2007-02-15
- Wii
- Handful of the best little components
- Console Game: A Short History
- Games are social
- Especailly console games
- first console was you against a second player
- because of its contrl scheme
- Games are a space to play in
- 1st Gen
- Magnavox Odyssey 1972
- all games pre-programmed
- jumpers activated the built in games
- color overlays on top of the screen
- not popular
- Pong 1975
- analog paddle
- Early engines of innovation
- 2nd Gen: The Cartridge
- Atari 2600 1977
- weakest
- yet most successful
- Intellivision 1980
- 16 bit
- ColecoVision 1982
- Crash of 1983
- very crowded console market
- bad decisions on next gen consoles
- Commodore 64
- stole the show
- cost about as much as a console
- guilt tripping parents into buying them instead
- Bad Games!
- Pac-Man
- Custer's Last Stand
- E.T.
- made 4 million
- sold 1.5 million
- buried the remained under cement in New Mexico
- Lots of reverse Engineering
- 3rd Gen: After the Crash
- Famicom (NES) 1985
- had to call it an entertainment system
- not a video game system, after the crash
- Sega Master System 1985
- TurboGrafx-16 1989
- What's the Magic Number: 16 bit era
- Systems
- SNES
- Sega Genesis
- Neo-Geo
- Starting to be more like Hollywood
- profit margins shrunk
- PCs started competing in the video game market
- 2 1/2 Console Theory
- 4G
- SNES
- Genesis
- SNK NeoGeo
- 5G
- Sony Playstation
- Sega Saturn
- Nintendo N64
- 6G
- Sony Playstation 2
- Xbox
- Nintendo Gamecube
- 7G
- Wii
- Xbox 360
- PS3
- Evolution vs. Revolution
- Only 2x powerful as GameCube
- Only 2x RAM
- Expanding the market rather than competing in the same space
- The Wii Remote
- Should look like other remotes
- blends with what you know
- feel available
- affordance
- multiple approaches to it
- Communication
- Bluetooth Radio to console (30ft)
- Sensing
- IR positioning system
- LED bar
- could use candles instead
- Orientation on the 2D plane
- Accelerometer
- Can't fix itself in 3D space
- not positional, just gestural
- Nunchuk
- Also has accelerometer
- and an analog thumbstick
- Limits
- Must be trained
- programmer must imitate the move
- Tutorials adapt to what the user is doing
- even games have a training phase
- try to stay within the mean
- If they get close
- then they store that gesture
- different for every player
- Components
- Bluetooth Boarcom BCM2042
- 11 inputs
- Analog Devices ADXL330
- IR camera (monochrome 1Mpixel)
- speaker
- rumble
- power button
- disconnects BT and powers down
- Player LEDs
- Gestural
- XWand
- visible LEDs
- IR Led
- Magnetometer
- feels the earth's pull
- PIC micro
- accelerometer
- gyro
- button
- RF transceiver
- 4 AAAs
- 1.5" diameter
- Class Project
- Darts?!
- Could be VERY cool
- Similarly, making/throwing a paper airplane
- Marble Madness
- Put multiple people in the same place
- Suspension of disbelief
- Believing the you're controlling it
- Space is MORE important
- it's not always going to go more and more for the Net all time
- pendulum swing
- overloading on different design paradigms
- Class Blog
- Prototyping
- How you sell a concept
- Rapid Prototyping
- only so many hours in a day
- Iterative Design
- 3 time iteration
- but some things are iterated indefinitely
- not just one person iterating
- could be an entire culture iterating a genre
- iterating techniques, media forms, etc.
- Midterm Wii Project
- IR camera
- Computer vision
- tracking
- Can we even do this?
- Accelerometer
- acceleration on 3-axis
- motion
- change in speed
- gestures
- communication
- must decodify the forces back into gestures
- Serial Read
- do the gestures
- look at the data feed
- Bluetooth
- Calbe replacement
- Wireless connection
- Vibrating Motors/Tactile Feedback
- Use at least two
- More fidelity
- replaces sound
- replaces another modality
- helpful because it's not disruptive
- works in areas when other modalities don't work
- alerts you to someone trying to contact you
- tap!
- look at me
- no message in itself
- the white rabbit effect
- filling in the gaps in sensation
- timing just right
- haptics
- joysticks
- buttons
- most modern media forms start off with adult entertainment
- in fact, this might be the touchstone of a potential mass medium
- photos, videos, Net
- tactics
- virtual thing coming at you
- effecting environment
- Screen
- iPod is only as good as the songs you have on it
- Getting the Arduino into the computer
- processing
- push toward this
- max/msp
- director
- 4-5 button switch
- interactive eye candy
- Then we combine each into three groups
- Communication
- Network of blogs?
- Wiki?
- E-mail list?
- Presentation
- Assignment
- Quiz 6-11
- Focus on 8 and 9
- Bluetooth
- Compile resources
- make parts list
- possible example code
- examples of use (youtube video)
- game examples
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