Digital adventuring
Minecraft meets Cast Away
EXT. UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – NIGHT Shrouded with fog and surrounded by seaborne chickens, the tail of the big plane slowly SINKS beneath the calm, uniform water. Maynard does what he can to stay afloat and to head in the direction of a beach close by. EXT. BEACH – EARLY MORNING Night has passed. The water [...]
The simple shapes of stories – Game of Thrones
Rest assured, there won’t be any spoilers in here other than an expectation of highs and lows in the show based on the text of the book. If you’d rather have a virginal experience, I’d suggest clicking one of the links to the right and see what else I’ve put on this site and am [...]
The simple shapes of stories
Inspired by the following video of Kurt Vonnegut, I decided to graph the general mood in well-known stories. I wrote a simple parser which evaluates a given text based on two collections of keywords, one collection of words indicating a positive, up-beat tone and the other collection indicating a negative, dramatic tone. I then graphed [...]
