14 Best Highest Paying URL Shortener Sites to Make Money Online

1. Ouo.io

   Ouo.io is one of the fastest growing URL Shortener Service. Its pretty domain name is helpful in generating more clicks than other URL Shortener Services, and so you get a good opportunity for earning more money out of your shortened link. Ouo.io comes with several advanced features as well as customization options.
   With Ouo.io you can earn up to $8 per 1000 views. It also counts multiple views from same IP or person. With Ouo.io is becomes easy to earn money using its URL Shortener Service. The minimum payout is $5. Your earnings are automatically credited to your PayPal or Payoneer account on 1st or 15th of the month.
   
   • Payout for every 1000 views-$5
   • Minimum payout-$5
   • Referral commission-20%
   • Payout time-1st and 15th date of the month
   • Payout options-PayPal and Payza
   
   

2. Cut-win

   Cut-win is a new URL shortener website.It is paying at the time and you can trust it.You just have to sign up for an account and then you can shorten your URL and put that URL anywhere.You can paste it into your site, blog or even social media networking sites.It pays high CPM rate.
   You can earn $10 for 1000 views.You can earn 22% commission through the referral system.The most important thing is that you can withdraw your amount when it reaches $1.
   
   • The payout for 1000 views-$10
   • Minimum payout-$1
   • Referral commission-22%
   • Payment methods-PayPal, Payza, Bitcoin, Skrill, Western Union and Moneygram etc.
   • Payment time-daily
   
   

3. Adf.ly

   Adf.ly is the oldest and one of the most trusted URL Shortener Service for making money by shrinking your links. Adf.ly provides you an opportunity to earn up to $5 per 1000 views. However, the earnings depend upon the demographics of users who go on to click the shortened link by Adf.ly.
   It offers a very comprehensive reporting system for tracking the performance of your each shortened URL. The minimum payout is kept low, and it is $5. It pays on 10th of every month. You can receive your earnings via PayPal, Payza, or AlertPay. Adf.ly also runs a referral program wherein you can earn a flat 20% commission for each referral for a lifetime.
   

4. Short.am

   Short.am provides a big opportunity for earning money by shortening links. It is a rapidly growing URL Shortening Service. You simply need to sign up and start shrinking links. You can share the shortened links across the web, on your webpage, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Short.am provides detailed statistics and easy-to-use API.
   It even provides add-ons and plugins so that you can monetize your WordPress site. The minimum payout is $5 before you will be paid. It pays users via PayPal or Payoneer. It has the best market payout rates, offering unparalleled revenue. Short.am also run a referral program wherein you can earn 20% extra commission for life.
   

5. Short.pe

   Short.pe is one of the most trusted sites from our top 30 highest paying URL shorteners.It pays on time.intrusting thing is that same visitor can click on your shorten link multiple times.You can earn by sign up and shorten your long URL.You just have to paste that URL to somewhere.
   You can paste it into your website, blog, or social media networking sites.They offer $5 for every 1000 views.You can also earn 20% referral commission from this site.Their minimum payout amount is only $1.You can withdraw from Paypal, Payza, and Payoneer.
   
   • The payout for 1000 views-$5
   • Minimum payout-$1
   • Referral commission-20% for lifetime
   • Payment methods-Paypal, Payza, and Payoneer
   • Payment time-on daily basis
   
   

6. Linkbucks

   Linkbucks is another best and one of the most popular sites for shortening URLs and earning money. It boasts of high Google Page Rank as well as very high Alexa rankings. Linkbucks is paying $0.5 to $7 per 1000 views, and it depends on country to country.
   The minimum payout is $10, and payment method is PayPal. It also provides the opportunity of referral earnings wherein you can earn 20% commission for a lifetime. Linkbucks runs advertising programs as well.
   
