a review of game tech http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2014/02/06/bcs-animation-and-games-group-agm/

1. UPGRADES:The
Future is Here
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
!
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development

2. epredator’s workplace

3. http://issuu.com/flushthefashion
http://www.flushmagazine.co.uk

4. The Future is Here (nearly)
2013 brought us
Next Gen Consoles, Kickstarter
Hardware & Blended Reality Games
by http://fallenpixel.net/artist/jeremy-chong

5. Xbox One

6. !
One way to
Queue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
My way to Queue

7. A Race
“top
Gear”
style

8. Xbox One - Won the race…. But …..

9. Lost in the end
!
Needed a 500Mb
“Patch”
!
Totally
Unusable
Without
It!
!
Then More

10. Next Morning 20+gb patches

11. Many Games are multi-platform
!
!
Call of Duty : Ghosts
!
Battlefield 4
Fifa 14
Assassins Creed
NFS:Rivals
Some Are Unique
Forza 5
Dead Rising 3
Ryse Son of Rome

12. Some Great Features though
SmartGlass & “Xbox Record That”

13. Forza 5 Choi Kwang Do Logo

14. Drivatar(tm)
Cloud Utility

15. Kinect 2.0 under the covers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECnaCYnQBMQ

16. LEAP Motion
!
kickstarter + Works with Unity3d

17. Oculus Rift
!
Kickstarter

18. Oculus Rift
!

19. Oculus Rift
!
http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2013/08/07/oculus-rift-arrived/

20. Oculus Rift
!
+ Works with Unity3d

21. GameDuino 2
!
Take a regular
Arduino

22. GameDuino 2
KickStarter
!
Add GameDuino 2
Touch Screen
Tilt Sensor
Sprites
Drawing tools
Simple
Programmable Handheld gaming
http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino2/code.html

23. Skylanders Swapforce Vs
Disney Infinity?
!
Hardware Configuration

24. Skylanders Swapforce Vs
Disney Infinity?
!
Building worlds

25. Rocksmith 2014
http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2013/11/01/rocksmith-2014-now-that-is-clever-learning-software/
!
blended reality skill
development

26. Project Spark
!
Multiplatform Game creation Engine
http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2014/02/04/project-spark-looking-good/

27. 3D Printers everywhere
Amazon, Staples, HP, Dell etc.

28. the future
Year of Code
£500k to train Teachers to code
!
http://www.yearofcode.org
!

29. UPGRADES:The
Future is Here
Ian Hughes/epredator
Metaverse Evangelist
!
Taking a bite out of technology so you don’t
have to
www.feedingedge.co.uk
BCS Animation And Games Development