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RP4K Teacher Profiles: Gabriel Dibenedetto

Real Programming

His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. Gabe develops models of worlds powered by the coding language C++ to test and simulate how rugged electric vehicles would handle the terrain. The vehicles he programs also operate under the same rules.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly.