Comments on: If a video game had that interface

By: Tiago M.

Tiago M. — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:50:29 +0000

By the way, skimming through Winnie Forster’s Joysticks book I just found this one arcade game, later ported to the Playstation, which offers something reminiscent of heavy machinery controllers.

Power Shovel Simulator:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9108

Amazing…

By: Tiago M.

Tiago M. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:03:48 +0000

Imagine a videogame world made up of Guitar Hero, Samba de Amigo, Dance Dance Revolution and others like these, where you had to buy a different controller for each game… awful!

What about this exercise: select a bunch of sensors and actuators at random, literally throw them on a small table and let them stay where they fall (even if they fall on the floor) and say “design a game for this”. Now that’s a way to have spectacular gaming ideas

But it still feels wrong designing games for controllers. Although Nintendo is mostly forcing it to be that way.

By: Nicolas Nova

Nicolas Nova — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:21:41 +0000

great!

By: Tom Armitage

Tom Armitage — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:00:19 +0000

…you get the Densha De Go controller, for the wildly popular Japanese train simulator? Not so much in terms of buttons, signs, merely the interface elements on offer…