Making AI Practical and Practicable
Last time I said I wanted to accomplish the following for the next piece of work on the battler: Do for Skills / Spells what I’ve done for attack Enable the “Defend” action Handle the win / loss transitions In addition, I implemented a rudimentary party inventory system and got…
The Goal Someone recently told me in passing that they wished they had a machine learning sandbox. I didn’t know what that was exactly, but I had a few ideas about what it might be. I wrote down some notes about what I thought a machine learning sandbox might do…
Introduction Anyone who has owned a vehicle recognizes the following simple truth: every part of any vehicle deteriorates with use. That includes the engine. Most of the vehicle owning population knows this second thing: it’s cheaper to maintain an engine than it is to fix a busted engine. That’s why…
Last week, I had started to work on the battle system for my RPG. I laid out a laundry list of work that still needed to be done to get to where I wanted to be. This week, I’ve been able to tackle: Port over the turn taking logic Port…
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.
