Friday, September 25, 2026

Back Home Again in Indiana

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On Wednesday, I stayed on campus later than usual so that I could attend a public presentation by Ben Vu , a successful and inspirational Ba...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Fixing the student progress report system

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It turns out that the approach I described in an earlier post simply does not work. I didn’t mention in that post that I developed it with ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Notes from Spring 2026 CS390 "Final Exam" meeting

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Back in April , I mentioned that the "final exam" for my game preproduction class was primarily a discussion. Cleaning up my offic...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Some ways to get a McGuffin from the Goblin King

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Cleaning my office this morning, I came across some design notes that struck me as too interesting to throw directly into the recycling bin....
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Summer Course Revisions: CS315 Game Programming

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I had a break from teaching CS315 Game Programming last Fall while I was on sabbatical, and now I'm gearing up to get back into it. It...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Summer Course Revisions: CS222 Advanced Programming

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I always revisit my courses over the summer, but this year there are higher stakes than usual. Ball State has opted to change the calendar f...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

A few notes on branching, microbranching, and pants

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I am wrapping up work on a preproduction build of a digital gamebook that has me writing a lot of interactive fiction. After exploring my op...