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Title: (Pac) Man Versus the Crickets
Post by: aldo_14 on July 14, 2006, 05:14:03 am

http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060707_pacman_insects.html


   
Animal Controlled Computer Games, a graduation project by Wim van Eck, is a Pac-Man-style game in which humans can play against real insects. The project has been written up in a short paper submitted to the 2006 International Conference on Entertainment. His project parallels part of the plot of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel by Orson Scott Card.

Title: Re: (Pac) Man Versus the Crickets
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 14, 2006, 05:30:13 am

Very very cool. It makes you think. Also didi anyone read in yesterdays metro about the guy who can move limbs with a microschip embedded on the surface of his brain?

for the record go to www.jamesdobbs.com to play pacman or simon.

(site is unrelated to me in all ways- just freakish coincidence that the guy has the same name and lives inlondon)

Title: Re: (Pac) Man Versus the Crickets
Post by: IPAndrews on July 14, 2006, 06:19:35 am

So when you eat a power pill, you're making real insects flee for their life in real terror. Borderline sick.

Title: Re: (Pac) Man Versus the Crickets
Post by: Fury on July 14, 2006, 06:27:49 am

If people use small mammals such as mice and chimpansees(sp?) for scientific tests, I doubt they care how insects feel.