Welcome to MEDGE
MEDGE (“Music-Emotion Driven Game Engine”) is an innovative project merging together music, games, physical computing and cognitive science research under development at the School of Interactive and Digital Media (SIDM) in Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore.
The aim of the project is to assess and further investigate cognitive science topics to design and develop an interactive and emotionally-aware musical game engine/API that enables a completely new experience within music related video games.
Using this engine/API as a development tool, game developers will be able to build content on top of it where players are not limited to control their actions in the virtual world by using standard interfaces, like a mouse or keyboard, but also to directly affect the game flow by expressing emotional content through the playing of a real musical instrument.
M-EDGE can be used for designing and implementing innovative
Music-based educational games: a fun tool for practicing and improving musical skills with your own musical instrument
Minigames in “traditional” games: e.g. make the player hum a happy tune to make some NPC happy and start dancing
Possible clinical applications to help emotionally impaired patients to focus on their emotions while trying to express their feelings in a controlled way. Rehabilitation games (e.g. playing drums to recover muscular tone in the arms) are also possible.
MEDGE is supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation Interactive Digital Media R&D Program, under research grant NRF2007IDM-IDM002-015.