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John Pile presents the history of AI in Racing Games during the 3 part presentation for Computer Games Technology at the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland
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Game Gravity Ltd (a group of 6 students studying Computer Games at the University of Abertay Dundee) has created an artificial AI Research Facility ... this is a video of our work.
A group of "grown-up" kids launch rockets on the frozen Tanana River, south of Fairbanks, Alaska. This is the second flight, and the first flight of "Strider" a 2-stage rocket. All does not go according to plans.
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The Pile Family (far north branch) met up in Scotland in 2008. We toured the midlands, highlands, and Ireland. This is the first video in a series, and includes Castles, Lawancroy Cottage, Highland Music, the Scone palace and maze, and much more...
This is a demonstration of my C++ camera class which is available for download from my blog: gamedev.alaskajohn.n et
The class includes the raw code for basic quaternion math used for rotations around an arbitrary axis.
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Innovation can not exist without experimentation. In Part V of this continuing series, highlights include AlaskaJohn's first rocket, Brian's 3 stager, and the creation of a rocket in tribute to the brave astronauts of Columbia. This was filmed the day after the Columbia Tragedy.
This is an Adobe Flash Game I wrote last summer. I thought it was time I put a small video clip of the gameplay on YouTube. You can play it and learn about the history at AlaskaJohn.com
The series continues as we now launch a few of the "Lord of the Rings Rockets". It is -40 degrees as we return to our launch pad in the center of the frozen Tanana River.
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This is a video portfolio of some of the computer games I've written over the past seven years. I'm the sole programmer for all of them. The music in the video is Slave Traitor, one of my buddy Marc Burno's bands in Seattle.
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Just some eye candy to go with this mc chris song.
This guy puts a lot of work into his music and concerts. Check out his website where you can download this song and his full album for free.
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Lighting Fireworks: In August of 2006 I had a chance to help with the fireworks display for the local state fair. This is a quick set of setup photos followed by video of lighting them off.
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This is the first draft of my DirectX graphics project for my first semester at the University of Abertay Dundee. I'm not sure how much more I'll have time to do before it is due, but I have successfully implemented everything I was asked to. (Not to mention I also re-skinned "Tiny.x")
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Part 3 of the series of the Pile Family (far north branch) in Scotland. In this 'episode' we head north into the Highlands and Loch Ness. This is the last of the Scotland adventures ... to be followed in Part 4 with our short trip to Ireland. Oh, and when I say, "Lochs of Loch Ness", I really meant, "Locks of Loch Ness"
