Introduction I recently developed functionality to allow users to sign into an app using a business card. The business card has an embedded batteryless, short-range communication device known as a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag. The user simply positions the business card close to their mobile device (usually top rear) and…

Introduction The Femme Fatale occupied a central role in classic noir films of the 1940’s and 50’s and her prominence remains persistent in revivalist noir works known as neo-noir and tech-noir. Superficially, she is the devastatingly beautiful, self-serving seductress. But this is merely her fictional guise. Dig deeper and she reveals…

Introduction It is commonly accepted that computer games constitute a distinct phenomenological category of narrative beyond the classical literary diegetic and mimetic modes. In the classical sense narrative is either told or enacted, and therefore heard or seen; furthermore, classical modes of narrative follow a linear path from start to end…

Following on from my reflection about the porous boundary between the fictional [or synthetic] world of electronic narrative platforms and the realworld, I would like to now switch my focus to the role of realworld within the scope of interactive networked narrative; I shall focus particularly upon the idea of…

In a previous article I considered how the Choose Your Own Adventure books I played as a kid were in fact book-games just as games I played on a tv screen or monitor are video-games. More recently I played the 2018 Netflix movie-game called Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Bandersnatch requires the…

Like so many other kids growing up in the 1980’s I spent a heck of a lot of time playing Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books as well as playing/making text based adventure games for my Commodore and Sinclair home computers. I recall spending hours upon end staring at a…

Introduction AISpy is an experimental app concept built using Flutter, a cross-platform toolkit made by Google. The app uses TensorFlow Lite, a deep learning framework for on-device inference. The app combines artificial intelligence and gamification to acquire user submitted source images to enhance the underlying machine learning object recognition dataset. The…

Introduction The aim of this article is to explore how elements of UI (user interface) design evolved from the analogue world of physical, three dimensional switches, dials and buttons. …

Introduction This article covers the process of setting up a web contact form using a Javascript library, VueJS, alongside Google Firebase Cloud services. …