More Sharing More People More Ideas

More Sharing More People More Ideas is a video I made for the sparky awards in 2009.

A contest on showing the importance of open source research in a interesting way.
"Make a short video to show why open access to research is matters to you"

 

 

http://www.sparkyawards.org/

MyMouseGames - Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009

MyMouseGames is a collection of educational games which is played by multiple people using multiple mice on the same computer at the same time.

MyMouseGames placed First place in the Imagine Cup US Nation final. The imagine Cup is a worldwide software design competition sponsored by Microsoft. Our team - Jimmy, Mark, and Luke Dickinson (brothers) advanced from first round to semi-finals to national finals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our prizes was $8,000 to split among us and to continue on to the Imagine Cup World Finals in Cairo, Egypt.

Our Entry

 

The theme of the Imagine Cup's in 2009 was the 10 world goals of the UN, mostly helping developing countries. Anyway we chose to focus on education and to build it in Silverlight and ASP.NET. Basically our entry is a bunch of mini educational games that allow you multiple mice on one computer to play. The idea is one computer can work for many students. Also the teachers can change the lesson data that is being used in each game. On top of that, functioned completely though a simple web site. The purpose was to help every student have access to a computers in ill funded schools.

Website: http://mymousegames.com/

Videos: http://mymousegames.com/Videos.aspx

Press Coverage: http://mymousegames.com/press_coverage.aspx

   

This video shows some of the first games we made for MyMouseGames. Mine were the ones with the sound.

A big part of my responsibilities in this project was the building of a few games that could use the data teachers were using. I worked with a system called Popfly and JavaScript. In efforts that this could be an easy way for others to build simple games for this system.  I also did field testing of our project. Tested it with a boy scout troop, my Spanish class in high school, and a daycare.

This video shows some of the case studies which I managed.

 

 

Press Coverage
News - Winning US Imagine Cup
Microsoft Research Center -Cambridge, MA
May 10th, 2009

http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/06/tigard_brothers_will_compete_i.html
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/41636 (videos)
http://blogs.technet.com/unlimitedpotential/archive/2009/05/05/u-s-imagine-cup-winners-team-multipoint-web.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/imaginecup/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/imaginecup/imageGallery.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/springboard/archive/2009/05/05/winners-of-the-2009-us-imagine-cup-microsoft-student-competition.aspx
http://netfornews.blogspot.com/2009/05/imagine-cup-2009-virtual-pressroom.html
http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=26796&monthview=0&month=5&year=2009
http://www.sltrib.com/Utah/ci_12320477
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/clay-dillow/culture-buffet/young-minds-v-ancient-problems-imagine-cup-2009-winners-announced
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/multipoint-wint-microsofts-imagine-cup/17791649
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/05/04/daily22-Web-learning-startup-takes-top-spot-in-Microsofts-Imagine-Cup.html (MIT)
http://www.inventorsdigest.com/?p=499
http://www.cio.com/article/496885/Imagine_Cup_Winners_Design_Software_to_Solve_Global_Problems?taxonomyId=3000

Darkened Cloud

This is the project that Ben and I (and a couple others) made for the Oregon state competition.
(High school - Oregon Game Project Challenge)

Splash pages for Darkened Cloud

A level map

Although what is left of our game looks a little messy, Ben and I put a ton of work into this and are very proud of how far we got as we work as a team.

For project we did a good amount of research about pollution, as the topic for the contest was about conserving water. In the game, the main character is a underdog clean water droplet. You can fight by shooting bubbles and punching. The bad guys are the polluted water guys. You are to infiltrate into their base and find proof that they are contaminating the "water confederates" ... while not being caught. Contained a number of puzzles to complete in the game.

We made the game in game maker. A game making program. Ben and the others were in the class learning about game maker and were going to do the programing. I started with just doing the art, until the load got too much for us.

Still in the end we made it to the state competition in Salem, OR.

(Original description below)

"The Darkened cloud is an epic adventure of a water warrior traveling to the earth. With tensions rising between water confederates and the Smognonion Empire, Ichigo finds that the Smognonions have been infiltrating the government. After being trained by his old friend general falcon, Ichigo learns the basics of water combat and is ready to jump from the clouds to prove that the water confederates are in grave danger. With an enemy that is more deadly than any this world has ever faced, it will take courage, valor, and the training of the legendary water saver, General Falcon. Ichigo a hero, who finds the strength to carry on and cast his, fears aside as you have to keep him alive. So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside of him who’s strong and remember the move that Falcon showed to you. The finally of this game will be an intense battle where the warriors on both sides are gathered from the four corners of the earth and all will end either in darkness and a world of pollution or a world filled with life and light. An epic battle will conclude this story with legendary proportions and will demonstrate how harmful pollution causes on the world and its inhabitants."

As you can tell we have fun with the project.

FHE Fighting

FHE #7 Fighting.

While at BYU, I thought it would be fun to make game of my roommates.
I added in the girls in our family home evening group as well.

In this game you can battle it out as Craig, Karin, Jackie and more (even me!)
Every character has his or her own special ability.

Ill be honest though, Spencer has the best ability.

Made with Flash and ActionScript 3.

(A playable version is below. Please wait, it make take a minute to load).