So here I am, watching Elizabeth Gilbert give a talk on nurturing creativity on TED. She’s talking about all these great Greek and Roman beliefs on creativity and all I can think about is how I wish I paid more attention to my ancient greek language and mythology course back in high-school. The practices and [...]

When I saw most of my social circle using location based social applications I figured, why not give it a shot? After all, I use Twitter and I do rather enjoy that – maybe there will be some appeal to this. I must say prior to even trying location based social applications such as Foursquare [...]

In the world of social games everyone is wondering what game is going to be the next biggest hit. What social game developer is going to start the newest trend? Many have decided that Zynga’s Treasure Isle and zSlide‘s Treasure Madness are the games to watch at the moment. Well not for me. My game [...]

Constantly I am asked the same thing over and over again. “Christian, how do you do _____?” The schema is always the same and the topic varies. Some times it is regarding physical fitness and how I manage to accomplish goals I set for myself, or how I manage to discipline myself to follow a [...]

This post is a continuation from Syllogism Is Practical For Narrative which discusses how practical syllogism would go about generating narrative for a semi-autonomous agent based on an the desires of actors. Polemical Model The polemical model is largely based on Vladimir Propp’s 31 functions and what Greimas felt that Propp missed out on regarding [...]

What do all villains have in common? They are the reason ‘good’ exists. They challenge and question the status quo. They tend to shake things up a bit and after they’re through and done things have changed – usually for the better! Granted, sometimes sacrifices have to be made but as the saying goes, what [...]