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Last week we enjoyed having Max Steele here for a week of work experience. Max is a 6th form student, currently studying for his A-levels and hoping to pursue a career in Computer science. Before his time here Max had never done any coding so we thought
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Following the publication of the F# source code for the TrueSkill Through Time paper, we have used the same inference library code to demonstrate how the original TrueSkill algorithm can be coded. In the attached source code, only the program.fs file
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Popfly has a great Alpha that lets you create a game in your browser, no programming required, and then easily embed it on your own site. The following is one of the sample games - Space Boy: You can read more on Somasegar's WebLog: PopFly Game Creator
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Today Ralf & I were looking at ways to bundle up a bunch of .Net assemblies into a single assembly for use within our group; the goal to expose only the functionality we want and only need to reference one assembly in our projects. Enter command line
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Its been yet another wet and windy bank holiday weekend here in the UK, so I decided to involve the family and create a video Blackjack called BabyJack, despite the baby's name being Sean not Jack :). Just press the Play button below to pit your wits
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While travelling to Microsoft HQ in Redmond earlier in the year for the annual TechFest event - for some fun I decided to have a go at writing a small retro game in F# using XNA 2.0 , and attached are the results. When moving over to Pacific time I usually
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We have recently come accross Jeff Keegan's solution to being obsessed with Halo 3's Forge mode, but stuck at work without an Xbox: The LEGO Halo 3 Foundry Forge Kit! ( LH3FFK ) We loved the idea, and asked Jeff to tell us the story. Here it is in Jeff's
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In December 2007, we published a paper about the application of TrueSkill to all recorded data of professional and semi-professional Chess play from 1850 to 2006. The dataset can be obtained from ChessBase . We are very happy to be able to release the
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Erroll Wood visited Microsoft Research Cambridge as an Arkwright scholar, and chatted to the Applied Games Group on Monday 11 of February 2008. Before handing in the mike to Erroll, let us link to some of the games he has written: Tank Patrol: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/298719
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ArmoredBlitz, a first person tank shooter and a real-time strategy game all in one, was selected as one of the five winners of the Silicon Minds contest. Its creator, Jacob Liechty is a freshman at Purdue University studying Computer Science. Jacob also
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This post tries to explore exception handling in F# with custom exception types. Some background on .Net exceptions Exceptions happen: "Programs must be able to uniformly handle errors that occur during execution. The common language runtime greatly assists
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On the 8th December 2007 the Silicon Minds challenge was launched at the Machine Learning and Games workshop of the NIPS conference in the picturesque Canadian ski resort of Whistler. The challenge is to push the limits of Artificial Intelligence while
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At the beginning of this month (October) I attended and presented at the CUFP event in Freiburg, Germany. The talk was on some of the work our group has been doing over the last year using F# including the XBox 360 title Halo 3 and on predicting ad clicks
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This week it was my opportunity to present a topic for 15 minutes at the MLP group's ritual Tuesday afternoon tea and cakes session (yes - we are based in the UK). I thought it might be fun to knock up a little game with the Microsoft functional programming
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Last week we had James Budnik over for a “work experience week”: a nice opportunity for British high school students to get a feel for what it is like to sit in an office all day and a way to gather some extra data to make an informed study career decision.
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