David Morgan-Mar
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David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, best known online for two webcomics, Irregular Webcomic! and Infinity on 30 Credits a Day, and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to Pyramid magazine. He works as an optical engineer at Canon.
The languages he has created have had varying degrees of popularity. Some of them are full Turing-complete languages while others are simple jokes.
From his website, the list of languages:[1]
- BIT, which treats all data like C treats strings
- Chef, where the programs produce magnificent meals
- Haifu, based on Eastern philosophy and artistic values
- HQ9++, which extends the elegance of HQ9+ to the object-oriented paradigm
- Ook!, designed for orangutans (see The Librarian (Discworld))
- Piet, where the programs are works of modern art
- Whenever, with no sense of urgency
- ZOMBIE, designed for evil necromancers
His esoteric languages page also includes other esoteric computer concepts:
- LenPEG, an image-compression algorithm
- Petrovich, an operating system based on reward and punishment
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[edit] Infinity on 30 Credits a Day
Infinity on 30 Credits a Day is an idea that was developed by David Morgan-Mar in response to a poll he conducted, asking the fans of his webcomic, Irregular Webcomic!, whether or not they would create a webcomic, given the ability to do so. It is a webcomic created entirely through collaboration between the 500 or so fans that signed up to help. Much excitement has been generated on the Irregular Webcomic! forums and the newly created Infinity On Thirty Credits A Day forums about this project, due to the fact that it puts the power into the hands of those that signed up to create it. Essentially, the creation of each comic is a collaborative effort by several people, chosen due to their skills. This process will result in not only new ideas for each individual comic, but a widely varying look and feel for each one as well.
[edit] Creative Process
So far, Infinity on 30 Credits a Day has gone through the following steps:
- Sign-up by interested fans
- A poll to determine the genre
- A poll for the title
- A poll for the three main characters
Some of those who volunteered as artists are now drawing their ideas of the characters. This will be followed by another poll among the volunteers.
The intent when the webcomic has finished is that it will go through the following cycle:
- Different scripts will be written, and then voted on to decide which way the story goes.
- Strips will be drawn and voted on to decide which one is used.
- Dialogue will be written, and presumably voted on.
- Lettering and Coloring will then be added.
Creators will be chosen based on the order they signed up, or added the appropriate abilities to their profile.
[edit] References
- This page was originally based on an entry from Comixpedia at Infinity on 30 Credits a Day and is used under the GNU Free Documentation License.
