Photo's of the exhibition at work :D

Setting up of stand for FIS exhibition

Helmet at work

Controller hidden

We have hidden the controller in the same display as the RFID Reader

Bit of code used to load swf onto other swfs

After game 4 this will play

After game 3 this will play

After game2 this will play

After 1st game this will play

Start animation

bare with the video it has gone a bit funny after exporting it to a mov :)

sounds

We got recording of one of our classmates and re edited them to place into the game
sounds such as
better luck next time
great job
the instructions at the end of each animation
pirate voice

also the keyboard was used to create the background track, the introduction track and also the sounds for the buttons such as bong and being hit noises

Hidden for a more kid friendly feel  . . . .  d controller is also hidden in a box with d same colours

Hidden RFID Reader

Winter Garden

Hiden RFID Tags

We have hidden one tag in each piece of fruit these fruits will be place around the winter garden in DKIT

new logo again

Attempts at getting the controller to work

For our controller we have tried to hack a vsmile motion controller in with a normal keyboard controller

Game Designed in Illustrator

Game 1

 Game 2

 Game 3

Game 4

Final Poster

Poster Concepts

Concept1                                                            

     

Concept2

Characters on illustrator

Magical images

Tutorial links

These are a few photoshop tutorial links which will help use out with the design of our game and characters.

http://www.mickm.com/tutorial/194-drawing-kirby

http://10steps.sg/photoshop/draw-your-snowman-in-photoshop/

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/text-effects/jungle-text/Page-7.html

Make the games magical

The next step in our game development now is to make the games more magical and mysterious because now they are too plain. Also we are currently trying to figure out how to program these games so they work correctly :D

GAMES!!!

Here's a few concepts for different game development ideas that we have come up with . . . .

Hopefully you can kind of get the idea from these images as they are a bit unclean.

New Characters

We made there heads bigger and bodies smaller to give it a more child like approach. It will also be easier to animate with the characters like this!

A few more inspirational designs

RFID Tags

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that uses communication via radio waves to exchange data between a reader and an electronic tag attached to an object, for the purpose of identification and tracking. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating aradio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The other is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.


here are three types of RFID tags:
Passive RFID tags, which have no power source and require an external electromagnetic field to initiate a signal transmission,
Active RFID tags, which contain a battery and can transmit signals once an external source ('Interrogator') has been successfully identified.
Battery assisted passive (BAP) RFID tags, which require an external source to wake up but have significant higher forward link capability providing greater range.


For our project we have a change of plan again we will be using the active RFID tags.

We have changed our idea again and now are just going to use the RFID tags without a console as this is to time consuming and wouldn't turn out as we had thought. We will just have one computer screen and have all the games being activated by this station. We will place items around the college with the RFID tags on them for the children to find. They must collect the item bring it to the station and therefor the game will be enabled.

Each item will have a different tag and will enable a different game.

The child will also have the invisible helmet on his head with speakers built into it for the child to hear different music.

I think from looking at what people have been saying that the Dingoo maybe the easier one for use to program into as you can just but the flash file onto a SD card and it will appear without problems

Technology

Gemie vs Dingoo

Gemie
400x240- 3"
SDHC card slot (32GB)
USB
800 mAH battery
can play swf with flash 7
$82 which is about €60

Dingoo
320x240 - 2.8"- 24 bit colour
SDHC card  slot (8GB)
USD (charging only)
rechargable battery
DVD quality
plays flash
$80 about €60

A view links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoo_A320
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=199276
http://milynkee.com/