Kaveh Kardan41. World Building And Alternate Reality Common LispTime for another Interlude, wherein I take a break from my career journey and reflect on what we're doing. I say we, not because I have…Aug 16, 20223Aug 16, 20223
Kaveh Kardan40. My Face On YouTube — Is That A Good Idea?While the filming for Encounter was in pre-production, I had started work on the graphics for the game. What today we would call the…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
Kaveh Kardan39. Metaprogramming, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let The Computer Write CodeJohn, my producer, rounded up a first rate crew and talented local actors for the video production the game would require. Given his…Jul 12, 20221Jul 12, 20221
Kaveh Kardan38. A 3D CG FMV CD-ROM GameIn the mid-90’s, Apple's QuickTime VR was a hot new technology. Around the same time, Myst was the hot CD-ROM game.Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Kaveh Kardan37. If Code Is Data, My Story Is A DatabaseI wanted to be organized, so as I wrote the screenplay for “Two Knights Defense”, I started putting parentheses around the text and before…Jun 30, 2022Jun 30, 2022
Kaveh Kardan36. From Camcorder To Common LispOddly enough, I do remember that the idea for the web graphic novel came to me while I was cleaning beans at the kitchen table one day. I…Jun 29, 20222Jun 29, 20222
Kaveh Kardan34. To Encapsulate Or Not To EncapAround the time of Metropolis Graphics, I did some contract development for a Montreal company developing a GIS (geographic information…Jun 21, 2022Jun 21, 2022
Kaveh Kardan33. Hindsight Can Also Be MyopicLong story short, we failed to get funding for our project and Metropolis Graphics withered on the vine, nothing more than the pipe dream…Jun 19, 2022Jun 19, 2022
Kaveh Kardan32. My Object Is Smarter Than Your ObjectI still have the MCL code I wrote during the years of Metropolis Graphics. I found a comment dated 4 April 1992 in the matrix math file…Jun 17, 2022Jun 17, 2022