DLab Videogames - school for Developers

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/* DLAB VIDEOGAMES */

DLab has been the first italian videogame school that had three editions in Arezzo, Florence and Ferrara.

Founded in 2002 and conducted with by Fabio Barzagli and his friend Bernardo Innocenti, DLab has been collaborating and organizing courses with many partners like Cooperativa Sociale Electra (Nicola Benigni), ITIS Galileo Galilei Arezzo, Develer SRL, ISA Firenze, ITIS Carpeggiani Ferrara, Centro Studi CS Pistoia, Regione Toscana, with the contribute of the European Social Funds (FSE) for innovative projects.

DLab had the attention of main italian videogames magazine like The Game Machine, Game Programming, Music Planet, Bitplane, 3D Mansion, .., and was invited for conference during WEBB.IT 2002 (big italian meeting in Padova on video game development and demoscene)


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/* STARSHOCKS */

The 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 and students (charted Top-40 most operative project in 2002).

Starshocks was reviewed by Daniele Vergini on The Game Machine mentioned in Talent Zone.

The game is freely available for windows and linux.


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DLab 2002 Website clip about Arezzo's 1st Edition



A short video about Ferrara's 3rd Edition


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LINKS, SOURCES AND SCHOOL PROGRAM

  • dlab 2002, il programma di studi PDF
  • download starshocks

  • the game machine special, 2001
  • the game machine special, 2002
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