We have come a long way since cardboard cutout VRML back in the 90s. It is interesting to watch a revolution take place at the moment in Mixed Reality and one particular subset, augmented reality. I produced a compilation of various activities in a short video at the bottom of this post but before that, [...]
I introduced Indigo Prophesy (aka Farenheit) to AFTRS a couple of years ago when we ran some LAMP workshops as well as cross-media design courses and it opened the minds of a few writers and directors here to the potential of highly emotional story and character driven game design. A couple of those staff and [...]
A project that went through the LAMP treatment in 2006, Emergence from the Synarcade production team, has posted a short documentary mostly about the performative aspects on YouTube (embed below). They already had a successful live show but during the LAMP residential they concentrated on a virtual world parallel version alongside the live performance, interactive [...]
We don’t talk about our own home grown, cheap-cheerful, DIY projects on water-cooler that much but this could be classed as cool I think. A ‘amateur’ production flow scenario showing how tools at the disposal of many folk now can do some interesting stuff. The remarkable thing was that this was a quick 5 hour [...]
Kynogon, a private company, is being bought by AutoDesk. Kynogon’s Kynapse ai middleware is used by leading games companies including Blitz, EA, Lionhead Studios, SEGA and THQ. Kynapse is also used for serious gaming by industry and defence. More about it here.
I wonder if maya or 3DS Max will soon offer some in-built ai functionality?
I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, destroying robots, then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from many years [...]
