University of Lincoln, UK
Members of the University of Lincoln’s Performance and Games Network project participated in one of the world’s largest writers’ festivals to help novelists think about how they might be able to create interactive gaming experiences. Dr Conor Linehan and Dr John Shearer, from the School of Computer Science, were invited to lead a session at…
A new fantasy videogame that will give players the power to generate their own levels through Twitter has been launched. Hashtag Dungeon is unique, in that rather than procedurally generating its own content, the game is tied to the @HashtagDungeon Twitter account which tweets out the code that becomes a whole new level of dungeon…
The first of three workshops for a new research project looking at creating new videogames will take place this week. Led by the Games Research Group at the University of Lincoln, the Performance and Games Network involves several researchers from Lincoln’s School of Computer Science, including Dr Patrick Dickinson, Dr Duncan Rowland, Dr Conor Linehan, Dr…
Two specialists in human-computer interaction have joined the growing team at the University of Lincoln’s School of Computer Science. Dr John Shearer and Kathrin Gerling will be continuing their research into interactive technologies that have a purpose beyond entertainment. Ms Gerling is particularly interested in how motion-based interfaces can be used by people with special…
Developers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have created a new fantasy roguelike that allows players to generate their own content through Twitter. #Dungeon is a simple dungeon crawler, created from tweeting code tagged as #HashtagDungeon. Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by random level generation, tile-based graphics and permanent death. Likened…