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3 Sep 2024 11:29:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The danger of Kinect  
From: Darren New
Date: 28 Jan 2011 14:14:59
Message: <4d4315b3$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> The other games I've seen are rather lame, tho.  Hopefully they'll get 
>> better, but it's hard to imagine how you're gonna take something like 
>> Batman and turn it into a kinect game.
> 
> you won't.  New controllers mean new kinds of games, not adapting old 
> stuff to the new scheme.

Yep, that was my point.

> also, moving the protagonist is hard without an analog directional pad: 
>  do you run into your screen or do you simply do the moonwalk and 
> simulate you're running?

I suspect we'll eventually come up with a standard set of gestures, just 
like everyone uses a mouse to point, and everyone uses the left stick to 
move and the right stick to look around.  Sort of "Hacker and the Ants" kind 
of thing.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."


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