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The Game Lab is a part of UCI's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds (CCG&VW). The center's goal is to expand campus-wide research activities that draw upon UCI’s strengths spanning the social and technological aspects of games and virtual worlds. More than 35 faculty members from computer science, arts, humanities, social science and education will collaborate in the center.
SPEW: Real Time Data Games
SPEW (http://nideffer.net/proj/spew/) is a exploration game that filters and re-contextualizes data feeds from all over the web into a pointed commentary about several current events. The data arcade, hidden inside the main environment, explores alternate methods of data presentation through the manipulation of game parameters from several faithful recreations of well-known video game classics.
DinoQuest Online
DinoQuest Online (dqonline.org) is an online portal that supplements the DinoQuest exhibit at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana with web exclusive games and rewards. It has a unique unlock system where the game automatically tracks your progress between the physical exhibit and the online portal, earning the player unique unlocks in one location for visiting the other.
WTF?!
The WTF?! Project (http://www.aoedipus.net/) is a flash-based parody of World of Warcraft. Through the lens of real world scientists and philosophers trapped in an alternate universe that is full of self-aware and meta-gaming NPCs, this opening chapter of WTF?! scratches the surface of a giant canvas of social and economical ramifications in MMORPGs. A free SDK for the engine (wtf-sdk) is also available for download.
WTF? SDK
The WTF?! Software Development Kit (http://wiki.aoedipus.net) is a full fledged content development platform for the flash-based WTF?! game and game engine. Through the editors available, users can create their own side scrolling ARPG by incorporating original graphics and sound.
