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Gaze-based Interaction in Future Operating Systems

Gaze based interaction could be a gread addition to graphical operating systems (such as Windows 7).

ANNO 1404 - Best German Game 2009

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ANNO 1404: Dawn of Discovery was awarded in five categories at this years German Game Developer Award.

It won the audience award for “Best German Game 2009″ and jury awards in the categories “Best German Strategy Game”, “Best Game Design”, “Best Graphics” and “Best Soundtrack”. Since the German Developer Award is regarded as the most important award for developers of computer and console games in Germany, I’m a little proud myself.

Goldfarming-free online worlds are possible

Some time after its completion, Tjuhl’s master thesis is garnering some attention by online world researchers at http://virtual-economy.org.

Throughout his thesis, Tjuhl developed a framework and mechanism for an online world economy free of goldfarming. Those pesky goldsellers have become a major annoyance to the players, but also to virtual gods, people and companies that operate and develop online games. While flashing those persons to virtual death with lightning is fun for a short while, at some point it just takes too much time and effort to deal with that nuisance.

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Teeworlds Map: dm_pinnacle

Teeworlds is a free retro multiplayer shooter and a nice litte game for lunch break. It features deathmatch and capture the flag game modes, looks like an old NES platformer and plays like Worms in realtime - including mad ninja rope action!

Since it’s such a fun little game and has a level editor included, it didn’t take long, before I was creating my first map: dm_pinnacle

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