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Physical Gaming7 ways to combine computer games and sweat

Thursday, 30 April 2009


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1. iPhone, iPod Touch

Pros

Fun

Cool

Widespread

Cash Slick development environment



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Cons

Costs to enroll in developer program($99, but that gets you a lot).

Mac only development, and you need tolearn Objective C (but learning new

languages is a good thing, right?)

Small movements - would take a lot togenerate sweat



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Firemints FlightTracker, whilst not aphysical game, has racked up a great deal of

downloads and attention.

Designers should to be careful not to gushover the platform too much, and thus

produce a heap of bad, gimmicky games.The concepts actually need to be good, not

just clever uses of the platform.



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Some favourites:

Flight Control Finger Sprint

Pocket Guitar

Falling Balls



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1. iPhone, iPod Touch How?

http://developer.apple.com/iphone

xCode Get a phone or an iPod Touch (the iPods

are way cheaper and really cool if you

already have a phone but like games). iPodTouch 8GB: $293 from JB

Beginning iPhone Development (Mark andLeMarche, Apress)

http://developer.apple.com/iphonehttp://developer.apple.com/iphonehttp://developer.apple.com/iphone


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2. Using the WiiMote

with Flash: WiiFlash Pros:

French... it must be good... Free!

Flash is familiar / easy to program

Flash is readily available and used by loadsof people (but not free).

A more interesting way to control Flash



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with Flash: WiiFlash Cons

Can be slightly flakey on my laptop(bluetooth connectivity issues etc...)

Very heavily associated with Nintendo(but you can use a disguise)

Not much else, its really rather good



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with Flash: WiiFlash How?

http://wiiflash.bytearray.org

Download source code and examplesthere

Wiimote: $60 from JB Hi-Fi

http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/


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3. Location based game

Make a user run around the city or anopen space to find clues or complete

aspects if the game in the real world.

A-Lure - mobile phone mediated (viaSMS). Used website and SMS gateway to

provide clues / discovery.

Can be connected or disconnectedthough.



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There are lots:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_gamehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_gamehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_gamehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_gamehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_game


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How?

Many ways to go about this.

Use mobile device for electronicmediation - processing of clues

gathered from location?

Use GPS data to provide information?(more advanced)



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4. Arduino

Provides a simple, cheap and geeky way

to get electronic inputs into a computer

via USB or wireless.

Prepare to buy breadboards, resistors

and wire and visit Jaycar a lot.



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4. ArduinoThe Captains Blog



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4. Arduino

How

Inputs can be captured in the Arduino

programming language and Max/MSP,among others.

Demos: http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/

Info, software, downloads: http://arduino.cc

Buy in Australia: http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/

http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/collections/arduino/http://arduino.cc/http://arduino.cc/


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5. Motion Tracking with

Max/MSP Max / MSP is a tool originally designed to

allow musicians to program

It has a unique patching interface

It makes no sense to traditionalprogrammers at first

It has great use in the installation / artcommunity



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Max/MSP

Projects

Talking with Your Hands

Residency

A Game of Marbles



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Max/MSP Use free (or with free demo) externalpatch libraries to allow motion

tracking:

cv.jit - http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/

Tap Tools - http://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-tools

http://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/http://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://shop.electrotap.com/collections/tap-toolshttp://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~jovan02/cv/


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6. Keyboard Hack

Find an old USB keyboard and take itto pieces.

Build a box around it and work outsome way to actuate the keys. Pressurepads on the floor? Big buttons on

colourful boxes?

Try removing keys and replacing withother electronics.



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6. Keyboard Hack

OR

Use a product like the I-PAC:

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html

This product is halfway between anArduino and a traditional keyboardhack - the computer thinks it is a

keyboard

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.htmlhttp://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.htmlhttp://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html


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6. Keyboard Hack

IPAC

Pros:

Easy to program using Flash forexample as keyboard interactions

are well supported

Cons:

A bit of a fumble, but well worthlooking into.



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7. Creative use of

Mouse A mouse is a very accurate and

responsive infrared sensor with

multiple buttons. That sounds like anideal device, but a little boring...

It is also (obvisously) completelysupported by the operating system,which makes development a breeze.

Think about ways to build around the

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7. Creative use of

Mouse

Wire stuff into its buttons?

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