Rats of the Maze

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The year is 2048.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Thirty years ago we outsourced the mundane running of our lives to Machines. Machines that learn. The Machines learnt too well.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">All computing resource on the planet has been consolidated in an immense Maze hewn out of solid rock.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">No humans are permitted in The Maze, but the warm glow of it's reactors make it an ideal home for millions of giant Rats.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Your mission is to enter The Maze and deactivate the systems that power The Machines.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">No human has ever returned from The Maze of the Rats.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">+++ TRANSMISSION END</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Rats of the Maze is an arcade simulation.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The talk will be a journey through the theory and technique of programming radioactive maze-solving rats that seek human flesh -- a journey from the very foundations of computer memory through to the algorithms used to create and solve mazes, wrapped up in unique hand crafted vector graphics running in the browser.</span>