Serious Games Taxonomy

Ben Sawyer en Peter Smith hebben op de Serious Games Summit GDC een presentatie gehouden over een Serious Games Taxonomy.

In this presentation, Sawyer and Smith will present a complete overview of their Serious Games Taxonomy 1.0, providing not only a stronger definition of the serious games field, but also presenting a platform upon which to drive further activity and understanding of serious games, including market opportunities, research requirements, advocacy, criticism, and more. Feedback from the audience will be used to drive refinements to the work prior to publishing it formally.

De .pdf van de presentatie is hier te vinden: http://www.dmill.com/presentations/serious-games-taxonomy-2008.pdf

Story and Simulations for Serious Games

Vandaag kwam ik dit boek tegen:

Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches

Misschien is het bruikbaar bij het maken van een goed verhaal voor Clima Futura (als daar nog behoefte aan is). Hieronder staat de beschrijving.

How to create a simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story is a difficult task indeed. This book examines how to create an engaging, effective story (necessary to teach participants), while relating practical considerations of building a simulation. It also looks at stories as classic ways of teaching and gathering knowledge and considers other theories of interactive narrative design such as synthetic story creation and management and participant-generated story experiences. It also discusses enabling technologies in artificial intelligence, synthetic characters design and development, speech recognition technology, 3D modelling, and the future of story-driven games. Story Driven Simulations reviews the existing efforts in this field as well as focusing on the recent efforts of Paramount Pictures and The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, where this expert author team created successful simulations for the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, as well as other educational simulations.

*Learn to create a new kind of gaming experience that will broaden the audience for entertainment games and simulations by engaging game users at an emotional rather than a purely visceral level.

*Learn to engage players in more memorable, effective experiences that can deal with far more complex and demanding skills such as management, leadership and crisis decision-making.

*Features a unique mix of theory and application providing practical advice using real-world examples from recent military research and development projects

360 Panorama links

Hey allemaal, 4 email accounts later, kan ik nu toch eindelijk inloggen en posten.

Bij deze een aantal (afwijkende) links over 360 Panorama's, mogelijk handig voor het Rotterdam project:

http://blog.makemepulse.com/2007/06/28/tutorial-simple-360-panorama-with-papervision-in-as2/
http://modern-carpentry.com/talk/?p=16
http://blog.flexcommunity.net/?p=22

http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2007/03/panoramic_360_with_papervision3d.php

http://cubicvr.popforge.de/
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/

Groet,

Marek

XIMPEL online

http://www.few.vu.nl/~ximpel/
http://ximpel.blogspot.com/

Rechtenvrije video / audio

Ik post even wat andersoortige links, namelijk websites waar (meestal) rechtenvrij materiaal te vinden is. Handig voor video & audio, als je geen rechtenproblemen wilt riskeren (alhoewel voor commercieel gebruik soms toestemming nodig is of de maker genoemd moet worden).

Video material
-http://www.archive.org (different licenses)

Music
-http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ (Creative Commons; attribution / if uncredited ~$20 per track)
-http://www.simuze.nl (Creative Commons, verschillende licenties)
-http://www.musopen.com/view.php (Public domain / attribution for commercial use)
-http://www.loganlproductions.com/pmp.html/ (Creative Commons; attribution)
-http://www.sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm
-http://www.ghostnotes.blogspot.com/ (Permission needed)
-http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html (non-profit use, attribution)
-http://www.openmusicarchive.org/

Sound Effects
-http://frogstar.com/wav/effects.asp
-http://www.grsites.com/sounds/ (Irritante popups, veel SoundFX)
-http://xiwav.free.fr/Samples/ (Samples)
-http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ (Samples) - thanks Marek

Photos
-http://www.sxc.hu/ (registratie nodig) - thanks Wouter

Tweener

Deze was ik nog vergeten,

http://code.google.com/p/tweener/

Heel veel links

Goeie dag heren,Hierbij mijn eerste bericht. Ik heb hieronder een aantal links vermeldt die zeker de moeite waard zijn om te checken. Veel plezier met ze, en tot snel partners.

• www.gotoandlearn.com - bevat allerlei interessante videotutorials
  
• fleksray.org - flex componenten, skins, etc
  
• flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com - nog meer flexcomponenten
  
• dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/03/coverflow-flex-component/ - coverflow source
  
• www.noob.us/entertainment/amazing-digital-surround-sound-virtual-barbershop/ - echte 3d sound, je moet het wel met oordopjes beluisteren
  
• www.jamesward.org - adobe data service goeroe
  
• labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Thermo - adobe Thermo
  
• bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa - adobe bug system
  
• flex.org - adobe blog, voor posten van projecten
  
• blogs.adobe.com/collabmethods/2007/10/wow_what_a_great_turn_out.html - video presentation van adobe hosted services
  
• blogs.adobe.com/collabmethods/ - collaborative methods blog

Hopelijk hebben jullie er iets aan, en mocht ik nog andere interessante dingen tegen komen zet ik ze op het blog. Succes.

Greetz,
Steve