This is a re-recording my VJ performance for MSX composer Tadahiro Nitta at MSXGOTO40 in Amsterdam in December 2023 Featuring: – i.am.dani – The AI Chatbot from 1987 that comes to life in 2023 to make art and write poetry – MIDI controlled, sound generated algorithmic art – Creative coding projects made by TU Dublin Computer Science and Game Design students inspired by the story of MSX – Gameplay of MSX games from which the music is taken All music made and performed by Tadahiro Nitta on MSX computers GAZZEL INTRO GG TROIS BACKFLOW WAVE – Raging Blitz BOSS BGM – Raging Blitz STAGE CLEAR– Ragi ..read more

Here is some more artwork and poetry created with i.am.dani the AI chatbot from 1987 that comes to life in 2024. i.am.dani will be at the TU Dublin CAO Open Day on 13th April 2024 ..read more

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This assignment challenges computer science students to apply the programming they are learning, to a creative project that they work on in a team, over the course of one semester. It is given to around 140 students in the second semester of their second year. The students form teams and submit their teams and proposals around week 5. Final submission and demos are around week 13. Students track and document their progress by making documented commits in a github repository that they submit at the end. There is a template for the readme.md file they submit, where they declare their individual ..read more

Here is a recording of my Introduction to Godot workshop at the Games and learning Association Conference GALA2023, Wednesday, 29th November, 2023. There were around 30 people in attendance! Here is a git repo with the examples I showed and a link to the slides ..read more

Some pictures from my workshop at INSIGHT2023: Rethinking Psychedelics on Building Multi-Sensory VR projects. What an amazing experience and a privilege to share knowledge with the participants ..read more

Check it out! Creative coding on a 40 year old computer ..read more

i.am.dani is a creative coding project that celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the creation of the MSX Computer System in 1983. Inspired by DANI chatbot from 1986, i.am.dani celebrates the joy of learning programming by making art from code, and features work by myself and teams of students from TU Dublin. Developed in Java using the Processing libraries for creative coding, i.am.dani features MIDI controlled, sound responsive visual pieces that can be used for visuals for DJ’s and live music. Processing can trace it’s inspirations from graphical programming languages used to learn programming ..read more

This is my talk at iGBL2023, the International Conference on Game Based Learning. It’s a bit all over the place, so I decided to sumarise my experience into a paper that has been submitted to GALA2023, the Games and Learning Alliance Conference which will be hosted in TU Dublin in November 2023. Below is an edited version of the submission: Game Engines 2 is a module offered to 4th year Computer Science and 3rd year Game Design students at TU Dublin, spanning one semester. The module consists of two hours of classroom teaching and two hours of lab time per week.  Around 40 students take ..read more

Here is a selection of the creative work done by my computer science and game design students on my modules in 2023 ..read more