Comments on: Exercising to space invaders

By: Aaron Kakudji

Aaron Kakudji — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:31:48 +0000

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By: John harrison

John harrison — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:42:32 +0000

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

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:52:29 +0000

@ 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. :-)

By: anonononymous

anonononymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:45:11 +0000

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…

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:22:17 +0000

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

By: therian

therian — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:47:45 +0000

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

By: jimslippper

jimslippper — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:50:48 +0000

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

By: Alva

Alva — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:41:06 +0000

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.

By: Hal Hockersmith

Hal Hockersmith — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:22:10 +0000

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.

By: Matt Krass

Matt Krass — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:11:24 +0000

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.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:55:37 +0000

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

By: iann0036

iann0036 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:32:58 +0000

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!

By: tulcod

tulcod — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:31:04 +0000

s/difficult/difficulty/ kthxbye