The Academic Edge

A realtime 3D adventure game predicated on social interaction.

AEI designed and developed a realtime 3D engine, created an engaging story, sketched and modeled the environment and characters, and made the soundscape and sound effects for the world. Significant challenges for the effort included creating meaningful interaction between the player and player-characters, interaction that affected future game activity and that preferentially responded to prosocial actions and discussions.

AEI met the goals of the project, creating an vast, engaging world in which players interact with characters and can learn from positive and negative interactives, affecting the gamespace around them. The project presently awaits further capitalization to develop a commercially distributable version 2.0.

Funded in part by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.

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