Re: [GD-Design] Ideas for a short game coding party

[Mickael P. <mpo...@ed...>]

Tom Forsyth wrote:
> I like the idea of having a strange input. So you could say "your
> only input is the microphone". Another nice one I like - "your only
> input is mouse position" - i.e. no buttons!
>
> But it's not exactly a game "engine", really just a random
> restriction to prod games in a different direction. But that's not
> such a bad idea.

Using micros at input has been done numerous time.

In last march at the EIL party (Error In Line) in Dresden (east germany) a
compo was using a pong engine and two microphones to control the bat
position using volume and frequency of signal :)

And in 1984 I had a breakout game on my oric that could be played using the
tape recorder: you just have to "hisssss" and "shhhhheeuuuu" into the built
in microphone to move the bat left and right ;)

But was funny =)

    Mike