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Writing IF Picking a language One of the first decisions you’ll need to make before you do serious work on your own piece of interactive fiction is what tools you will use to create it. While you could program IF in a general purpose programming language, most people choose to use a language or design system specially created for writing IF. This reduces the amount of work involved, and it usually produces a more polished, more widely-portable product, as well. Even so, there are quite a few different options, from simple graphical interfaces that allow you to choose functionality from menus to sophisticated and powerful programming languages. Your choice may also be affected by the format you want your work to take. My own interactive fiction has been written in Inform 6 and Inform 7. Studying design Another thing you may want to do before beginning your own game is to familiarize yourself with the field. Studying code style Creation process Polishing your work Publishing
Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing Editor's Note: This is one of the most-read leadership articles of 2013. Click here to see the full list. Why is Facebook blue? Not highly scientific, right? So how do colors really affect us, and what is the science of colors in marketing, really? First: Can you recognize the online brands just based on color? Before we dive into the research, here are some awesome experiments that show you how powerful color alone really is. Example 1 (easy): Example 2 (easy): Example 3 (medium): Example 4 (hard): These awesome examples from YouTube designer Marc Hemeon, I think, show the real power of color more than any study could. How many were you able to guess? Which colors trigger which feeling for us? Being completely conscious about what color triggers us to think in which way isn’t always obvious. Black: Green: Blue: Clearly, every one of these companies is seeking to trigger a very specific emotion: When we feel compelled to buy something, color can play a major role.
business - Online Freelance Marketplaces Find freelance projects--and get your revenue rolling--with this review of some of the top freelance marketplaces on the web. The world of virtual employees is here, and businesses everywhere are recognizing the benefits of contracting with freelancers instead of hiring permanent workers. What's driving this trend? Business owners are discovering that there's often a better value for their dollar when they hire freelancers. And they're able to choose from an almost unlimited field of skill-sets for each specific project they need help with. With the freelance industry worth millions of dollars worldwide, as a freelancer, you have the ability to start a profitable business with a very low investment as well as have the flexibility to work almost anywhere, anytime. But just where do you find the work? Guru.com With a service provider base of more than 481,000, Guru.com is the largest freelance exchange on the web. GetAFreelancer.com This is Europe's answer to the U.S.
The Forerunners Of Future Sexbots, Now ⚙ Co Since I’ve started tracking the story of sexual computing I’ve received many emails and countless tweets stating that while developers and engineers may be working on sexbots and other sexual technologies, no “normal” person would ever use such tech in their sex life. But now thanks to a few recent surveys we know that’s just not true. Here’s the first, as Alexis Kleinman writes for The Huffington Post: Nearly 20 percent of young adult smartphone owners in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 34 use their smartphones during sex, and nearly 1 in ten U.S. adults who own smartphones use them during sex. While this survey was conducted with a fairly large sampling size of 1,100 people, it did not specifically ask respondents what they were using their smartphones for while having sex. And while checking your phone--or even using it to enhance your technique--in the sack is one thing, surely no one but a pervert would ever sleep with a real sexbot, right? Wrong. To put that another way: No.
Modern Mechanix 12 Stories You Need To Know Today This article titled “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?” was written by Carole Cadwalladr, for The Observer on Sunday 11th November 2012 00.01 UTC Two years ago, I sat in the back seat of a Toyota Prius in a rooftop car park in California and gripped the door handle as the car roared away from the kerb, headed straight towards the roof’s edge and then at the last second sped around a corner without slowing down. There was no one in the driver’s seat. It was the prototype of Google’s self-driving car and it felt a bit like being Buck Rogers and catapulted into another century. A few months later, the New York Times revealed that Thrun was the head of Google’s top-secret experimental laboratory Google X, and was developing, among other things, Google Glasses – augmented reality spectacles. The self-driving car, the glasses, Google X, his prestigious university position – they’d all gone. “It’s going to change. CS221 is a demanding, difficult subject.
Science, Technology, and Human Responsibility COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence. Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time. What's new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Think of Google, for instance, where millions of people all over the world create web pages, and link those web pages to each other. Then all that knowledge is harvested by the Google technology so that when you type a question in the Google search bar the answers you get often seem amazingly intelligent, at least by some definition of the word "intelligence." The first was the average social perceptiveness of the group members.
The New Model for Innovation Is Social -- and Mobile: But Are Companies Ready? Most business leaders are by now aware that the growing use of mobile phones is changing the competitive landscape for all companies, no matter what the industry. The extent of those changes is greater than most appreciate, however. They include entirely new methods of designing products and completely revamped methods for selling them. Those were some of the key ideas that emerged from a recent conference — “How Mobile and Social Are Transforming Innovation Models: Flipping the Paradigm?” “The war is over,” Snyder noted. There are many implications of this shift to mobile. Snyder predicted that several industries and professions were on the verge of being disrupted by mobile. New Possibilities for a New Economy Another conference speaker, Todd Hewlin, said the new ground rules in the social and mobile economy were “the perfect storm for disruption,” requiring companies to learn an entirely new way of selling their products. The Psychology of Social Media Feeding the Ecosystem
Five ingredients for innovation The political, social, and economic problems of tomorrow aren’t going to be solved using the methods honed by Baby Boomers and their parents (no offense to either generation). That message took center stage at this year’s World Innovation Forum, which took place on June 12th and 13th. But no matter how old you are, progress and prosperity are dependent on innovation. Here are five takeaways I took from more than a dozen speakers during the two-day idea-fest. The takeaways are for those of all ages: Innovation takes a variety of tools and skills, but Leidl offers five big ones that he gathered from this year’s World Innovation Forum. Change Rebecca Henderson, co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard, gave a sobering perspective on a future without change. Putting theory to practice, the young entrepreneurs at Sword & Plough, were featured for their sustainable and innovative products. Practice Collaboration Belief Fun
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