I recently had the pleasure of playing one of the most innovative video games of the new year. Journey, developed by Thatgamecompany (TGC) and distributed over the Playstation 3 Network, takes an entirely novel approach to game design.
Journey is simple in form. You are a robed figure in the desert, and you are on a …Read more at the full article: Journey: an interactive parable.
This spring quarter, the Digital Union is pleased to host a series of game design workshops facilitated by local technology entrepreneur and game designer, Raymond Chandler III.
Raymond received his bachelor’s degree in Game Design and Development from Full Sail University in 2006. He was employed by eTech Ohio for 3 years as a web developer. …Read more at the full article: Game Design Workshops in the Digital Union
Autodesk’s new tool, Project Photofly 2.0, allows users to generate 3D models of objects using a point and shoot camera and a PC. By stitching many photos of an object together from different angles, this free tool can interpolate a three dimensional point cloud of the surface. Conveniently it also has a wealth of images to derive …Read more at the full article: Capture Your Own 3D Objects
Friday, January 21, Alex games spoke to the Game-Based Learning group. Alex Games Ph.D is an Assistant Professor of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University. He spoke about current research trends in game-based assessment.
Games defined assessment as a process of deciding what claims we can make about student knowledge explaining that that …Read more at the full article: Game-Based Learning Speaker: Alex Games – Assessment in Games.
Call for submissions to the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Topics range from digital gaming technology to intelligent learning systems.
Kodu is a visual programming language for building video games that’s easy enough for anyone to use. It’s available as a free download from Microsoft at http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu.
What can you do with Kodu at the college level?
First exposure to programming
For students with no previous exposure to programming, Kodu can provide a painless introduction to conditionals (WHEN-see-red, …Read more at the full article: Kodu Game Lab – for fast, easy game design
The New Media Consortium is seeking examples for the 2011 Horizon Report.
Some of you may have seen Jeremiah McCall speak when he was here in October.
We posted a stream of his lecture and he wrote a guest blog. (http://streamwww.classroom.ohio-state.edu/flash/digitalunion/12387-1) Jeremiah just published a blog post on Play the Past. “Collaboratively edited and authored, Play the Past is dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the …Read more at the full article: Play the Past blog – post by Jeremiah McCall
Media in Motion: Mobile Digital Storytelling
Two thoughts struck me as I watched “Media in Motion: Mobile Digital Storytelling” during a breakout session at Innovate 2012.
I saw three short videos, all of which were conceived, filmed, photographed, written, narrated, and edited on a mobile device. I heard presenters Joe Lambert, Robin Elliott, Brian D. Leaf and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu describe the …Read more at the full article: Media in Motion: Mobile Digital Storytelling