Adobe Firefly, when combined with 7 Gen Blocks, makes it possible to make educational games in a fraction of the time. This post was from a year ago. Has my opinion changed?
Tech Tips
Wanting to download an app I learned about in Trinidad, I needed to sideload it on my Oculus Quest from my iMac. Not a trivial effort but not super difficult either.
Trinidad and Virtual Reality Sideloading
It's not us, it's you. What's up with that?
Sound isn’t Playing in My Game
Going from a face-to-face lesson delivery model to a remote one is a huge change. Covid-19 changed the future of education. We need to adapt to new things: online lesson delivery, remote student engagement, new software, and student online safety, all while considering the impact of blended learning. This new […]
Blended Learning
By Abby Jones, M.Sc. PhD Student, Trident University International Word processing is great and serves a huge purpose in personal/business life, but there are times where the words don’t have the impact we want them to, or they don’t provide their own context. When these instances occur, it sometimes serves […]
Google Docs: Adding Images Part 1
2 There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in the making of our games. Sometimes, things get complicated! Especially when you’re pushing out games that run on all sorts of platforms – Mac, Windows, iPad, Android – and that can be purchased in all sorts of places – […]
How to Get A Game in the Microsoft Store – ...
By Abby Jones Ugh, my wrists! We’ve all been there, right? The start of a new school year, a new project—a new something!—that needs labels. If you are using our games you may decide to assign each student a username and password But that isn’t the bad part; you’ve got […]
Teacher Tip: Labels with Excel and Word
Whether you want to develop websites or games, you are likely to run into the problem of designing for multiple devices. You’ll have a page that looks great on a desktop but not on a phone or tablet. One super easy way to look at the page without switching between […]
Tech Tip: Google Chrome Dev Tools are Free and Awesome
I have read a lot of stories about Windows 10S , the new operating system from Microsoft that is supposed to be safe, secure and speedy (what does the S stand for, anyway?). I asked Gonzalo to install it on one of the office Windows laptops because Fish Lake and […]
Windows 10S Passes the Test
Thanks to our wonderful Kickstarter backers, I am in the middle of adding an Easter egg to Aztech Games. It’s a simple “find the hidden objects” type of game where you have a minute to find everything. Here is the problem: I want the images to be layered. As you […]
Tech Tip: Clicking through a layer
Last post, I ended talking about the content of the Android app package. Let’s look at that a little more in-depth, Expansion files Expansion files are used if your app is larger than 100MB. Google supports expansion files up to 2GB, In our case we are using an expansion files that […]
Getting your app into Google Play: Basic Steps – continued
You have an idea for an app. Great. Now, how do you get it into Google Play so that your legions of would-be fans can play it? Lucky for you, we have a pile of helpful hints for you. This is the first of a LONG series of posts, so […]