What’s going on with Google? Tom Barbalet, an artificial life developer responsible for material distributed by Apple, keeps a website based on his code called Noble Ape. As it turns out, Noble Ape (including the specific sites for his software simulation and his bio and vitae) have been de-listed by Google with no explanation or stated reason.
NaNoWriMo word count: 4801
More later - I need to find something to chew on or there’s going to be real trouble…
NaNoWriMo word count: 3644
Yeah, I’m pretty far behind. However, like I typed before, the background and setting information I’m creating is much more interesting than just hammering out any old 50k-words. I’m beginning to think that Mnon is a really dangerous place.
In the last Blue Rose session, there was much ker-fuffle (it’s a British phrase I’m not sure how to spell) about a functional Shadowgate near the outlying hammlet of Lapis in Western Aldis. Long story short: we destroyed the gate, but not before Something Bad got through. Now, we’re trying to contain the Shadow-taint before it begins affecting the rest of the countryside. Yum!
I’m absolutely sure that Bekken is going to hate Iirrijur before this is all over with. Poor girl.
There’s an article on MIT’s Technology Review that talks about the work being put into the effort to make all the various virtual world protocols transparent to users and their avatars. Jaron Lanier seems to think that it will come together, but that it will not be a non-proprietary solution.
What does an avatar or other virtual creature (potentially an artificial life organism) need to expose to various APIs to be “protocol transparent”? Sounds a lot like the work required to build an Alife SDK.
Someone’s put together a “historically accurate game based upon a 13th century Europe where magic really works and astrologers can tell a man’s ultimate destiny.” Using the RuneQuest mechanics from Mongoose (which are on the deadly side of Simulationist), this should be a pretty cool book!
Check out Stupor Mundi.
Did I mention I’m a RuneQuest / BRP junkie? Yeah, it’s bad…