Which Game Making Tool Is Right for You? Game development is possibly one of the more difficult hobbies to get into, mainly due to how huge and daunting it can seem. Not only do aspiring indie game developers have to know how to code, but there's also the art, the writing, the design, the … [Read more...]

  Reinforcement Learning Improves Game Testing, EA’s AI Team Finds As game worlds grow more vast and complex, making sure they are playable and bug-free is becoming increasingly difficult for developers. And gaming companies are looking for new tools, including artificial intelligence, to … [Read more...]

Serious Game Design and Clinical Improvement in Physical Rehabilitation: Systematic Review Serious video games have now been used and assessed in clinical protocols, with several studies reporting patient improvement and engagement with this type of therapy. Even though some literature reviews have … [Read more...]

Tips for iOS Game Development iOS is one of the most popular operating systems in the world. Installed only on Apple devices, it has virtually no compatibility issues. The AppStore is used by more than 100 million users per day – such traffic gives a novice game developer a serious motivation to … [Read more...]

Finding Successful Strategies In A Complex Urban Sustainability Game The adverse effects of unsustainable behaviors on human society are leading to an increasingly urgent and critical need to change policies and practices worldwide. This requires that citizens become informed and engaged in … [Read more...]

Tesseract Center Wins International Award for Civil Rights History Game The Tesseract Center for Immersive Environments and Game Design at the U of A won Silver in the Higher Education category for their entry in the 2021 International Serious Play Awards competition, which honors outstanding games … [Read more...]

Simcoach Games Announces the Inaugural Game Design and Production Apprenticeship Simcoach Games launches its first apprenticeship program to prepare young adults for careers requiring problem-solving, creativity and digital skills Simcoach founder Jess Trybus and new Simcoach leadership to … [Read more...]

Stunning Video Game Technology Brings Churchill’s Story to Life Didcot-based Rebellion Film Studios has produced an extraordinary video to accompany the launch of the new Churchill exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which opened earlier this month. ‘Churchill at Blenheim’ was filmed with a range of … [Read more...]

Good Vibrations: Using a Driving Simulator for NVH Development Driver-in-the-Loop (DIL) simulators are an important point of integration for different engineering departments. One of the most recent departments to join the DIL party is noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), in the quest to conduct … [Read more...]

20 Best Turn-Based Strategy Games of All Time Though real-time strategy games are newer and arguably have had a more notable explosive rise in popularity, turn-based games still remain the more prolific and varied sub-genre in comparison. There is an inherent allure to the tension found in … [Read more...]

Curiosity: The Digital Q & As #innovationsland In the tenth live conversation in the series “Curiosity: the digital Q & As” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, c’t editor-in-chief Dr. Jürgen Rink with Prof. Linda Kruse about how you can impart knowledge with the help of … [Read more...]

Video Games get Serious About Climate Change From Sims Eco Lifestyle to Minecraft Climate City, environmental issues are becoming a popular theme in video games. But can the industry deliver on its own green message? Dressed in a futuristic wetsuit that enables her to stay submerged for hours, … [Read more...]

ArtScience Museum Presents the Global Premiere of Virtual Realms: Videogames Transformed Co-curated by celebrated videogame designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, this multi-sensorial exhibition re-imagines videogames as a 21st century artform SINGAPORE - Videogames take centre stage at ArtScience … [Read more...]

Designing a Better Patient Experience Innovation Lab How can game design help improve the cancer patient experience? The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites game developers to apply for the Designing a Better Patient Experience Innovation Lab to be held August 2-6, 2021. If you’re … [Read more...]

Remaking Oregon Trail Video Game With An Eye Toward More Accurate Native American Depictions Listen https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2021/05/WEB_OregonTrailNewGame_AK_051121.mp3 A new spin on the wagon train game focuses on more accurately representing Native Americans. The … [Read more...]

Campfire Raises $8 Million to Advance AR/VR for Product Design Campfire has raised $8 million in funding for its holographic technology that enables both augmented reality and virtual reality for the purpose of enterprise product design. In stealth until now, Campfire has created a holographic … [Read more...]

Shrouded Citadel Interview: Discover the Secrets Behind the AR Adventure Epic What does a 40 year old Dungeons & Dragons-style RPG and a modern day AR adventure game have in common? Well, a rather surprising amount as we discovered during our interview with Shrouded Citadel’s creator, Robert … [Read more...]

The Carnegie Rule of Game Design: 6 Ways to Make Things Interesting Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People back in 1936, and I've heard jokes about it for my entire life. The book gets thrown around as a cliché because it serves as a useful way to communicate. (If it wasn’t … [Read more...]

Virtual Reality at Your Fingertips When a person taps with their fingers, each finger generates a different vibration profile propagating to the wrist through bones. ETH Zurich researchers have now leveraged this discovery in the development of a dual-sensor wristband that brings intuitive … [Read more...]

For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary … [Read more...]