Man Tetris

[...] It’s going to be a great expierience to be in a room of full of people who are great in this game! via Eric

See also: WebGL Tetris by Philliph

Diablo Tetris

See also:

• How Diablo destroyed Tristram by Dorkly

Tetravalanche: Tetris Platforming

Via GameSetWatch.

First Person Tetris

Who comes up with the multiplayer version the fastest? Profit??:D

Motivation:

[...] We experience such pressure in casual games like Tetris

[...] For example the particular actions within a scene might have climbing tension: will I be quick enough to placethis falling block into that slot?

Update: A story.

Update: The music.

Tetris meets Mario

Mixing game concepts is just awesome!

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Via technabob

Success Traits

[...] A positive mind finds a way it can be done… a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

[...] Repeated success is about being able to take information and create, build, or apply it in new and important ways. Successful people want to learn everything about everything!

• Love what you do 

  [...] loving what you do is less about what you’re doing and more about how you look at the world.
  

• Work really hard
• Focus on one thing, not everything
• Keep pushing yourself
• Come up with good ideas
• Keep improving yourself in what you do
• Server others something of value
• Persist, because there is no over-night success

[...] Successful people create stuff!

[...] When time is gone – it’s gone forever

See also:

• Character traits of extraordinary entrepreneurs by Melanie
• If not now, when?
• Top traits of highly successful people by Philip
• Work simply and with focus
• Be indispensable by building relationships and trust
• The products you buy by Seth
• Find what you love by Joshua
• The tetris effect by Marelisa
• Qualities of the winner by Andika
• Do hard things by Scott

[...] don’t waste time, use it!

Animated QR Code and Fez Sky Island

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Could QR Code embed animation within it’s limit of 2,953 bytes?

The current version of Barcode Scanner for Android scanner does not work with the data URI.

See also: Everything a Marketer Should Known About QR Codes by Drew

QR-Code bots

While searching for the answer I did find an awesome QR-Code bots visualization.

Sky Island

As we already are into blocks I here is a game which applies some cool affine transforms on its isometric world.

In the game the player can rotate the world in 3D just like in Fez.  On my Samsung Galaxy S the game is somewhat slow tho.

1. When will this game concept be ported to WebGL or Molehill?
2. Will an affine transform tetris emerge?
3. With affine transforms could Minecraft be transformed into a Minecraft 2D – a digging game like Gem Miner for Android?
   
4. When will Fez run on Android?
   

More animated gifs

PS. For a while I have been downloading such cool animations via Google Reader. Yet it took me a while to find the real source feeds for them.

See also:

• http://www.youtube.com/v/yDbZnLBzUEs?
• Why 2D is King bi Michael
• QR codes and your business by Tobin
• WIFI QR code generator
• Giant QR code on a roof
• QArt Codes by Russ
• QRussion Roulette
• JavaScript QR Scanner by Lazar

Face Input

Have you seen those single input games? One where you just have to press space to jump? One where you have to press space to gain height for your air plane? Where you change the orientation of your phone to see the beer glass being depleted?

What about face input? You can either blink or move your head. You can even ask your girlfriend for a split screen game.

The future input events:

• this.onkeypress
• this.onclick
• this.ontouch
• this.onvoice
• this.onface
• this.oncameratilt
• this.onacceleration
• this.onorientation
• this.onhoverhands
• this.oneye
• this.oneyesclosed
• this.onmusic
• this.onmind
• this.ondevicesensor
• this.ongps
• this.onmagnet
• this.onnfc

See: http://mrdoob.com/lab/actionscript/webcam/face_driven_3d/ (see also the article)

How many web cameras does your multitouch multiscreen application consume?

Update: See Face Tracking Tetris with Kinect

See also: Emergency and Disaster Service mentioned by Nathan

The Technium referenced some thin interesting named Readers of The Screen:

See also:

• An earlier discovery
• Do-It yourself eye tracker by Michal
• Real-time hand tracking by Andrej
• About Face-TLD: Tracking-Learning-Detection Applied to Faces by Z. Kalal
• Activity zones for touchscreen tablets and phones by Dan
• Real Time Head Pose Tracking from Multiple Cameras with a Generic Model
• Eye tracking laptop by Martin
• Eyetrax by Martin
• faceAPI
• How Shazam Works by Bryan
• Creating Shazam in Java by Roy
• Robust Landmark-Based Audio Fingerprinting by Dan
• Playing with Shazam fingerprints by Paul
• Facial Recognition for Android
• Robot arm with voice control
• Nonverbal Communication by Jeanne 
• ActionScript face detection by Devaraj
• Building a future friendly web by Brad
• Object tracking in Java by Ganesh
• Semantic Revolution by Yuriy
• Control them before they control us
• Which face do you trust? by Alexander
• JavaScript face detection explained by liuliu
• Using microphone peak as input by Mathieu
• What Shazam doesn’t want you to know by Roy van Rijn
• Speech controlled character in Flash by Mark
• Detect features on images such as faces or mouths in JavaScript
• Viola-Jones object detection by Eugene
• Flash EyeToy by Brandel
• SoundWave
• EyeControl for Mobile Devices by Martin
• SuperSync sports
• Time Traveling To The Future Of User Interfaces

Touch

CLI (Command Line Interface) = (Think textual, such as the command prompt or DOS)
GUI (Graphical User Interface) = (The Windows UI)
NUI (Natural User Interface) = (Think of physical interaction with a GUI)
OUI (Organic User Interface) = (Spend some time researching here)

TouchTETRIS

This 4 player game has some serious potential.

The last time I decided to highlight multitouch technology was when I mentioned the finger tools concept by Matt. And there is a Touch Notation abstract over here.

Today I found a DSL project “TouchToolkit“.

name: DoubleTap

validate
 Touch state: TouchUp
 Touch limit: 1
 Touch step: 2 touches within 1 sec
 Touch area: Rect 50x50 including last 1 touch within 1 sec

return
 Touch points

The question is do we really want to express touch gestures from a text file. What if we would want to record touch simulation and give it a name.

In the following image we have a file “Default.g” which is the container for recorded gestures.

With JSC the developer would be able to apply this recorded gesture on all platforms supported by jsc. More details on that soon enough.

If you are looking for multitouch hardware see this list.

See also: Dell Latitude XT multitouch drivers.

How will we define the gestures for our multitouch devices in the near future?

Here are some icons to describe various states of the touch points:

Here are some interesting scenarious;

See also:

• Open Source Gestures
• Touch Gesture Reference Card by Luke (pdf)
• See this paper by Florian Weil! And a presentation.
• DHTMLX library already has some support for touch!
• Defining a Gesture Ontology for Games
• Do we need touch events?
• Android  Screen Interactions
• Kreativ Stop Motion (there is some lego tetris at thi end)
• sensory interfaces by interface ecology lab
• Gesture library teaser
• Asus transformer prime with 10 finger support
• Windows 8 Touch Events by Charles