Episode 116 – Monster Bash

This week we are especially delighted to have two special guests on the show, Eric Mertens from Galois, Inc.  and Aaron Camerata from voidALPHA to share their insight and experience on the Verigames project with DARPA over that past couple of years.

Aaron does a fantastic job explaining how playing the game Monster Proof helps improve code quality by players playing the game in his recent blog post “Games…for Science!”  http://voidalpha.com/blog/ce6a4/monster-proof—how-it-works .

The concept here is pretty simple — can crowdsourced players playing a game perform formal verification / code testing faster and more cost-effectively than testers following the traditional development testing methodologies?  And if so, can these same kind of constructs and methods allow for code creation to write new code to solve new problems?

Some of the selected links from the discussion on the show
Penn & Teller’s Desert Bus game — http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/10/4510388/why-teller-created-desert-bus-the-worst-video-game-in-history
Desert Bus by Amateur Pixels for iOS — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/desert-bus/id470288016?mt=8
Desert Bus by Amateur Pixels for Android — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tueidj.DesertBus&hl=en
Iavor Diatchki — https://galois.com/team/iavor-diatchki/
DragonBox algebra learning games — http://dragonboxapp.com
FoldIt — http://fold.it/portal/
Zachtronics —http://www.zachtronics.com
Elevator Saga, the elevator programming game challenge — http://play.elevatorsaga.com
Rosalind platform for learning bioinformatics and programming via problem solving — http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/
Waze — https://www.waze.com
The Curve by Nicholas Lovell — http://www.thecurveonline.com
Attention economy — http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/es_attention.html

Games we are playing these days
Eric Mertens — TIS-100 — http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
Aaron Camerata —
Slingshot Braves — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slingshot-braves/id857514427?mt=8 
The Sailor’s Dream — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id895869909
Framed — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/framed/id886565180?mt=8
Magic the Gathering — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering
Knights of Pen and Paper — https://www.paradoxplaza.com/knights-of-pen-paper-1-editionMichael R –Hearthstone —  iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearthstone-heroes-warcraft/id625257520?mt=8 and Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.wtcg.hearthstone&hl=en
Phaedra B –Grim Fandango — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grim-fandango-remastered/id978524071?mt=8Michael M —
Does not Commute — https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/does-not-commute/id971756507?mt=8
Bang! the Wild West card game — http://amzn.com/B001Q4XWB8

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