eLearning Mechanics #41: Social Fabric of Games
…social games designed to promote collaborative, but asynchronous, activities…
Author: David J McClelland
A Win: International Award of Excellence from STC
Novatek wins Award of Excellence at the International Summit Awards for the Fundamentals of Imaging Technology eLearning course.
Use Putty to ssh Into HostMonster
There are many helpful posts out there on how to do this. This is written so that I can recall the exact steps I used that worked for me. Starting Point I am able...
Using Cron to trigger PHP scripts on Hostmonster
Run PHP scripts from Cron…
SmartFox Server on LocalHost
Successful installation wasn’t as simple as download and click “Install.” I didn’t find a complete set of instructions addressing what I encountered – so here is my experience…
What Does Experience Look Like? Closed Captioning.
A trainer assigned to “do eLearning” may have shrugged when automatic CC display didn’t appear to be an option.
Alignment Matters
…that alignment thing becomes a painfully concrete when the PM realizes that they didn’t build in time to…
Driving Flash with data from a Google Docs Spreadsheet
This concept takes advantage of a useful feature of Google Docs spreadsheets: they can be set up to publish in ATOM format, which is XML…
Make a Bobblehead Character
…continuing to avoid that deep dive into modeling and clothing figures, I present a labor-cheap alternative that I call a Bobble-head. I doubt this is original, I think I might have seen Terry Gilliam do something like this…
Isometric Character Motion Analyzer
As I promised, I will describe how I set up the motion analyzer to test character animations without loading them into a game. It should go without saying that you should still test your...