prosthetic knowledge
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Sega Rally Championship RC Cars Project
Converting an old two seat arcade driving game cabinet to control remote controlled cars with cameras, developed for a tech event in Portugal (video embedded below):
From The Arcade Man:
The Artica guys are addicted to race games and Trackmania is only one of their favorites!!
They’re still addicted to race games but they don’t play them, instead, they prefer to create their own games.
They thought it would be cool to drive a remote control car using a steering wheel and pedals, and if the car had a wireless cam, the gamer could look at the screen and really see what the car was seeing in real time, just like an arcade game!
This was the proposal to Sapo Codebits! To have an arcade game where it would be possible to drive two cars and participate in a real race, without any simulations or complex algorythms, neither 3D graphics.. They want something real! Celso Martinho from Sapo was very excited with their idea, and by coincidence (or not) they were planning to have a retro gaming area at Sapo Codebits!!
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Skrillex Quest
Playable browser-based 3D game borrows from retro gaming and glitch aesthetics, promotional piece for the music of Skrillex.
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Rotomap 3000
Arcade-style interactive installation by G8 Labs demonstrates the idea of 3D projection mapping on a moving object - video embedded below:
Rotomap 3000 @ Platine Festival from G8 Labs on Vimeo.
Rotomap 3000 is a funky Visual Music Arcade Game with 3D Projection Mapping.
See it at PLATINE FESTIVAL 2012 in Cologne. platine-cologne.de
Made with vvvv and love by G8 Labs.
Impressive as it is, it isn’t (to my mind) the first documented version of projection on a moving object - Star Night by Daito Manabe managed to so a year ago on a huge hanging cube [link]
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Pianocade
Chiptune musical instrument with piano keys made of arcade videogame buttons and joystick - video below:
The Pianocade is a synthesizer designed to sound, look, and feel like vintage arcade games. It’s easy for people who want to dive right in, powerful and feature-rich for people who want to tinker, and fun to play for everyone.
More info at Pianocade here
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PAC MAN - The Movie
Fan-made tribute imagining the arcade classic as a Hollywood movie, to great effect:
PAC-MAN The Movie (The Fan Film) from Steelehouse Productions on Vimeo.
For more information on PAC-MAN The Movie (The Fan Film), visit: projectyellowsphere.com
Visit Steelehouse’s official site at: steelehouse.com
To learn more about James Farr (the director, writer & actor), visit: jamesfarr.com -
3D Pac-Man Street Art
Trompe L’oeil painting by Leon Keer:
3d street painting made in Venlo, The Netherlands. Inspired by Arcade’s video game Pac-Man from the 80-ties.
Flickr photoset of the piece can be found here
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BONUS LEVEL: REVOK VS. GIANT
Diego Bergia sent me an email, about a project involving arcade-style pixel art and graffiti artists:
Now that I’ve got two graffiti legends down with the project, I figured I’d create my version of the Street Fighter 2 car destruction bonus round. I’m working on a longer piece right now, but couldn’t resist getting this out in the meantime.
twitter: @whereislepos
theprimaryinvasion.comHere is the short video preview, a Streetfighter-style Bonus Stage between REVOK and GIANT:
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The Art of Computer Game Design
A book from 1982 that examines the art, science and philosophy of game creation at a time when the industry was new. It is particularly interesting when it examines classic arcade games familiar to all. From the introduction:
Games are a fundamental part of human existence. The parlance of games has insinuated itself into our language to refer to activities that are not truly games. We play along with activities we find distasteful. We play ball with those who require our cooperation. We play games when we are insincere. A willing participant is game for the enterprise. This broad penetration of gaming concepts into the entire spectrum of human experience presents us with two potential barriers to understanding games …
… Let us begin this endeavor by stepping back for a moment and taking our bearings. Let us take a brief tour of the universe of games, glancing briefly at each of the major regions. In the course of this tour I hope to refresh the reader’s memory of games and make some simple points before digging into the serious analysis of fundamental game characteristics. I perceive five major regions of games: board games, card games, athletic games, children’s games, and computer games.
The whole document is available to download as a PDF file here, and is also available for the Kindle from Amazon [US] here
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5th Avenue Frogger
Retro arcade game Frogger modded to use real-time traffic information from the busy New York road.
5th Ave Frogger is similar to the 80’s classic Frogger except the cars you dodge are actual cars driving down 5th ave in real time.
This year is Frogger’s 30 (ish) birthday. To celebrate, I wanted to imagine what Frogger would be like if it was developed today.
The project has it’s own Tumblr site, which you can visit here
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100 Yen: The Official Story Trailer
100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience is a 75 min. historical documentary about the evolution of Japanese arcades and the culture surrounding it.
Find out more at 100yenfilm.com
or on facebook.com/100yenfilm
Support the film at indieGoGo.com/100-Yen-The-Final-Coin
Featuring: Daigo Umehara, Brian Ashcraft, Justin Wong, Clover-TAC, Aaron in Japan, Tez Okano, Hiro Kawaguchi, Mike Ross and TAITO.
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MoonLander 3D
A playable 3D remake of one of the earliest arcade games, with a great retro graphic look.
You can play it here
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Online Flash game mash-ups three classic retro arcade games into one - Space Invaders, Missile Command, and Breakout:
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Project mixes alternative reality, street culture and video arcade gaming:
A world was thrown into chaos after visitors wielding the power of a new primary color landed at their doorstep. Lepos, the lone survivor, fought to escape and headed into the depths of the universe to seek solace. He coasted through countless solar systems until a rocket malfunction led to an emergency landing on an unknown planet… Earth!
Unfortunately for us, he was followed. Now Lepos must defeat the very army that destroyed his planet while warning Earthlings of this new primary color and its impending danger… Our future is in his hands. -
PACMAN FPS by Peepholecircus
Very short, but charming animation - If Pac-Man was a first person shooter ….
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