Taleblazer
TaleBlazer is an augmented reality (AR) software platform. Developed by the MIT (STEP) lab, TaleBlazer allows users to play and make their own location-based mobile games. By situating games in the real world, AR games combine real landscapes and other aspects of the physical environment with additional digital information supplied by smartphones.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 7-8 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Tools for learning |
| Format | Web page |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P04
Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI8P05
Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
AC9TDI8P08
Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | other programming languages |
| Keywords | Augmented Reality, AR, Games, Visual Programming, Programming, Game creation, Edit code, Smartphones |
| Organisation | MIT STEP Lab |
| Copyright | 2013-2016 MIT STEP Lab. May be subject to Copyright Act statutory licence. |
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