This was Sunday night at the showroom floor. As you can see we managed to weaseled our way in when we probably shouldn’t have. Our booths on Sunday Clearly it was all built last minute. The first lecture I attended. It was Designing the First Social Reality Game to Motivate Change. The main problem with [...]

You need Darwiin remote and a wii remote and a bluetooth adapter. This reads a text file from the Darwiin and then utilizes it in processing and it shows up as movement. PImage wiimote_top, wiimote_front; int accX, accY, accZ, orientation; void setup() { size(600, 400); frameRate(60 ); smooth(); //wiimote_top = loadImage(“shake.jpg”); //wiimote_front = loadImage(“turn.jpg”); } [...]

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21052 Richard Garriott, also known as Lord British to Ultima Online fans, recently returned to the planet. Mr. Garriott has been a game designer for over 20 years and has been an instrumental designer in Ultima series of games. He had recently completed his interstellar trip to the international space station. It got me thinking, [...]

Taking Tracy’s class on designing for interactive media has opened my eyes to the wonders of paper prototyping. The great thing about paper prototyping is that it can be used for not just games, but for software too. Apparently someone at Adobe must be in contact with Tracy because if you check out the link [...]

Gesture control has always been something that intrigues a lot of us in the department. For me it began with the clapper, it then evolved to the Nintendo Wii. In the Link below there is an article that shows off a new system of control that uses a web cam (much like the eye toy) [...]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/cnns-holographic-freakout-begins-seems-totally-bizarre-and-unn/ If you head to the link above you will probably come to the same conclusion I and a lot of other people thought, WHY??!! Earlier in the semester we discussed data visualization and its uses, but I’m sure the people at CNN needed that lecture just as much as we did. As I watched [...]

In the spirit of keeping up with current events I have discovered an interesting article on gamasutra entitled “Persuasive Games: The Birth and Death of the Election Game.” It mainly talks about the role that candidate sponsored video games play in campaign process. My only experience so far with campaigns in a virtual environment has [...]

Well I guess that this would be my second post coming at you straight from the ZML.

The first post is always the worst post, especially written in third person. Basic Information First name : Daniel Last Name : Ponce Date of Birth : 09/25/1984 City of Birth : San Francisco, California. Country of Birth : United States of America. Ethnicity : Mexican. Comments : None. Body Information Height : 5 foot 7 inches. Weight : approximately 145 lb. Hair Color : Brown. Eye Color : Brown. Skin [...]