The AVARTS Live Game Hub 2023 took place on May 18 and 19 at the Garden of the People (Anaktora area, Corfu) as part of the 16th Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University and was a venue for presenting original games, both digital and board games, created by students and lecturers of the Department.
Specifically:
- Mobile games created by students from the course “Interactive Multimedia” using internet technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, P5) and sound programming (Pure Data, WebPD). Academic year 2022-2023. Instructors: Vasilis Komianos, Barbara Garneli, Emmanouil Rovithis. Presented games:
- Memories of Shinobi, creator: Dimitris Thomopoulos
- Charon’s Quest, creator: Marios Sotirropoulos
- Tereza game, creator: Alexandra Argyrou
- Kai, creator: Evangelia-Drosoula Mastroyianni
- 3D exploration environments/games created by students from the course “Digital Composition of Virtual Environments” in Unity development. Academic year 2022-2023. Instructors: Michail Panagopoulos, Vasilis Komianos. Presented game:
- Cat’s Treats, creator: Aliki Lagadianou
- 3D action games created by students from the course “Video Game Design & Development” in Unity. Academic year 2022-2023. Instructors: Vasilis Komianos, Barbara Garneli. Presented game:
- GingerDread, creator: Sofia-Despina Kyrgiafini
- Collection of 2D arcade-type video games created with internet technologies and large language models by Vasilis Komianos, with games like Asteroids, Tower Defense, Racing, Arkanoid and their AI-generated counterparts for testing in the “Made by Human OR AI?” activity.
- Board role-playing games created by students in the course “Video Game Design & Development”. Instructors: Vasilis Komianos, Barbara Garneli. Presented games:
- Gods and Gods to Be, creators: Vasiliki Arkoumani, Konstantinos Tsakas (with Marina Kouki participating). Created 2022-2023.
- ENINA, creator: Nikolaos Spiliopoulos (with Euterpi Kampioti and Natasa Pandi). Created 2021-2022.
- Gamifications using AR technology from the course “Applied Multimedia”. Academic year 2021-2022. Instructors: Ioannis Deligiannis and Barbara Garneli. Presented game:
- Hidden Riches, creator: Georgios Kandiliaris at the Old Fortress.
- Board games from the course “Multimedia and Gamification”. Academic year 2022-2023. Instructors: Ioannis Deligiannis, Barbara Garneli, Emmanouil Rovithis. Presented game:
- Escal8ed, creators: Alexandra Argyrou, Vasiliki Arkoumani, Eleni Kyriaki.
- Graduation projects:
- Pigeons & Students, creator: Christos Rigas, supervisor: Vasilis Komianos. Developed with internet technologies as a system supporting multiplayer video games with map projections.
- Audio puzzle game using AR from the Creative Laboratory of Interactive Educational Experiences for Ionian University Museum of Typography. Instructors: Vasilis Komianos, Barbara Garneli, Emmanouil Rovithis. Presented game:
- Break the Audio Code, creator: Emmanouil Rovithis, based on listening to museum audio descriptions.
