My Websites
ConwayLife.com
A website devoted to Conway’s Game of Life and similar cellular automata, ConwayLife.com contains a fast Java applet for exploring the game. Perhaps more importantly though, the site also contains LifeWiki, an encyclopedia for Life-like cellular automata. With almost 1,000 articles and over 650 patterns, it is the largest collection of patterns and encyclopaedic information about Life-like cellular automata on the internet.
The site itself was launched in December 2008, and LifeWiki was launched soon thereafter in January 2009.
StatDistributions.com
A website that calculates p-values and test statistics associated with normal, Student’s t, chi-square, and F-distributions. The calculations are done in javascript via the trapezoid rule for numerical integration, and the distribution image is created via some transparent PNGs, javascript and CSS – it does not use Java or any plug-ins.
It was launched in August 2010 and uses some basic PHP to allow permalinks to specific calculations, such as this one.
Olympus (Facebook Game)
Olympus is my most recent online game, and it runs on Facebook. It is somewhere between an RPG and a strategy game based around Greek mythology – the basic idea is that you control a city and its military forces. You can invade other cities, spy on them, steal from them, cast spells, complete quests, explore land, and a whole bunch of other stuff to try to grow your city as large as possible.
The original goal of the game was to show that the Facebook platform can be used to make quality games, rather than games that just spam you with newsfeed posts constantly. The game runs on PHP 5 and MySQL (and is the first project that I coded in PHP).
MythicWars.com
This website is home to two online games (Mythos and Norron) that I made during my undergraduate years at University of Guelph. The games are based around Greek and Norse mythology, respectively, were coded in ASP 3.0, and run on an SQL Server 2005 database (although Mythos made its humble debut while running on an MS Access database).
In late 2007, Norron was translated into Chinese, but the Chinese version of the game has since been taken offline. The English-language version of the games are still running and maintain a consistent playerbase of a few hundred active players.