I worked with RESN in 2011 to help build the EDF Light Games, a series of 7 online sports games in French and English.
Here is RESN's discription of the project:
Due to a shortage of flat work surfaces, Resn chose to reinvent the way the humble computer mouse is used for gaming - their solution, and what is believed to be an Olympic first, was to track the mouse light (or mobile phone) with a user's webcam. For the first time, the optical light is the controller.
Resn's technical approach was to implement sophisticated image recognition through a user's webcam to allow control of both the games and the website itself using gestural controls of either the mouse's own optical light or of a special mobile phone enhanced site.
Taking things to the next level of awesome, in-game environmental elements such as water were represented as 3D beams of light; created using the latest in hardware accelerated Stage3D shaders (which are pretty hard to build but look pretty stunning). For users whose machines pre-date social media we also built a fall back with good old software accelerated 3D, so no one's mum would miss out.
All music and sound FX were composed and recorded by Resn's talented in house band (also available for weddings or your next corporate function).
Accompanying the desktop browser experience is a version of the Kayaking event created exclusively for the iPad. Using the brand new Adobe Air 3.2, Resn was able to port the unique light based visuals, built atop Flash and Stage3D, straight to the iPad - taking the game to a new stupendous level of handheld, accelerometer imbued retina delight.
To top it off, a real live touch screen version of the game has been installed in at the EDF Olympic Pavillion in London.
EDF Light Games technical key points short and sweet:
Light tracking - mouse, phone
Stage3D technology - shaders
iPad version - Air 3.2 - Stage3D
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
-Project featured in the EDF Pavilion at the Olympic Stadium in London on touch screen
-Seamless port to ipad with AIR 3.2 - Stage3D
-Different games controlled through light tracking by mobile, or light from optical mouse
-All audio composed internally
-Clean slick graphics
-Robust leaderboard to enter a sweepstake to win tickets to the olympics
-Featured on Adobe Inspire as 1 of the top 9 innovative digital projects of 2012 by Rob ford Founder of the FWA.
Due to a shortage of flat work surfaces, Resn chose to reinvent the way the humble computer mouse is used for gaming - their solution, and what is believed to be an Olympic first, was to track the mouse light (or mobile phone) with a user's webcam. For the first time, the optical light is the controller.
Resn's technical approach was to implement sophisticated image recognition through a user's webcam to allow control of both the games and the website itself using gestural controls of either the mouse's own optical light or of a special mobile phone enhanced site.
Taking things to the next level of awesome, in-game environmental elements such as water were represented as 3D beams of light; created using the latest in hardware accelerated Stage3D shaders (which are pretty hard to build but look pretty stunning). For users whose machines pre-date social media we also built a fall back with good old software accelerated 3D, so no one's mum would miss out.
All music and sound FX were composed and recorded by Resn's talented in house band (also available for weddings or your next corporate function).
Accompanying the desktop browser experience is a version of the Kayaking event created exclusively for the iPad. Using the brand new Adobe Air 3.2, Resn was able to port the unique light based visuals, built atop Flash and Stage3D, straight to the iPad - taking the game to a new stupendous level of handheld, accelerometer imbued retina delight.
To top it off, a real live touch screen version of the game has been installed in at the EDF Olympic Pavillion in London.
EDF Light Games technical key points short and sweet:
Light tracking - mouse, phone
Stage3D technology - shaders
iPad version - Air 3.2 - Stage3D
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
-Project featured in the EDF Pavilion at the Olympic Stadium in London on touch screen
-Seamless port to ipad with AIR 3.2 - Stage3D
-Different games controlled through light tracking by mobile, or light from optical mouse
-All audio composed internally
-Clean slick graphics
-Robust leaderboard to enter a sweepstake to win tickets to the olympics
-Featured on Adobe Inspire as 1 of the top 9 innovative digital projects of 2012 by Rob ford Founder of the FWA.
