Gaming – Mark O'Neill

Measure twice, cut once, weep daily

Remember when you could just buy something? You handed over money in exchange for goods or services and that was it. But now we are pursued forever by the furies of online shopping, service metrics. And so it goes on and on. The comforting notion that all this data has value, that the overhead inContinue reading “Measure twice, cut once, weep daily”

Halloween for the Socially Distancing

I have written a short and simple game for people with children who would like to go Trick or Treating but cannot this year 😦 Enjoy!

The Price of Survival

I have spent a lot of this weekend playing Destiny1. In Destiny your character is one of the last defenders of humanity in the face of monstrous alien enemies. You do not fight alone, as well as the human defenders there are the Warminds. The Warminds are AIs, built by humanity and then self-evolving toContinue reading “The Price of Survival”

The Joy of Uselessness

I have a confession. I am useless at Destiny 2. For those who have never played it, Destiny 2 is a game where you run around the solar system fighting aliens, finding new weapons and armour, and falling off of the scenery. The first two are core to the game, the third is my ownContinue reading “The Joy of Uselessness”