Tom and Bob chat about a number of developments in the simulation. They then digress into a discussion about Stone Ape and Wilmslow.

Taking the original Ape Reality podcast to a completely new format, Tom floats the first Troop Report where users and developers of the Noble Ape Simulation can get together to discuss interesting uses and problems through the Simulation. Tom makes reference to the Stone Ape podcast (nobleape.com/stone). This initial episode Tom is joined by Bob Mottram to talk about the recent addition of QT to the Noble Ape Linux interfaces and a number of other topics. Noble Ape's resident longterm tester, Andy Ypsilon, calls in to discuss how his testing is motivated by an emotional connection and some features he would like to see in Noble Ape. It is intended that this format be used going forward and the recordings would take place roughly onces per month.

A slightly under the weather Tom Barbalet talks about adding audio and captured events to the Simulation with the help of some video.

Taking a break from the Noble Ape talk, this piece of music is one of the many 'anthems' that has defined sections of the Noble Ape development. I worked with a group of late-teen somethings on their comedy podcast in 2007. It included the irrespressible, Blake Buck, who provided the vocals. Part of editing the show was creating an original composition each show. This was my favorite pieces through the thematic elements alone. More of these interludes will follow through the podcast feed.

Tom discusses a bit about ALIFE XIII and some of the current development of Noble Ape.

This is a talk given primarily to biologists on the Noble Ape Simulation. The academics who don't introduce themselves are Prof. Fred Dyer, Dr. Aaron Wagner and Prof. Robert Pennock.

This is an impromptu discussion between Tom Barbalet, Dr. Arend Hintze and Carlos Anderson (both at MSU) about Noble Ape.

Tom goes through some of the current aspects of the simulation with emphasis on the OpenGL implementation and the potential in the near term to introduce a network version of the simulation.

A short talk on the open source aspects of Noble Ape.

Tom finds some old source code a presents a narrative wander through it.