May 7th was our final day of the semester, spent mostly with some final clean up of our space at EA, exit interviews and a farewell lunch. Thanks to all 20 of you who spent your winter and spring with us – great projects, great students.
Mirage team, behind the aluminum curtain
Fluxion team
PlayOnSocial team
iLearn English team
Spike team with iPad games
At the Silicon Valley campus our Soft Open happens during the lunch hours in one of EA’s lobbies. The teams demo to EA employees and visitors, and have the chance to get additional feedback and user testing on their projects.
Set up in the EA Lobby
Play-On-Social demos Robo Tales
Playing the Mirage Team's 3D game
iLearn English showing off their iPhone app
Fluxion gathers players for their iPhone game
SPIKE Team gets an interview on EA's video blog
Congratulations to all five teams for doing a great job on the Quarter Presentations. Our audience was made up primarily of ETC Alums who work at Electronic Arts, along with a few key EA movers and shakers – which in addition to all out students made for a nice size audience for the first round of presentations.
PlayOnSocial
iLearn
Fluxion
Spike
Mirage
PlayOnSocial Team
PlayOnSocial is a client based project resulting from the collaboration between the Entertainment Technology Center and the Next Human Network (NHN) Corporation of Korea.
NHN Corporation is the home of 2 of the most popular portals in Korea, Naver a search portal comparable to Google and Hangame, an online game portal. Their focus as a company is to make people enjoy their lives, so they wish to experiment in the social network gaming market in order to broaden their range of entertainment offered online in Korea.
Our goal this semester is to design and create an online game prototype to be set in social networks chosen by NHN in the future.
We have started week 5 of the semester and already have been implementing our game idea in place and outlined the content we want to deliver at the end of the semester. We are making use of the Facebook API to launch our application and take advantage of the huge database of users as potential playtesters for social interactions within the network. Also we are making it portable so that our client can deploy the game in a social network of their choosing.
Our next step is to develop a playable version of our game to be deployed by the middle of the semester at our Half Semester Presentations.
Feel free to check our progress via the ETC-SV Blog or via our Website.
Cheerio!
-Nadia
