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Topics: Games & Virtual Worlds
Tagged: games knight conference mit boston
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report from the knight conference at MIT June 11-13 continued...
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Tagged: games knight conference mit boston



report from the 1st day at the Knight Conference at MIT continued...
Topics: Best Practices
Tagged: games, knight conference, MIT



"Playing the News" Update - Distil Interactive I just returned from Ottawa where Nicole Rinerand I went to collaborate with Distil Interactive. We spent two days in their office and it was a positive learning experience. I should make a premise that Distil is trying to build a system that will allow non tech-savvy users, with little knowledge of coding, to create a game or game-like environment in a simple way and in a short time. The system is based off XML, flash and C. Right now the XML code is what controls what is being displayed on screen and... continued...
Topics: Education, Games & Virtual Worlds, Technology
Tagged: games, news, umn, uofm



Finally I am able to post independetly, and after the semester is over I will have a chance to work more on the news project. As a matter of fact I already started working on it. I have an internship for the summer at the Johnson Simulation Center and I worked 3 days of this weeks on the news game. I mainly tried to understand the code, and try to implement some features in one of the mini-games, a breakout clone. The mini-game is still in an early stage, as well as the whole system actually. Other projects have been... continued...
Topics: Education, Games & Virtual Worlds
Tagged: canada, distill, news game



Here is another update from our research assistant on the "Playing the News" project. The team has been exploring "mini-games" that would provide a challenge as players move through the information from the news stories. Fabio has discovered some open source flash sites that might help. "As I mentioned in my earlier post, this week I started looking into open source flash games that could be adapted for our purpose. After some research on the web, I found this website http://www.flashadvisor.com/movie/index.php?viewCat=24 . It's called Flash Advisor and it's a collection of resources for Flash programmers and what not. I went... continued...
Topics: Games & Virtual Worlds, Technology
Tagged: flash, open source, playing the news, videogames

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