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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects. In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice Overview Download this video (right-click [ctrl-click on a Mac] > Save File As...): Quicktime (11 MB) From an interview for the Manuel Sadosky Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2014.

Remote Support Software, Remote Support tool, Remote Game | Submrge Garry’s Mod A physics-based “sandbox” in which users can do almost anything, with a wide selection of assets (3D models, sounds, actions). Read More Spaceteam Allows multiple players using the same wifi to control a spaceship by executing various technical commands. Karma Tycoon A free, online RPG intended to highlight the benefits of social entrepreneurship. Company of Heroes 2 The most recent version of a very popular World War II based game, it has been criticized for its portrayal of the Soviet war experience. Starcraft II A real time space simulation often used in game competitions and as a part of college curricula.

Nebula XViewer Widget Nebula XViewer Widget Advanced TreeViewer Widget The purpose of the XViewer is to give the application developer a more advanced and dynamic TreeViewer that has the filtering and sorting the capabilities of a spreadsheet while providing the users the ability to customize their table to suit their current needs and save/restore these customizations for future use by individual or group. Getting Started Table Customizations Sorting Sort individual columns (forward or reverse) using data-specific configured sorter for that columns data typePerform unlimited multi-column sorting by holding Ctrl key down and selecting other columns. Filtering Quick filter (bottom left) provides for filtering of all visible data by entered keywordsAlt-left click on column header (or right-click menu) allows for filtering by column. Other Capabilities Future Sorting and Filtering HTML Report and CSV Export Supporting Links

OnLive could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii | Gaming and Culture SAN FRANCISCO--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger. It's too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever. OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system--seven years in the works--that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels. The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer. The service is currently in a closed beta, but is expected to go into a public beta this summer, and to launch this winter.

GarageGames Big Stretch Reminder Program - A Free RSI Reminder Program for W Big Stretch is a free simple reminder tool that prompts a user to take regular breaks and helps prevent the symptoms of RSI. Alternatively it can be a simple reminder program to tell you when it’s your coffee break! Example Reminder features Set the amount of time between breaks. Comments or suggestions? Big Stretch works on Windows® XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (in Desktop Mode) Big Stretch is completely free and contains no spyware or crapware, please consider donating. Zip Version (No install, 372KB) Older History Version History v2.0 (released January 2013) New Feature: Display multiple custom messages New Feature: Display motivational quote New Feature: Select your own sound / music to play at break time Enhancement: Detect if full screen movie playing or game Enhancement: Complete Interface re-design Enhancement: Manually start break form system tray menu Enhancement: Press ESC to end micro-break v1.9 (released November 2011) v1.8 (released October 2011) v1.7 (released February 2011) Storage Cupboard

Room Escape Maker - Create Escape The Room Games For Free Basic information ROOM ESCAPE MAKER is a free online application to create Escape The Room games. Build challenging casual point and click games with puzzles, hidden objects, safes with combination locks, and much more. YOU are game designer. The community You are more than welcome to be a part of the project. Fan of Room Escape Games in general? Help creating games If you need to know more about how to create your games, we recommend you to watch this amazing tutorial created by PhantomDarkness135. Do you still have questions? Publishing conditions When you send a game to review, be sure you don't have anything else to change about it. While on review, these are the reasons that may prevent us from validating your game: Irrelevant title, keywords or description. Also, avoid having items to be added to the inventory during your game if these items are not going to be really useful. Application compatibility ROOM ESCAPE MAKER was tested on Bug report

The Definitive Guide to Jython — Jython Book v1.0 documentation The Definitive Guide to Jython: Python for the Java Platform Copyright © 2010 by Josh Juneau, Jim Baker, Victor Ng, Leo Soto, Frank Wierzbicki All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2527-0 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2528-7 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Java™ and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the US and other countries. Lead Editors: Steve Anglin, Duncan Parkes Technical Reviewers: Mark Ramm, Tobias Ivarsson Coordinating Editor: Mary Tobin Copy Editor: Tracy Brown Collins Associate Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony Manufacturing Director: Tom Debolski Ted Leung

The Life of Games, page 2--"Unwritten Rules" by Stephen Sniderman (first of six pages) Feature Article Unwritten Rulesby Stephen Sniderman Regardless of what game you're playing, you cannot know all the rules. Whether the "game" is tic-tac-toe, chess, baseball, language, etiquette, education, science, religion, law, business, politics or war, the entire set of rules governing the system cannot be spelled out. What do we mean by a game? A game is a play activity that consists of an object (a goal or goals that the players are trying to accomplish) and constraints on the players' behavior (what they must do and/or what they may not do in attempting to achieve the game's object). An example with Tic-Tac-Toe Suppose I challenge you to a game of tic-tac-toe. Well, for one thing, nothing has been said about time. Is it a rule, or isn't it? Suppose it is my turn and, no matter what I do, you will win on your next move. Self-defeating rules But can't we state the principle it violates? So why not just specify a time limit for each move? Practical solutions Rulings versus rules

Mark Damon Hughes: GameScroll Installation Download GameScroll 0.7.1 (303K) If you don't have Java already, download Java here and install it. Unzip GameScroll-0.7.1.zip anywhere you want, and it'll create a GameScroll directory. Run it: Windows, MacOS X: Double-click on GameScroll.jar Linux, Unix: ./gamescroll.sh [FILENAME.xml] Learn how to write your own adventures by reading the README.html file included in GameScroll-0.7.1.zip. Questions? What's New? Version 0.7.1 (released 2006Jul29) Fixed many bugs, including the save/load bug. Version 0.7 (released 2005May03) Custom commands, such as magic spells or using carried items. Version 0.6 (released 2005Apr25) Full HTML markup, including fonts, colors, and inline images. Version 0.5 (released 2005Apr20) Images and sounds. Version 0.4 (released 2004Feb17) Save on author-specified pages. Version 0.3 (released 2004Feb14) Cross-platform graphical interface (just a text window right now, but it beats the console). Future Plans Planned for 0.8 Planned for 1.0

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. by selator Jun 20

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