Author Archives: Nathan Crock

To explore the actual design and structure of this game we are using Jesse Schell’s book The Art of Game Design. One of the “lenses” he uses to look at games is the lens of the elemental tetrad. There are … Continue reading →

To add a degree of “gameness” to my creation I added a timer. A timer for what? Well what ever you want I guess, I just made up some fun rules in my head… How about to remove all the … Continue reading →

Next was to test the hand model with some physics and see how things interacted. There are 200 blocks with dynamic physics sitting on a static plane. The hand is underneath the plane, and after passing up through the plane … Continue reading →

For our game we’re going to use the Kinect as a natural user interface. This will remove one more medium between the autistic children and the learning aspect of the game. As the children move their hands, we want 3D … Continue reading →

As one of the 3 graduate students in my advisors game design class, our objective is to design a game using the Blender Game Engine with the unique property that it be educational. The project we’ve decided upon is a … Continue reading →