Strategic Services
transmedia experience design
When we are not feverishly working to advance the business of our clients, Space to Play is in the lab working to invent new platforms for trans media experience design. Experiences for entertainment, education, and engagement which rely on an experiential continuity across the broad digital landscape of our lives. Lean on our passion and creative energy to extend your brand through alternate reality gaming (ARG's), narrative events, or the next form of multi-modal experiences.
emerging technologies
The core of our business is a commitment to relentless research and exploration of new and emerging technologies. Space to play, can help your company to better prepare for the future by guiding you through the barrage of technologies on the edge of the mainstream and beyond. Can near field communication (NFC) bring a better experience to your users, can full immersion give your designers increased insight?
spatial media integration + branded environments
Need to augment an existing environment or construct a new space that is ready for the next generation of visitors? Our architectural background and it's focus on material processes combined with new media and technology expertise enable us to offer integrated services otherwise found with multiple experts. This highly integrated approach can help your brand or content find opportunities to make it's way from the digital world into physical reality.
physical interaction system integration
Interaction is an essential part of being human and Space to play understands this characteristic is more than a buzzword of our digital lifestyles. The tactility and presence of physical interaction through intelligent objects, actuation and automation offers a level of engagement beyond the projection screen. We can determine the systems and methodologies to make your exhibit, information center, point of sale richly and intuitively interactive and define best practices for integration with your business
digital communities + digital environments
Place and community go beyond our neighborhoods. Today individuals establish their identities and build relationships with others, groups and brands through various modes of digital communities or environments; from the text based web forum to massively multiuser real-time 3d worlds. Space to play can determine which systems and platforms are best suited for your endeavor. Take your brand into Second Life or create a destination online where passionate supporters can come together. In addition to helping you establish your new community we can also assist you with systems for monitoring your presence in existing communities or find points of entry into communities you should be participating with.
geo-spatial + data driven modeling
Have a system or context which you need to better understand? Have data with no approach to visualization? Need to build or integrate a large body of data representing your community, city, or region? Space to Play can help you to develop modeling systems using geo-spatial, user, and system data leveraging existing and custom GIS and 4d modeling tools. Data organization, standardization and interoperability, open + proprietary tool selection and workflow analysis consultation can help you to establish the best modeling practices for your needs.
social media integration
Which social platforms are you currently participating in? What about all the rest of them? Space to Play can help you create a systematic approach to adoption of, and participation in, the appropriate social media platforms for you. We recognize that the key to effectively leveraging these important systems is to increase the ease of participation for you and your identities and we can streamline the process for you.
leveraging game systems in business processes
It's hard to read a business publication today without finding some reference to the utilization of game systems within new business practices. While we find the buzzword “gamification” to be superficial and misleading, we strongly believe that fundamental thinking in games can often be the key to opening new pathways for traditional practices and when integrated in thoughtful and appropriate ways can empower high levels of engagements for all stakeholders in an organization. Space to play can offer the analysis planning needed to bring games to your practices.
concept/design review
As little as we might want to admit as designers, finding just the right take on the strongest direction for a design to take, often is most easily identified from outside. Take advantage of our creativity, lateral thinking, and critical evaluation skills to review your designs and to uncover their potential, be it an alternative media campaign, a new product, or your corporate headquarters.
personnel analysis
Need to bring someone like ourselves into a new position in-house position but lack the expertise to properly evaluate them.? Space to Play can establish criteria and target objectives for determining if your candidates can hold their own on the court and can participate in the formal review process.
