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next three weeks. Looks like we are in for a wonderful | :00:03. | :00:13. | |
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festival. It is time for Click. Playtime is over. Games are getting | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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This week, Click gets to grips with a new genre of video games. Has the | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Internet created a new world of artistic collaboration? Or is this | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
just a visual shouting match? The app that takes the stress out of | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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splitting the bill. The industry itself has been | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
criticised as being a risk averse. There are glimmers of more serious | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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artistic intent. Sports. 1st-person shooters. These | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
are the sorts of experiences that people imagine when you mention | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
video games. As the technology that we play video games on the walls, so | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
has the content itself. Games like call of duty are massive | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
franchises. There are other stories that can be told. People making | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
video games can have more courage about the things they can address. | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
You can have games with very deep and emotional storyline. The | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
independent sector, while lacking multi-million dollar investment | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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budgets. Navid Khonsari. He is latest project is an altogether more | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
personal affair. It is called 1979. It explains the events leading up to | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
the Iranian revolution. Like many Iranian, his family left the country | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
as a result of that revolution. These events led to the overthrow of | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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the Shah. We've got games that take place in Germany in World War II. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Your objective is just to eliminate the soldiers or the enemy and get to | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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the next stage. It never really gets divulged to the audience. This road | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
is closed, move along. I find what is really appealing is | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
that true connection to real-life stories and real-life people. If you | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
could put that as part of a game, then you are making so much more of | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
an enriched experience for the user. I think it is absolutely crucial to | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
bring history into it and I am surprised that not many people are | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
doing that. Designed for consoles, PCs and | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
tablets, users assume the role of a man who has come back to find his | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
country in crisis. The player must make decisions such as choosing | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
political alliance and choosing who they will all will not help. The | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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player 's is ultimately affects the outcome. -- the player's choices. He | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
hopes it will act as an educational tool. If you try and beat someone | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
over the head with education, it's not going to work. When I play video | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
games I want to be entertained. It's not that I'm getting hit over the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
head with it, but that educational element is coming in passively while | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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you're being entertained in the foreground. | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
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He won't stop. That Dragon, Cancer. The game that | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
explores the experiences of the games developer and his family. -- | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
the game's developer. His four-year-old son Joel has been | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
fighting cancer. To explain to children how Joel was fighting a | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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dragon called cancer. I hate this room. The first thing that we | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
produced was a night that I spent in hospital with Joel. It was one of | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
the worst experiences because he was in so much pain and they could not | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
do anything to stop it. There was also this moment of grace that | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
happened. I wanted to share with people the hard aspect of this | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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night, and bring being bought to the end of myself. There are some things | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
that video games can do that traditional media card. -- can't. I | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
can have a conversation with them by offering them various choices and | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
various paths. I think that can present a far more impactful and a | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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far more in merciful experience -- in . | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
We are looking for an hour to an hour and a half. It will explore the | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
rollercoaster that is living with cancer. We have four children. Most | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
of the time is spent in laughter in the day to day mundane tasks that | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
happen in life. A very small amount of our life has been spent in | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
hospital. This will explore all of that. | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
Whether it's telling world events, or personal experiences, they are | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
designed to have an emotional effect on the player long after they put | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
the control away. Next up, a look at the big tech | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
stories hitting the wires this week. British MPs want to question Twitter | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
executives over whether it is doing enough to protect users. It comes | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
after a feminist campaigner received hundreds of threats after | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
successfully lobbying to have Jane Austen depicted on the �10 note. | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
Twitter says it is looking at simplifying its reporting process. | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
Car giant BMW has unveiled its fully electric car. The usual sleek lines | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
have gone. So has the cost of running one. It will grow 100 mph on | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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to minutes of charge -- two minutes. It has a rather petite two | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
seater electric car. Google has launched a new photo sharing site. | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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Using the android operating system Jelly Bean 4.2 or later, users can | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
create... Head turning street view fashion. The Japanese outfits has | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
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revealed that new sales of the Wii U have been so bad. You could be | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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forgiven for missing it. And intellect -- intergalactic brawl. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
The gruelling five-hour battle resulted in the destruction of | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
nearly 3000 ships. Eve online's virtual currency can be exchanged | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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These days, everything seems to be moving into the cloud. You can | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
collaborate with other people, bouncing ideas off each other as if | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
they are in the same room. If you put them in the same virtual room as | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
each other. Virtually anything can happen. Dan Simmons has been finding | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
out. Traditionally, art has been a bit of | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
a solitary activity. Set up the easel, get painting that fascinating | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
bowl of fruit. The closest they have come to teamwork has probably been | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
swapping tips at a painting class. Nowadays, the size of your canvas is | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
a bit more daunting. WebCanvas .com is one site with enough space for | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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everyone. It is the radically infinite. -- theoretically. While it | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
is certainly pretty busy around here, it's hard to tell whether this | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
is collaboration or competition. It can feel like the equivalent of a | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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shouting match. He takes a more focused approach. This wormhole of | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
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weird and wonderful. 3651 of them. The site doesn't seem to have | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
changed much since it was launched 15 years ago. The results feel less | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
chaotic. It is not just pick is getting the collaborative | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
treatment. The exquisite forest project back by Google asked | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
