{"id":131,"date":"2009-05-12T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-05-12T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T07:56:49","slug":"tronjiworld-bbc-virtual-world-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/tronjiworld-bbc-virtual-world-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"TronjiWorld &#8211; BBC virtual world for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have been taking a look (with the predlets) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/tronji\/\">TronjiWorld<\/a> that launched a public beta yesterday to coincide with the TV show airing. I have been interested in what this might turn out like for some time. In particular this is because the platform it is running on is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicetech.co.uk\/nicetech.nsf\/NewsView\/649B5F201E1D08F4802575A5004D214C!OpenDocument\">NiceTech<\/a> a company based out of the UK.<br \/>\n<a title=\"tronjiworld by epredator, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epredator\/3524211861\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3314\/3524211861_4d4f25a961.jpg\" alt=\"tronjiworld\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You should not be fooled by the cartoon nature of the images you see, because under the covers NiceTech state they &#8220;use &#8216;autonomous agents&#8217; to model objects for real.&#8221; and &#8220;access to a number of biological components ranging from genetics and biochemistry to neural networks.&#8221;. This is because the CTO of NiceTech is <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.nicetech.co.uk\/toby.htm\">Toby Simpso<\/a>n who was instrumental in the creation of the Artificial Life game Creatures in which the characters learned and evolved through genetic\u00a0algorithms. (This ties in nicely with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/flocking-brilliant-fill-in-own-joke-here\/\">yesterdays post about flocking <\/a>and the complexity created by simplicity).<\/p>\n<p>Another win for Tronji world. My random character I created had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/excited-about-metaplace\/\">spikey green hair<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I have just wandered around had a few hello&#8217;s with some other people via the key word chat and earned a bike to ride around on from a mission. I think the predlets like the look of it too. Its a heft download and windows only but you cant have everything can you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There is definitely something going on in world though as whilst writing this 3 large dionsaurs and some bouncy little people turned up of their own free will to watch the big screen TV<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epredator\/3524243813\/\" title=\"tronjiworld2 by epredator, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3642\/3524243813_275b5f6cf5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" alt=\"tronjiworld2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2F12%2Ftronjiworld-bbc-virtual-world-for-kids%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/tronjiworld-bbc-virtual-world-for-kids\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been taking a look (with the predlets) at TronjiWorld that launched a public beta yesterday to coincide with the TV show airing. I have been interested in what this might turn out like for some time. In particular this is because the platform it is running on is by NiceTech a company based<br \/>\n            <span class=\"excerpt-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/tronjiworld-bbc-virtual-world-for-kids\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,5],"tags":[63,64,62],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-metaverse","tag-bbc","tag-genetic","tag-virtualworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}