Hello, just a quick note to mention that I have a number of speaking engagements coming up: London Graph Connect 19th Nov – where I will be talking about our use of Neo4j with my colleague Toby O’Rouke F# in Finance (London) 25th Nov – where I will be talking about running F# at scale …
Using StageXL and Dart, I built another mini-game themed around our MMORPG Here Be Monsters this week. The game follows a pack of Taotie monsters, which is a type of spirit monster created when a ghost with immense hunger possesses a Chinese pot. Taotie originates from Chinese folklores and is one of many monsters that …
Run Taotie Run – new Here Be Monsteres mini-game made with Dart and StageXL Read More »
I was recently invited to chat to the Mostly Erlang podcast about F#, with co-host Bryan Hunter, Fred Hebert (author of the excellent Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!) and fellow F# addict Phil Trelford (author of many popular F# libraries such as TickSpec, Mini Rx and Foq). It’s always nice to talk about …
..are turned into an in-game character by your game designers!!! Thanks guys!
After an 11-hour marathon session at the London GameCraft event yesterday, I am very proud to say that my team’s entry – Agents of P.R.I.S.M was awarded with the MOST INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF THE THEME award for the theme of the day – Impact of P.R.I.S.M. It was a great day out for the guys …
Hi, just a quick note to say that recordings of my talk with Community for F# is now available. In this session, I shared some of our experiences of building a successful MMORPG for a social audience and insights into some of the technical challenges that my team has had to overcome along the way. …
Hi, just a quick note to mention that I’ll be talking to Community for F# on the 14th May at 11AM PDT about our experience of building an MMORPG, some of the challenges we face along the way and how F# helps us solve some of these problems. You can register for the event here. …
I recently co-authored an article with Gael Fraiteur (creator of PostSharp) on how AOP frameworks such as PostSharp can be used to automate the implementation of common design patterns in .Net. The article is now available to view on the InfoQ website here. A more offline friendly PDF version is also available here and from …
Hi, just a quick to say that my talk with .Net Rocks is now available on their web site. In this talk I shared some insights into how F# is used in our stack to help us build the backend for our social games, specifically in the areas of: implementation of a slots engine which …
To celebrate the arrival of a new year, we have launched a number of new years in Here Be Monsters. New Trophy System First off, we have introduced a new Trophy system into the game which gives you milestones to aim for as you’re freely exploring the game, not to mention a tidy bit of …
Here Be Monsters – New Trophy system, automatic Fences and more items! Read More »
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