Category Archives: Features / Abilities

Gamasutra had a short but useful article about implementing a WebSocket server. It’s apparently kindof like making the moose be a Web server for HTTP, except it ends up being faster and for custom messages.

From this article on gamasutra about techniques to monitize free-to-play games, I read that people are willing to pay, to give a “gift” of a free-to-play game to someone else, that someone being the target of their affections, who they … Continue reading →

As a pleasant side effect of some work we just completed on eye-gaze, we’ve succeeded in coding the ability to correctly adjust the viewing angle of the Moose, as if he truly were a 3-dimension object in front of the … Continue reading →

Here are some links to articles on ChatScript, by Bruce Wilcox. It’s got some things that will be useful to the Talking Moose, and better suited than AIML. However, I’m not planning to have the Moose be, a Chatbot. – … Continue reading →

I’ve realized that some people are going to enjoy being able to customize their Moose, by attaching new things onto him. At Christmas, decorated antlers and a Santa hat.

The Moose (vb6 version) already has a diet feature, reminding people to eat less. But today I thought of a new potential feature: Personal Hygiene reminders. Like checkboxes for the moose to remind you to: Shave, clip fingernails, nose hairs, … Continue reading →

Gizmodo today had a story about how to use a NASA website to see the International Space Station. Their link led to the NASA website for tracking the ISS. This was helpful to me, because I discovered that they offer … Continue reading →

This started as an idea, that it would be funny to hear the Moose swearing, occasionally. I had envisioned a control whereby users could set the percentage chance 0 to 100%, of the moose inserting swear words into its joke … Continue reading →

If you post jokes, you should email me, regarding fame and paid-work. Recently I’ve begun using Twitter, and following comedians, following their followers to find new comedians, and so on. I’ve realized that the 140 char twitter limit is an … Continue reading →

It would be very useful for the Talking Moose to tell you when a file has changed, or a new file has been created in a certain folder. I’m going to have that ability coded, and controlled with some easy … Continue reading →