Game Grid
The goal of the Game Grid Project is to create games, tools and services that allow educators and researchers to study social behavior in multi-user persistent games as well as examine how these environments can be used to teach students about Science.
Current Game Grid activity revolves around the development of the following Game Grid components:
- Assignment Antarctica: A 3d multi-player game that lets players learn about research in the Antarctic.
- GGlog: a php package and service for tracking and reviewing the ctivity of players in-game over time.
- GGhost: a game hosting service that will host games for educators on resources at SDSC to provide them with large network, disk and compute resources for making their own games more accessible to a wider audience.
Games
The following downloadable games are available:
Assignment Antarctica: Windows Version - ~90 mbThe Windows Release Candidate version of the game last updated 8/28/2008Assignment Antarctica: Mac Version - ~90 mb
The Mac Release Candidate version of the game last updated 8/28/2008Antarctica Development - ~90 mb
The latest development version of the game with all updates. Should work fine on Macs. Last updated 10/21/2008Sample Mission
A simple example mission for the Torque Gaming EngineECCSE Virtual Fieldtrip
A Lithium Battery Game built at SDSUThe Physics Game
A simple physics game built at SDSU
Game Grid Tools
The following downloadable Game Grid tools are being developed for download:
GGlogA php/mysql package that makes it very easy to instrument a game and capture the in-game activity of players who play the game.
Other Recources
Model ArchivesA collection of furniture models for use inside a Torque GameGarage Games
Garage Games makes the torque gaming engine that we use with our games.
