king talk

The freeware »Mightier« is an independent puzzle action game developed by Lucas Pope and Keiko Ishizaka and was one of the finalists of this years 11th Independet Games Festival (San Francisco/CA). Play as the »Engineer« and the »Actionaut« to solve puzzles and collect items in each sector. First you have to print so called »puzzle« from within Mightier using a color printer. You have to solve the puzzle by drawing on the page with a dark pencil or marker. Scan the puzzle into the game using an attached web camera. A high-powered space laser carves the solution and the Actionaut is dropped onto the surface, which you have drawn before. Now it´s up to you. Take control of the Actionaut and collect all the »Datagons« in each sector. I think it´s quite fun to play otherwise the detour of the drawing via the web cam is quite tricky.

The way of converting the 2D images into 3D models reminds me of the »Teddy project« (1999) by Takeo Igarashi, a sketching interface for 3D freeform design. You can draw and configure your 2D sketch in space. If you test it online, you will notice that the interaction is very clumsy. The 3D library of Teddy is Open Source.

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