Tracking the health of a boss in WarframeIn the game Warframe, there’s a periodically-appearing megaboss called the Balor Fomorian. It tries to destroy one of the few social hubs in the game, and it...
Factorio Science Production GraphAs a new Factorio player, it’s a little tricky to keep production chains in my head.
Power Metal StatisticsSomeone on Reddit wondered what the average song length of power metal songs is. Rather than guess, I decided to grab the data and find the actual answer.
The Power Metal Social NetworkI noticed that in The Metal Archives, there are links between bands and their artists. If you enjoy a band, it’s simple to find similar bands by looking at t...
Skyrim’s Social NetworkThe Skyrim Creation Kit was released today, so I decided to play with it a bit.
Declarative Content GenerationProcedural content generation is getting more and more popular these days, and it’s really quite interesting. Of course, I’m not one to be content with just ...
NineDayGame - PostmortemMy friend Alex and I have both been playing roguelike games for a while, and we were inspired to create our own. Since reading week was coming up this term, ...
Launchpad Development Tools for LinuxTexas Instruments has released the LaunchPad, a new open-source development board for the value line of the MSP430. The chips aren’t very powerful, but at $4...
Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis in Real-Time SystemsI gave this presentation in November 2009 for ECE 750: Distributed Real-time Software Systems.