Jay McGavren's Journal

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I’ve had a copy sitting on my shelf forever. Guess I really need to get around to reading it.

You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
by Mark Twain
With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.
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Maybe I’m falling for a ploy to generate links, but… At Dave and Buster’s on Monday night, omahanightlife.com had a couple people going through snapping photos. They asked to take ours (we were practically the only people in there, after all), and we obliged. (Though you can’t even tell I’m in the resulting photo…)

A winner is us!

Catching up with my bookshelf...

Hit a couple walls with Zyps… My fix to make creatures stop turning wildly after resuming an action caused them not to act at all unless they were acting on every object in the environment. Messy.

So I perused the literature again and found that a couple decent, accessible books on game AI have been written since I last looked. Added one to my Safari bookshelf, and from skimming it, I appear to be re-inventing the wheel in a couple respects. No big deal… as far as I know Zyps is still the most easily extendable AI architecture out there, and one of the few suitable for hobbyists.

And the book solved my problem, I think. Behaviors and Actions will need a little re-architecture, but it appears sweeping changes won’t be needed.

Thus far, LJXP (the LiveJournal Cross-Poster) seems to just work. That’s a lot more than I can say for WordPress’s own post by e-mail feature…

Let’s see - this makes four nights in a row now that the baby has slept only 6 hours, meaning we’ve had even less.

He is so getting moved to his own bedroom this weekend. Yay - I get my desktop back!