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The Most Innovative Game EVER (Sorry Nintendo)

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Slashgamer thinks that the game LevelHead could be the most original games ever made and they have a video to prove it. in order to play the game, you need a webcam and three blocks. When facing the blocks on the webcam, a 3D virtual room appears with a man inside. By tilting the blocks the man will walk in that direction. Just go to the site and watch the video. It really is that cool!
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Published: 512 days 20 hours ago | Video | PC
 
 

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 512 days 21 hours ago
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Question for Microsoft

BRING THIS GAME TO THE 360 WITH THE VISION CAM!

Thats a straight hit. It looks great
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jamilion - 512 days 21 hours ago
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1.1 - HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS
THATS THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!
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MonkeyMan - 512 days 21 hours ago
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@jamilion
Wait until you see a naked woman!
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RemmM - 512 days 20 hours ago
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1.3 - Yeah I agree with you MART for once
I think MS should bring that game to XBL Arcade. It would help them a lot.
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sl0w-m0 - 512 days 20 hours ago
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1.4 - I don't get it
The game is an innovative idea, but whats so fun about it? You're just making a guy walk into different rooms, the video was cool at first but boring
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ChampIDC - 512 days 19 hours ago
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Yeah, I don't see much fun in this either, but darn is it a cool idea.
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roadkillers - 512 days 19 hours ago
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1.6 - Monkeyman
Funniest thing I heard in a while lol.
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shazam - 512 days 17 hours ago
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1.7 - looks cool
but also very boring

*prepares to be crucified"
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Stagerman - 512 days 16 hours ago
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this really doesn't look fun though...
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johnnywit - 512 days 16 hours ago
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The concept looks neat but I think this game would be really boring for me. The levels look kind of like my apartment. I think I would probably have more fun listening to NIN and slowly walking around my apartment.
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Zeevious - 512 days 15 hours ago
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1.10 - What would dramatically increase the gameplay
challenge & create a much more interesting game would be:

Objects in each room that also move based on the tilt.
These can block the walkers path, but also aid the walker, such as a bridge or hitting a button.

Containers of Ice, Oil, or Glue that could tip over and change the floors friction, increasing difficulty...Or are wobbling and you must move through the room AND prevent them from tipping over or be affected by the results.

Zones that reverse player actions: Up is Down, Left is Right...or how about Up is Left...

Flashlight levels where you see only a part of the room, or a brief flash at the beginning...or your first path leads to a lightswitch.

Moving the cube toward or away from the screen could increase speed & score or have other interesting effects.

Levels where more than one cube must be used together to solve the puzzle/path.

Specs
I noticed in the specs it uses the PlaystationEye. I don't know what the specs are for the Eye, or if there are any significant differences between this and a standard webcam. Other than the matrix barcode which may be under a Sony patent, it looks like it could work on any platform.

It has significant potential but would need several elements of challenge added to be published, just to insure profitd from the manufacturing cost of the cubes. (Paper cutouts are ok for demo play, but you'd want something more durable to play)

If this where released as a PS3 native app, I could see it released as Echochrome II.
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1.11 Spydiggity | 512 days 11 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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superaktieboy - 512 days 9 hours ago
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i agree that its a cool concept and very innovative, but as some said before, i don't see the fun in it..

EDIT
for those interested, its an opensource game which is currently only available for GNU/Linux and will run 100% on Debian Etch and Ubuntu 7.10 but should run on all other version. You have to download the source and compile it (make and make install from terminal)

http://julianoliver.com/lev...
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joe382 - 512 days 9 hours ago
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1.13 - Mart
What you just said isn't a question.
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INDIGO_CYCLOPS - 512 days 2 hours ago
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I agree that the video got boring. The game has no merit in terms of a game but is definitely an amazing piece of video installation art. Go to the guy's website. He even says it himself that it's an installation.

This game would not be practical on any console, especially the XBLA. If you read about this game you'd know that you need all sorts of things that only a physical release could provide...Great idea though and hope to see more from this guy...
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penguinhunter - 512 days 21 hours ago
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As soon as i saw it, I had to share...

