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The Uncanny Valley
Looking back at screenshots of some of the original video arcade games, and comparing them to the increasingly realistic imagery of games on the latest generation consoles, it is difficult not to be a… more →
Digital Worlds - Interactive Media and Game Design
It Makes Home Scents!
Tracey Smith wrote 1 year ago: It’s always great to hear from a friend with some hot eco-news, especially when it recognises … more →
GM-Free Dorset County Event at Kingston Maurward College
DorchesterLETS wrote 1 year ago: Tuesday 28th October 2008, 7.00pm LETS Members may be interested in this talk by Percy Schmeiser, an … more →
The Uncanny Valley
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Looking back at screenshots of some of the original video arcade games, and comparing them to the in … more →
Friday Fun #12 Video Storytelling
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Earlier this week, I posted about machinima, the creation of short movies using 3D game engines as a … more →
ARGs, Serious Games and the Magic Circle
Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In “Alternate Reality Games: What Makes or Breaks Them?“, a blog post reviewing the rise … more →
The Virtual Worlds Universe
Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In Have You Got a Second Life?, I introduced the 3D social network Second Life, and hinted that this … more →
Game Reviews from a Game Design and Development Point of View
Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Read any typical game review, and it’s quite likely that it will provide you with a quick summ … more →
Have You Got a Second Life?
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Of all the 3D virtual worlds that can now be found on the internet, Second Life is arguably the one … more →
3D Worlds Fitness Test/Checklist
Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Going through some old notes I’d collected about potential ideas for exercises in 3D worlds, I … more →
Our Heavens in 3D...
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: For the sake of completeness, as much as anything, I thought I’d just complement the Our World … more →
Our World in 3D...
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In the series of posts on alternate reality games (ARGs), we saw how ARGs could make use of ‘r … more →
Perplex City Exposed
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Moving on from ARGs Uncovered, which reviewed the IGDA white paper on Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) … more →
ARGs Uncovered
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In All the World a Game? In introduced the idea of alternate reality games (ARGs) that merge fiction … more →
All the World a Game?
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In The World of Serious Games I showed how 3D gamelike techniques are starting to be used in trainin … more →
The World of Serious Games
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In Looking Realistic… I gave one or two examples of the sort of visual effect that is offered … more →
Post hoc Game Documentation - Walkthroughs and Speedruns
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In The Process of Game Creation & the Game Design Document I described how a design document pro … more →
An Example Game Design Document Template
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: In The Process of Game Creation & the Game Design Document I introduced the idea of a game desig … more →
The Process of Game Creation & the Game Design Document
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve been following the Game Maker activities, or if you had a look at the Skillset Indus … more →
Story Arcs, and the Three Act Structure
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Tony Hirst wrote 1 year ago: Just to round off the current series of posts on the story structure (or narrative structure) of a g … more →
