National Multimedia Awards 2008

Imagination was awarded by the jury in the category "Learning, Information and Journalism" for Expedition Museum!

Besides we have won for its project Microsoft’s Incredible Machine at the National Multimedia and e-Buisness Awards 2008 in the category "Culture, Entertainment and Games"!

The Jury's Remarks

The multi-user game was developed for a big event at a fair. Using smartphones visitors can collect building-blocks, which are hidden somewhere at the venue, and assemble them to create a virtual "incredible machine". Visitors have to find specific markers (2D-barcodes) and point their phone's camera at them until the corresponding building-block appears on the display. Back at the booth these blocks can be arranged to create a virtual machine.
Aim of the game is to create a chain-reaction which is as complex as possible. Each building block shows a 2D-animation which can be triggered from one of the block's sides. After the animation has finished the impulse is passed on the another direction. To create a chain-reaction the blocks have to be placed accordingly. Again, the visitors smartphone is used for interaction.

The game links reality with the "digital world" and demonstrates manifold possibilities of emerging technologies.

Links
>> Microsoft’s Incredible Machine
>> Expedition Museum
>> Multimedia and e-Business Awards 2008
>> Images from the gala event (copyright Johannes Brunnbauer / Fotodienst)