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Victorian Circus V – Workshop Brakke Grond
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
This weekend we were invited with a couple of C-md students for a workshop in the Flemish culture centre de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, at the same moment that Eric Joris and CREW were residing there. The workshop was about gaming and physical input / physical computing with technologies as Arduino and the game-engine Unity. Just the thing for us, so we (Danny Leen, Tom Luyten, Jim Bollansée and me) packed our bags and set up our camp in Amsterdam.
It was great being able to work with this group of people again because for starters, working together with Tom had been way too long ago, and because we’re usually very concerned with what the final product will be and stimulate eachother in pushing the borders just that little further. Somehow we succeeded in working every day up until midnight, justified by the fact that me and Jim were doing some volunteering (”buddying”) for Crew (and the volunteering always ended at midnight). So the others stayed out of solidarity, and since we had nothing better to do, we worked on our project.
Glasgow Mega Snake from Jim Bollansée on Vimeo.
Looking back, it was still a relatively short period of time to get used to working in Unity and to come up with a good concept. The first day was just spent on fooling around with Unity until something came out.
We also decided not to use the Arduino boards, because Jim and I had already done that enough to be able to learn something new about Arduino during the workshop. Also because I brought my Wiimotes with me, we decided to use a wiimote and connect it to Unity via OSC.
We all pretty quickly agreed to make an “artgame”, a game without a goal, without an ending, but only with a visual/audible style purely for seeing and hearing (and interacting).
Update: Jim, Tom, and Liesbeth (one of our teachers) have also blogged about this.
Anyway, more techy details after the break!
Tags: OSCulator, Unity, wiimote
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