professional and amateur animators to add the twist to an evolving | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
suite of short stories. Many of these projects over the routes to | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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the exquisite cadaver or exquisite corpse. -- over their roots. This | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
parlour game proportionably invented by the French around 19 was all the | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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rage back in the day. Nearly a hundred years later and the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
professionals are shaped -- sharpening their crowns as worlds. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
The latest incarnation of the experience comes courtesy of | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
software maker Adobe. For each project, every participant is given | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
an hour to complete a piece of digital canvas. They use a piece of | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
someone else's work as a starting point. It integrates with web | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
sharing websites. Adobe hopes this will make getting feedback and | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
working together a bit easier. would love to meet the other people | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
adjacent to my piece of work and see what they think of how I responded | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
to what they did and vice-versa. That is really nice to talk to | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
people about your own work and how your work relates to the heirs. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
finished work is over a kilometre long. Results are quite mixed. Some | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
people taking the collaborative spirit to heart but others ignoring | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
it all together. And that could be the fundamental flaw. If we ever | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
hope to cloud source a masterpiece, surely it is going to be more than a | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
roomful of people shouting at each other. These collective project | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
certainly emphasise individuality. Perhaps their beauty is in the | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
juxtaposition of human expression. Rather than the realisation of a | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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shared vision. Dan Simmons with the artwork that goes on and on and on. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Nights out with friends can be great, up until the point where you | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
have two split the bill. I've seen grown men cry arguing over who had | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
what. But one person who never loses any sleep over that is Kate | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Russell. And not because she does not have any mates, at because she | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
has an app for that. It comes Webscape. Keeping track of your | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
finances can get complicated, especially if you share expenses | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
with friends or flatmates. Built in as an act which should stop it | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
coming to blows over cash flow, as it lets you easily record who owes | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
what, keeping everybody informed by e-mail. Splitting a restaurant bill | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
can be such hard work. Douglas Adams even used it as a concept for | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
carrying a space ship in his famous at chukkas guide series. The bistro | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
magic drive. It is a beautiful idea but if you want to create enough | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
energy for interstellar travel you do not want to pick this application | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
art. As well as free iPhone and android applications to tally up as | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
you go, you can use the Facebook blog on to keep a note to your | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
browser. With your splitting holiday expenses or spotting a colleague a | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
fiver for lunch you need never loose track of another debt. There are 40 | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
default currencies to choose from, including that coins. If that is the | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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way you trade with your buddies. There are lots of online tools to | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
help you pick a holiday destination. Once you have, it is all about | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
getting the best deal in macro the perfect hotel at the right time of | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
year. That is where this application wants to help. Instead of a straight | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
price comparison tool that lets you compare different flights, dates or | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
even destinations, side by side on visual pin boards. Connecting | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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socially with others to collaborate on a decision. A consumer study last | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
you showed that 87% of travellers use the Internet to help plan their | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
trip. With over 70% being influenced by social recommendations. A hot | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
topic on the web now as developers rushed to come up with the perfect | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
business model for cashing in on this trend. Prices and flight | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
details are tracked and updated in real-time on you decide on your | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
final item in a reverie, making this a quick and responsive solution for | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
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group travel, even when you're travelling companions are not. The | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
web is now awash with infographics, eye-catching colourful displays of | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
complex information and data set, created supposedly to make it easier | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
to digests them. This is a neat call that lets you make your own no mess, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
no fast just click and low to edit one of the predesigned templates | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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adding charts, maps, images and video. I have been quite vocal in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the past about how much I despise infographics. It is not that I have | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
a problem with the concept, only when it is used as a cheap way of | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
adding eye candy to a site. If a graphic does not ring clarity to the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
information you share, will it really does is make your web page | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
loads slower. That is just annoying. The free account lets you share work | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
posted on an programme through the usual channels. If you want to share | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
it privately or download to host on your own website or share off-line, | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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you will have two upgrade to the pro account. With billions and billions | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
of indexed pages, the web is a huge and space. One day to visualise | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
expert has used interactive graphics to help us see the bigger picture by | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
creating a stunning galaxy of Internet traffic. It contains | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
350,000 planets which represent the most clicked on websites. All | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
colour-coded by country. As you zoom, more websites are revealed. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
This is a perfect example of how to make information more accessible | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
through a visual representation. If you must, you can call it an | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
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infographics. Talking of maps, quirky presentation tool has added a | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
new set of features to their popular service this week that allow users | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
to collaborate in real-time across the globe. Up to ten people can work | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
together on a whiteboard style environment or you can deliver your | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
presentation live to 30 viewers. To celebrate, the company has made an | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
interactive map that lets you explore public collaborations in | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
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real time. In other map news, Google announced recently it will be | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
closing to social location sharing tools. Attitude retires on the 9th | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
of August and the plus local application known as Google places | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
goes a similar way on the seventh. In their place, it has relaunched a | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
web tool in smart application that android and iPhone users can use to | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
find the best clubs and restaurants. The recommendations are selected and | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
reviewed by industry experts, it is more of a guide than a social | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
engine. The interface is delicious. There is a good selection of videos | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
to get into as well. Right now the site and applications only cover | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
eight American cities plus London, although Google says that will | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
increase to 50 destinations with more places of interest covered like | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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hotels and shopping. That is Webscape. The links are available at | :22:23. | :22:29. |