Dong Nguyen created the mobile game Flappy Birds in a few days. It became a huge success, earning $50,000 per day and becoming the top free game on iOS and Android app stores. However, Nguyen then announced he was shutting the game down due to its overwhelming popularity. Flappy Birds involves flapping a bird up to avoid pipes, and its simple yet addictive gameplay made it hugely popular. Nguyen has since created other games but none as successful as Flappy Birds.
Coding, today, has become a part of the basic literacy. Hence, most parents and teachers are striving hard to introduce coding as a part of the curriculum to students at a very early age. Several apps are available in the market that can help in this purpose. Have a look.
Coding, today, has become a part of the basic literacy. Hence, most parents and teachers are striving hard to introduce coding as a part of the curriculum to students at a very early age. Several apps are available in the market that can help in this purpose. Have a look.
IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE! How a simple 10 point plan can help you launch your ...Giuliano Cremaschi
A keynote I held at the 2013 Shared Gems Game Design Seminar in Helsinki, Finland, on May 7 (http://sharedgems.fi/info-in-english/).
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Indie startups often focus all their efforts into making their first game an awesome one, and that is good.
However, often they also don't plan the basics first: channel, platform, genre choice based on target group, business model, and so on. The things that should steer game development from the very beginning.
This simple checklist, gleaned from the experiences of our Finnish indie Cute Attack and our first game Captain Clumsy, might help other indie startups plan their effort and focus better, thus increasing there chances of success in the overcrowded App markets.
Most companies working on HTML5 for games talk only about the cross-platform advantages of HTML5. For Non-Stop Games and the game Dollar Isle the cross-platform aspect is only a bonus - there are many other killer benefits. This session will run through the development of the social virtual world Dollar Isle (www.dollarisle.com) and how HTML5 allows a new sort of distribution titled "Game as a Link". This disruptive distribution model can dramatically improve the virality of a game and also decrease customer acquisition costs.
This talk looks at how media brands beyond publishing are becoming direct competitors with magazine brands, and how publishing can create user focused experiences to compete in this market.
This presentation is part of a 4 hours workshop called "Innovation Workshop –Games and Reality". During the workshop students from the Recanati School of business in Tel Aviv University thought of games and startup related games ideas and "fought" against each other discovering if their idea has a chance to become the great big next hit.
I really liked some of the ideas, for example: a game you need to run in real life in order to "charge" your character in the game. A game you "scan" your real pet and play with it in a virtual world, including a virtual dog fight with real dogs . A real cart driving game you play wearing Google glass. The glass allows you to see virtual power ups or virtual avatars to enhance your driving experience (did someone say zombies)
For me the workshop was really fun. I hope the students had fun as well and I do hope some of these ideas will become actual games.
Moving from boxed title Game Development to F2P | Ralf C. AdamRalf C. Adam
This lecture was held at the Game Developer's Conference GDC Europe in Cologne in 2010. Target Audience: Studios working in the traditional games industry, thinking about switching to development of online F2P titles.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE! How a simple 10 point plan can help you launch your ...Giuliano Cremaschi
A keynote I held at the 2013 Shared Gems Game Design Seminar in Helsinki, Finland, on May 7 (http://sharedgems.fi/info-in-english/).
----
Indie startups often focus all their efforts into making their first game an awesome one, and that is good.
However, often they also don't plan the basics first: channel, platform, genre choice based on target group, business model, and so on. The things that should steer game development from the very beginning.
This simple checklist, gleaned from the experiences of our Finnish indie Cute Attack and our first game Captain Clumsy, might help other indie startups plan their effort and focus better, thus increasing there chances of success in the overcrowded App markets.
Most companies working on HTML5 for games talk only about the cross-platform advantages of HTML5. For Non-Stop Games and the game Dollar Isle the cross-platform aspect is only a bonus - there are many other killer benefits. This session will run through the development of the social virtual world Dollar Isle (www.dollarisle.com) and how HTML5 allows a new sort of distribution titled "Game as a Link". This disruptive distribution model can dramatically improve the virality of a game and also decrease customer acquisition costs.
This talk looks at how media brands beyond publishing are becoming direct competitors with magazine brands, and how publishing can create user focused experiences to compete in this market.
This presentation is part of a 4 hours workshop called "Innovation Workshop –Games and Reality". During the workshop students from the Recanati School of business in Tel Aviv University thought of games and startup related games ideas and "fought" against each other discovering if their idea has a chance to become the great big next hit.
I really liked some of the ideas, for example: a game you need to run in real life in order to "charge" your character in the game. A game you "scan" your real pet and play with it in a virtual world, including a virtual dog fight with real dogs . A real cart driving game you play wearing Google glass. The glass allows you to see virtual power ups or virtual avatars to enhance your driving experience (did someone say zombies)
For me the workshop was really fun. I hope the students had fun as well and I do hope some of these ideas will become actual games.
Moving from boxed title Game Development to F2P | Ralf C. AdamRalf C. Adam
This lecture was held at the Game Developer's Conference GDC Europe in Cologne in 2010. Target Audience: Studios working in the traditional games industry, thinking about switching to development of online F2P titles.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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4. The Success of Flappy Birds!
• The minimalist pipe-avoidance video
game that scorched to the top of the
iPhone free game rankings earlier this
year was created in a few days by its
creator.
• It was earning a reported $50,000 a day
• The idea is quite simple – Press Spacebar
or touch the screen to get the bird to flap
and avoid pipes that keep flying past!
5. About the Creator of Flappy Birds
• Dong Nguyen (Nguy n Hà Đông, born 1985) is a Vietnamese video gameễ
developer.
• His most successful game is FLAPPY BIRD which was one of the top free games
in Apple and Android platform.
• After the game’s huge success, he announced on Twitter that he was “shutting
down” the game as he "couldn't come up with its popularity".
• He has also made many other games that are not as popular as Flappy Bird.
7. Excerpts from Articles
• Over the last 6-12 months, indie developers have been complaining
that trying to get to the top of the app store – without the
development and marketing budgets of the large game companies –
can seem nearly impossible.
• Not so – meet Dong Nguyen.
• Dong is the developer of a little game called Flappy Bird which is the
#1 top free app and #1 top free game in the app store right now.
• He’s also the #2 free app & #2 top free game with
Super Ball Juggling.
8. The Mechanics of Flappy Bird
• Flappy Bird is based around a simple interaction: press screen
to flap wings.
But it is clear that Nguyen has spent time working out the exact vertical
lift achieved by this single input; just as he has got the gap between
pipes exactly right.
9. So how was Flappy Birds Created?
Understanding How game design works is the key to creating an app
like Flappy Birds.
All Games (or most games these days) include Graphics. (Background
graphics as well as characters – main characters and potentially
enemies)
Then comes the programming – the clever bits – that make the
characters move and interact with each other.
Could you create Flappy Birds?
10. Creating Flappy Birds in Scratch
A good way to introduce yourself to Programming is to use SCRATCH.
Scratch was created by MIIT to get young people (as young as five
years old!) interested in the concept of programming and how logic
sequences can get sprites to do clever things.
Can Flappy Birds be created in Scratch ? Yes!
Have a look at the next slide for a website that shows a screenshot of
how it has already been made!
11. This shows some
of the Sprites and
backgrounds that
have been used
This is the logic
and the
sequences used to
get the program
to work!
13. Have a look at the below website to get started
• http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/16743509/#editor
14. But how are apps produced and then put on the
Apple or Android Stores?
• Here’s a website that goes through some of the best free
development tools
• http://indiestatik.com/2013/11/04/game-dev-tools/
