{"id":54,"date":"2010-03-22T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:27:45","slug":"amblyopia-project-the-milkshake-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/blog\/2010\/03\/amblyopia-project-the-milkshake-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Amblyopia Project &#8211; The Milkshake Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optom.unsw.edu.au\/\">School of Optometry<\/a> are interested in exploring the use of computer games for vision training to help treat <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amblyopia\">Amblyopia<\/a> (lazy eye) in young children. I have taken on the task of implementing some simple eye exercises as interactive games, and I&#8217;m using it as an opportunity to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe first game they requested was a simple line-following game. There is a line on the screen and you have to follow it with your mouse (or, ultimately, with a stylus on a touchscreen). Implementing in Unity, it seemed to me that the line looked rather like a bendy-straw, so I decided the game would be about drinking a milkshake through a long curly straw. The first prototype is below (<a href=\"http:\/\/unity3d.com\/webplayer\/\">Unity web player<\/a> required).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~malcolmr\/Milkshake1.unity3d\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~malcolmr\/Milkshake1.unity3d\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" type=\"application\/vnd.unity\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.unity3d.com\/unity-web-player-2.x\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Obviously it still needs work, but any feedback is welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Optometry are interested in exploring the use of computer games for vision training to help treat Amblyopia (lazy eye) in young children. I have taken on the task of implementing some simple eye exercises as interactive games, and I&#8217;m using it as an opportunity to learn Unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,522],"tags":[516,517,515],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amblyopia-project","category-malcolms-projects","tag-amblyopia","tag-milkshake","tag-optometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/gameslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}