Skip brainstorming on the next Game Lab session

Here's what we should do instead of brainstorming at the next game lab session.

Instead of brainstorming, we should use the Video Game Name Generator to generate a name, and then make the kids design it.

For example, here's the name I got: Super Polka Commander. Oh, yeah.

Walk All Ways

An Omnidirectional Treadmill Means One Giant Leap for Virtual Reality

“In the virtual environment you have flight simulators, car simulators, but the most natural way of locomotion for humans is walking and this was practically impossible,” says Marc Ernst, the coordinator of the CyberWalk project at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Here is another team from Michigan.

Check out the video in action at the bottom of the screen.

Transmedia News

MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Archives

Nice article on transmedia

Plainview

Plainview is basically a full-screen web browser designed to assist in demo'ing web applications or making interactive web-based presentations. It's based on WebKit, the same web page browser that Safari uses, so it will work basically like Safari, minus browser chrome.

College@home list of top 25 educational games

College@home's list of the top 25 sims and games for the classroom

I don't see Science Pirates on that list, so the data may be flawed.

Flip Video

Flip Video Mino

When I say #003366, I mean #003366, dag nabbit!

Finally, a how-to on disabling Photoshop from mucking with your images on export to web due to color profiles.