Welcome
to my home page!
HI! I'm Rick Morneau. I'm retired and I live in rural
Idaho, USA. Here are some of the things that I've worked on in the past
or am currently working on:
- I'm working on a fascinating project to design a language that
is especially suited for use as an interlingua in machine
translation. If you are interested in the lexical semantics of
natural language, the formal design of artificial languages, or the use
of computers to translate automatically between languages, then check
out my comprehensive monograph Lexical
Semantics. If you are mostly interested in the fun aspects of
language construction, there are also several other, much shorter
essays available here.
- Far Horizons is a
play-by-email strategy game that I designed
several years ago. In this game, each player plays the role of an
intelligent species that can build starships, explore the galaxy, start
new colonies, meet other species, go to war, and so on. Far Horizons is
a rich and realistic simulation, and the rules are considerably longer
and more complex than most similar games. A typical game can last
anywhere from 6 months to a year. Far
Horizons is not an open-ended
game, so you may not start a new species at any time.
I am not currently running a Far
Horizons game, and I have no plans to do so in the foreseeable
future. However, if you would like to run your own game, a
complete source code distribution (written in ANSI C and including the rules) is
available here.