Emerging Products

This is a very interesting time in the Interactive media class as products that have been in planning and development for months begin to emerge. A case in point is Dustin's first game preview...



Download the demo yourself and play it - Dustin is looking for feedback. Apologies to Dustin for my game preview - and spoiler :-)

On another topic I've recently added Not Possible IRL to my Google Reader - it's a great blog with lots of ideas for potential interactive projects for 2009.

One entry I found fascinating was the area of art and photography done in virtual worlds like Second Life. I followed the links to Lano Ling's Flickr page and checked out 'chakryn wolves' and several other sets of work done in SL by Lano and others.

Creating scenes with prims and scripts rather than brush and paint, and taking digital portraits of avatars creates some extraordinary work. I'm tempted to give it a try myself...

Finally, just a brief mention that the UTAS School of Computing is offering a Games Technology Degree from 2009. Some of the units and electives look like exciting options.