What do I do in the evenings? Well, I have my avatars pose, act, and otherwise help/hinder Gary Hayes in exploring the 3D web on webpages. Why, what do you do? Here’s Gary’s post Inching Towards the live Web 3.0 – Layered Social Virtual Worlds My work in virtual world give me a unique –…
Report Get your passport photo ready! FaceSpook is here. Upload a photo when asked, the facemapping program places you in the story. You have to make a couple of decisions. People live or die by your choices. Interactive TV, online game and movie all in one.Now all I need is for them to make a…
…is Game trailers. Or Machinima. Or a mashup of a film, a game, and a game engine. What came first – the passive version or the active version? All compelling questions as we see the migration of film into virtual and virtual into film. Yep, I guess cross media has always been about blurring that…
Use blogs, wikis, forums, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook whatever, to tell of a world in trouble, in the year 2019. A press release from the future: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 Humans have 23 years to go Global Extinction Awareness System starts the countdown for Homo sapiens. PALO ALTO, CA — Based on the results…
David N Wallace has written a great post about accessing touch technologies and the disabled. The Touch Barrier – Accessibility and usability issues around touch technologies June 14th, 2008 I’m Worried. Worried about recent technology developments – actually the application of one technology in particular – touch. In this instance, when I say ‘touch’ I’m…
…unfortunately. A U.K. Web site allows users — some of whom are as young as 8-years-old — create virtual “bimbos” who can then undergo breast augmentation and take diet pills. (ABCNews Photo Illustration) From ABC website Bratz pushed the boundaries – the girl dolls have g-strings – but this game takes the cake. Or doesn’t…
I’ve spoken a few times in workshops and written here on the bloggy (e.g. April last year) about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Jean-Marie Guitera from Subversive Games mentioned it tonight at AIMIA Oline Games as if it was something new – I think he said no-one in the States was following it. But that can’t…
Who’s going to Online Games drinkies tonight? Hmm Friends don’t let friends drink and game… Online games going mainstream – the implications for the media and advertising industries The Online games industry is morphing into a compelling new medium. We are seeing the convergence of games, movies, virtual worlds and social networking applications into an…
Interesting article re: leveraging user generated content in and around games. You really should read the whole thing at clickz but here’s some snippets: Reinforcing the value of UGGC, Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer for “Gears of War,” said, “For a PC title that expects any sort of longevity in sales, playability, and online time, a…
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