{"id":1498,"date":"2016-07-16T02:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2016-07-16T02:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T02:15:44","slug":"creating-games-with-visual-programming-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Creating games with visual programming tools and \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Today I learned quite some things about the approaches followed at the MIT-STEP lab on creating mobile games with visual programming tools. One very interesting platform allows the creation of mobile location-based games with an online authoring environment. The project is called tale blazer (<a href=\"http:\/\/taleblazer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/taleblazer.org<\/a>\/).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Basically the system allows to define Agents and locate them on a map, one can also create different player roles for a game. What I liked very much is that defining all the logic of an the agents as also the players roles can be done with a visual programming approach similar to Scratch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So you easily define rules to make agents visible on the map or activate other agents, update agents variables and so on. I will explore further what kind of games one can create with this. The games can be played on iOS and Android just get the client.<\/p>\n<p>Just to wrap up a day of great experiences I had the opportunity to listen to Berlioz\u2019 Symphonie Fantasique at the 20th aniversary concert of the MIT SUMMER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. So this was a really great experience and for me just was an impressive demonstration of the vibrant cultural community at MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned quite some things about the approaches followed at the MIT-STEP lab on creating mobile games with visual programming tools. One very interesting platform allows the creation of mobile location-based games with an online authoring environment. The project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=1498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}