Elon Musk thinks AI will destroy us, unless he can stop it, yet another burden for a man who wants to take us to Mars in electric rocketships. Others imagine a horrific scenario where an omnipotent future-AI creates perfect simulations of everyone who slowed its creation, on the theory that such behavior would retroactively incentivize... Read More
For the last long while, I ve been working on a procedurally-generated platformer/climber called Lettuce Climb. In the game, you play as a head of lettuce who is climbing a mountain. At the beginning, you can only roll. However, as you enter each of three temples, you gain an ability: in the first, jumping; in the second,... Read More
My friend Amin and I have written a horror-comedy musical and now we re trying to film it as a webseries. Check out our Kickstarter video: It s about a killer graduation party thrown by a group of college seniors. It s also about a masked killer who wants to kill that party, and everyone in attendance. If you... Read More
I made this game to illustrate Hume s Is/Ought Problem, which basically says that there is no way for the reason to connect a statement about how the world is to a statement about how the world should be. There is a fundamentally uncrossable gap between what is and what ought to be. I made... Read More
I decided to make a Twine game for Thanksgiving. Here is a screenshot from it: It s going to tell the story of a turkey on the eve of the first Thanksgiving. Basically, his girlfriend gets killed by pilgrims and he leads other turkeys on an all-out war against them, driving their Mayflower out into the... Read More
I wanted to make a digital guide booklet to sell, along with the source-code, under a pay-what-you-want system to accompany the release of Lettuce Walk. Here is the title page: I want to create a small, fun to flip through booklet that would include a collection of short descriptions of the different elements of the... Read More
This post is going to talk very briefly about the improvements I made to the basic graphics of the Third Tortoise Game, as opposed to the first two. (The first two tortoise games I made were Tortoise Trails and Sixty Shells. With the exception of a really bad flash game I made in high school,... Read More
Today, Amin and I launched the website for Killer Party. What is Killer Party? Killer Party is a horror-comedy musical for the Internet in 13 pieces. Amin and I have been working on it for two years now, and it s finally at the point where we feel like we can share it with others and... Read More
For the last couple of months, I have been working part-time on a game called Lettuce Walk, which is stylized lettuce walk in keeping with the all-lowercase kōan aesthetic. Lettuce Walk is based on the concept of the Knight s Tour, a chess puzzle in which a player attempts to land on every space of a... Read More
Kōan of the Day (stylized kōan of the day ) is a project I started about a year ago when I had the idea to reserve the domain name and a friend said it would be a good idea. Since then it has grown remarkably; however, not in views. In terms of an audience, the reach... Read More