Lately, I’ve been thinking about the puzzles in my game Ralph. Since it has become common practice to write up a post-mortem analysis for Interactive Fiction Competition games after the Competition is over, I thought it might be acceptable to write one 30 years late, just to kind of publically sort my thoughts, which is […]
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My first scholarly article has finally come out! It’s called “Press ( ) to jump”: control mechanisms in computer and video games and is meant to be a definitive overview of control mechanisms in games and a starting point for more thorough research. The magazine, Paidia, is usually in German, but they feature the odd […]
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When I visited German game studio Rainbow Arts for the second time in 1989, I spent a lot of time with my friend Ramiro Vaca, and therefore with 8- and 16-bit music wizard Chris Hülsbeck (then still with an umlaut), who was sharing a flat in Düsseldorf with Ramiro, and their friend Peter Thierolf. Chris […]
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In a recent post, I talked about the term Interactive Fiction (or IF) and how its meaning and use changed over the years. With the genre expanding and maturing, however, the ways of looking at it also changed. For one thing, while I remarked that fans of “parser-based” or “choice-based” IF usually don’t fight each […]
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On 13 January, I finally performed the first reading of my book 10 GOTO 20. It’s a German-language book and the reading was also in German, obviously, but I’ll talk about it in English for a broader audience. When the book came out in 2022, the second COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin had just ended, and […]
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I’ve been a fan of text adventures since I was about 12 years old in 1983. I basically learned English playing them (and reading my neighbour’s American Mad Magazine issues), so they always had a place in my heart. Very briefly, these games describe the story as text and take text input from the player […]
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And we’re back to English. As announced on Mastodon two weeks ago, I’d like to share a few statistics about my videos on YouTube. First, the numbers (sorted by the publishing date, which is given in the German format dd.mm.yy): Video name Date Views Likes % Cmnts Im Fokus: Defender of the Crown 15.12.20 242 […]
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Der letzte der angekündigten vier deutschsprachigen Artikel aus meinem Studium stammt aus dem Modul IT-Recht und beschäftigt sich mit dem Unterschied zwischen Softwarekopien und Privatkopien. Da es sich um einen Kurzvortrag handelte, hat er eine etwas andere Form als die anderen drei Artikel. Urheberrecht: Wann darf man Software kopieren? Worin liegt der Unterschied zur Privatkopie? […]
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Der vorletzte der angekündigten Artikel aus meinem Studium befasst sich mit Dithering, hier speziell zur Anwendung als Web-/OpenGL-Shader. Ich habe allerdings aus Zeitgründen keine Implementierung abgeliefert, sondern lediglich einen Ansatz, wie die Implementierung umgesetzt werden könnte. Beschreibung des grafischen Ditherings mit Implementierungsansatz Miron Schmidt 2023 1. Grundlagen Dithering ist die Anwendung von Rauschen zur Verteilung […]
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Der zweite der angekündigten Artikel hat streng genommen auf diesen Seiten nicht viel verloren: Der einzige Bezug zu Spielen ist, dass sie programmiert werden müssen und dass man vor dem eigentlichen Programmieren meist eine gewisse Planung vornimmt. Ein Teil dieser Planung findet in Form von UML (Unified Modeling Language) statt – auch wenn ein Freund […]
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