Benjamin D. Gibson
Game Programmer
MASTER'S THESIS
Transforming Game Design Models
into Domain-Specific Languages
using Model-Driven Engineering
I'm out to help make the structures I see in game design discourse more useful to game practice.
JOURNAL CONTENTS
Stage 1: An Embedded DSL for Game Loops
Stage 1's MDE Research Review
Image: DLL pyramid's layers for entry, config, implementation.
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Oct. 20, 2016 - Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) Sources
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Oct. 27, 2016 - Results: one does not simply walk into MDE.
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Nov. 3, 2016 - Clarified Position: A DSL-DLL Architecture
Stage 1's Class/Behavior Diagrams
Image: finding shared features of models for GameLoopsDSL.
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Nov. 17, 2016 - Informal Diagrams
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Stage 1's Artifact (DSL-DLL + EXE)
Image: prototyping GameLoopsDSL's game-usage demo.
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Dec. 1, 2016 - Artifact Progress I: Automating v. Fine-tuning
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Dec. 8, 2016 - AP II: Templates v. Virtual Interfaces in DLLs
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Dec. 15, 2016 - AP III: Architectural Problems Summarized
Stage 2: A General Approach from Metamodels
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Stage 2's Metamodel Exploration
Image: a metamodel for state machines (Faunes et al 2013).
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Dec. 1, 2016 - Research Plan Proposal
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Dec. 8, 2016 - Metamodels' Two Parts + One Flaw
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Dec. 15, 2016 - Not Metamodel, DSL-DLL Paradigm!
Stage 3: The Spectrum of Abstraction between Models
Stage 3's Thesis Tensions
Image: books fall in rows by degree of abstraction.
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Jan. 13, 2017 - Refining Thesis' Identity
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Jan. 19, 2017 - The Spectrum of Abstraction (SOA)
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Jan. 26, 2017 - GameLoopsDSL v1.0, SOA Progress
Stage 3's Discussion & Artifacts
Image: one of the two DSLs' source models.
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Feb. 2, 2017 - SOA vs. Patterns, Practices, and Logics
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Feb. 9, 2017 - DungeonRankDSL & NarrativeGatesDSL
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Feb. 16, 2017 - Beginning Thesis Paper (drafts private)