SCRATCH : Even kids can make game now !

This morning i read my mail from gamesandeducation mailinglist and i got an interesting info about this SCRATCH software. SCRATCH is developed by MIT and it's free a.k.a gratis, u can find more info about it here http://scratch.mit.edu/. SCRATCH is a software to make simulation or games without any coding, but u have to know about the basics of algorithm. It's so fun, u only have to click and drag the blocks of code chunks like conditionals, loops, and events, etc.

Here i'll show u the blocks

The learning curve is quite fast and easy if u know basics of algorithm or how it works, it looks very similiar to pseudocode ^^ for makin a program. I managed to learn and create a simple game in an hour. Here's some screenshot

The game is really simple, the cat is movin up and down (randomly) and we must save the mouse ?? hehe by pressing the space button at the right time !

u should try it !! because even a kid can make a game using SCRATCH ^^

next post i'll give you direction about how to use this software ^^.

Uninstall Photoshop - just use ms paint ^^

After watching this video, I'm very impressed that an artist can be sooo creative even only using Microsoft Paint.

LOL...

Penguin Arena - Wins Intel Game Demo Contest 2007 - Congrats

Frogames just releases Penguins Arena - Sedna's World for Windows and Mac OS X.An innovative, non violent, exciting and colorful FPS: the real First Penguin Shooter!And our game gets what it takes: Penguins Arena is a prize-winner of the Intel(r) Game Demo Contest among 145 entries from 29 countries around the world! Penguins Arena has won the 1st-place prize in the Best Game on the Go category and the award for the Best use of Torque in a game demo!

Indeed Penguins Arena is a fun, cartoonish and challenging game with an underlying message that's as real as today's headlines. What a great way to combine fun, computers and gaming to convey an urgent environmental message to people of all ages.It is also a First Person Shooter with no blood, just snowballs ; very short rounds ; reincarnations system and player interaction even when its tribe is eliminated. And of course it's a multiplayer game (LAN and Internet).Penguins Arena - Sedna's World is available for Windows and MACOS X. It was made with the Torque Game Engine.

My Bachelor Thesis application - Edugame - Geogame

This is the screenshots of the Geogame application that me and my bachelor thesis partner Hendy create. The game is about learning geography subject for K7 students. They can learn it online and collaborate with their friends realtime to solve geographical problem they found in the game such as measuring distance from 1 point to another point.

The point of our research was how to use the game to be a effective tool to gain attention of the student to learn and also play on the same time with their peers and teacher.

APICTA Indonesia 2006 - Merit - old news

Whoa.. what a great experience for me and my teammate Hendy Wijaya. We've won the second position (merit) in APICTA Indonesia at September 21, 2006 in the Student Tertiary category with the product name HHDEV Project : 3D MOeG(Multiplayer Online Education Game). It was so close to be a winner :) now we must prepare ourself to compete with other participant from Asia Pasifik in Macao 1-4 November 2006.

Wish us luck on the final APICTA in Macao 1-4 November 2006, thanks.

In the photos UBINUS team and Mr. Sofyan Djalil (the Indonesian Minister of Communcation and Informatics) and third person from the right is ME.

Mulai Blogging

Hua akhirnya mulai blogging lagi setelah vakum cukup lama. Iisi blog ini kira-kira ya seputar kegiatan sehari-hari saya dalam computer study dan tentunya sedang mengkhususkan ke arah games computing - mulai dari dasar.