Game graphics - head up displays
Using Photoshop Window > Timeline to animate your HUD sprites as .gif
Image optimisation: target image output; image bit depth; image resolution; image dimensions; image compression
Storage of digital image assets: file size; file naming conventions; asset management
sprite graphics friv.com; image textures; concept art; game packaging, eg box cover, manual, label, poster, phone icon, Apple App Store iTunes Chart/Google Play icons, ads and banners]
Applications: sprites; concept art, eg character,
optimising (bit depth, resolution, dimensions)
graphics specification for a computer game
Legal and ethical considerations: legal (copyright, libel, defamation, British Board of Film Classification, Race Relations Act 1976 and later amendments, Obscene Publications Act 1959 (Internet Watch Foundation link) Wikipedia entry for Internet_Watch_Foundation and later amendments); ethical (decency, representation of social groups)
Student submission examples: penguin | wolf | urban strike
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/that-dragon-cancer/
Microsoft PowerPoint / Apple Keynote
Create a Website / blog using Wix, WordPress, Tumblr, BlogSpot...
Word Document (not good for presenting clips)
more control over YouTube clips (not working for Prezi)
Edit YouTube clips online with clipconverter.cc or keepvid then download as mp4 and upload to Prezi (limit of 50MB) or upload to your own YouTube account and link from there.
For quick Web presentations from an iPad see Slate
Garr Reynolds presentation tips
Guy Kawasaki secular evangelist for Apple etc.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act. DRM (Digital Rights Management) issues. Peer to peer filesharing rights, wrongs & risks of using the likes of Pirate Bay & BitTorrent.
While you can use Photoshop to add a © text layer with reduced opacity to your images to deter online theft (handy for eBay) you can also add an invisible digimarc from the bottom of the Filters menu. On Windows you can get the © symbol by holding down Alt and typing 0169 on the numeric keypad, or Alt g on a Mac. no right click
eg Harvard, Modern Languages Association (MLA), Modern Humanities Research Association; acknowledgements
TWoM has a different take on the war experience - you are not an elite soldier, you are trying to keep a group of civilians alive in a city under siege. Based on the situation in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. 83 on Metacritic, available on Windows/Mac/Linux from Nov 2014. Released on iOS and Android July 2015 with PS4 and XboxOne slated for Jan 2016 release of The Little Ones - your group includes kids....
See also http://www.warisnotachoice.com
British Board of Film Classification
Children's British Board of Film Classification
PEGI European age rating for games
creativeskillset.org/job_roles/331_game_designer
play dos games online and if you are ok with installing Java java.playdosgamesonline.com
http://www.shapeways.com and www.heroforge.com