   • The payout for 1000 views-$3-9
   • Minimum payout-$10
   • Referral commission-20%
   • Payment options-PayPal,Payza,and Payoneer
   • Payment-on the daily basis
   
   

7. Linkrex.net

   Linkrex.net is one of the new URL shortener sites.You can trust it.It is paying and is a legit site.It offers high CPM rate.You can earn money by sing up to linkrex and shorten your URL link and paste it anywhere.You can paste it in your website or blog.You can paste it into social media networking sites like facebook, twitter or google plus etc.
   You will be paid whenever anyone will click on that shorten a link.You can earn more than $15 for 1000 views.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.Another way of earning from this site is to refer other people.You can earn 25% as a referral commission.
   
   • The payout for 1000 views-$14
   • Minimum payout-$5
   • Referral commission-25%
   • Payment Options-Paypal,Bitcoin,Skrill and Paytm,etc
   • Payment time-daily
   
   

8. LINK.TL

   LINK.TL is one of the best and highest URL shortener website.It pays up to $16 for every 1000 views.You just have to sign up for free.You can earn by shortening your long URL into short and you can paste that URL into your website, blogs or social media networking sites, like facebook, twitter, and google plus etc.
   One of the best thing about this site is its referral system.They offer 10% referral commission.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.
   
   • Payout for 1000 views-$16
   • Minimum payout-$5
   • Referral commission-10%
   • Payout methods-Paypal, Payza, and Skrill
   • Payment time-daily basis
   
   

9. Wi.cr

   Wi.cr is also one of the 30 highest paying URL sites.You can earn through shortening links.When someone will click on your link.You will be paid.They offer $7 for 1000 views.Minimum payout is $5.
   You can earn through its referral program.When someone will open the account through your link you will get 10% commission.Payment option is PayPal.
   
   • Payout for 1000 views-$7
   • Minimum payout-$5
   • Referral commission-10%
   • Payout method-Paypal
   • Payout time-daily
   
   

10. Oke.io

    Oke.io provides you an opportunity to earn money online by shortening URLs. Oke.io is a very friendly URL Shortener Service as it enables you to earn money by shortening and sharing URLs easily.
    Oke.io can pay you anywhere from $5 to $10 for your US, UK, and Canada visitors, whereas for the rest of the world the CPM will not be less than $2. You can sign up by using your email. The minimum payout is $5, and the payment is made via PayPal.
    
    • The payout for 1000 views-$7
    • Minimum payout-$5
    • Referral commission-20%
    • Payout options-PayPal, Payza, Bitcoin and Skrill
    • Payment time-daily
    
    

11. Clk.sh

    Clk.sh is a newly launched trusted link shortener network, it is a sister site of shrinkearn.com. I like ClkSh because it accepts multiple views from same visitors. If any one searching for Top and best url shortener service then i recommend this url shortener to our users. Clk.sh accepts advertisers and publishers from all over the world. It offers an opportunity to all its publishers to earn money and advertisers will get their targeted audience for cheapest rate. While writing ClkSh was offering up to $8 per 1000 visits and its minimum cpm rate is $1.4. Like Shrinkearn, Shorte.st url shorteners Clk.sh also offers some best features to all its users, including Good customer support, multiple views counting, decent cpm rates, good referral rate, multiple tools, quick payments etc. ClkSh offers 30% referral commission to its publishers. It uses 6 payment methods to all its users.
    • Payout for 1000 Views: Upto $8
    • Minimum Withdrawal: $5
    • Referral Commission: 30%
    • Payment Methods: PayPal, Payza, Skrill etc.
    • Payment Time: Daily
    
    

12. Shrinkearn.com

    Shrinkearn.com is one of the best and most trusted sites from our 30 highest paying URL shortener list.It is also one of the old URL shortener sites.You just have to sign up in the shrinkearn.com website. Then you can shorten your URL and can put that URL to your website, blog or any other social networking sites.
    Whenever any visitor will click your shortener URL link you will get some amount for that click.The payout rates from Shrinkearn.com is very high.You can earn $20 for 1000 views.Visitor has to stay only for 5 seconds on the publisher site and then can click on skip button to go to the requesting site.
    
