BlockBlazers at Urban Action

September 8th, 2007

You can play BlockBlazers at Urban Action in Amsterdam this weekend.

Urban Action

www.urbanaction.eu

Using real-time heart-rate to control a physical game

August 28th, 2007

setup for heart-rate controlled physical game

Article on the always interesting Pasta & Vinegar concerning a physical interface which gets your heart pumping. Your heart rate acts as an input for the game. It’s proposed in the article that one’s heart rate would drive a racing environment (or other speed-based concepts) in which your speed is determined by how high your heart rate is, and that some other aspect of the game would also be influenced by your heart rate such as your ability to aim at something, turn a sharp corner, etc.

I’m not sure whether mapping speed to heart rate is a fair interpretation. What can you really know about a person by knowing their heart rate? To put it bluntly: maybe they’re really obese and just climbed a single flight of stairs. Do you want to challenge them further and choose to make a trade-off between excerting themselves or having more accuracy in the game, or would you rather make manipulating the game easier for them as their heart rate rises?

Sanyo’s short throw projector

July 8th, 2007

Sanyo’s breakthrough short throw projector design may well revolutionize the front projector market. By radically altering traditional projection optics, they’ve been able to design a projector capable of filling a wall from as little as 3-inches away.

Let’s just hope it will be affordable.

New BlockBlazers video

July 2nd, 2007

One laptop per child game jam

June 9th, 2007

http://hackronym.com/olpc/gamejam/index.html
This game design event is held this very weekend. But it could be an interesting challenge to participate in if the event is repeated in the future.

Microsoft makes coffee tables

June 9th, 2007

So much for Philips’s Entertaible.

Chalk

June 9th, 2007

http://www.konjak.org/chalk.htm

This is an arcade shooter à la Gradius, but with a cute anime character… and chalk. Draw lines to eliminate enemies or to defend your character. According to Adriaan, this works great with a sketch tablet. Download now and be addicted!

Human Joysticks

May 20th, 2007

This is a nice multiplayer game, check it out.

Block Blazers at Industrion

May 19th, 2007

Our game Block Blazers will be present at the museum Industion.

http://www.industrion.nl

Soon more..

Block Blazers section

May 19th, 2007

More on the Block Blazers game in this seperate section.

http://www.fourcelabs.com/blockblazers/