It would make a great DLC on Xbox Live
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games4fun - 512 days 20 hours ago
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3 - Not to be the bearer of annoying points
but isnt this a duplicate story i remember something like this being posted over a year ago about this.

Edit: @disagrees your soo right how dare i remember things from a year ago that is soooo last year, i now realize the error of my ways and will no longer post facts that are a year old
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DarkArcani - 512 days 20 hours ago
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3.1 - Don't worry
I remember this too
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games4fun - 512 days 19 hours ago
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3.2 - @DarkArcani
thank you for having a brain that can remember things as well i was starting to think i was the only one ;) +bubbles
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Twizlex - 512 days 14 hours ago
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It was also reported 2 weeks ago:
http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-...
in addition to being reported almost a year ago:
http://www.n4g.com/News-745...
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MonkeyMan - 512 days 2 hours ago
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@Twizlex and games4fun

This video is only 23 days old so that point about the story from a year ago is irrelevant and the story from about 2 weeks ago is still a different video then this one so it is still a new story.
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Gambit07 - 512 days 20 hours ago
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Looks like a PS eye game.
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Old Snake - 512 days 20 hours ago
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Word. Looks crazy
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The Lazy One - 512 days 19 hours ago
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5 - The only problem I can see...
The guy walks REALLY slow.

I like the clean graphics and lighting though.
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RoyBoys - 512 days 19 hours ago
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6 - XBL????
The guy uses a PSEye not a Xbox thing. I am sure the guy would go to PS3 if any console.
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Lumbo - 512 days 17 hours ago
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Debian Linux + PSeye cam ...
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mfwahwah - 512 days 17 hours ago
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There was no difficulty whatsoever. It's innovative and all, but it has no practical application in the gaming world if that's as fun as it gets.
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Skerj - 512 days 16 hours ago
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I'm glad he's still making it, it was posted on the Sony blog last year. I'm hoping they pick him up for the PSEye development.
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themyk - 512 days 15 hours ago
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i don't get it.

how could this be a downloadable game?

innovative, yes.
super boring, yes.
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 512 days 14 hours ago
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12 - um...
That's great!

XBL???

Are you guys stoned? The 360's Live cam only does 2D imaging.

The Eye does 3D though.
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The Lazy One - 512 days 13 hours ago
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12.1 - It doesn't need 3d
The faces of the cube have different markings on them. The camera can interpret them in 2d as 3d because it has reference points in space. All it needs is the 4 corners and the plane is defined, then a few markings to show what side it is.

You could do that with any webcam and some programming.
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Ring of Death - 512 days 12 hours ago
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13 - not fun
the eye of judgement is better
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thereapersson - 512 days 12 hours ago
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14 - I would imagine this would be better suited for the PSN
Hell, the eyetoy is a lot more versatile out of the box. It would only make sense seeing as how Sony has had many creative games utilizing their camera technology.
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persiandud - 512 days 11 hours ago
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15 - this is
insane
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Blink_44 - 512 days 6 hours ago
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Looks dumb.
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ElementX - 512 days 3 hours ago
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Looks cool, but the PC running it has 4GB of RAM. Not sure how much this game needs, however it's stated in the spec diagram.
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DC-352 - 512 days 2 hours ago
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yea....no. that looks like it would be entertaining for about 9 seconds.

a rubics cube holds more replay value then that crap.
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Bunnyslippers - 512 days ago
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20 - Nothing really new
I already have seen similar tech demo's. Eye of Judgement uses the same principles. I even saw some militairy stuff doing the same thing.

I think Sony is already experimenting with the same kind of gameplay mechanics. Sony has big internal development studios. I already saw some interesting stuff Sony did with the PSeye.

I don't think Microsoft is ambitious enough to experiment with the Live Vision.
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KoRn_Dowwg666 - 512 days ago
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This is cool, then again what's the point of this game other than to make a man walk...? It's certainly innovative, then again this would be an even better game if Neversoft picked it up and developed it in their Tony Hawk's series. That would be cool.
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Wardog1368 - 511 days 22 hours ago
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Cool but where is the game play drive?
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Sitdown - 506 days 5 hours ago
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23 - Ummm...how is this innovative?
I believe these have been out for a while...

http://www.radicagames.com/...
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