    • The payout for 1000 views- up to $20
    • Minimum payout-$1
    • Referral commission-25%
    • Payment methods-PayPal
    • Payment date-10th day of every month
    
    

13. BIT-URL

    It is a new URL shortener website.Its CPM rate is good.You can sign up for free and shorten your URL and that shortener URL can be paste on your websites, blogs or social media networking sites.bit-url.com pays $8.10 for 1000 views.
    You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $3.bit-url.com offers 20% commission for your referral link.Payment methods are PayPal, Payza, Payeer, and Flexy etc.
    
    • The payout for 1000 views-$8.10
    • Minimum payout-$3
    • Referral commission-20%
    • Payment methods- Paypal, Payza, and Payeer
    • Payment time-daily
    
    

14. CPMlink

    CPMlink is one of the most legit URL shortener sites.You can sign up for free.It works like other shortener sites.You just have to shorten your link and paste that link into the internet.When someone will click on your link.
    You will get some amount of that click.It pays around $5 for every 1000 views.They offer 10% commission as the referral program.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.The payment is then sent to your PayPal, Payza or Skrill account daily after requesting it.
    
    • The payout for 1000 views-$5
    • Minimum payout-$5
    • Referral commission-10%
    • Payment methods-Paypal, Payza, and Skrill
    • Payment time-daily
    
    

Dylan The Spaceman Demo Now Available

Things have been pretty quiet in the Amiga games scene over the past few weeks, but thankfully I now have something to report!

As work continues apace on the Dizzy-like arcade adventure "Dylan The Spaceman and the Smelly Green Aliens From Mars", author Chris Clarke has decided that the time is right to release a public demo.

Here's Chris with further details;

"[The game] should work [on both the] Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 - there will be a version for Amiga 500 but it needs different in-game music - or you need to have at least 2 meg in your trusty Amiga 500"

To download the demo, read through the demo feedback, or provide feedback yourself, check out the following thread over on the English Amiga Board:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1041301#post1041301

PzU Screenshot Of NSU's Mission

NSU's mission he has been working on for the past 3 weeks. There is much to learn in order to get the first mission playable for you all. This screen grab is taken in the Editor and not in game, hence the poor texture quality.

Implementing Weighted, Blended Order-Independent Transparency

Why Transparency?

Result from the Weighted, Blended OIT method described

in this article. Everything gray in the top inset image has some

level of transmission or partial coverage transparency.

See also the new colored transmission method in my next article!

Partially transparent surfaces are important for computer graphics. Realistic materials such as fog, glass, and water as well as imaginary ones such as force-fields and magical spells appear frequently in video games and modeling programs. These all transmit light through their surfaces because of their chemical properties.

Even opaque materials can produce partially transparent surfaces within a computer graphics system. For example, when a fence is viewed from a great distance, an individual pixel may contain both fence posts and the holes between them. In that case, the "surface" of the opaque fence with holes is equivalent to a homogeneous, partly-transparent surface within the pixel. A similar situation arises at the edge of any opaque surface, where the silhouette cuts partly across a pixel. This is the classic partial coverage situation first described for graphics by Porter and Duff in 1986 and modeled with "alpha".

There are some interesting physics and technical details that I'm simplifying in this overview. To dig deeper, I recommend the discussion of the sources and relation between coverage and transmission for non-refractive transparency in the Colored Stochastic Shadow Maps paper that Eric Enderton and I wrote. I extended that discussion in the transparency section of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice.

The Challenge

Generating real-time images of scenes with partial transparency is challenging. That's because pixels containing partly transparent surfaces have multiple surfaces contributing to the final value, and the order in which they are composited over each other affects the result. This is one reason why hair, smoke, and glass often look unrealistic in video games, especially where they come close to opaque surfaces.

