Scholar
Neil Birkbeck
Google Scholar ID: 1dUZn8kAAAAJ
Unknown affiliation
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,213
H-index
21
i10-index
39
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume
Miscellany
- Personal projects include clones of classic games: Bomberman, Breakout, Pacman, and Tetris (Titris)
- Bomberman features primitive AI and a basic multiplayer system inspired by Quake 3
- Breakout includes a console with commands like map and give
- Pacman includes an innovative 'chew through walls' feature activated by the spacebar
- Titris was his first attempt at AI programming, using simple if/else logic
- All project code is open-sourced on GitHub, though the author describes it as 'horrendous'
- Successfully used Emscripten to run games in the browser, with playable demos available online
