Category: Games
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Viruscraft: Genetic model connected to a tree visualisation
The genetic model we were working on previously has now been ported into a browser compatible form and connected to a new tree visualisation that displays the species that emerge as the host population adapts to a virus infection. It’s still a prototype with rough edges, but have a play with it here, some example…
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New pattern matrix developments
A few weeks ago we kicked off the new Penelope project, and while in Munich one of our first jobs was to deliver the prototype pattern matrix to the Museum of Casts of Classical sculpture for exhibition over the summer as part of our Penelopean lab. Our next mission in Cornwall is to design new…
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Dazzlebug in Alaska
Some photos of the our citizen science game Dazzlebug being exhibited at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska as part of their Camouflage: In Plain Sight Exhibition running from the 28th October 2016 to the 5th Febuary 2017. The bugs which have evolved throughout this exhibition and before have already been sent for processing by the…
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NES/Famicom game programming discoveries
Working on a NES game you are treading in the footsteps of programmers from the 80's, and going back to modern development feels strangely bloated and inefficient in comparison. This is a log of some of the things I've encountered writing game code for the What Remains project. Firstly, although it seemed like a lunatic…
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Crab camouflage citizen science game
The Natural History Museum London commissioned us to build a crab catching camouflage game with the Sensory Ecology Group at the University of Exeter (who we’ve worked with previously on the Nightjar games and Egglab). This citizen science game is running on a touchscreen as part of the Colour and Vision exhibition which is running…
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More PPU coding on the NES/Famicom
After getting sprites working in Lisp on the NES for our “What Remains” project, the next thing to figure out properly is the background tiles. With the sprites you simply have a block of memory you edit at any time, then copy the whole lot to the PPU each frame in one go – the…
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Cricket Tales released
Cricket Tales is an ambitious citizen science project. 438 days of CCTV footage from the Wild Crickets Research group – the only record of wild behaviour of insects of it’s kind. It turns out that insects have more complex lives and individuality than we thought, and the game is a way of helping uncover this…
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A 6502 lisp compiler, sprite animation and the NES/Famicom
For our new project “what remains”, we’re regrouping the Naked on Pluto team to build a game about climate change. In the spirit of the medium being the message, we’re interested in long term thinking as well as recycling e-waste – so in keeping with a lot of our work, we are unraveling the threads…
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Artificially evolved camouflage
As the egglab camouflage experiment continues, here are some recent examples after 40 or so generations. If you want to take part in a newer experiment, we are currently seeing if a similar approach can evolving motion dazzle camouflage in Dazzle Bug. Each population of eggs is being evolved against a lot of background images,…
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Red King: Host/Parasite co-evolution citizen science
A new project begins, on the subject of ecology and evolution of infectious disease. This one is a little different from a lot of Foam Kernow’s citizen science projects in that the subject is theoretical research – and involves mathematical simulations of populations of co-evolving organisms, rather than the direct study of real ones in…