One reason that transparency is challenging is that ordering surfaces is hard. There are many algorithms for ordering elements in a data structure, but they all have a cost in both time and space that is unacceptable for real-time rendering on current computer graphics hardware. If every pixel can store ten partially transparent surfaces, then a rendering system would require ten times as much memory to encode and sort those values. (I'm sure that 100 GB GPUs will exist in a few years, but they don't today, and when they do, we might not want to use all of the memory just for transparency.) It is also not possible to order the surfaces themselves because there is not necessarily any order in which multiple surfaces overlap correctly. For example, as few as three triangles can thwart the sorting approach.

Recently, a number of efficient algorithms for order-independent transparency (OIT) were introduced. These approximate the result of compositing multiple layers without the ordering constraint or unbounded intermediate storage. This can yield two benefits. The first is that the worst cases of incorrectly composited transparency can be avoided. No more bright edges on a tree in shadow or characters standing out from the fog they were hiding in. The second benefit is that multiple transparent primitives can be combined in a single draw call. That gives a significant increase in performance for scenes with lots of foliage or special effects.

All OIT methods make approximations that affect quality. A common assumption is that all partially-transparent surfaces have no refraction and do not color the objects behind them. For example, in this model "green" glass will make everything behind it look green by darkening the distant surfaces and adding green over the top. A distant red object will appear brown (dark red + green), not black as it would in the real world.

Weighted, Blended Order-Independent Transparency is a computer graphics algorithm that I developed with Louis Bavoil at NVIDIA and the support of the rendering team at Vicarious Visions. Compared to other OIT methods, it has the advantages that it uses very little memory, is very fast, and works on all major consoles and PCs released in the past few years. The primary drawbacks are that it produces less distinction between layers close together in depth and must be tuned once for the desired depth range and precision of the applications. Our I3D presentation slides explain these tradeoffs in more detail.


A glass chess set rendered with our technique.
Since publishing and presenting the research paper, I've worked with several companies to integrate our transparency method into their games and content-creation application. This article shares my current best explanation of how to implement it, as informed by that process. I'll give the description in a PC-centric way. See the original paper for notes on platforms that do not support the precisions or blending modes assumed in this guide.

Algorithm Overview

All OIT methods make the following render passes:

1. 3D opaque surfaces to a primary framebuffer
2. 3D transparency accumulation to an off-screen framebuffer
3. 2D compositing transparency over the primary framebuffer

During the transparency pass the original depth buffer is maintained for testing but not written to. The compositing pass is a simple 2D image processing operation.

3D Transparency Pass

This is a 3D pass that submits transparent surfaces in any order. Bind the following two render targets in addition to the depth buffer. Test against the depth buffer, but do not write to it or clear it. The transparent pass shaders should be almost identical to the opaque pass ones. Instead of writing a final color of (r, g, b, 1), they write to each of the render targets (using the default ADD blend equation):

Render Target	Format	Clear	Src Blend	Dst Blend	Write ("Src")
accum	RGBA16F	(0,0,0,0)	ONE	ONE	(r*a, g*a, b*a, a) * w
revealage	R8	(1,0,0,0)	ZERO	ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR	a

The w value is a weight computed from depth. The paper and presentation describe several alternatives that are best for different kinds of content. The general-purpose one used for the images in this article is:

w = clamp(pow(min(1.0, premultipliedReflect.a * 10.0) + 0.01, 3.0) * 1e8 * pow(1.0 - gl_FragCoord.z * 0.9, 3.0), 1e-2, 3e3);

where gl_FragCoord.z is OpenGL's depth buffer value which ranges from 0 = near plane to 1 = far plane. This function downweights the color contribution of very-low coverage surfaces (e.g., that are about to fade out) and distant surfaces.

Note that the compositing uses pre-multipled color. This allows expressing emissive (glowing) values by writing the net color along each channel instead of explicitly solving the product r*a, etc. For example, a blue lightning bolt can be written to accum as (0, 10, 15, 0.1) rather than creating an artificial unmultiplied r value that must be very large to compensate for the very low coverage.

