September 14, 2005 04:40 PM
I was really intrigued by Amit’s idea to create a series of small games with custom controllers. The idea is that you could buy a base mouse-like USB and then add on a custom controller attachment. The mouse could recognize which controller was plugged in and launch the corresponding game.
This would actually be pretty easy to hack together. You could get a mouse with a Compact Flash or Memory Stick input to use as the base. You could move the media slot to a more convenient location (the top?) and put some Molex connectors or something on it to connect the buttons on the controller to the inputs for buttons and scroll wheel. The controller would plug right into all that stuff and would contain a media card with the game data on it.
All that would be left to do would be to have a generic app that would look for the game data on the controller’s card and load the game.
Anyone is free to use this idea and market it, as long as I can have one of your millions when you get rich off of it. Thanks.
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Build your own arcade machine.
Some cool interactive projects
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A good book on game design.
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