Kablamo

On Monday we were given the project of a location based experience. Me and Gary have teamed up yet again to take over the world and be hated by everyone around us. In uni world this is day 5. In reality it’s somewhere more along the lines of day 20. We started brainstorming for this project a few weeks before it started. We were just that excited.

We have decided to use bluetooth as the main hub of the game. Yes bluetooth. Our research has told us we are idiots for choosing this as its mainly for linking up devices not rapid proximity detection like we have chosen to do. In our minds we are geniuses and no one can convince me otherwise.

I personally wanted to use two things, kameraflage and squibs. Kameraflage is this technology that is invisible to the human eye but visible under camera phone lens. Squibs are deemed too dangerous for me to attatch to people and set off via bluetooth as a signifier of death or game over. Cinematics are what I want. Merging the real world with the imaginary. Thats what interactive media designers do and they wont let me do it. So i’m calling for a riot. Next tuesday.

So far we’ve found no one is doing anything like this and that makes us happy all over. This is a first for us, being happy doesnt happen often. Getting bluetooth proximity is easy in theory, but more difficult on a pc. Mac its fine, you can code nice little bits of scripts for macs which are dead simple machines. If only they made me tea.

More breakthroughs to emerge as time passes.

This week, Ben (one of our tutors) has set us a task. A task to make 4 posters of ideas for location based crap.
Mine are all games of course, I could have done something like IDENTIFY THAT ANIMAL AT THE ZOO but I know an elephant when I see one, I dont need my phone shouting IT HAS A TRUNK IT’S AN ELEPHANT, or THATS A DOG. We don’t want the tech to get too smart or it will start taking over the world.

Anyway posters. Here is one and two. More will follow as I make them, but I am particularily proud of the hand. It’s my hand by the way and I think its nice and pretty.

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