The Future is here:
Good Game Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5EcpT3O0r8&sns=em
Controllers:
Controllers Control Everything | Game Maker's Toolkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJGKDyrR8qc
Controllers in VR:
Virtuix Omni - TRAVR Training Ops Trailer: Code RedCG Making its
own Levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tPJDZv_VE
Ease of Use:
Should Dark Souls Have an Easy Mode? | Game Makers Toolkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tPJDZv_VE
Languages:
Swift Development Language
general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language
created for iOS, OS X, watchOS, tvOS and Linux development by Apple
Inc. Swift is designed to work with Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for
Apple products. Building on the best of C and Objective-C, without the
constraints of C compatibility.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Concep
tual/Swift_Programming_Language/
Eliminating entire classes of unsafe code:
https://developer.apple.com/swift/
VR: Teresa Duringer:
- Attentional manipulation
- Borrow from existing vision science knowledge as we make new
breakthroughs.
http://www.templegatesgames.com/?pagerd_uh794
HTC Vive:
https://www.htcvive.com/us/
Mixed Realityies:
Mixed Reality / Greenscreen Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFKjWGxZqk
Blended Lockout: One Life
http://steamed.kotaku.com/new-first-person-shooter-will-lock-outyour-steam-accou-1737430269
VR Art tools:
http://www.tiltbrush.com/
Walking through artworks the past, but also the future??
http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/walk-inside-a-salvador-dalisurrealist-painting-with-this-360o-virtual-reality-video.html
Financial Sustainability:
In Defense of Short Games - Worth Every Dollar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpp6spOs2EU
jonas hansen
http://pixelsix.net/category/art/
16 trends that will define the future of video games
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/23/16-trendsthat-will-change-the-games-industry
Lytro’s 755 megapixel Cinema light field camera is going to kill
the green screen
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/lytro-cinema-is-givingfilmmakers-400-gigabytes-per-second-of-creative-freedom/
STARTING a small Game Company LLC Business:
Cat Musgrove's and Issam Khalil's presentation from last
week's IGDA meeting. Be sure to read the notes section on each
slide - there are some good pointers about starting your own LLC.
http://www.troubleimpact.com/storage/TroubleImpact_IGDA_wit
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Top pics for what the future may be like in new game worlds:
How gaming is reshaping the way museums teach
* Immersive VR:
Oculus Rift movies in full stereoscopic 3D.
* Ultra Dining at Ultraviolet
By Jonah Kessel October 15th, 2013 At the restaurant Ultraviolet in
Shanghai, the chef Paul Pairet has taken dining and turned it into
theater, adding ambient music, unorthodox utensils and
enhancing scent. http://nyti.ms/H2aIjP
http://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/100000002498301/ultradining-at-ultraviolet.html?playlistId=1194811622211
* top 5 Augmented Reality Apps
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NqUSfjTSLyo
Journalism and video games come together as a new form of
storytelling in Brazil
The magazine Superinteressante is among a number of Brazilian publishers who have
reached new audiences by producing games on topics like drug trafficking and police
investigations. By Natalia Mazotte.
* To Test-Drive A Concept Car, Fire Up The PlayStation
November 22, 2013 4:22 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/11/22/2465
90470/to-test-drive-a-concept-car-fire-up-the-playstation
* The Witness by Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid, the 2d platformer that enables the
manipulation of time through rewind, slow, advance and alter time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brd0F7rlXCI
http://the-witness.net/news/
Up in the sky, it's an environmental revolution. From a small West Virginia office, John Amos is
single-handedly reshaping the postmodern environmental movement. He is the first, if not the only,
scientist to take the staggering array of satellite data, turn it into maps with overlays of radar or aerial
flyovers, then fan it out to environmental agencies, conservation nonprofit groups and grass-roots
activists. Washington Post
Potentially very lucrative markets:
Games for Seniors
Games for Animals:
Blog about Games for Animals by Hanna Wirman http://ludusanimalis.blogspot.co.uk/
Animal Computer Interaction at Open University: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/ACI/
Frank Noz and Jinsoo An's "Cat Cat Revolution" paper from CHI a few years
ago: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979331
Also check out their website for the project: http://catcatrevolution.com/
Michelle Westerlaken michellewesterlaken.wordpress.com
Marinka’s work: http://www.playingwithpigs.nl/about/
And don’t forget:
Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and
Trolls
BY MARK MAZZETTI AND JUSTIN ELLIOTT
American and British spies have infiltrated online fantasy games, fearing that militants could use
them to communicate, move money or plot attacks, documents show.