Wow… just wow, that’s one hell of a junior project.

Posted at 8:52 am on Apr 26th, 2009 by Matthias

s/difficult/difficulty/ kthxbye

Posted at 9:31 am on Apr 26th, 2009 by tulcod

Physical games are the upcoming “thing”. Let’s see…Space Invaders(1978) & Space Invaders 3D(2009). Halo(2001) … Halo 3D(2032).

Heh, not long till games get good!

Posted at 9:32 am on Apr 26th, 2009 by iann0036

@iann0036: I hope you’re right about them becoming the ‘thing’. Maybe that’ll do something to fix our morbid obesity problems.

Posted at 10:55 am on Apr 26th, 2009 by Jack

This was a proof of concept for an actual exercise centric video game. Our thoughts were that things like the Wii really just move you from the couch pushing buttons, to standing up pushing buttons. And things like the EyeToo weren’t designed to go mainstream, and frankly, don’t work that well. We’re considering moving forward with this project on our own to see what we can do with it.

Posted at 11:11 am on Apr 26th, 2009 by Matt Krass

Oh so thats what a Altera DE2 board can do.

Huh. All we ever did was just make it flash this really cool led pattern and try to figure out what the heck was going on.

Major question here: WHY are they using an FPGA? Must have been for a class where they had to do something with the board and not software.

Posted at 12:22 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by Hal Hockersmith

While it was required that we use an FPGA, there are other reasons to use one. the most important being that we were able to run the game engine, the game, and the VGA controller all of one chip. we didn’t really need an entire system.

Posted at 12:41 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by Alva

Here we go again…. Why don’t you post this crap on Make.com and stop wasting our time wit this sh!t….

Posted at 12:50 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by jimslippper

FPGA, NXT, laptop, breadboard , Really ? cross extra ones

Posted at 2:47 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by therian

They do this in some form at video Games live concerts-with a guy wearing a space invaders shirt moving back /forth and a physical button

Posted at 8:22 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by Ash

I go to the same University as these guys, and I got a chance to use this project. It was wicked neato.

Maybe I should have been a CompE instead of EE…

Posted at 8:45 pm on Apr 26th, 2009 by anonononymous

@ jimslippper, they just engaged their brains and did something cool, unlike yourself – if you don’t like it here there’s always the other option.

@matt, I can see you’re going to be good at this – 3d ‘physical’ games are a good direction to be going in, help us get off our fat lardy asses. :-)

Posted at 5:52 am on Apr 27th, 2009 by Richard

looks similar to my FPS of a year ago… Except in my game jump meant jump and you used a laser to fire

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