Thanks so much for your interest in Impact Gamers LiVE – The live show to inspire children and families into games making. It’s this Saturday 6-7:45pm We’ve been prepping this week and the big screen and arcade bench are looking awesome! If you’d be happy to be in a competition better get practising… The challenges are going live one by…
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New Groups
Many thanks to Bradford Council’s Youth Opportunity Fund. They have paid for 32 sessions for 13-18 yr olds. So Monday 7:30-8:30pm and Thursdays 3:15-4:15am term time we have started new groups.
This week we have been mostly learning…Mouse control
Well after a year of focusing the group on making arcade games we are turning to apps. You loose over a hundred basic possible inputs of a keyboard, or 12 of a joystick and get 1 instead. But you can still do some very clever things with it, tap, double tap, drag, hold… and erm… triple tap?? Hopefully you’ll see some…
A new “The Basics” tutorial video
Finally a video to get you to understand the basics from knowing nothing… after install Clickteam Fusion 2.5
National Museum Museum machine
Well March was a fun month of much building and much sawdust as we built a bespoke machine for the National Media Museum. The machine is currently in the technical lab at the museum, hoping to be added to the games lounge this week. We added a very nice all new chooser spinner for the 12 current games (6…
BIG EVENT 23 May 2015 11-3pm
Not happy with out 15″ or 20″ arcade monitors we wanna go Biiiiiggggggg. As pas of the “SHOWING OUR WORK” aspect of Impact gamers we’re planning an public showcase on May 23rd on Bradford’s Big screen City Park. Checkout our kickstarter campaign
Long time no update – Table Top
The table top arcade machine (Asus eee 701 pc broken screen/15″ multimedia monitor/arcade usb controller/1 ft LED light) is up and running. Just need to add a nice marquee (title to go infront of light) Well done all the guys who help cut, drill and spray.
Racing racing GO GO GO!
As a break from starting a game from scratch we’ve been making tracks on the free version of trackmania, trackmaniaforever.com/nations/
What makes a good game?
Found a nice write up here, mainly suitable for non-arcade games… http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/games/goodgame.html Continuous Challenge Interesting Storyline Flexibility Immediate, useful rewards Combining Fun and Realism