Using R16F for the revealage render target will give slightly better precision and make it easier to tune the algorithm, but a 2x savings on bandwidth and memory footprint for that texture may make it worth compressing into R8 format.

Sample GLSL shader code is below:

#version 330

out float4 _accum;
out float  _revealage;

void writePixel(vec4 premultipliedReflect, vec3 transmit, float csZ) { 
    /* Modulate the net coverage for composition by the transmission. This does not affect the color channels of the
       transparent surface because the caller's BSDF model should have already taken into account if transmission modulates
       reflection. This model doesn't handled colored transmission, so it averages the color channels. See 

          McGuire and Enderton, Colored Stochastic Shadow Maps, ACM I3D, February 2011
          http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/CSSM/

       for a full explanation and derivation.*/

    premultipliedReflect.a *= 1.0 - clamp((transmit.r + transmit.g + transmit.b) * (1.0 / 3.0), 0, 1);

    /* You may need to adjust the w function if you have a very large or very small view volume; see the paper and
       presentation slides at http://jcgt.org/published/0002/02/09/ */
    // Intermediate terms to be cubed
    float a = min(1.0, premultipliedReflect.a) * 8.0 + 0.01;
    float b = -gl_FragCoord.z * 0.95 + 1.0;

    /* If your scene has a lot of content very close to the far plane,
       then include this line (one rsqrt instruction):
       b /= sqrt(1e4 * abs(csZ)); */
    float w    = clamp(a * a * a * 1e8 * b * b * b, 1e-2, 3e2);
    _accum     = premultipliedReflect * w;
    _revealage = premultipliedReflect.a;
}

void main() {
    vec4 color;
    float csZ;
    ...
    writePixel(color, csZ);
}

2D Compositing Pass

The compositing pass can blend the result over the opaque surface frame buffer (as described here), or explicitly read both buffers and write the result to a third.

Render Target	Src Blend	Dst Blend	Write ("Src")
screen	SRC_ALPHA	ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA	(accum.rgb / max(accum.a, epsilon), 1 - revealage)

I use epsilon = 0.00001 to avoid overflow in the division. It is easy to notice if you're overflowing or underflowing the total 16-bit precision. You'll see either fully-saturated "8-bit" ANSI-style colors (red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, white), or black dots from floating point specials (Infinity, NaN). If the computation produces floating point specials, they will typically also expand into large black squares under any postprocessed bloom or depth of field filters.

Sample GLSL shader code is below:

#version 330

/* sum(rgb * a, a) */
uniform sampler2D accumTexture;

/* prod(1 - a) */
uniform sampler2D revealageTexture;

void main() {
    int2 C = int2(gl_FragCoord.xy);
    float  revealage = texelFetch(revealageTexture, C, 0).r;
    if (revealage == 1.0) {
        // Save the blending and color texture fetch cost
        discard; 
    }

    float4 accum     = texelFetch(accumTexture, C, 0);
    // Suppress overflow
    if (isinf(maxComponent(abs(accum)))) {
        accum.rgb = float3(accum.a);
    }

    float3 averageColor = accum.rgb / max(accum.a, 0.00001);


    // dst' =  (accum.rgb / accum.a) * (1 - revealage) + dst * revealage
    gl_FragColor = float4(averageColor, 1.0 - revealage);
}

Examples

I integrated the implementation described in this article into the full open source G3D Innovation Engine renderer (version 10.1). The specific files modified to implement the technique are:

• DefaultRenderer.cpp (see DefaultRenderer::renderOrderIndependentBlendedSamples)
• DefaultRenderer_compositeWeightedBlendedOIT.pix

[Nicolas Rougier also contributed a Python-OpenGL implementation with nice commenting and reference images as well. I'm hosting it at http://dept.cs.williams.edu/~morgan/code/python/python-oit.zip.]

All of the following images of the San Miguel scene by Guillermo M. Leal Llaguno were rendered using G3D's implementation. To show how it integrates, these include a full screen-space and post-processing pipeline: ambient occlusion, motion blur, depth of field, FXAA, color grading, and bloom.

