Posts Tagged ‘games’
Creating Video Games, from Luge to 3-D
Videogame creation is serious work at NC State. Starting with raw ideas, pitches and pizza, computer science and industrial design students work collaboratively to develop computer games with compelling art and visuals, paired with sound game play mechanics and technical [...]
Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Is on the Prowl for New Gaming Talent Red Storm Entertainment, one of the larger game development studios in the Triangle, wants a few good men and women for its growing army of developers.. Elizabeth Loverso, director of [...]
HASTAC Digital Media + Learning Awards
17 INNOVATIVE PROJECTS TO SHARE $2 MILLION A mixed reality game for high school students in Los Angeles and Cairo to learn about the real-time impact of air pollution in their neighborhoods. A web application that aggregates news and nonprofit [...]
levelHead: augmented reality game
New Zealand digital artist Julian Oliver is working on a cool game that blends the electronic universe with the real world. His work-in-progress game called levelHead uses a series of cubes placed on a table top. Digital cameras and custom [...]
Lecture | Art of Machinima, The Garage Innovators
Hal Meeks makes a great comparison to the early innovators working out of their garage (Apple, HP, Disney, et. al.) to the new animators creating content from non-traditional applications. He may not know that he’s really hinting at is basic [...]
Dare To Be Digital 2006 Competition Winners Announced
Dare To Be Digital 2006 Competition Winners Announced Organizers of the UK-based game development competition, Dare to be Digital, have announced the contest’s winners in each of its three main categories. Dare to be Digital is an internationally renowned computer [...]
American McGee Starts New Studio
American McGee (McGee’s Alice) is building a new develoment team in Shanghai! The first title will be an episodic game set in a dark, fairy tale universe. Illustrator Ken Wong is already working on concept work. They can’t say much [...]
Second Life
We’re talking about using this feature to do an online component to a virtual museum. It will be interesting to see how it might be incorporated into an existing website that runs alongside the museum daily operations. Physical spaces translating [...]
War Craft.
It’s official… 2 million people have way too much time on their hands. “Officials from developer Blizzard Entertainment have announced that massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of WarCraft has surpassed two million paying subscribers worldwide.” Read more here… [...]
Castle Danger
Castle Danger Summer at our house means board games… once America’s pastime, the board game genre has easily been brushed aside facing fierce competition from whiz-bang online games and various other assorted media that vie for your attention. There is [...]
