Run! Run, fat boy, run!

August 20, 2015 7:55 PM

We created a live action first-person zombie shooter in our garden - then invited unsuspecting people on chatroulette, omegle and skype to take control. [Behind the Scenes] [via]
posted by Knappster (20 comments total)

This is amazing.
posted by figurant at 8:34 PM on August 20, 2015

This is something I wouldn't normally click on because 99 times out of 100 I hate stuff like this. This was the 1 out 100. Absolutely marvelous.
posted by ob1quixote at 8:55 PM on August 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

Genius! That opening sequence had me re-living the first time I played Bio Shock. It would have taken me a couple of weeks to get out of that locked room.
posted by helmutdog at 9:09 PM on August 20, 2015

So great. Well done.
posted by chococat at 9:14 PM on August 20, 2015

I'm so happy that this is a thing that happened.
posted by neuromodulator at 9:14 PM on August 20, 2015

I am very jealous of the chatrouletters that got to play this! Incredibly well done.
posted by meta87 at 9:30 PM on August 20, 2015

Imagine if this were commercialized. You could maybe trade "acting" time for "play" time. Obviously some complications....
posted by miyabo at 9:34 PM on August 20, 2015

So well done. And it's clear that they're all having a blast doing it.
posted by vverse23 at 10:17 PM on August 20, 2015

I was jealous at first too. But then I realized that part of my glee is watching people who aren't necessarily so steeped in FPS tropes freak out.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 10:18 PM on August 20, 2015 [3 favorites]

People are amazing. What a wonderful world we live in.

Alex, what are two phrases I thought chatroulette would never, ever inspire me to say?
posted by missmary6 at 10:41 PM on August 20, 2015 [8 favorites]

There's a lot of interesting questions and answers in the "via" Reddit thread, and also this one from /r/gaming.

"We did have one guy who just kept asking to "spin around"...and "spin around faster". That was his only input before disconnecting"

Personally I'm just glad they fared better than poor Falconhoof.
posted by teraflop at 11:21 PM on August 20, 2015 [4 favorites]

That was an utter delight. If this was a start-up, I'd invest. Seriously, photo-realistic graphics, an avatar who can talk to you in real time and enemies who are not just artificially intelligent but actually intelligent? I have seen the future of gaming, and it's a bunch of goofs running around in a backyard with plastic laser rifles!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 12:58 AM on August 21, 2015 [11 favorites]

I love the request to shoot the guy cleaning his car over to the right. "I don't think he knows what's going on!"
posted by teponaztli at 5:43 AM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Imagine if this were commercialized. You could maybe trade "acting" time for "play" time. Obviously some complications....

See: The Diamond Age.
posted by jeffamaphone at 12:10 PM on August 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Yes, I was thinking of the Diamond Age as well. Man, Stephenson, wrote some amazing novels.
posted by jadepearl at 1:41 PM on August 21, 2015

This made me really happy.
posted by cacofonie at 2:11 PM on August 21, 2015

This was fantastic, had me laughing out loud throughout.
posted by arcticseal at 3:32 PM on August 21, 2015

Omg, this is brilliant.
posted by dejah420 at 4:51 PM on August 21, 2015

Wow. The Internet has been won.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:20 AM on August 22, 2015

Finally got around to watching - wow, this is great.
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:16 PM on August 23, 2015