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# Ben Samuel

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## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](http://www.ben-samuel.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Bad News](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/bad-news/) - Bad News is a project that directly combines two of my passions: social simulation and improvisational theatre. Based off of the Talk of the Town framework by James Ryan and Adam Summerville, a game of Bad News begins by simulating over a hundred years of history of a fictional small town. During this simulation, the
- [IMMERSE](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/immerse/) - IMMERSE is a project funded under the DARPA Strategic Social Interaction Modules program. The goal of the project is to produce a game-based training environment that teaches players “good stranger” techniques, via practicing the skills necessary to have successful social interactions in unfamiliar languages and contexts. As the game simulates being placed in a culture
- [Ownership Game (WorkingTitle)](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/ownership-game-workingtitle/) - This work-in-progress is a combination game and tool which seeks to assist users in creating and sharing their own works of narrative. In it, players place characters in a sequence of comic strip like panels to create a story. By leveraging the social physics of the Ensemble Engine (see below), actions taken between characters in
- [Double Bind Trailer](http://www.ben-samuel.com/videos/double-bind-trailer/) - Double Bind (2013) - Trailer from Mark Lammerding on Vimeo.
- [The Ensemble Engine](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/the-ensemble-engine/) - The Ensemble Engine, like it’s predecessor Comme il Faut (CiF) before it, is a social AI system. It allows users to specify rules and actions that govern social behavior in storyworlds. Also like CiF, it has support for ‘social physics,’ enabling actions of characters to indirectly give rise to new social state. It’s design was
- [SpyFeet](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/spy-feet/) - SpyFeet is a mobile Android game which utilizes augmented reality, dynamic quest generation, natural language generation (NLG) and the compelling stories of traditional role playing games to encourage middle school girls to exercise. The player quickly discovers that she has the power to see and converse with animal spirits by using her phone. The spirits
- [Weight Weight Don't Tell Me (Part 1)](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/weight-weight-dont-tell-me-part-1/) - Introduction: In Which I Confess I Really Have No Right To Write on This Subject From Any Angle Save One Today, we continue the proud blog series of Ben talking about things which he is more likely than not vastly under-qualified to speak of: weight loss and, specifically for today, diet. Unqualified though I may
- [The Elusive Art of Achievement Part 1](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/the-elusive-art-of-achievement-part-1/) - Hello hello, gentle reader. Though it's been quite some time since my last post, the gap between this and that is dwarfed by the previous period of silence. How do I do it, I hear you ask. How can I possibly find the time to update a blog more than once in a single calendar
- [The Elusive Art of Achievement Part 2](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/the-elusive-art-of-achievement-part-2/) - Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome to the long awaited conclusion to some random thoughts I have about project management and Scrum. For those just tuning in, I've already discussed the basics of Scrum in a previous post so you might want to take a peek at that first before diving in here. For those of
- [Lessons Learned and Speaking Fools](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/lessons-learned-and-speaking-fools/) - The following blog post was written without having actually re-read the previous Streamy post. Hello everyone. It's been quite a while since my last blog post. If memory serves me right, I believe I promised a thrilling part two of my red carpet Streamy experience. It turns out this is not the case! Well, for
- [Prom Week Post Mortem](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/prom-week-post-mortem/) - Our Prom Week team just posted a post mortem up at Game Career Guide. Check it out: Game Career Guide How A Game Can Simulate Real-World Relationships
- [Splitsider Interview About College Improv](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/splitsider-interview-about-college-improv/) - I was recently interviewed about my time with college improv groups Someone Always Dies and Humour Force Five. Read the article here: Splitsider 12 Colleges with Great Improv Groups
- [Streamy Nomination for Best Male Performance in a Drama](http://www.ben-samuel.com/blog/streamy-nomination-for-best-male-performance-in-a-drama/) - I was recently nominated for a Streamy, which from what I gather is a little bit like an Emmy but for web content, in the category of Best Male Performance in a Drama for my work in Battleground. You can see from the nominee list that I am (or was, by the time of this writing,
- [Battleground: Episode 1](http://www.ben-samuel.com/videos/battleground-episode-1/) - Watch every episode of Battleground for free at Hulu.com.
- [Battleground: Trailer](http://www.ben-samuel.com/videos/battleground-trailer/) - Watch every episode of Battleground for free at Hulu.com.
- [Prom Week](http://www.ben-samuel.com/projects/prom-week/) - Prom Week is a social simulation game being developed at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In Prom Week the player shapes the lives of a group of high school students in the most dramatic week of their high school career. Using our sophisticated social artificial intelligence system, Comme il Faut, Prom Week is

## Pages

- [About](http://www.ben-samuel.com/) - Ben Samuel is an actor (Battleground), improv artist, and computer scientist (Prom Week) from Santa Cruz, CA.
- [CV](http://www.ben-samuel.com/cv/) - Downloadable CV (PDF). Ben SamuelCurriculum VitaeDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of New OrleansNew Orleans, LA 70148 USA http://www.ben-samuel.combsamuel@cs.uno.edu EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D. Computer Science. University of California, Santa Cruz.Dissertation: Crafting Stories Through PlayAdviser: Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2012 M.S. Computer Science. University of California, Santa Cruz.Thesis: Comme il Faut: A System for Authoring Playable Social ModelsAdviser: Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2008
- [Contact](http://www.ben-samuel.com/contact/) - Working Entertainment 1 323 424 3622 AKA Talent 323-965-5600 IMDB Ben Samuel Twitter @thisisbensamuel

## Categories

- [Blog](http://www.ben-samuel.com/category/blog/)
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- [Projects](http://www.ben-samuel.com/category/projects/)

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- [Hulu](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/hulu/)
- [Prom Week](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/prom-week/)
- [Humor Force Five](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/humor-force-five/)
- [Improv](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/improv/)
- [Streamys](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/streamy/)
- [Someone Always Dies](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/someone-always-dies/)
- [Scrum](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/scrum/)
- [Project Management](http://www.ben-samuel.com/tag/project-management/)