Entertainment software: suddenly huge, little understood

Open Source Software for Entertainment

In this tutorial, we explore open source software practices and tools that are suitable for a growing number of creators of interactive and playful systems. The introduction of open source tools such as Processing and Arduino has motivated a broader participation of technical and non-technical users in the creative production of interactive systems. Maker communities meet regularly and they sha...

Analysis of Well-understood Domain for Software Tools Building

This paper presents the framework for well-understood domain analysis as a decisive stage for the successive process of domain-specific software tools building. Specific features of the well-understood domain analysis are fonnulated. Initial model of the tools to be built and the analysis process are described. Analysis is performed with the reusability concept in mind and as a result essential...

Expert Commentary on Videoed Expertise (EXCOVE): An approach to knowledge elicitation in little-understood, complex domains

Dissertation as part of the MSc Entertainment Software Development

III Acknowledgements I would like to thank Mark Stanley and Pete Marshall from SCEE who both provided excellent support during this project whilst I was developing the facial morphing applications. I would also like to thank Paul Porter from Sumo Digital for allowing me to demonstrate the original version of my facial morphing tool and giving me excellent feedback which was used to define the r...

Learning from Games: HCI Design Innovations in Entertainment Software

Computer games are one of the most successful application domains in the history of interactive systems. This success has come despite the fact that games were ‘separated at birth’ from most of the accepted paradigms for designing usable interactive software. It is now apparent that this separate and less-constrained environment has allowed for much design creativity and many innovations that m...