gamedev and voyeurism – two of my favourite things :-)
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a Web-based community art project where anonymous people from all over the world mail in their personal secrets on a single side of handcrafted postcards – varies from shocking to whimsical (with predictable somewhat under-represented I thought)
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some interesting thinking here about game creation (especially adventure, RPG and MMORPGs) + AI, interactive fiction and virtual worlds
some web, cert III apps, copyright and hosting
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Open Source Cinema – Basement tapes
a feature length documentary about copyright, music, and the remix culture
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macros/add-ins, and documentation about writing macros and/or extending OpenOffice.org.
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$4.95/mo,40,000 MB space, 900 GB traffic. PHP5. Another contender for tpu
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a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs – great for game development resources.
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information about units of competency, qualifications and learning resources across a range of industries. It allows users to: * view documents * customise resources * download and print documents * upload their own resources and incorporate them into doc
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10 interesting CSS tricks you might like to try – including a gentle introduction to some up-and-coming CSS3
looking to publish…
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register an edu.au domain here – $110 for 2 years is steep (by international standards), but the alluring assonance of tpu.edu.au is strong…
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Web hosting provider – Bluehost.com
a likely looking candidate for php5 hosting (with ruby, which is tempting) ~ $7/month for a 2 year plan
Cert III applications and sociology
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Making Forms with Microsoft Word
plenty here about creating form fields, populating them and protecting them. Plus a healthy list of links to further reading.
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lots of interesting facts and figures about this great patch of dirt and the folks that infest it
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PayScale – Salary Survey, Salaries, Wages, Compensation Information and Analysis
real-time salary reports based on your job title, location, education, skills and experience.
more game development goodness (plus a tiny bit of tpu research)
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Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine
an open source role playing game engine – a free utility that you can use to create your own RPG game in a style similar to the classic Final Fantasy games on the NES and SNES which have so shaped the RPG genre.
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an open source engine for running games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island
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upload any files you want to store privately, or share with the world here. Once you’ve uploaded files, you can perform simple actions on these files – like sharing on a blog or web page (with a handy widget tool), or editing documents
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the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations – an interesting list for people developing training package applications
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Side Scrolling Games: Captain Comic, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jill of the Jungle, and many more!
all the great shareware side scrolling 2D platform games from the early ninetys in one easy to access site (fine reviews too)
web, game development and project management
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IGDA_Curriculum_Framework_Feb03.pdf (application/pdf Object)
a “curriculum framework,” designed to delineate all of the topics related to games in an educational context – with the details of implementation left to individual readers.
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activeCollab – open source project management and collaboration tool.
a web based, open source collaboration and project management tool – runs on Apache 2.0+
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PHP VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR WEB DESIGNERS
beginners course on PHP created for web designers who have little to no programming experience – assumes you need to have things explained (and demonstrated) in non-nerd terms.
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SplashCast: Channel Yourself Across the Web
allows you to create streaming media ‘channels’ that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page.
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EU[eComp]Int: eCompetence Book
individual and organisational strategies for the integration of ICT in Higher Education
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javascript and css that allows viewers to add annotations to a web page (and potentially share them with subsequent visitors to the site)
game development and flash
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Boing Boing: Understanding Games: short interactive videos on game design
a series of short animation/games that set out to explain how and why video games work — what they’re composed of, how they’re played, and how they’re designed.
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the pictures from Koster’s Theory of Fun book (basic premise: game mechanics should reflect tiny aspects life to allow real-world lessons; game designs should *not* support the designer’s personal truths, but allow participants to experiment and discover
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Games * Design * Art * Culture
not often that I’ll bookmark and tag a blog, but this one’s the bomb for game development
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Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 1
exploring rules, interactivity, representation and simulation in games using: a game! (sort of)
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Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 2
this game looks at the player’s motivation to continue playing instead of leaving a game and examines what makes a game fun – instead of frustrating – to play
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Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 3
this game explores the principles of learning in computer games
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OutsideOfSociety – OOS.MOXIECODE.COM
a series of tutorials about tile based games in Flash
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more tutorials about making tile based games with Macromedia Flash.
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gotoAndPlay(): Flash games, tutorials and game development
a good set of introductory (and more advanced) articles on the process of developing a flash game
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kirupa.com – Flash and ActionScript Tutorials
Basic Drawing; Special Effects; Advanced / Actionscript; Server-Side Flash; Isometry; Game Development and Reviews
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ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources
well graded (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and targeted to micro learning (a hundred or so specific actions/scenarios) for actionscript learners
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Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler: MTASC
an open source, command line driven ActionScript 2 compiler – linux ready and primed to go
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an OO language capable of compiling flash swf files for flash players 6 to 9. Aimed at web apps (AJAX and the neko apache plugin)
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Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3
compiling actionscript 3 (from the command line) – written for windows users, but translatable into a real operating system without too much pain.
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think: sourceforge for flash
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How to structure and set up a Flash project without using the Flash IDE
how to get into flash if you don’t happen to have a commercial operating system and/or the dollars for the Adobe product and a spare computer to run it on
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a command line XML to SWF to XML processor using SWFML, an XML dialect closely modeled after the SWF format. Used for generating asset libraries containing images (PNG and JPEG), fonts (TTF) or other SWF movies for use with MTASC or haXe compiled ActionSc
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a full featured ActionScript editor written in python for editing Actionscript, FlashComm asc, JSFL and XML files
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19 flash tutorials on YouTube (sorry internal TAFE students, you’ll have to watch these ones at home)
still looking for collaborative software – and why
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an article on using the wisdom of crowds for creation, prediction and organisation – along with some links to some web sites that are working with their visitors in interesting ways
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The Meritorious Service to Public Education and Training Award
if I was looking for an ‘attaboy’ to stick on my wall it would be this one
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a virtual gaming world for chat, games and player-created content – unlike Second Life the focus of the content is primarily gaming – specifically casual games, which could prove to be a much better fit for training activities
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a web-based collaborative mind mapping tool. All the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool – online, with as many simultaneous users as you like
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another collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software for Windows – word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, image manipulation, games etc.
ajax how-(not)-to; tpu resources & screencasting with Ubuntu
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Ajax and XML: Five Ajax anti-patterns
there’s a right way and a wrong way to write Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications. This article discusses some common coding practices you will want to avoid.
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edna – Shared Information Services
various APIs available for burrowing into edna – search and metadata search look the most interesting for tpu, but the training providers might be worth a look too
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ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts – Ubuntu Wiki
an in-depth article on how to record software installations on Ubuntu for screencasts
Online collaboration and project management
Still searching for a collaboration for tpu2 (it’s back, and this time it’s personal
I’ve picked out a few to try, but lord knows when I’ll find time to install and test them…
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Agora. The Online Meeting Tool
FOSS Java app integrated into Sakai. Video-conference “many to many”: Organised into virtual meeting rooms, Shared desktop. Collaborative whiteboard. Chat. Moviecasting and Session recording.
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Mindquarry – Open Source Teamwork, Collaboration, Project Management
another open source java collaboration server – allows you to share files, exchange ideas and definitions, manage tasks for yourself and your team, and organize talk via e-mail, instant messenger or real-world meetings.
