http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress Joe Cutting News Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:06:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last year I gave a talk at the Museums on the Web UK conference called Telling Stories with Games. I looked at how you can use games to tell stories in a museum setting and some of the issues to watch out for. It was a lot of fun but ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=274 [caption id="attachment_267" align="alignright" width="140" caption="The Gene Therapy exhibit is inspired by dramas such as Spooks"][/caption] We've just been down to the Science Museum in London for the opening of the new Who Am I gallery. The gallery covers modern biomedicine and we created two exhibits about genetics. The exhibit manager told us ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=265 [caption id="attachment_262" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Exhibit kits let you edit any of the exhibit text easily"][/caption] Since we released the first version of the exhibit kit software last year, we've had a lot of interest. The idea of being able to make your own simple touchscreen exhibits for nothing has been very ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=261 [caption id="attachment_258" align="alignright" width="189" caption="Design a plane"][/caption] We've been pretty busy so haven't been able to update this site as much as we'd like but we're glad we've finally managed to get two new games up on the site. The first game Design a Plane lets you take the part of ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=257 [caption id="attachment_254" align="alignright" width="189" caption="Exhibit kits let you change any text just by typing"][/caption] We've been developing a system which lets anyone create their own simple computer exhibits without any programming or complex commands. They're called an Exhibit kits. They're completely "What you see is what you get", you just type ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=252 [caption id="attachment_244" align="alignright" width="190" caption="You need to wait until the right moment to grow your flowers"][/caption] Professor Ottoline Leyser from the University of York wanted more people to understand the strategies that plants use to maximise their chances of survival. So we created a "sim city" type game which lets you ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=235 [caption id="attachment_237" align="alignright" width="190" caption="A truck in the wind tunnel"][/caption] There's something very seductive about the movement of fluids. Whether it's water in a stream, or smoke rising from a fire the patterns are similar and beautiful in their complexity. We've been doing some experimentation and managed to create a fully ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=227 [caption id="attachment_193" align="alignright" width="192" caption="The sun setting over the sea in the cutter exhibit"][/caption] The Merseyside Maritime Museum recently opened their new gallery Seized: Revenue and Customs uncovered which focuses on the work of HM Revenue and Customs (The UK tax collectors). This could have ended up as much fun as ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=221 [caption id="attachment_144" align="alignright" width="192" caption=" "][/caption] We're really excited today because our Ants game has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Grand Master Flash Golden Joystick award. There are ten finalists and the winner will be announced on 31st October 2008. You can see the other finalists here. The winner ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=118 We've always loved the immersive shadow installations of artists such as Wolfgang Muench and Kiyoshi Furukawa and we've been inspired to create our own version. When you stand in front of the light, your body casts a shadow and the bubbles then bounce off this and sometimes burst. Of course ... http://www.joecutting.com/wordpress/?p=29