Making Games with GameBrix
For aspiring online game makers a new community is now in public beta providing tools for creating games and animations; forums for sharing ideas, game components, and troubleshooting tips; and a host site for games that others can play. Frank Ferguson, president of Curriculum Associates, tells me that GameBrix.net will change to .com once it gets out of beta.
The cool thing about the site is the Web 2.0 aspects involving communities of like-minded players, where budding programmers can seek out the advice and expertise of veteran code-meisters and solutions from all. Folks can work solo, or in teams to produce quality games that can be loaded from the site and played anywhere. Ferguson indicates that different levels of programming can be used, from the very simple to quickly create easy games, to the very complex for professional coders looking to create advanced games.
The pedagogical possibilities are readily evident. Professors and teachers can appropriate the site for educational purposes, designing instructional games or having students design things themselves. GameBrix certainly is worth a visit, and worth watching as it works its way out of beta.
Tags: classroom games, Curriculum Associates, Frank Ferguson, GameBrix
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December 12, 2007 6:02 am
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By John Rice, December 13, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
Elaine Alhadeff has written an excellent post regarding GameBrix here.
By neodel, January 17, 2008 @ 3:11 am
Have been following up and doing my own homework with Gamebrix. It is definitely an avenue for expressing creativity. I saw two games built using the same game mechanics but they both feel so different. I have posted links to them here…
In the first one you are a little piggy and you have to eat up little pumpkins and then reach your mushroom home.
http://fs1.gamebrix.net/game.php?page=playGame&gameID=1118
In the second, you are a birdy and u have to eat up butterflies…
http://gamebrix.net/game.php?gameID=1006
So cool to see different people express their creativity in different ways!
Very nice graphics in these games…