Back seat windows become video games with the Carcade
The Carcade system uses a webcam to turn your car window into a dynamic video game system, recreating the trees and buildings you pass by into game objects. The faster you drive, the harder the game becomes.
The prototype game looks like great fun: a Gradius style shmup (without, I guess, the shmup) in which you must dodge your space ship past the real life obstacles zooming by, although bluntly, the way those undodgeable skyscrapers come out of nowhere to blow up your space cruiser is way cheap. You should totally be able to blast your way through those.
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There are no undodgeable skyscrapers. He missed the portal.
I remember doing this by picking a dirt spot on the window and moving my head around in order to make it dodge telephone poles and buildings. I still catch my self head-bobbing like an idiot sometimes. I bet I look funny doing that.
I like the blatant ripoff of the SNES Starfox beginning level for sound effects including the frog talking.
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I used to do the same thing, but by blinking to allow the spot past window-filling objects. Sometimes I would wink quickly instead, allowing my ship (or whatever it was) to jump ahead.
Good to know I'm not the only person who ever did this.
This looks pretty cool. What they ought to do is plug into Google Streetview and we can fly spaceships all over the world.
lurobi, TJ S, alxr:
Me, too! We're all crazy together! Yay! Hey, who else likes to spread peanut butter on the bottom of their feet? No one? Oh. Well, I was kidding about that one. No really, 'cause that would really be crazy, right? Right? Where's everyone going?
i used to use two fingers as legs to a character in a game that i'd play in the back seat. it was basically the same thing, i'd run around, jump over mailboxes, run on the tops of buildings. it even turned into a THPS game when i started getting interested in skateboarding. i'm glad someone other people share this childhood game, and that someone actually developed it into a video game.
awesome.