Links
Most of these sites are good references for prior work and research related documents that I will be using to complete my Thesis, but I am also posting some good devolpment resource for all the game programmers back home. I'll try to continue updating this page as I come across more online resources.
Prior Work
- Audience Interaction A site on audience driven computer applications. This site also has a good research paper that describes three different methods for implementing a collaborative control system.
- The History of the Interface in Interactive Art A good review of many of the methods that have been used in art to create unique interactive experiences.
- Cinematrix - Interactive Entertainment Systems ® Possibly the first system to allow users to collaboratively control a single installation.
- Collaborative Control of Robot Motion A research paper on having multiple inputs (including human users) controlling a single robot
- Laser Games This guy has made it possible to play various video games using a laser pointer for an input device. Although the work is not a research initiative, it is certainly relavent to my own plans.
Audience Participation
- http://www.badmovies.org/movies/rockyhorror/audience/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- http://www.tonylovestina.com/tony_tina_show_info_1.cfm Tony and Tina’s Wedding
Thesis Reserach
- Guideline for Writing A Thesis Proposal Because no one is as smart as they think they are...
Game Development Resources
- New Grounds.com New Grounds is a great site to find all kinds of fun stuff. Mostly however I find that it is the best place to find some great original royalty free music made by people who love to share their creations on the internet.
- Free Sounds Free sounds is a large collection of sound effects and audio clips, most of which are decent to high quailty. There are lots of sites like this one, but I've had the best results from this one so far.
3D and XNA Development
- Microsoft Free Development Software Microsoft has some free software for students that is worth exceptionaly more than the time it takes to register if you are interested in graphics or game programming. I'm using Microsoft Visual C# Express with the XNA Game Studio extension to develop the games for my thesis.
- DirectX Software Development Kit Included with this SDK is some handy plug-ins for Maya and Photoshop for exporting to Direct X pipeline format files
- The Official MSDN C# and .NET Framework Developer Center Anytime I come across an unfamilari keyword in C#, I look it up on this site. It has complete documentation of the .NET frameword and has some pretty solid example of implementation that rarely let me down.
- Top Mod Well, you COULD use it to help you make game models...
2D Game Development and Rapid Prototyping
- Game Maker YoYo Games is the creator of a handy little program called Game Maker. Game Maker is a great tool for making simple 2D games and also for rapid prototyping of game concepts. My plan is, is for some game concepts, to first create prototypes in game maker before developing a complete version in XNA. This way I can test my ideas before I perform a full implementation.
- Flash Kit I'm a pretty thoroughly experience flash developer, and as ugly and crowded with spambertisments as it is, it is unparralled in it's density of Flash development resources including sounds, tutorials, fonts, graphics and more. If you develop in Flex or Flash, it is worth checking out.