Category Archives: development

January 19, 2012
10:27 am
by: DarrylKC

Monster Munch: Dead Hungry Diner Demo

I spent a bit of time playing the demo from Black Market Games and really enjoyed it – you should try it out. Black Market Games are Northern Ireland based company working in Derry and are one of several small local … Continue reading →

Posted in development, Game Development, Games

December 29, 2011
7:04 pm
by: DarrylKC

My Games of 2011

Here is a list of my games of the year (in no particular order). The only one that I’ve completed is Portal 2 but I’ve played enough of the others to make a judgement. I normally complete more games and … Continue reading →

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July 2, 2011
10:32 am
by: DarrylKC

Economic Gameplay in Virtual Worlds

Koster’s post on this topic explains the importance of balanced economics in commercial virtual worlds: Does a virtual economy affect player retention? From time to time I think about this in terms of the design of educational virtual worlds. Economics … Continue reading →

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June 2, 2011
10:40 am
by: DarrylKC

Play games to learn to program

This is an interesting read on getting into programming through games, by creating macros, scripts, and logical blocks: http://www.hideandseek.net/2011/05/25/programming-games/. Of course much game playing is about planning, puzzle solving and thinking strategically, which is also very beneficial to being an … Continue reading →

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March 25, 2009
10:03 am
by: DarrylKC

VS Games conference

Just back from presenting my paper at the VS Games IEEE conference in Coventry. Overall I felt that the conference was pretty successful for its first year. The keynote speakers were excellent. Alan Chalmers of Warwick talked about multi-modal sensory … Continue reading →

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March 9, 2009
10:13 am
by: DarrylKC

XNA community games

At UUC we are interested in playing the best examples of XNA community games and making our own. We have good a community of students who are developing XNA games and we have seen some quite exciting work over the … Continue reading →

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