Quasimodem
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« on: February 27, 2008, 04:24:15 PM » |
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This cannot be! I am just now joining TIGS?? Better late than never I suppose. Good game last week fellas. Except some homeless guy broke into my truck on Tuesday and stole all my source. Not cool > :| At any rate, I put up a few more pics for your viewing enjoyment at http://chalicegames.com. Long live the indies!
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bateleur
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« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 03:28:03 PM » |
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This cannot be! I am just now joining TIGS?? Could be worse, I still haven't joined. Oh. Wait. Real reason I'm posting is to ask about the pic captioned "this thing was amazing". I fail at thing identification. What is that?!
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Derek
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« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 04:12:54 PM » |
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Thanks for the pix! And yeah, wtf is that thing - I don't remember seeing it.
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2008, 05:51:30 PM » |
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It was on the outside wall of the expo floor, just south of the IGF - it's called the Z-Dome. Not really sure on details other than that, though I did find
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Al King
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« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2008, 07:23:45 PM » |
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Yeah, it's just basically a curved screen which has the image projected all around the person using it; I've seen things like it before.
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« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2008, 08:27:08 PM » |
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I took a look, but the concept, while cool, doesn't really work all that well.
I think that sentence needs more commas!
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« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2008, 11:21:28 PM » |
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Yeah, I actually played Assassin's Creed on it during the expo. Every single light from that room was reflecting in the dome and it really hurt my eyes. Just imagine annoying monitor glare except in every direction.
So yeah, it might be really cool but I wouldn't know.
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Quasimodem
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2008, 07:50:58 PM » |
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Yeah Z Dome is what it's called, I thought it rocked. Might have been a little rough around the edges but way better than most of the weird gimmicks out on the floor.
No matter how big your TV screen gets, it's still just a flat rectangle and will do a poor job at accurately filling your peripheral. Wrapping an image sphere around your head really cranks up the immersion. Some day we'll have a 360º viewing orb with Dolby 700.1!
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2008, 12:43:25 AM » |
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I had a chat with one of the dudes running the booth. Apparently they can surround people using multiple domes and projectors, but the expo people wouldn't let him 'cos it took up so much space. He seemed pretty bummed about it.
Their website doesn't seem to mention it though, so maybe the noise and bright lights induced a hallucination.
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DOOMERANG
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« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2008, 11:28:48 AM » |
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z-dome is for pussies. panoscopes is where its at. 360° of seemles projection. http://www.panoscope360.com/kokoromi was born after we made a little game called lapis 2.0 for one of those.
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AdamAtomic
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« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2008, 05:59:04 PM » |
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yes! for serious. Dome head tv face GET!
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the_depraved
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« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2008, 08:45:18 PM » |
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sounds exciting. this is exciting. I'm excited.
also, DIBS
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biphenyl
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« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2008, 10:26:15 AM » |
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If that is exciting, you will be amazed by this amazing new* technology... of amazement: *I think I played one of these about 15 years ago. Dactyl Nightmare!
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« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2008, 12:28:31 PM » |
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Haha, yes! Dactyl Nightmare! I really wish there were proper screenshots of this game online somewhere. Or, you know what? I just want to play it. ...Wii port?
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DOOMERANG
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« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2008, 12:48:34 PM » |
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HAHA holy crap! i remember that game! i played it VS my little brother years and years ago. it was so fucking confusing. and sickening.
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« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2008, 01:02:49 PM » |
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When I was at Darrien Lake many years ago. They had one of those, but it was playing duke nukem 3d.
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