Comments on: Keep your cool

Keep your cool

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:24:51 -0800

levelHead is a spacial memory game by artist Julian Oliver, using a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors through which you guide your character. Take a look at a demonstration or build your own levelHead setup.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:37:31 -0800

Ridiculously cool. Thanks for posting this... I wonder how long it will be before something like this is mass produced and marketed to the masses.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:39:01 -0800

Very cool, but it looks like a lot of work for the results.

By: heresiarch

heresiarch — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:50:00 -0800

I played this at the Homo Ludens Ludens show at Laboral where it's currently on exhibition and it's pretty fantastic. It's a bit of a mind fuck for some people who aren't quite expecting it to behave the way it does but it's a beautiful concept. The one issue (which is easily fixed in the open source version) is that the controls feel backwards. It may have changed since, but on the build I played the web-cam that's doing the computer vision flips your perspective on the cube you're holding. This makes the mappings between what's happening on the screen and what you tell your hands to do a bit wacky.

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:14:35 -0800

Oh, that is sweet. :) It should be easy to make it compatible with an angle-sensor equipped device, such as an iPhone or Nokia N95.

By: not sure this is a good idea

not sure this is a good idea — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:24:42 -0800

sweet. i tried downloading his anagram executables, but they seem to be 32bit.

By: not sure this is a good idea

not sure this is a good idea — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:28:06 -0800

oooh and here's the start of the idea.