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> CM DESIGNX in Create Report
CM DESIGNX and Mark Lochrie appeared in the 2009 Create annual report. The Create 2009 Report shows the impact Create has on students at Lancaster University, a brief introduction to Create, the team, achievements, future plans and case studies. Mark Lochrie and CM DESIGNX appeared in the case studies section to the report, stating what Create has done for CM DESIGNX from workshops to start up funding.
Since the start up period CM DESIGNX has gone from strength to strength, and built up more high profile clients, undertaking projects in the mobile and web industries.
“The future is a combination of web and mobile apps, mobile web browsers (iPhone excluded) are still along way away from standard web browsers on our computers, mobile apps are a way around this by developing the application using other methods such as J2ME and FlashLite. The future of CM DESIGNX is definitely mobile there’s no doubt about that”
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- Mark Lochrie (CM DESIGNX)
> e-Campus project underway (August 2009)
The e-Campus project is already underway, with more than half of the project complete. The project includes designing and developing short movie clips/adverts for the network of public displays at Lancaster (The displays serve a dual purpose - to provide a platform for advanced research and to enhance the experience of staff, students and visitors to the campus). The displays can show many different types of media ranging from video clips to web pages. Which takes us nicely onto the next part of the project a single webpage with dynamic content being driven from RSS feeds that are already in place that aren’t being utilised.
The project is to be completed by the start of this year first term; the final part to the project is testing the designs on the many different resolution displays that are located around the campus of Lancaster University.
Create, Green Lancaster & LUVU are the three organisations that CM DESIGNX are working with to develop the creative designs for the public displays. For more information regarding the designs for the work you can find this in our portfolio.
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- Mark Lochrie
> CM DESIGNX - Business Cards
see IT, feel IT smell IT!
Have you got yours yet? The creative CM DESIGNX business card - see it, feel it smell it!, If you would like more information on business card design our experts are here to help.
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- Mark Lochrie (CM DESIGNX)
> CMBlog
Hey guys, CM DESIGNX now has a new blog with mobile, web and business articles.If you have any comments on the blog feel free to leave a message or follow me on twitter.
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Mark Lochrie
> Ambassadors project signed off
Finally after few months the Ambassadors for the Future website and management information system, has now been completed and signed off. The site is very cool aimed at youngster and funders, the ambassadors can upload photos and videos on other popular sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube.
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Mark Lochrie
> Designers at top of their game
Mobile game developers at Lancaster University have won a coveted industry prize for innovation.
Their location-based game ‘Big Game Huntr’ saw off competition from more than 150 entries from all over the world to take the Adobe FlashLite Developer Challenge Innovation Prize 2009.
Big Game Huntr taps into rising trends in mobile gaming including social networking and user-generated content. It enables to people to design their own location based game to their local environment and around an activity of their own choosing. Players are awarded points for taking photographs of objects or activities in their chosen location zone which is illustrated as an interactive map on their phone screen. For example a required activity may be to perform a conga and the location could be around Lancaster Castle. Players are awarded points related to both the difficulty of the task and location. The photographs are tagged with the coordinates of their current positioned obtained from the phones in-built GPS and uploaded to an overall game server which produces a end of game map which can be added to their Facebook profile.
The winning team is Dr Paul Coulton, and PhD students Mark Lochrie and Kate Lund. The prize of $10,000 is being split between the two students who intend to use the money to continue their studies.
Dr Paul Coulton, based at InfoLab21 the University’s centre of excellence for ICT, said: “We are particularly delighted to receive the award for innovation as we believe Big Game Huntr represents a new generation of mobile gaming which is designed specifically for the medium.“
“Mobile games can take advantage of the fact that their players are mobile, free to move around and play in real time and real locations. Big Game Huntr harnesses both this style of play and users creativity as the games are designed by the players themselves and takes mobile gaming in an exciting new direction.“
For further details please go to http://www.flashlitedeveloperchallenge.com/
Lancaster University is part of the Forum Nokia Innovation Network which focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of novel, uniquely mobile user experiences from games to social networking.
The UK’s Nokia Innovation Network hub is based at Lancaster University, which is consistently rated amongst the top ten universities in the country, and within InfoLab21 the UKs centre for excellence in ICT. The group at Lancaster specialises in Mobile Experiences and Paul Coulton leads international activities of the Innovation Network in this area. The group at Lancaster has an international reputation in mobile experience research and have won a number of Awards for innovation.
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Lancaster Guardian - Friday 31 July 2009 page 8
> Praise for creators of new game
University staff have been rewarded for “playing around” in work time. Mobile game developers at Lancaster University have won a coveted prize for innovation. Their location-based game Big Game Huntr beat 150 countries worldwide to take the Adobe Flashlite Developer Challenge Innovation Prize.
The winning winning team of Dr Paul Coulton and PhD students Mark Lochrie and Kate Lund netted $10,000, which is being split between the two students who intend to use the money to continue their studies.
Dr Coulton, who is based at InfoLab21 - the university’s centre off excellence for ICT, said “We are delighted to receive the award for innovation as we believe Big Game Huntr represents a new generation of mobile gaming.“
Players design their location based game on their environment and around an activity of their choosing.
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Lancashire Evening Post (LEP) - Friday 31 July 2009 page 58
> e-Campus project (July 2009)
CM DESIGNX has got the green light to go ahead with work on the e-Campus project for LUSU Lancaster Univeristy. Create, Green Lancaster & LUVU.
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Mark Lochrie
> Mobile Game Scoops Industry Prize for Innovation (May 2009)
Mark Lochrie (CM DESIGNX) has just been announced winner of a coveted industry prize for innovation. Location-based game ‘Big Game Huntr’ saw off competition from more than 150 entries from all over the world to take the Adobe FlashLite Developer Challenge Innovation Prize 2009. Mobile Game Scoops Industry Prize for Innovation
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Mark Lochrie
> CM DESIGNX Official Supplier - Lancaster University (March 2009)
Over the past few weeks we have been really busy working on many projects involving design, mobile and web development and database development.
Recently CM DESIGNX has been added to the official suppliers list at Lancaster University. The first project since being accepted onto the officially suppliers list at Lancaster University was Ambassadors for the future, a Preston based funded enterprise for young people.
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Mark Lochrie
