Games@Large

The Games@Large is an ambitious EU project that aims to “research, develop and implement a new platform aimed at providing users with a richer variety of entertainment experience in familiar environments, such as their entire house, hotel room, elderly house and Internet Café. This will support ubiquitous game-play throughout such environments, while taking advantage of existing hardware and providing multiple members of the family and community the ability to play simultaneously and to share experiences.”

Interestingly (from my perspective) this is very similar to work that we are doing here at Victoria University (although with a smaller budget). We’re building two classes of tool: a platform called RemoteMe that allows games hosted on a central server to be played on a variety of Java-enabled mobile devices and a platform (nameless so far) that allows users to play old i386-based games via a standard web browser either on a desktop platform or a mobile platform.