Tag Archives: IDGBL

Hypersonic in Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Ai Austin

Having been an enthusiastic user of Flight Simulator for the PC since the early 1990s, its been nearly 10 years since I last used Flight Simulator 2002… I skipped FS2004 (a.k.a “A Century of Flight” or FS9), and did not … Continue reading →

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Pottermore – Harry Potter Game Experience

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ai Austin

J.K. Rowling has created an on-line experience for fans of the Harry Potter series of books… to accompany a site which is the only on-line source of Harry Potter e-Books… a potentially vast market. The pottermore.com site has been in … Continue reading →

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Moon Bloom – The Legend of the Bloom of the Aligned Moons

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ai Austin

For my MSc in e-Learning IDGBL Game Design exercise I have created an exploration style game with a Na’vi/Avatar theme. The web site for the game information and links to allow access to the areas in which some elements of … Continue reading →

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Blackboard Collaborate

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Ai Austin

The University of Edinburgh has chosen Blackboard Collaborate as its virtual classroom. It provides Adobe Connect style tools with multi-way video and audio teleconferencing, particpants lists and profiles with hand raising and AFK indicators, and text chat with emoticons. A … Continue reading →

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World of Warcraft – IDGBL Party – Deadmines – 15-Mar-2012

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Ai Austin

The Fellowship of IDGBLers met once more on 15th March 2012. This time to take on the challenge of a “Dungeon” available through a portal which takes you into a separate “instance” of the game. I think we had fantastic … Continue reading →

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Aion – Entering Another New Land

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Ai Austin

I tried the free to play Aion MMORPG available for download from http://www.aionfreetoplay.com/. I am on EU server “Anuhart”. I entered as one of the races of Daeva (assigned to me on account creation), and selected the Elyos faction and … Continue reading →

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World of Warcraft – IDGBL Party – 14-Mar-2012

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ai Austin

The IDGBL Fellowship met again on 14th March 2012 again under the leadership of Coranich and including Agostino, Giacabino and Drinu. Aithun joined late, but caught up with the party in Stormwind Harbour. Once again we travelled far and wide … Continue reading →

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World of Warcraft – IDGBL Party – 13-Mar-2012

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Ai Austin

The Fellowship of mages, human hunters and dwarves who are the IDGBLers met near Northshire Abbey on 13th March 2012 and formed a “party” under the leadership of Coranich. Two in the party had paid-for WoW accounts, the others used … Continue reading →

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Space-Themed Games – Space Race Blast Off – NASA Multi-player Game on Facebook

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ai Austin

NASA have created a web-based “game” to test knowledge of science, maths and technology. It is called “Space Race Blast Off“. NASA Press Release (30-Jan-2012) Facebook App URL: http://apps.facebook.com/spacerace Stand-alone Flash App: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/spacerace/

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Space-Themed Games – Orbiter

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Ai Austin

Orbiter – Space Flight Simulator is a realistic simulation, using real world physics to provide a fun and educationally informative environment for flying spacecraft near the Earth, Moon, Mars and beyond. It was created by Martin Schweiger at UCL, and … Continue reading →

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