of game play at a time, stitching roughed segments together, and only doing polish at the end Pushing input capture into a single object and reading its state Tiny amount of issue tracking (via trello) for a tiny project…
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in randomizers, like the Link to the Past Randomizer or Final Fantasy IV: Free Enterprise. These games are romhacks that take the content of classic games and mix them all up so that you play them in a different order. Gating…
Drunk Tank is a small game I put together during the month of May.
I started to take my work on side projects pretty seriously recently. I was frustrated with how little I’d accomplished in a six month period. I was looking for something that would help me be more effective with my effort and let me get through more projects. My thought was…
I’m Jordan Thayer. Here’s a brief summary of who I am, how I got here, and what I’m here to do.
