DLab
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DLab has been the first italian videogame school that had three editions in Arezzo, Florence
and Ferrara.
Founded in 2002 by Fabio Barzagli (Nayma Software company) and conducted with his friend Bernardo Innocenti (Develer srl), Dlab has been collaborating and organizing courses with many partners like Cooperativa Sociale Electra, ITIS Galileo Galilei Arezzo, Develer SRL, ISA Firenze, ITIS Carpeggiani Ferrara, Centro Studi CS Pistoia, Regione Toscana, with the contribute of over 200.000 euros by the European Social Fund
(FSE) for innovative OB3 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
)
clone) and was developed using c/c++ language and sourceforge
web platform for source code repository and team work collaboration between teachers (5) and students (20) (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.
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
and Ferrara.
Founded in 2002 by Fabio Barzagli (Nayma Software company) and conducted with his friend Bernardo Innocenti (Develer srl), Dlab has been collaborating and organizing courses with many partners like Cooperativa Sociale Electra, ITIS Galileo Galilei Arezzo, Develer SRL, ISA Firenze, ITIS Carpeggiani Ferrara, Centro Studi CS Pistoia, Regione Toscana, with the contribute of over 200.000 euros by the European Social Fund
European Social Fund
The European Social Fund is the European Union’s main financial instrument for supporting employment in the Member States as well as promoting economic and social cohesion. ESF spending amounts to around 10% of the EU’s total budget....
(FSE) for innovative OB3 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
Demoscene
The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...
)
First project: Starshocks
First multiplatform videogame developed was called "Starshocks" (asteroidAsteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
clone) and was developed using c/c++ language and sourceforge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
web platform for source code repository and team work collaboration between teachers (5) and students (20) (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.