Game Engines & Worlds

ROOMS 3D Desktops

3D computer wallpaper with real depth—turn your desktop into a 3D game.

Jack wrote the 3D engine and created the sample worlds, making them available online here: www.rooms3d.com

Abate-the-Wait

In the days of modem internet and delays loading even the simplest website, Jack wrote a browser add-on that automatically launched a game in the browser window when you requested a web page, allowing you to play a variation of scissors-paper-stone until the page either started to load, or finished loading. The game could be replaced by text to read e.g. from a novel or textbook or other user-selected content.

Goss Game & Kayak Knowledge Engine

This is a work-in-progress. The "Goss" (for gossip) game is the test implementation for Jack's "Kayak" knowledge engine.

The Kayak engine lets the user navigate a tree of facts that will guide them to a "breakthrough node" and the next tree (or next level).

Node visibility and possible actions are dependent on character. An aggressive player-character has access to some nodes and options that are not available to meak or mild player-characters, and vice-versa. Your route through the game depends on your nature.

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