Re: Ideas for a short game coding party

Jan Ekholm <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:48:05 +0300 (EEST)
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.design
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Mickael Pointier wrote:

>Tom Forsyth wrote:
>> I like the idea of having a strange input. So you could say "your
>> only input is the microphone". Another nice one I like - "your only
>> input is mouse position" - i.e. no buttons!
>>
>> But it's not exactly a game "engine", really just a random
>> restriction to prod games in a different direction. But that's not
>> such a bad idea.
>
>Using micros at input has been done numerous time.

An apparently very successul idea for a new input gadget is used by Eyetoy
for the PS2. It uses a simple camera to track player movements in front of
the camera, so the player has to perform all kinds of weird stuff in front
of the camera. Great party fun. :)

-- 
   "I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone
       distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy."

                                        -- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods


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