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So any code? Great collection of info you posted about it (and a shame about legal happenings that can hamstring capable people) but I'm even more curious now

by gt2 8y ago

So any code? Great collection of info you posted about it (and a shame about legal happenings that can hamstring capable people) but I'm even more curious now as to whether there was any code at all written!

DonHopkins 8y ago
The "Serial Hacktreprenuer" never wrote a line of code -- he just destroyed companies and tried to take credit for other people's ideas. But here are some earlier demos and prototypes I developed for Will at the Stupid Fun Club, exploring his ideas about storytelling, social networking, mobile and geolocated gaming, a community scripted TV program, geographical music organization and navigation, and a reality TV show with robots, which got tangled up with the HiveMind boondoggle and was never released (so I can't release the sources, unfortunately). You can read the articles and his lawsuit complaining how Will was committing an "atrocity" and "genocide" by taking all the ideas he presumed he owned and doing them without him, but take it with a grain of salt because we had been working on that stuff for many years before he came along, and they were pretty obvious widely known ideas: Stupid Fun Club StoryMaker Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yEHs_WLzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yEHs_WLzQ >Demo of the Urban Safari StoryMaker technology, developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club, by Don Hopkins. Originally developed for CurrentTV's Bar Karma TV show, the first online community-developed network television series. Branching collaborative storytelling and voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Karma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Karma >MediaWiki front end server. Python back end server. Flash Storymaker client. Geolocated storytelling. Google map overlays. Administrative back-end content management system. MediaWiki integration and embedding. iPad Storymaker application. MapKit integration. Facebook StoryMaker app. Voice synthesizer reading stories. Facebook album import and export. 3D branching story visualization with Unity3D. MediaGraph Music Navigation with Pie Menus Prototype developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc >This is a demo of a user interface research prototype that I developed for Will Wright at the Stupid Fun Club. It includes pie menus, an editable map of music interconnected with roads, and cellular automata. >It uses one kind of nested hierarchical pie menu to build and edit another kind of geographic networked pie menu. Servitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg >Stupid Fun Club's "Servitude" One Minute Movie about Robot Servitude, written by Will Wright. Robot brain and personality simulation programmed by Don Hopkins. Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrbqXPnHvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrbqXPnHvE >Stupid Fun Club's "Empathy" One Minute Movie about Robot Empathy, written by Will Wright. Robot brain and personality simulation programmed by Don Hopkins.

by gt2 8y ago

DonHopkins 8y ago

The "Serial Hacktreprenuer" never wrote a line of code -- he just destroyed companies and tried to take credit for other people's ideas. But here are some earlier demos and prototypes I developed for Will at the Stupid Fun Club, exploring his ideas about storytelling, social networking, mobile and geolocated gaming, a community scripted TV program, geographical music organization and navigation, and a reality TV show with robots, which got tangled up with the HiveMind boondoggle and was never released (so I can't release the sources, unfortunately). You can read the articles and his lawsuit complaining how Will was committing an "atrocity" and "genocide" by taking all the ideas he presumed he owned and doing them without him, but take it with a grain of salt because we had been working on that stuff for many years before he came along, and they were pretty obvious widely known ideas: Stupid Fun Club StoryMaker Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yEHs_WLzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yEHs_WLzQ >Demo of the Urban Safari StoryMaker technology, developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club, by Don Hopkins. Originally developed for CurrentTV's Bar Karma TV show, the first online community-developed network television series. Branching collaborative storytelling and voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Karma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Karma >MediaWiki front end server. Python back end server. Flash Storymaker client. Geolocated storytelling. Google map overlays. Administrative back-end content management system. MediaWiki integration and embedding. iPad Storymaker application. MapKit integration. Facebook StoryMaker app. Voice synthesizer reading stories. Facebook album import and export. 3D branching story visualization with Unity3D. MediaGraph Music Navigation with Pie Menus Prototype developed for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfeHNIXYUc >This is a demo of a user interface research prototype that I developed for Will Wright at the Stupid Fun Club. It includes pie menus, an editable map of music interconnected with roads, and cellular automata. >It uses one kind of nested hierarchical pie menu to build and edit another kind of geographic networked pie menu. Servitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg >Stupid Fun Club's "Servitude" One Minute Movie about Robot Servitude, written by Will Wright. Robot brain and personality simulation programmed by Don Hopkins. Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrbqXPnHvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrbqXPnHvE >Stupid Fun Club's "Empathy" One Minute Movie about Robot Empathy, written by Will Wright. Robot brain and personality simulation programmed by Don Hopkins.