AMBIENT QUEST STUDIOS
EXPLORING GAMEPLAY
About Ambient Quest Studios
Ambient Quest Studios are dedicated to exploring gameplay.
City Block Cats: neighbourhood cats compete for territory in a moonlit city block. A new game of feline relationships currently in development that features ambient gameplay mechanisms. Alpha version available to download for PC and Android.
Rokolector is a re-imagining of the classic Asteroids arcade game, available for Android devices.
A series of games have been developed to investigate different ambient aspects of gameplay:
Ambient Quest 1.0
Ambient Quest 2.2
Ambient Quest Pirate Moods
Stina and the Wolf RPG
City Block Cats
Find out more about ambient gameplay here: Mark Eyles' website.
Please contact Mark Eyles with any thoughts or observations on ambient gameplay. Note that these games were created primarily for ongoing academic research. Research into ambient games is continuing at the University of Portsmouth.
About Mark Eyles:
Mark is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Portsmouth where he lectures on games. Before joining the university he spent 23 years working in the games industry, from 1980 to 2003. He belongs to the Advanced Games Research Group.
Contact details:
Dr Mark Eyles
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth
Eldon Building
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth PO1 2DJ
United Kingdom
Telephone: (44) 23 9284 5468
Email: mark.eyles@port.ac.uk
Personal website: www.eyles.co.uk
Work website: www.port.ac.uk/games