Articles
These will be added to over time and cover a wide range of topics, from general design, getting the most out of the available tools to programming and debugging. They have been split into several general categories which you can jump to with the following shortcuts:Design
- Design a Game
- Reduce the file size of your mediascape
- Move an anchored mediascape to a different location
- Make a portable game
- Modify an existing mediascape
- Convert an anchored mediascape to portable
- Using mscape maker with an older Mobile Bristol type mediascape
- Create a new mediascape
- Mediascapes in the Field
- Designing a successful mediascape (pdf)
Media
- Display some text on the screen
- Show several images in sequence to the user at a particular point
- Free Online Sources for Media for your Mediascape
- Import media into a mediascape
- Import Audio into a mediascape
Maps and GPS
- Creating a Mediascape using a blank map
- Recording your GPS route and showing it on screen
- Having trouble with GPS?
- Using Maps
- Setting up GPS on Mscape player
- Simulate GPS on mscape player
Interaction
- Use the user's history when triggering media
- Different methods of user interaction with button presses
Programming
- Introduction to Programming
- an 'introduction' - Conditions
- Introducing the mscape scripting language
- Using Random Numbers
- Using Functions
- Use the Maths Library - Sin, Cos, Square Root etc
- Using the Logger in code
- Reserved words
Flash
- Create a located quiz game
- Allow the user to enter text
- Recommended video settings for Flash CS3
- Using looped Audio in Flash
- Using LoadMovie (Accessing files external to Flash
