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Articles tagged with: game

Learn Microsoft Office By Playing Games
Friday, 26 March 2010
Learn Microsoft Office By Playing Games

Throw away the annoying paper clip – here’s how to really confuse your IT department who won’t let you play games at work. Tell them you need the “Ribbon Hero” add-in for Microsoft Office and tell them it is a productivity and learning tool. This application from Microsoft Labs has currently got the internet buzzing, [read more...]

Getting Frantic With Augmented Reality
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Getting Frantic With Augmented Reality

The kids were getting a bit bored and “playful” on a Sunday afternoon and they could do with running off some steam so thinking quickly I remembered an augmented reality game that I had previously downloaded on my HTC Hero. I had been meaning to give it a go and this sounded like a perfect [read more...]

Sid Meier Confirmed As Keynote Speaker At GDC 2010
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Sid Meier Confirmed As Keynote Speaker At GDC 2010

The keynote speaker for this years Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) has been confirmed as Sid Meier, co-founder of Firaxis Games, and developer of well known simulation games Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, Pirates! and of course the much loved Civilisation series. Sid Meier’s keynote will focus on the psychology of game design and reflects on over [read more...]

Lessons learned from the development of an online casual game
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Lessons learned from the development of an online casual game

Whilst working on a social media project for work, and being a curious software developer, it seemed like a good idea to have a go at creating an online Flash based casual game to better understand the mechanics of the online casual game environment. During this exercise, and after having produced a few other titles, [read more...]

Play at being an IT Manager
Monday, 19 October 2009
Play at being an IT Manager

Ever wonder what is involved in the day to day operations of IT? Maybe you have thought "I could do better" a few times – well Intel have released the third wave of their IT Manager games series entitled "IT Manager III: Unseen Forces". There are several factors to the game including managing the helpdesk [read more...]

Play Pairs Game Here
Friday, 28 August 2009
Play Pairs Game Here

I recently completed the Pairs Game I was developing as a project in Flash. It was a fun and interesting project to do and I owe a lot of thanks to my play tester at home for spotting strange issues and suggesting improvements. If you have never played pairs the general idea is that a [read more...]

Developing An Application Using Flash And AS 3: Part Four
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Developing An Application Using Flash And AS 3: Part Four

Project Progress So far Welcome to the fourth instalment, and probably penultimate episode, of this development project of a game using Flash and ActionScript 3 – to catch up read Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. I have been reviewing the design plan so far – the welcome screen is in but [read more...]

Waterslide home with your iPhone
Friday, 31 July 2009
Waterslide home with your iPhone

Have you seen the Barclaycard advert with the guy who water slides home and using his contact-less payment technology on the way? Barclaycard have followed that stream of thought with a free iPhone application (via the Apple Store or iTunes) called “Extreme Waterslide”, developed by fishlabs and Dare – it looks pretty neat so if [read more...]