Technical Discussion February 11 2008

Topic 1: GDC contest brainstorming

• people seem interested
• 24 hours probably
• within 2 weeks
• SFSS funding probably

Topic 2: Ted's game

• Animal Crossing
  • more than just movement of people
    • movement of people
    • speech patterns
• problems
  • hard to generate dialog
    • • how to seed this dialog
      • internet — Yahoo! pipes
    • how do we model this movement of ideas
      • ideas of trust
      • charisma
  • implementation
    • • Multi user
      • more NPCs than PCs
      • distributed
    • research for now
    • arithmetic coding

Topic 3 - Ideas for version management

No recorded minutes for this topic

Topic 4 - Graphical discussion

• kernelization
• screen space ambient occlusion explained

Members Present

• Eric Raue
• Jeremy Asher
• Dave Bregman
• Colin Hume
• Ted Tate
• Ryan Bujnowicz