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13 October, 2001

Invaders!

Filed under: machine, live, rant — Douglas Edric Stanley @ 19:14 pm
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Invaders! Douglas Edric Stanley

Recently, I’ve built a flashlight-controlled Space Invaders in response to World Trade Crash of September 11th. The whole event had sort of taken over my life, I was equally fascinated and disgusted by the whole thing, as well as by the (lack of) response which will inevitably become an excuse to do whatever the f*** we’ve always wanted to to overbloated warpath.

So last week I emulated the original Space Invaders, and added the possibility of using a simple flashlight or car headlights to contol the movement of the lone defender. I’ve been experimenting projecting the game directly onto buildings such as the Marseille World Trade Center, where any common citizen can come and defend the world against alien invaders from the sky. I use a car cigarette adapter and laptop batteries to keep everything working, and very mobile.

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  3. […] Note: I was lucky enough to take this quick snapshot of Invaders! as it passed by on the regional television, followed by the lovely Rosina Gómez-Baeza Tinturé. […]

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  4. […] Note: I was lucky enough to take this quick snapshot of Invaders! as it passed by on the regional television, followed by the lovely Rosina Gómez-Baeza Tinturé. […]

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  5. […] Experimental: Flow (Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago); We Love Katamari (Keita Takahashi - Namco); Braid (Jonathan Blow et al - Number None); Border Games (El Fiambrera Obrera); Arcade Wire (Ian Bogost, Gonzalo Frasca); Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Danny Ledone); 2nd Person Shooter (2 player version) (Julian Oliver); Darkgame (Eddo Stern); Once More With Feeling (Ken Perlin - NYU MRL); Facade (Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern); Invaders! (Douglas Edric Stanley); axbx (Brent Gustafson); TFT Tennis (Dirk Eijbouts); Pongmechanik (Niklas Roy); AR Tennis (Hitlab New Zealand); Furminator (Fur Collaboriative); Movie Sandbox - Animachine (Friedrich Kirschner); Domestic (Mary Flanagan); Endless Forest (Tale of Tales) […]

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