April 6th: In your face, interface – Panel and Rant – the glasshouse 6.00 – 7.00 pm
Featuring some of Brisbane’s professional game designers who have started playing with innovative interfaces for fun (and possibly design)
The game interface – what exactly is it? Is it the UI? Is it the control system? We are seeing some really interesting new UI / control systems coming through now in the wake of Nintendo’s Wii: Microsoft’s Kinect, Sony’s Move. Some forms of game play are dumping the controller and UI altogether in favour of using the real world, others are playing with augmenting the real and crafting illusion using AR technology. Is it all just novelty or is the game indeed the interface (or is the interface the game?). Bring your favourite rant or enthusiasm to this panel on the interface beastie. Do you think you have designed a completely new interface – bring it along to show and tell!