11/05: Games

Author: camille | Posted in Blog

Ronan sent me this amazing video where he plays retro games using the Wiimote and OSCulator :


While it’s fun to play games from archaeologic times, it’s also fun to have a merry hack party and invent the games of the future. The event will happen in Nuremberg on 6 to 8 november at the “Zentrifuge” Event Hall.

makerjam09_logo Here’s more information from the the makerjam website:

A weekend marked by fun, innovation and the joy of experimentation. Games developers, designers, artists, programmers, hardware wizards – beginners and professionals – form teams and develop computer games. A competition with the emphasis clearly on fun.

Whether you burn for ideation, concepts, sketching, artwork and design, game logic, hardware design, programming, character development, or audio – the Game Jam has room for every type of talent. The teams are free to choose their controller, programming language, and platform. Work with Flash, a game engine, or a PC game kit. Develop a game for mobile phones, for a PC or for a console – as long as you own the tools and can bring them along. Lash up your old joysticks to a monster control panel, program an iPhone as the central controller, build innovative interfaces with Arduino, or find newer, smarter ways to integrate mouse, keyboard and webcam in your game.

2 Responses

  1. Josh December 20th, 2009 at 22:04

    That is really cool and very helpful. But how to you set it up?

    How do you run the N64 emulator on Osculator? There is a Sixtyforce template of Osculator but not sure how to use that.

  2. camille December 21st, 2009 at 00:33

    I would recommend you first get a Classic Controller to play the N64, and try the document named “HID Classic Controller” in the Sample Patches folder. Now, change the preset to n64. This will turn your Classic Controller into a n64 compatible gamepad that you can use with any application that can use HID devices, like Sixtyforce.

    In Sixtyforce, you will need to set-up each buttons and joystick controls, something you can do in the “sixtyforce->Configure Controllers …” menu of the application. Enable, the “OSCulator HID 1″ device, and click “Configure…”.

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