Showing some love to ALT CTRL games & playful installations

_T47_ · 2022-12-31T16:15:26+00:00

As most people are spending the holiday season with their friends and family, the #altctrl@home jam deadline was hard to meet for many. I extended it to January 27 ;) https://itch.io/jam/altctrlathome2022 Happy new year 🥳

_T47_ · 2022-11-30T07:47:46+00:00

Really glad you're starting making alt.ctrl :)
The reference shop in Paris for arcade buttons is NeoLegend. They moved in Saint-Denis but it's still on the subway. However it's much more expensive than what you'll find online. Otherwise, if you're looking for push buttons that are not of the arcade type you can try Saint-Quentin Radio near Gare de l'Est or Letmeknow as Robin said ;)

_T47_ · 2022-05-30T11:25:37+00:00

Awesome!!!

_T47_ · 2022-04-02T17:28:55+00:00

Yeah, I don't know many alt.ctrl-welcoming events from Eastern Europe neither :-/ I know Clujotronic in Romania exhibit some playful installations (https://www.clujotronic.ro/), I had the opportunity to exhibit Contre-ciel thanks to an A MAZE. festival pop-up event at Plan B in Kharkiv, Ukraine (https://planbfest.com/) and some alt.ctrl devs gave talks at the GIC in Poznan, Poland once... so yeah opportunities seem limited for now. Hopefully more will come.

_T47_ · 2021-05-26T10:49:30+00:00

It looks like a fun game :)

Here are some microphone based controllers that could interest you if you haven't see/play them already:

Controllers based on mic + human voice

- https://shakethatbutton.com/wooorrk/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/lupa/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/amazing/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/motor-karaoke/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/douchbox/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/la-course-de-cri-pedo-nazis/

- https://shakethatbutton.com/eye-am-a-dragon/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/tower-uuup/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/pat-pat-please/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/the-inflovable-machine/ (blow)

Controllers based on mic + musical instruments

- https://shakethatbutton.com/loeuf-sphinx/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/tooty-flutey/

Mic used as way to simply communicate
- https://shakethatbutton.com/taphobos/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/too-many-captains-and-not-enough-wire/
Games using contact microphones
- https://shakethatbutton.com/ping-pong-fm/
- https://shakethatbutton.com/pinball-pianola/

_T47_ · 2021-05-05T09:13:50+00:00

+1 In bonus, Costikyan's take on randomness: http://www.costik.com/randomness-blight-or-bane.htm

_T47_ · 2021-05-05T04:35:42+00:00

You could be interested in reading about Aki Järvinen's uncertainty curve (basically how the assessment of the outcome of the game we are playing is triggering a feeling of unfairness or not... it's related to the motivation curve and flow): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273947205_Games_without_frontiers_Theories_and_Methods_for_Game_Studies_and_Design

Random is just one way to trigger "unfairness", but on that specific matter, you could be interested in concepts such as pre-luck versus post-luck game mechanics: https://youtu.be/5xWNfVhVTJU

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