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The Spanish Kitchen

baldricstrousers — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:35:16 +0000

On Tuesday, I was kindly given an interesting tour of some of the interactive spaces and games that Kim Anubis and her colleagues at the Magicians have created.

One of these was ‘The Spanish Kitchen, made for languagelab. com which was truly amazing.

You sit in the chair, and the abuela starts to prepare one of many meals that are loaded into the game. She asks you (audio with subtitles) to collect various items of food from around the kitchen, and slowly the dish is made. And when it’s finished, she gives you a plate of the food!

The player can select one of 3 levels (Easy-Medium-Difficult) which relate to the type of instructions you receive.

Virtual Morocco – Grand Opening

baldricstrousers — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:24:11 +0000

posted by Baldric Commons on Casablanca using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Trying out the blogHUD here, bloggingdirectly from Second Life. I did this while attending the grand opening of VirtualMorocco, a fabulous space in SL that was created by a group of university students after their trip to the real Morocco.

One of the things I love about it was the information system – you collect a fez at the entrance, and wear it. As you wander around the island, there are information points and you automatically receive comments about the places that you visit. Wearing the fez also makes the island fun, especiallyif everyone is wearing one!