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LevelHead – 3D Spatial Memory Game
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Unusual Video Game – 3D Rubic’s Cube – Escher
This is one of the more unusual videos to appear this week – and it is a clever implementation of a physical interface.
It’s called Levelhead – and you will want to look at it several times – until you figure out that the video is simply a video of a real hand flipping a cube with simple designs in front of a webcam. But that provides enough information to correlate with an animated loop that is overlayed or keyed over top of the view on the monitor.
The game is using simple designs on the cube as the physical interface into the game.
The explination continues:
Demo video of new conceptual game ‘levelHead’ by Julian Oliver.
Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (they are traps).
The player has 2 minutes to find the exit of each cube, leading the character into the entrance of the next..
Work is also being done to use invisible markers such that the cube itself appears entirely white to the naked eye.
Project page: http://julianoliver.com/levelhead .
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Very late posting tonight after a long day – and an internal Techpodcast Network planning session for CES 2008. Hard to believe that we will have to be geared up in less than sixty days.
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