Host: David I. Schwartz
2-2:30 Talk in GDD lab: Motion-Sensitive Game Design, Ben Kalb
Abstract: Ben’s presentation will cover the state of the art in motion sensing technology across gaming platforms, the types of motion control in games, the limitations of platform choice upon game design, and the future of motion-based gameplay and design.
Bio: Ben Kalb has been the Lead Programmer at actionXL since its formation in 2006. Ben is the designer and creator of Gesture Designer, an accelerometer-based arbitrary gesture recognition library and definition application. He is also credited on 17 shipped titles for both PC and Android, all of which incorporate some sort of motion-sensing control. His BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University has helped him to become an expert in motion based game programming and gesture based application design.
