2007-02-15 | Mike Edwards

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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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