For May 15

Next week will be our last class! We’ll have two guest critics in to respond to your work.

  • Iterate on your app designs per the feedback from the other class and prepare your final presentation. You will have 13 minutes for presentation and feedbackPost your final presentation to the blog.
  • Post anything you’d like credit for before class starts next week. This includes all #thursdayplays/apps.
  • Please fill out your class evaluations. They really do help me be able to adapt the class for the future.

#Thursdayplays – Katie Paterson, Second Moon

‘Second Moon’ launched from the British Science Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne on 8 September, on a year long journey from September 2013 to August 2014, that will see it moving in an anti clockwise direction across the UK, China, Australia and the USA. Orbiting at approximately twice the speed of our Moon, over one year Second Moon will orbit the Earth 30 times.

Second Moon can be tracked in real time and visualised in relation to your location, the Moon’s location and the orbits’ of the other planets in our solar system.

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http://www.katiepaterson.org/secondmoon/

#Thursdayplays – Darkings

Game – Darkings

http://mildmania.com/darklings/

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“In short: you’re Lum, an avenging light spirit. Enemies crawl towards you, you draw the symbols that appear over their heads, Lum teleports over and possesses them, derezzes them Neo-in-Agent-Smith style, and you collect the oh so precious star bits which the nasty buggers were holding in their shadow-jowls—unless they manage to touch you and, yeah, kill you dead.”

These words from “pockettactics” review, I think the most attractive part of this game is the interactive method, players will be not only tab the screen or slide, they could draw a shape on the screen to win.

 

[#thursdayplays] Lumosity Mobile By Lumos Labs, Inc.

I got board after a week but still a good game. Similar to Nintendo’s Brainage.

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“Train your memory and attention”

80201 ratings/ 5 stars

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‱ Harvard Business Review
“Designed by neuroscientists, a brain training approach such as Lumosity builds on breakthrough concepts such as neuroplasticity and fluid intelligence.

‱Wall Street Journal
“The games offer a scorecard of your performance and let you follow changes in performance over time, so you can see if you’re getting better or backsliding. You can also choose what skills you want to improve.”

‱The Guardian
“The mini-games are fun rather than dry, making it a daily habit that never feels like a chore.”