Category Archives: Games and XBox

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

Four Perspectives on Delivering ‘Return on Experience’ Follow-up Notes

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Rob Burke

And now, as promised, the link-laced follow-up to this week’s “Four Perspectives on delivering ‘Return on Experience.’” Our UX Gurus on the panel were: Susan Greenfield, a Senior UX Designer at Infusion Ernie Taylor, a Project Manager at Infusion Bill … Continue reading →