SmartGate Demo available for download

SmartGate is an electronic learning game, that aims to teach and measure the performance of the players. It is fun and engaging, whilst also teaching the player and improving maths skills.

The game focuses on mathematics, each level with their own varying degrees of perceived difficulty. The player should never presented with precisely the same set of puzzles or puzzle types, thus giving the game a high replay value.

The project was completed on the Microsoft XNA framework, using the XNA game studio software; as such the programming language used was C# and where necessary XML.

You can Download the demo of SmartGate at [www.SmartGateGame.com]

AMD releases socially responsible SDK

GamaSutra reports that AMD has released a toolkit for game developers to develop games which are social-issues oriented. The toolkit, ‘Let the Games Begin: A Toolkit 4 Making Social Issue Games’ proposes to enable game developers games on subjects such as energy consumption, poverty, health, and environment issues.

You can find more about the toolkit at the Games for Change (G4C) website there is also an interactive flash version of the toolkit available.