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Immersively Kick Ass Kung-Fu
Ant writes "Kick @ss Kung-Fu is an immersive game installation that transforms computer gaming into a visual, physical performance like dance or sports. You can fight and defy gravity like kung-fu movie actors -- only there's no wires or post-production needed, thanks to the real-time embodied interaction and virtual set technology. Formula: You + Camera + Software + Screens = Embodied Gameplay."
the site clearly says kick ass not kick @ss, what's with the censorship????!
This was already on G4TV (Attack of the Show).
Way to stay on top Slashdot. Half of the stories in the last few months have been duplicates of lame stories (which often are just small blurbs about products or gadgets and not stories) long since aired on G4TV or posted on Fark, Drudgereport or Engadget and Gizmodo.
I hate to be another Slashdot-whiner, but good god. I kind of feel like my Subscription is a rip-off when most of what I'm reading I already got for free on other sites - days or weeks earlier.
Badly drawn flash games just aren't enough for me. I need immersive badly drawn flash games. Preferably with shaky animation and grating sound effects. This is my dream come true.
It'd be rather neat if you could use two cameras to create a 3D-model of a person, instead of a 2D image -- some folks at MIT already did some research on this, but it'd be pretty cool to see this implemented in a game.
Maybe the Xbox 360 or PS3 could create a realtime 3D model on the fly?
The Revolutionary part of Nintendo's next console is probably that sort of feature. Actually, that will be just one of the revolutionary features. It will do all things! Nintendo can do no wrong! Luigi's Mansion was a great game!
It isn't a fcuking swear so long as you don't spell all of the letters in the god d@mn word right, you @ss hole.
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Have you seen the movie? Wow, that guy was hot, wasn't he? But if you know kung-fu so well as the handsome player on the clip in question then why would you want to play someone who does? It's like playing sim city by a real mayor instead of ruling his own city or playing half life by someone who already has a life of his own, and a full one at that. Doesn't make much sense. In addition with poor graphics and lame music I just can't see it popular among the video games target audience (read: nonathletic teenage males with poor social skills). All in all, a great idea to use in the movie industry during the next 5-7 years for cheap side effects in straight-to-DVD productions for kids but hardly a success as a game per se. But the movie was great. In fact, I think I'll watch it again.
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I usually don't say this...but...that really sucks. I mean..I see effort..and an 'idea' there...and effort..energy used to make the system..but..it sucks. When someone came up with this idea, if only a friend came to them and said 'Hey, that is pretty lame', then money and energy would have been saved. But! I still give a little credit because they did it, and it looks like it works. However, it still sucks.
It's not "Immersively Kick-Ass Kung-Fu" until the ass that gets kicked is *yours*.
And then you might as well go down to your local martial-arts place and get your ass immersively-kung-fu-kicked for free.
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There is a lot of hype here.
Luigi's Mansion was actually a great game once you spent 5 minutes learning the unorthodox control style...
A bit offtopic but insightful. This should be modded up.
Additionally, there's something which they invariably seem to miss every time that stupid idea comes around _again_. (There's hardly been more than a couple of months without someone coming up with the exact same "I know, let's make the player kick/swing a sword/run on a treadmill/whatever to make it really immersive" idea.)
That something is: physical effort involved.
Do you fancy playing that kind of game for 12 hours on a weekend? It doesn't matter if you're athletic or non-athletic: even among pro athletes noone trains in 12 hour sessions.
And it can go even more downhill in other kinds of games. E.g., two of my COH characters fight with a 4 ft long by 4 inch wide bastard sword, and one with a big-ass morning star (spiky ball onna stick, not flail) that would make Sauron proud. I don't think it would be a hit if you made people swing that kind of a beast around IRL to play the game.
"But if you know kung-fu so well as the handsome player on the clip in question then why would you want to play someone who does?"
Another good question. As a substitute for training at the gym? I don't think so. A martial artist would IMHO more likely train the moves and katas he/she needs for the next belt, rather than whatever hit works the best in the game.
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I can say that the coolest potential for this is as a training tool. It would be pretty neat to watch yourself real-time and possibly have a game designed around your art that required precision and skill to win.
That is, if you had the $$$ for the equipment.
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I've actually played this game, and most of the people here giving out have totally missed the point. The technology has been about for awhile, and I've played other things like it, the EyeToy has a boxing game for example.
But believe me, nothing comes close to the experience that this game provides. Kick Ass Kung Fu just so much damn fun. It may not come out in the arcarde, or be on the playstation, but that's not the point, it's a really fun game, that people have a great time playing, and a great time making it.
- Kevin