Tactical Services
After the strategy has been laid and it is time to put your vision into action, Space to Play can assist you with the implementation. Our design build experience across technologies aptly prepares us to bridge the gaps between strategy and design, design and engineering, and engineering and production. Our involvement in the implementation phases of your project can operate as augmentation for your existing team, the management or coordination of outside team(s) or where appropriate internal to our own team.
transmedia campaign/event
Space to Play can bring your multi-modal experience design to life. We can coordinate the synchronous or asynchronous interaction of medias to create the urban adventure your fans are dying to participate in, or unify the perception of your organization at its next launch. Utilizing traditional, web and social media, messaging and telephony systems, location based media and real world events, Space to Play can create and operate rich user experience.
social media identity construction
Need someone to create or populate your social media identities. We can generate the start you need in the platform(s) you're committed to and we can create the tools and workflows your team can use to maintain the identities you control, either through the integration of existing software or the creation of custom software.
media/content production workflow
Have an incoming stream of photos or 3d models of your products? Adding new content creation software to your design studio? Want to streamline a pre-existing production system. Space to play can establish optimal workflows either through the integration of existing software and/or the creation of custom tools for mediating processes.
augmented realities
Space to play can help you break into the AR world through the creation of custom POI collections for use in one of the leading Augmented Reality browsers. Want to bring the interaction between digital content and the real world closer to the body? We can build custom experiences using top tracking systems for iOS, Android, and PC platforms.
software engineering
Space to play can offer software development services for a broad range of programming technologies and software platforms. Need a mobile app for your business process or brand? Need tools for a particular system you are bringing into your workflow? Have a web mashup you want to prototype for the funding search? Space to Play can help realize your custom software needs. (see list of proficiencies below)
traditional design services
Architectural, experience, product, interactive, web, and game designs can be generated by Space to Play to a broad range of scopes and levels of detail.
Training Services
Have talented and dedicated people working for you already but need to advance a particular skillset for working with new technologies? Space to play has nearly 10 years of professional academic experience and continues to teach as a professor of architecture and digital media at a top rated private university. From pre-school to professionals, we can cater a progressive educational experience to your needs or objectives
workshops
Hands-on, highly interactive workshops can go beyond their core educational function and can increase the enthusiasm and engagement with a particular set of content or the interaction of individuals on a team. Workshop offerings can span the full gamut of our experience from creativity development to iterative design processes to particular practices within a given software application. Workshops are generally best suited for smaller groups and topics which can produce results more rapidly.
speciality lectures + courses
Space to Play offers traditional coursework for continuing education or context awareness including a full gamut of digital media courses from entry level to advanced topics (see list of proficiencies below), as well as topical studies such as networked technologies, the future of media, open source, collaborative design, the significance of play, game design, architecture + video games, and more.
customized training
If you have a particular context you feel could be bettered through increased training, we can work with you to develop and deliver a curriculum of literature, lectures/courses, workshops or other events.
General Proficiencies
Software/Hardware Development
web and DB development
PHP, Cold Fusion, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, SQL, MYSQL,
WebAPI integration(google maps, flickr, etc.), WSDL, web service integration using REST, SOAP,
general languages
programming: C, C++, Objective C/C++, Java, AS3, some c#
scripting: AS3, arduino, processing, some lua proficiency
UML class, dependency, sequence modeling
sdk + framework experience
iOS/cocoa touch, Android, Open GL, Irrlicht, Bullet Physics, IrrKlang, 3dsmax, Autodesk FBX, QE engine, Valve Source, some Havok, some RakNet, some QCAR
Embedded technologies
Microcontrollers – Arduino, PIC, BasicStamp
mesh networking – zigBee
Version Control
SVN, Perforce, Git
Design + Engineering Media
GIS (ESRI arcGIS)
2D drawing (AutoCAD)
2D raster imaging (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP)
2D vector based drawing + graphic design (Illustrator, InkScape, Fireworks)
3D modeling (3dsMax, Rhino, Vray + MentalRay rendering)
3D animation (3dsMax)
4D modeling (Autodesk Revit, Grasshopper)
Multi-page document production (Open Office, Word, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat)
Non-linear video editing (Adobe Premiere)
Diagramming + Mapping (IHMC Cmap, Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle)
Interactive media (Adobe Flash/Flash Builder)
Web design (Adobe dreamweaver)