bu constructor
DESCRIPTION
Presentation given to Brighton University students in preparation for them creating location-based games for LocoMatrixThe outcome will be 5 new archaeology gamesTRANSCRIPT
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Invisible BuildingsConstructor Challenge
• Location-based Game using mobile web• Invisible Buildings: the Game. The story• Invisible Buildings: the story told backwards• About LocoMatrix• How we work• Roll your own
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Location-based Game using mobile web
• You are going to create an archaeology game• It will be for mobile phones – iPhone /
Android• It will be for children of around 9-10 years• It will be played over the course of a day• It will educate, inform, entertain!
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Story 1 – the Letter
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Story 2 – Time Team
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Archaeologist
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Story 3 – Metal Detectors
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Story 4 - GeoFizz
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Story 5 – the Dig
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Story 6 – Finding the Plot
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Story 7 – Hey Presto
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Story in Reverse - 1
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Reverse 2 – Create the Bits
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Reverse 3 – Create the GeoFizz
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Reverse 4 – Working with Maps
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LocoMatrix
• 3 years in Location-based Games• Started with Nokia phones and separate GPS• Created Fruit Farmer (PacMan like)• Created Treasure Hunt• Awarded most Awesome Use of Digital Tech• Grant with Brighton Uni for schools project
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How We Work
• Now work with iPhone, Android + other smartphones (+ tablets)
• Using HTML5• That gives us built in location info• Using Canvas• No AppStore necessary• Just the web
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Roll Your Own
• Pick an era – Iron Age, Medieval, Victorian, Modern (or a ship, or aircraft)
• In SketchUp, either– Look for an existing building– Create your own
• Manipulate, to create– Building parts (to dig up)– Floor plan -> GeoFizz
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Roll Your Own (2)
• Create a set of items for the metal detector related to your genre
• Add to the catalogue – you will need a photo and some text (goes into Joomla! CMS)
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Roll Your Own (3)
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Roll Your Own (4)
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Roll Your Own (5)
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Roll Your Own (6)
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Questions
• Questions on presentation• Questions on mechanics• What next