Tag Archives: videogames

Augmented Reality

Antão Almada from Yreams talks about Augmented Reality presenting different technologies.

New techniques for videogames

Francisco Fernández de Vega presents new techniques to include in videogames such as genetic programming terrains.

New ways of playing games

Daniel Lombraña González talks about new ways of playing video games that collaborate with science.


GEA research’s group participates in the “Universidade Mostra Arte 2009″, in Curitiva, Brasil

The research group GEA has participated recently in the art exhibition celebrated in the Universidade Positivo, in Curitiva, Brasil (6th of October to 4th of November).
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The exhibition “Universidade Mostra Arte” (UMA) has showed several art pieces created in Extremadura, Spain. From the exposed work of art, there are synthetic images from terrains generated by a developed technique by Miguel Frade, Francisco Fernández and Carlos Cotta named Genetic Terrain Programming (GTP).
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GTP allows to create virtual terrains that can be employed in video games. The video game CHAPAS, funded by Junta de Extremadura and developed in collaboration with Claroscuro Digital, uses this technology.

Panda 3D

Francisco Chávez de la O is a lecturer in the University of Extremadura, Spain. He has experience in developing 3D applications and games, and in this video he presents the well-known 3D framework Panda 3D.

Coding for hand held open consoles

Israel López Fernández is a computer engineer with experience on coding for open consoles like GP32 or GP2X of Game Park. Israel has created open source video games, emulators, tools, libraries, etc, so it is a well known developer of the scene. You can find more information about his games and tools in his web page: Retrowip.

Pyros Studios

Pyro Studios was founded in 1996 with the main objective to create and produce the best and highest quality videogames in the market. Nowadays its one of the leading company of videogame development in the world, and has a team of more than 150 of the best professionals in the industry. Commandos, the videogame launched by Pyro Studios in 1998 has sold more than 5 million copies and has become one of the most important games worldwide.

The next two videos are part of the conferences that were organized under the International Summer Course of University of Extremadura in Almendralejo, Badajoz, given by Mr. Gabriel Ortas.