Hi John
The IF/Twine tutorial looks great (& thanks for including the WC games)! Were there any games created/shared from the museums who took part?
Cheers
Danny
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Sear
Sent: 14 March 2016 11:02
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Kiosk software for gallery interactives for novice techies
Hi Nicolas
I'm not sure how much use this is as there have been some great suggestions already.
Over the past month I've been running a few workshops for Museums based in the West Midlands titled 'Broadening Digital Horizons'. The idea was what cool stuff could be built by non-techy museum staff with tiny budgets. We built a couple of things that might be of interest.
The first was an interactive touch-screen using PowerPoint (running on PowerPoint viewer - so no need to buy extra Microsoft licenses) on an off-the-shelf touch screen and Stick PC.
The second was creating Interactive Fiction (using Twine). The idea being is the story created should be set in their museum - referencing objects that the player can see around them in the real world. The experience can run on mobile phone / tablet or in-gallery on a touch-screen.
I've written up the tutorials that I used in the workshops:
- http://johnsear.com/tutorial-interactive-touchscreen/
- http://johnsear.com/tutorial-in-gallery-interactive-fiction/
These don't quite fit your connecting to CMS requirement though.
(Technically you could connect Twine up to your CMS - but that's a far from straight-forward step!)
All the best
John Sear
+44 7962 456 987
johnsear.com <http://www.johnsear.com>
museumgames.me
Museum Games Ltd
On 11 March 2016 at 11:15, Nicolas Tyack <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi all,
>
> This is my first foray into the world of MCG posting but thought you
> were all the ideal people to help me.
>
> I've been reading with interest various recent threads about
> touchscreens, digital stories etc, and I wonder if anyone out there
> has had any good experiences with creating in-gallery collections
> explorer interactives for touchscreens.
>
> I've had a look at off-the-shelf packages such as IntuiFace and Kiosk
> Pro and thought I'd ask you all if you have either good or bad
> experiences with them or similar systems?
>
> The key thing for us (as with many museum without in-house tech
> support) is keeping costs as low as possible, and ideally having some
> software which can be re-used for future exhibitions. Flexibility of
> design, look, style etc is therefore key, and it's important to have
> something we can do ourselves rather than go to external designers and software experts.
> Another ideal situation would be something that can link in to our
> collections management system API so we can power the interactive from
> the CMS and not a separate system, but that might be asking too much!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nico
>
>
> Nico Tyack, Documentation Officer
> Museums and Galleries, Cultural Services, City of Edinburgh Council
>
> Museum of Edinburgh, 142 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DD
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