Categories: Technology

Hacker Puts A Physical Touch On The Gaming Classic Breakout

With XBox Kinect and Nintendo Wii developers tried to bring a more physical element into gaming. I do not know if it is accurate to say that it was successful or not. Neither of those options feel as if they correctly depict how these devices have performed as far as sales go. They certainly managed to make gaming more physical but more can be done. Designer and artist Jorge Nuno Coutinho might have succeeded with his physical take of the old classic Breakout.

I personally love gaming, and every spare minute I get (which isn’t much these days) I try to play a few of the current popular games. Adding a physical element to the Breakout game is what I would call genius. The game, which features a bouncing ball and a brick which you bounce it on, is ultimately known for being super easy to understand yet enormously addicting. I can definitely vouch for that as a friend of mine and I used to play this particular game after school to see who was better at it.

This was of course back in the ’80s.  However, today a little bit more “immersion” is necessary to catch the gamers of today’s attention. Jorge’s hack is actually an art installation called “Revenge Of Revenge Of Doh” (RoRoD for short) and was setup at the 9th edition of the Black & White film festival, and as you can see from the video demonstration the new incarnated Breakout game was heavily appealing to people.

So what does it do? Well, you are playing against the computer, and you are playing simultaneously. While the computer uses the old retro way of trying to break bricks, you have to break them with a set of balls, which you throw on the wall that the Breakout game is projected on. The one who breaks the most bricks and after all bricks are gone wins. Hacks like this remind me of how much I love old school games! They were a whole lot easier to understand, and you could play them on a 5 minute break without being horribly late getting back to whatever you were doing. More retro games should be reincarnated like Breakout. All I am saying is retro FTW!

Jorge Nuno Coutinho’s Physical Take On The Game Breakout

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Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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