http://sarahhatton.org games, design, art, research, writing and ephemera Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_779" align="aligncenter" width="364" caption="Use this app to find a game"][/caption] Go to the Pogo.com homepage and check out the Gamefinder.  A new little app for helping new players find the game they want, and also a project I worked on. http://sarahhatton.org/2010/05/the-gamefinder/ It is very important to mention that Pogo has released on Facebook. I didn't work on this project, but know a lot of people who did. Go ahead and try the app! http://sarahhatton.org/2010/04/pogo-on-facebook/ TechCrunch has just posted a great article on the upcoming Adobe Flash CS5's ability to compile straight to the iPhone.  If this doesn't send shivers down your spine then you are either a)not me, b)a hater or c)just not that into Flash.  If Flash was free, I would tout it ... http://sarahhatton.org/2010/01/iphone-shakes-hands-with-adobe-what-does-this-mean-for-web-artists/ I just want all of you to know that Pogo has widgets: http://sarahhatton.org/2009/07/pogo-has-widgets/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Students plan their embodied poetry project"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_728" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="still from the documentary"][/caption] Below is a video of the embodied poetry process used by the students who showed work in my thesis show. Sorry this was all ridonculous for a while, should be right now: Say it ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/06/embodied-poetry-documentary/ [caption id="attachment_739" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Ok so three things on top don't really equal a fruity hat"][/caption] When I did my internship in San Francisco last summer, well the Bay Area actually, down in the peninsula at EA he recited that familiar lyric to me and told me not to leave my ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/05/movn/ Stratification: An MFA thesis exhibition [caption id="attachment_728" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Top of viewing kiosk showing student work"][/caption] My MFA thesis show was called Stratification. It involved solo and collaborative works that I made using the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab (SMALLab). The show involved artworks inspired by concepts of figurative ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/05/mfa-show/ [caption id="attachment_719" align="alignnone" width="194" caption="Sarah Hatton's MFA thesis show"][/caption] Here is the poster to my thesis show. It is April 20th to the 24th in the evenings in the Digital Arts Ranch on ASU's campus, in building Tower B. http://sarahhatton.org/2009/04/thesis_show/ My thesis show will be April 20th to the 24th in the evenings. It will be on ASU's campus at the Digital Arts Ranch. Below is a map: View Larger Map http://sarahhatton.org/2009/03/showmap/ Here is a panorama view of a photo from a friend using a tool called clevr: Panorama of 3601small on CleVR.com This tool is nice and possibly much better than anything I could write on my own, plus it is free! I was trying to write it from scratch in Flash ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/03/test-case-of-clevr-panorama-tool-for-a-friend/ As of today, there are five working examples that exist for the embodied poetry:English Idioms initiative I am working on with the ELL(ESL) high school teachers and students and the SMALLab team. I demoed them today and I got pretty good reception from the students. The examples we have ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/03/more-digital-poetry-to-come-yet/ The example below uses the same methods described in the previous post. It was made by creating motion paths in the SMALLab and then these motion paths are used to drive animations. I used SNapz Pro X to capture both the sound and the video in this one. ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/03/embodied-poetry-2english-idiom-she-is-afraid-of-hisher-own-shadow/ I am working on my MFA project these days.  Part of it has to do with working with a group of high school English Language Learners (and a group of awesome teachers and my profs Ellen and David and my friend Andreea, we make an awesome team).  In collaboration with ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/03/embodied-poetry-english-idioms/ I sometimes have a hard time describing the project I work on.  Luckily, I work with super smart people who are incredibly articulate.  The video here describes the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab and all the most recent projects we are working on.  This video was shot and edited by ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/02/so-what-the-heck-is-the-smallab/ Thatgamecompany (the game design company that released flOw for PSN) is releasing another title called Flower.  You can check it out here.  I unfortunately have yet to own a PS3 but the renderings up on the site are absolutely stunning.  Lately, there has been much debate on whether or not ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/02/flower-for-psn-not-art/ Check out this awesome game made by Mousechief.  It is a Flash turn based board game where you control your girls' abilities at wit and cunning.   Taking place in the 1920's, Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble contains very well written content and characters that highlight the comic mini games ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/01/dangerous-high-school-girls-in-trouble/ I recently checked out a tutorial on how to save a tween as an XML file and then apply it to as many individual movie clips as possible. It is pretty cool, I had never tried it before. You can link to the tutorial here. http://sarahhatton.org/2009/01/xml-tween-animations-in-flash/ I am working on my MFA thesis and currently have a little artist block. Frustrating to say the least... I really want to get some sort of dynamic WordNet library working with Flash, but there are none available. There are plenty for Java and Processing. If you ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/01/wordnet-for-flash/ WPfolio has so far capped the number of thumbnails on my projects pages at ten for some reason, so please make sure you notice the previous button at the bottom right hand corner. So interesting. Hopefully I will be able to fix this. Thanks! Happy ... http://sarahhatton.org/2009/01/happy-new-year-and-dont-forget-to-hit-the-previous-button/ The Storyline, multimodal environment and language learning scenario, 2008 developed by David Birchfield, Sarah Hatton, Harper Piver, Ellen Campana and Tracy Avalos [caption id="attachment_450" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="top down view of The Storyline, language arts learning scenario for the SMALLab, 2008"][/caption] During Spring and Fall of 2008, I have helped teachers at a local ... http://sarahhatton.org/2008/12/the-storyline/