I’ve only gone and done it again. Here’s the next video in my new, exciting kind-of-a-podcast-I-guess-but-not-really series of ‘Everything Matt Knows About…’. Except I’ve dropped the subtitle on the video itself because I don’t actually ‘know’ anything in this domain, it’s 95% opinions. In this one, I try and identify what gaming has over other […]
Above, you can see the first instalment in my new, exciting kind-of-a-podcast-I-guess-but-not-really series of ‘Everything Matt Knows About…’. For the opening episode, I rant about story structure for about 30 minutes. If you don’t want to listen to me drone on for that long, the transcription is below.
I wrote a bit about interactive fiction (IF) before on this blog – this time I want to talk a bit about how these games ticked and about an interpreter I wrote for them. If you haven’t read that, I recommend giving it a quick skim before reading this one, unless you’re already familiar with […]
It’s only been four years, but I’m itching to write another blog post. This one won’t be long – I just want to spend a bit of time talking about how I got voice control working for a recently (re-)released video game called Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. Here’s a video that will mean nothing […]
Internetless in London Something strange happens when you’re suddenly disconnected from the Internet for a long period of time: You find other things to do. After cleaning the bathroom and tidying my room twice, beating some video games on my backlog, and somehow losing offline access to Spotify (thanks Spotify), it was time for something […]
The predecessor project of Speare2Brain, Brain2Speare, took all of a day to implement. It took another day to spruce up, but the fact was: After a single day of development, nearly every Brainfuck program could be successfully transpiled to Shakespeare[1]. The same cannot said of Speare2Brain. Also, spoilers, it only partially works. What is hell […]
Intro This post is about a Brainfuck-to-Shakespeare transpiler that I wrote one warm Sunday evening called Brain2Speare. To fully appreciate this post, you will need to know a bit about the Brainfuck and Shakespeare esoteric programming languages, but don’t worry! I’ll talk a little bit about each of those before diving into the meaty bits. […]
So I had an idea the other day! I started to implement it, but it turned out it was already done way better elsewhere, so I dropped it. But let’s talk about it anyway, because it’s not the worst idea ever and I had a fun experience as a result. For some reason, I was […]
>look Castle Darbenghast You stand in a massive courtyard, surrounded on all sides by stone walls that seem to touch the sky. In front of you, there is a marble pedestal carved with ornate shapes of pugs. There is a book on the pedestal. >take book Taken. >read book The book is a collection of […]
I came back from my business trip having kept up the ol’ blog, but dropping pretty much everything else. That’s okay, it’s hard to follow a schedule when you’ve got that whole ‘job’ thing going on, so I’m not going to be too hard on myself. It’s time for a shift-up, anyway. There’s about twice […]