The inset images visualize the accum and revealage buffers. Note the combination of glass and partial coverage surfaces.

Here are examples on other kinds of content:

Note that this reference image fixes a typo from the one in the I3D presentation:
the alpha values are 0.75 (not 0.25 as originally reported!) and are given before computing the premultiplied values. So, the blue square is (0, 0, 0.75, 0.75) in pre-multiplied alpha and (0, 0, 1, 0.75) with unmultiplied color.
I'm using a different weighting function from the I3D result as well.

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Morgan McGuire (@morgan3d) is a professor of Computer Science at Williams College, a researcher at NVIDIA, and a professional game developer. His most recent games are Rocket Golfing and work on the Skylanders series. He is the author of the Graphics Codex, an essential reference for computer graphics now available in iOS and Web Editions.

Oceanhorn Is Coming To Android - Steam Mac Version Out Now!

Oceanhorn – Classic Adventure Game for you favorite platform

Android has been one of the most requested platforms from us and we are happy to announce that Oceanhorn's world domination continues and Oceanhorn is coming to Android! Same team that works on console versions are behind the quality Android port. We'll get back to you with a release date later on!

In other news, we have just released an update for Steam version. It will add a support for Steam Controller and Steam link, but most importantly you can now play Steam version on your Mac! Save games in Steam are cross platform compatible.

So, in 2016 you will be able to play Oceanhorn not just on iOS, Apple TV or PC – but on Mac, PS4, Xbox One and even on your Android devices and Android TV!

Oceanhorn is the classic adventure game for your favorite gaming platform!



I am eager to tell you all what we have been working on for the past year – but it will have to wait just a little bit longer. ^_^

Secret Of Evermore (SNES)

Oh damn it's Super Adventures' 8th birthday today! I didn't write anything for the site all last year but I'm fairly sure those 12 months still count towards its age.

I gave writing about games a long rest because it became too much like work to me and I was so done with this site that I couldn't even get one post finished a week anymore, but I've managed to slowly regenerate my interest in playing games in the meantime thanks to my time off. In fact I've decided that the break I took worked out so well that I should take more breaks, more often. So this year I plan to take a two month break every two months!

Unfortunately this does mean that I have to give you two months of game articles each time or else I'm not actually taking a break from anything. So it is with deep regret that I inform you that Super Adventures is now back (for two months).

Developer:

Square

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Release Date:

1996 (1995 NA)

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Systems:

SNES

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This week on Ray Hardgrit's resurrected Super Adventures in Gaming I'm playing Secret of Evermore, which I'm fairly sure isn't a spiritual successor to Secret of Monkey Island.

All I know about it is that it's an action RPG on the SNES by Squaresoft... made in America... with music from Jeremy "Elder Scrolls" Soule. So that's a bit unusual. This was actually the only game ever developed by a Square team in the US, which sounds like a bit of a warning sign but probably isn't. They briefly considered making a sequel to the game in fact, until it was decided that it was time to jump ship from the sinking SNES.

The US only got one more Square RPG on the SNES after this, Super Mario RPG, and us folks in Europe didn't even get that for some reason. Evermore was only the fourth Square RPG to ever get a release in PAL regions, after two Mystic Quests and Secret of Mana, and the next game we got was Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation.

Okay I'm going to play the game for a couple of hours, write about what happened, then finish with a bit of a review at the end. Even though I've got no business reviewing a game I've only played a couple of hours of.
Read on »

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Hey, That'S My Fish!

This a small post on a nice and easy to play game called  Hey, that's my fish!

The game can be played with up to four players. The aim of the game is to catch the most fish before the ice floe tiles disappear.

Set up

This game i will show here is a three players game. The Ice floe board is shuffled and then placed down in rows, this means that the boards are always different. After that the penguins are then now placed.

The teams collecting the fish are the :

• The Green team
• The Red team 
• The Blue team.

