Fighting With Your Fingers — A Canceled Indie Game Concept For Natal

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Though Microsoft's Project Natal won't be released until later this year, indie studio Arkedo has already revealed a canceled project for the peripheral. Called 2 Finger Heroes, it was to be a beat 'em up where your fingers do the fighting. 'Characters would be controlled by moving your fingers, while special moves could be done by incorporating your whole hand. The environment could even be affected by moving your arms folded at your chest.' On why it was canceled, one of the developers said, 'One of the design flaws of this, apart from the fact that it demanded some very precise pattern recognition from the Natal system, is that it would have been HELL to localize. Yup, what can be understood as the victory sign in France could be a terrible insult in the UK, for instance. And we are not even talking about Italian. Oh, the possibilities...'"

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Insulting Gestures

[Anonymous Coward]

GREGORY
I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.

SAMPSON
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR

ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON
I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAHAM
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON
[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
ay?

GREGORY
No.

SAMPSON
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY
Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAHAM
Quarrel sir! no, sir.

Re:Insulting Gestures

[Anonymous Coward]

I call ROMEO AND JULIET, Act 1 Scene 1 and cite:

Announcer (on the TV) Hello and welcome to the University of the Air. And first this afternoon, part seventeen in our series of lectures on animal communications. This afternoon we look at recent discoveries in the field of intraspecific signalling codes in the family formicidea.
Chris That's a stroke of luck, Marcus...

Cut to a restaurant. A waiter (Graham) stands at one side. Our hero (Terry J) enters, the waiter approaches him and they go through an elaborate signalling or greeting ceremony, stamping and so forth. The waiter does strange series of movements.

CAPTION: 'MAY I HAVE YOUR COAT'
Hero stamps a lot and clasps the waiters bottom.
CAPTION: 'I DON'T HAVE A COAT. I AM AN ANT'
Waiter routine.
CAPTION: 'AREN'T WE ALL?'
Hero routine.
CAPTION: 'WHERE'S BRUNO?'
Waiter routine.
CAPTION: 'HE GOT TRODDEN ON'
Hero routine.
CAPTION: 'WHAT'S THE SPECIAL TODAY?'
Waiter routine.
CAPTION: 'FILLET OF ANTEATER'
Hero routine.
CAPTION: 'THAT'LL LEARN IT'
Mother enters. She is rather torn and tattered and her face is bloodstained.
Mother Turn that bloody thing off!

Announcer We interrupt this programme to bring you the latest news of the extraordinary Michael Ellis saga. Apparently Michael Ellis... (mother switches it off)
Chris Hey! I was watching that...
Mother Bloody thing. It's upsetting the tiger. (there is a roar and a crash of breaking crockery from the kitchen) Oh Christ!
She dashes across to the door and goes into the kitchen. Chris quickly switches the TV on.
Announcer (waits for noises to stop) ... nd of the announcement. And now back to 'University of the Air', and our series for advanced medical students, 'Elements of Surgical Homeopathic Practice'. Part 68 - 'Ants'.
Chris Ah! We're in luck again, Marcus.
A surgeon appears on television. He makes a few ant gestures.
Surgeon Hello formicidophiles! Before the blood and guts that you're waiting to see, let's have a look at the anatomy of the little ant.
Cut to a drawing of an ant.
Ant Expert's Voice The body of the ant is divided into three sections. (arrow indicates) The head, the thorax and the abdomen. They are enclosed in a hard amour-like covering called the exoskeleton, which provides some protection from other nasty little insects but unfortunately not from the dissector's scalpel. (an animated hand with a knife slices bits off the ant) See, nothing to it, he's not such a toughy. And his legs ... they help him carry hundreds of times his own weight, but look at this ... (a hand pulls the legs off) you're not so strong compared with me, four, five, six ... Ha!
Chris I didn't know ants had six legs, Marcus!
Ant Expert Well I can assure you they do, Mr Ellis.
Chris Hey! You've got two legs missing! And that's a false feeler Marcus! Blimey!
He leaps up, switches the TV off and hurls it into the corner onto a pile of used TVs, and hurries out. The tiger is quiet now. Mother, bloody and torn, is emptying a tin of 'Kit-E-Cobra' into a box marked 'Cobra'.
Chris I'm taking this ant back, mother - he's got two legs missing.
Mother Hey! Mrs McWong's been on the phone! The polar bear's been in her garden again.
Chris Well I'll get it on the way back from the store.
Mother Well mind you do - his droppings are enormous. (Chris goes through the door, mother shouts after him) Oh, and by the way, while you're out get us another couple of tellies would you, here's 180 quid. (she tosses a wad out to him)
Cut to the garden outside. There are TVs heaped in the garden path. Chris catches the wad of notes and leaves through the garden gate as a TV van is unloading half a dozen TVs onto a trolley, prior to wheeling them into the house.
Cut back to the store. In