Category Archives: Sweet

Legend of the Greasepole gets the Silverlight 4 + Analytics treatment

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Rob Burke

Legend of the Greasepole has been ported to Silverlight 4 and reincarnated on http://greasepole.net. Greasepole is the long-suffering game about multimedia tribute to the inexplicable Engineering traditions at Queen’s University in Canada. Over 50 students contributed to the project back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Development, Games and XBox, Microsoft | Tagged Achievements, Analytics, feedback, Greasepole, Legend of the Greasepole, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Visual Studio 2010 | Leave a comment

Cross-Country Olympic Mind Games

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Rob Burke

During the Winter Olympics, the lights of the CN Tower are taking part in an interactive art installation that’s controlled by a participant’s brainwaves.

What I like about the CN Tower installation (in addition to the cross-country nature of the biofeedback loop) is how they teach participants to generate the correct brainwave patterns. We faced a similar challenge back at MediaLabEurope. Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Games and XBox, Sweet | Tagged biofeedback, CN Tower, Mind Balance, Toronto, Vancouver, Winter Olympics | Leave a comment

Standards are the Sands of Time (or, the Illusion of Preservation)

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Rob Burke

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for every standard drops to zero.

From emulated games to digital negatives, how can we preserve our digital content for posterity, and inform our decisions about which formats we adopt? Continue reading →