 (The yellow team have been left out in this game)

The different colours and poses for the counters

The starting Ice floe tiles

The Ice floe tiles have one of three values either 1-3 fish

Starting places

Each penguin starts on a ice floe tile with only one fish.

 Turn one

Each player takes a turn moving one of their penguins. A penguin can move as many spaces in a turn but can only move in a straight line. After a penguin moves the player picks up the ice floe that the penguin started its move from, and adds he ice to the players cache.

Before the move

After the move, the tile it left has been removed and added to players stash.

The Ice floes slowly disappear.

A penguin is stranded on an ice floe.

The available ice floes becomes scarce.

Once all penguins can't move the game ends and the players then add up their collected fish.

Finishing places with a few ice floes unattainable.

Now it was time to count up the fish that were picked up.

The end score: 

• Green: 30 Fish
• Red: 35 Fish
• Blue: 31 Fish

The Winner is the Red team with the most fish 

The red penguins and their stash.

Go Penguins!!!

Neuroevolution In Games

Neuroevolution - the evolution of weights and/or topology for neural networks - is a common and powerful method in evolutionary robotics and machine learning. In the last decade or so, we have seen a large number of applications of neuroevolution in games. Evolved neural networks have been used to play games, model players, generate content and even enable completely new game genres. To some extent, games seem to be replacing the small mobile robots ubiquitous in evolutionary robotics and simple benchmarks used in reinforcement learning research.

Sebastian Risi and I have written a survey on neuroevolution in games, including a discussion of future research challenges. The main reason is that there was no survey of neuroevolution in games in existence; the other reason was that we wanted a tutorial overview to hand out to the students in our Modern AI for Games course.

A while back we asked the community to send us comments and suggestions for important work we might have overlooked. We received a lot of useful input and incorporated most of the suggested work. Thank you for very much for the help!

Now we are happy to announce that the paper will finally be published in the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (TCIAIG). We hope you like it!

TCIAIG early access:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7307180

A preprint of the manuscript is available here:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.7326v3.pdf

Mario Tattoo Toad Mushroom

Pictures Mario tattoo toad mushroom

This Tattoo game Design Gallery From Pinterest And Pinspire Pictures

Life, The Universe And Everything 2019 Writing (Gaming?) Convention

Next week Life, the Universe, and Everything (LTUE) (website) takes place in Provo, Utah. The conference has always had a focus for genre writers with an emphasis on fantasy and science fiction. What people are writing still fits in the genre category, but the audience base has been increasing.  Every year there have been additional areas added. This year there is a lot being offered for the attendees.

One of the areas that has been growing is gaming. Writing for games goes in a couple of main directions and this year there are writing tracks for board and electronic games. There is a growing appreciation of what's involved in writing and developing games. There will be advice and information for experienced and new game developers to help them build and market their work. It's fun and exciting to see the creativity.

Writing for screen also has a track. Along with writing screenplays, LTUE is hosting its own film festival with movies (features and shorts) being shown in the evenings. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the selected features. There are always interesting works coming from independent film makers. The talented writers involved in the panels and presentations of this track are going to have great information.

This year, I will be involved on four panels at LTUE in the Tabletop Game Writing/Development Track. The entire track is focused on helping people in developing their games and getting them to market, through traditional and self-publishing.

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in creating their own game, or for those who are working on getting their game to market. I'm asked questions on these topics regularly.

The panels I'm sitting on (which are only a few of the broader selection that will be available):

Intro to Board Game Design: A basic overview of the board game creation process, from theme to gameplay to balance.

Crowdfunding a Game's Development: As crowdfunding becomes an increasingly popular way to finance new games, how can the technology best be leveraged?

Developing Rules for Board Games: Once you've got your board game idea, how do you develop it into a playable game?

The Rising Popularity of Board Games: Board games have taken off in popularity in recent years. What caused this surge and where will it go in the future?

LTUE is shaping up to be three great days of learning, entertainment, and just plain fun (many writers love playing games of all types).

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