Intelligent navigation system to personalise shopping trips

A ground-breaking indoor navigation system is being developed to help improve people’s experiences of a range of businesses, including supermarkets, hospitals and leisure parks. Mobile app developer RNF Digital Innovation has unveiled the project, which will use smartphones, tablets and iBeacons, following a £500,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s Innovation Agency. A…

Create your own dungeon with new roguelike

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…

Research network to attend creative showcase

A new research network, which will bring together games developers, performance practitioners and academics, has been invited to attend a national Research Council showcase event. The Videogames Research Network has been set up by the Games Research Group at the University of Lincoln, UK, and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).…

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