michaelg.info: Michael Goldborough

Give Up, Robot: Nice little platform gem in an unexpected place.

Puts the instructions where you need them (and not before or lost) before it lays on the heat.

Despite it's repetitiveness and pain - a good time-waster to boot.

While your at it - check out Robot Wants Kitty

In the development of network games, considerations of the different factors that affect players experience are a necessary part of design of computer games. The network which multiplayer computer games utilise is an important part factor effecting end user experience.

I seek to trace the development of TCP and UDP in relation of the Internet and then analyse current practices and issues in the utilisation of the Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol in online game design.

Spider, Microscope

Ideas and a rather messy collection of notes from the friday presentations at Freeplay 2009

What interests me about AI in sports games such as this is that given the presence of full behavioural independency of player controllable entities, the limitations of the programmed AI provides a space for players to adopt weakly dominant strategies based upon learning the predictable behaviour of the entities that the AI controls. We can also consider that NPC AI characters can also play a role in teaching players the rules of the game. I will start below by analysing the higher level manifestations of AI in Bot Arena 3 and then proceed to those at lower levels.

Congrats on finding my first ever blog on games analysis. In my philsophy, you learn by teaching - and you can teach by writing.

This week: Crush the Castle.

Today I have released Blogger version 1.0, enjoy.

Click here to: Play Blogger.

A fun little arcade game where a user races to post to their blog at the local internet cafe! See my progress here: Blogger.

Updating and upgrading someone's horid website from chicken scratch to something qualitatively better for free is not necessarily an easy task, but fun none the less. View my progress online here!

Now I have my website kicked off, please go and check out my folio!