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Wombile: Overlapping Games

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT)

London, Greater London

Wombile: Overlapping Games

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Gareth Smith (ICL), Alia Sheikh, Matt Hammond and Steve Jolly (BBC) will present their work on Wombile, a framework for developing and deploying interactive experiences on location aware mobile platforms. In particular, they will show how it is possible to allow players in one game universe to interact with players in other, very different, game universes. They will also discuss the implications of a connected "multiverse" of game universes, and will demonstrate the team's ideas with some games currently under development.

Wombile is an open-source platform for providing rich, location-aware media content on a wide range of mobile platforms. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.wombile.com

Gareth Smith is a PhD student in Theory group, who used to work at BBC R&D. This is what he does in his spare time.

Alia Sheikh, Matt Hammond and Steve Jolly are Research Engineers currently working at the BBC.

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Imperial College Internet Centre
South Kensington Campus
Imperial College London
SW7 2AZ London
United Kingdom

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT)


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The Imperial College Internet Centre was created in 2005 to develop the applications and industries of the next-generation Internet. The Centre continues and expands the activities of the London e-Science Centre.

The Internet will clearly continue to grow in importance and complexity as an economic and social arena. To meet this challenge, the Centre promotes a research agenda in which the economic, social and legal dimensions of the next-generation Internet are equal partners with computing and technology.

The Internet Centre also works closely with leading commercial and academic stakeholders in the next-generation Internet, such as Vodafone, the BBC, and the London Science Museum.