It has been over a year since I first blogged about creating a game as enveloping as WOW. Well, I finally made the plunge! Recently, a student sent me a “Recruit a Friend” trial membership. I am going to attempt to blog my adventures. First, I had to create a character. My WOW mentor, Dave,…
Category: Computer Graphics/Game Development
Alice 3.0 Beta Tester
I am very excited that our new class CIS 159 Programming in Alice will be beta testing Alice 3.0 software. You may have been following my earlier post: https://www.perceptivepetal.com/wordpress/?p=156 We made the final cut, and I’m heading out to Carnegie Mellon University in January to prepare for the testing. I am very thankful and excited…
Making an Instructional Game as Inviting and Addicting to Play as W.O.W.
I ask my studnets, “How can I make an instructional game that will teach you networking concepts as inviting and addicting to play as W.O.W.?” The response I received was, “Well, I don’t know, maybe you could come up with something like a Super Mario game,” replied one student. When I probed, he indicated that…
Cognititon and Gaming
As I read through Chapters 5-6 of the Gibson et al text, I collected these thoughts: 3D Learning Environments — depending upon age and computer experience; learners have different ways of understanind a 3D learning environment. For the Gen Y’ers it is second nature to them — intuitively understood. For the newest generation, I am…
To Be a Student Again!
I was excited to hear about the Educational Gaming and Simulations in Second Life class taught online through Boise State. It was a tad pricey at $1044 with a $55 application fee, but I thought – it sounds like just what I need. I submitted my application online and awaited the registration information. When I got an…
Plagued with Red-Eye
Our family is plagued with the red-eye syndrome! Here is the Adobe Photoshop tutorial that I use to remove it from our pictures. Basically, it has you creating a new layer for the fix. On that layer, you select an “eye color” (sampled if possible) and paint over the red portion. Select Filter, Blur, Gaussian…