Games with generated behaviour

For our final project at the university, we combined game theory and genetic algorithms in order to create a framework for easing the construction of game playing agents.

We gave it a spin on Connect Four and Backgammon – the agents are not intended to play optimally, but rather to provide an entertaining challenge.

Backgammon
Connect Four

Enjoy!

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey on Vista 64bit

**Update: Jewish Jorgie has informed me (although not very politely), that with the newest pach installed, running Dreamfall on 64bit Vista is no longer a problem. According to Jewish Jorgie, you can get the patch here. I have not tested this solution, but the link seems genuine. If this approach does not work, consult the old guide below :)**

So a long time ago i bought “Dreamfall: The Longest Journey” and I loved it. However, after buying a new PC with Windows Vista 64bit on it, I have been unable to play it – until today, that is.

I decided to finally do something about it, so I looked into some solutions online, and played around with them. It ended up being a combination of different solutions that made the game work on my system.  Below I have tried to clearly state how to make your game work too:

1. Install the game (dah)
2. Open the Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator and write the following “Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON”. This disables the digital driver signing check, that will otherwise prevent you from booting after completing step 3.
3. Run Dreamfall as Administrator and let the security program do its thing.
4. Update the security program from here. Dreamfall uses a version LOWER than 5.5.
5. Run Dreamfall as Administrator again and type your key.
6. Enjoy!

I hope this works as well for you as it did for me. Otherwise, let me know ;)

~ Kim Markfoged

Yet another Linux victory!

I just keep solving problems these days!

I’ve been having some trouble with the sound in UT2004, but then I remembered, that the sound in the UT2004 Linux demo worked like a charm…

So I grabbed a UT2004 Linux demo, copied their openal.so into my own UT2004/System/ folder (after deleting my own openal.so, of course) and BINGO! I have sound!

Get ready to be fragged ^.^

~Kim

Finally, a working Logitech QuickCam Messenger!

For months I’ve been trying to get my Logitech QuickCam Messenger working on my Kubuntu Edgy Eft installation, and today was the day for me!

I’ve been trying all the time, to get it to work with the qc-usb-messenger-X.X drivers, because that was what I found when I googled it. But today, I took a deep breath and dived into the depth of the forum threads and found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75284

I immediately had a good feeling about it, because I remembered my PC freezing when it was a breezy PC (please note the hilarious word play). I followed the steps, and viola!

It seems to me, that the reason I got lucky here was because this driver was actually compatible with the specific model of the cam which, when running lsusb turns out to be:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:08da Logitech, Inc.

Anyway, if you have the exact same cam, or if you are me, reading this after a re-install, this is what the doctor (in this case arnieboy) prescribed:

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
    sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r` build-essential
    wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
    tar xvfz spca5xx-20060501.tar.gz
    cd spca5xx-20060501
    make
    sudo modprobe -r spca5xx
    sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx*
    sudo make install
    sudo modprobe spca5xx

I hope this can help other people, through the true hell of finding a proper driver for their cameras.

Don’t forget to thank arnieboy!

~Kim