Douglas A. Shepardson

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/71f5fe0b-3ce8-499e-99b9-aa64d60aee6c https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8715d4c2-97ed-4ed3-803b-8560736d690c https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/edb68472-33f7-469c-b80c-76502e938d13 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0776e7dc-c446-45e5-be70-4c4a0c10d1d7 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d2a9c397-a5b9-4c62-a18e-f1de74b472cf https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/1a7c4fda-572f-457c-9e04-e3b5c9c207e4 2d side scrolling platformer: kirby, mario, and shadow:...

[Note: this is not a blog post; it's for a class to easily access materials on one webpage!] Decision-based RPG game: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7e4f6339-7633-46a6-83d2-e52331f55cdf Prompt used to create that game: "Make a text-based RPG game about a hero with a gender neutral name saving a princess from a castle with a dragon. Allow the player to make decisions about how to navigate the castle (e.g., go up to the first floor, go to the basement, etc). Have a few random encounters,...

If we trust Aristotle’s account of the history of (metaphysical) philosophy, the first philosopher was Thales of Miletus . He’s the one who started “this sort” of philosophy, Aristotle says in the third chapter of his Metaphysics , not philosophy proper ( Metaphysics 983b20).   Stereotyped as an absent-minded philosopher, Plato depicts him falling into a well while staring up at the stars ( Theaetetus  174a). Aristotle’s history doesn’t help over-turn the narrative of philosophical...