John Aycock

Professor in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He/him.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

Seems like a good time to reiterate this while I still can...

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

For anyone leaving for the land of Mastodonia: @[email protected]

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@bateskecom I chose a bad time to buy it full price last week, with two discounts since then! Oops!

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@valuefnd If you don't go with the trunk, are you able to use a bridge like this so us trunk people (trunklodytes?) can still see what nefarious things you're up to?

https://t.co/K0tD1PjADo

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@GameResearch_E I was today years old when I realized the "dragon slayer" play on words in that title.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@GameResearch_E I can only imagine the amount of cigarette smoke there!

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

Thanks for adding it! For anyone interested, the ebook is decently priced; for the print version, there's a 50% discount code (AYCO8676) for individual orders through the publisher that expires at the end of April.

[The Video Game Library 📚 ➡️ Over on Bluesky @TheVGLibrary]

Big thanks to the anonymous tip for @herrprofdr's "Amnesia Remembered"! 🙏

Would have easily looked this one over, but turns out, it's explained through the lens of @EA's 1986 text adventure #Amnesia.

Added to the site!! 📚

👉https://t.co/B3PApzdjdC

#Archaeogaming

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@reggitsti No, they all suck

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@apolitopoulos @alex_brandsen 1994... so recent!

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@goretsky @UK_Daniel_Card @thegrugq Not sure that story came from me, but I wouldn't be surprised: the bar for proving student misconduct can be very high at a university.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@JasonBoon02 Idol Time. I didn't think I'd ever see a copy in the wild!

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

Okay, this site has gotten too gross. I'll keep this account as a placeholder but anything new will be on my Mastodon account. Its address is pinned from one of my older tweets (this seems to be working... for now), or you can find it atop my web page at https://t.co/cQqg8BFSb5

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@GameResearch_E Well, yes and no, in the sense that the company wasn't in the game business :-)

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@GameResearch_E Where "recent" must be relative, given he passed away in 2018! (In my defense, I was prepping to start a talk at the time and may have misheard.)

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@GameResearch_E https://t.co/RMELMVC0Xz

I heard last week that Kates was recently interviewed, although I'm not sure if the transcript's available yet.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@kbiittner I feel smarter every time I read @kbiitner's writing! I'm delighted that I get to work with her.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@MartinStoermer @kbiittner @ISSarchaeology I saw earlier that bookmarks weren't being captured...? I haven't dug through my archive to check, nor had time to go through my bookmarks myself to save whatever I thought was interesting at the time. Sigh.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@kbiittner @MartinStoermer @ISSarchaeology The Twitter archives that you can request seem pretty incomplete; it may be more a matter of what bots happened to scrape tweets and when. I agree with @kbiittner: fragments.

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@angealbertini @DiskBlitz Maybe a flux-visualization-a-day desk calendar!

[John Aycock @herrprofdr]

@ErnstKrogtoft Swashbuckler was bagged software!? I had no idea, despite having played it when I was younger...