MiniMe blog: Sessions 1 to 3
Six weeks ago I wrote about FACT’s new mental health app project, MiniMe, and I’m really excited to have been accepted onto the team. Every fortnight I’ll be writing up our progress here on LSMedia. Session 1 was an ice-breaker that segued into app research. We looked at a number of apps including Muybridgizer, the Magic Tate Ball and More...
Pathologic – review
It’s very difficult to know where to start when writing about Pathologic. I could just describe the plot – “A strange illness plagues a town and the player works to cure it” - but that More...
Help FACT and Innovation Labs build their new mental health app, MiniMe
FACT are teaming up with Mersey Care NHS Trust and Red Ninja Studios to create a mental health smartphone app, developed by and for young people. The app, called MiniMe, is one of seven being funded by Innovation More...
Upcoming Kickstarter projects to keep an eye on
On the February 8, 2012 a project was posted on Kickstarter, an adventure game to be developed by Double Fine. It aimed to raise $400,000 what it achieved was $3.3m! This could potentially bring a new era for video More...
Should you buy Devil May Cry?
I never played the original Devil May Cry games. To be completely honest, I’ve never been much of and hack and slash game fan. So it’s hard to compare the new DMC:Devil May Cry to other Hack and Slash More...
My Code Year: Week 4
Week Four begins with a recap of the primitives of JavaScript, including () {} and ; placement, boolean operators and accessing the pieces within an array, or list. It also goes over adding strings together, which More...
My Code Year: Week 3
I have a bit of a confession. I am totally addicted to codecademy. Gripped by the urge to rush ahead, I am happily tapping away on my keyboard of an evening. It’s partly because I like making it work, but More...
My Code Year: Week 2
The second week of Code Year concerns Functions in JavaScript. To begin with, this just looks like a complicated sequence of (), {} and ;. With a little practise though, it becomes possible to create complicated More...
My Code Year: Week 1
Code Year, a programming learning tool created by Codecademy, takes the user through a lesson each week to begin their journey in coding across various languages. Programming became the buzz word of 2012, with everyone More...
A Student’s guide to buying a cheaper Tablet
2012 will be remembered as the year the Tablet war started. Tablet have been around for a few years now, but it is this year that will be remembered as the year that they finally became a mainstream consumer good. More...