- DLab
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DLab (registered trademark) has been the first italian videogame school that had three editions in Arezzo[1], Florence[2] and Ferrara[3].
Founded in 2002 by Fabio Barzagli (Nayma Software company) and conducted with his friend Bernardo Innocenti[4][5] (Develer srl), Dlab has been collaborating and organizing courses with many partners like Cooperativa Sociale Electra, ITIS Galileo Galilei Arezzo, Develer SRL, ISA Firenze, ITIS Carpeggiani Ferrara, Centro Studi CS Pistoia, Regione Toscana, with the contribute of over 200.000 euros by the European Social Fund (FSE) for innovative OB3 projects.
DLab had the attention of main italian videogames magazine like The Game Machine, Game Programming, Music Planet, Bitplane, 3D Mansion[6], .., and was invited for conference during WEBB.IT 2002[7] (big italian meeting in Padova on video game development and demoscene)First project: Starshocks
First multiplatform videogame developed was called "Starshocks" (asteroid clone) and was developed using c/c++ language and sourceforge web platform for source code repository and team work collaboration between teachers (5) and students (20) (charted "top 40" most operative project in 2002). Starshocks was reviewed by Daniele Vergini on The Game Machine mentioned in Talent Zone[8]. The game is freely available for windows and linux.
External links
- DLab official site
- DLab webtv channel with lessons and videos
- Starshocks videogame project page, game download
References
- ^ "an article for gameprog.it main italian game programming resource and community". http://www.gameprog.it/?resource=255. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "the game machine article and interview about second edition in florence". http://dlab.develer.com/press/2001-novembre-tgm-dlab.jpg. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "presentation page at A.Carpeggiani public school site.". http://www.itiscopernicofe.it/itis/didattic/curricol/info/infoprogetti.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "bernardo innocenti activity page.". http://codewiz.org/. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "some technical information at develer.". http://www.develer.com/website/en/consulenze/multimedia-programming. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "promo page at 3D Mansion Magazine n.4 november/december 2005.". http://dlab.develer.com/press/3dmansion_n4_dlab.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "eventview page on webb.it official site.". http://2002.webb.it/event/eventview/481/index.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- ^ "the game machine december 2002 p149.". http://dlab.develer.com/press/tgm-starshocks.jpg. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
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