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I created a one-dimensional experimental hardware dungeon crawler game and a museum built this beautiful setup for it! (i.redd.it)

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[–]Robin_B[S] 470ポイント471ポイント  (67子コメント)

The game is called Line Wobbler, and it runs on an Arduino, a 5 meter long LED strip and a self-made spring joystick I invented! The game itself is fairly simple, you control a green pixel, and you want to reach the other end of the strip, fighting 1D enemies and avoiding 1D lava on the way. There's 10 levels and a boss fight at the end. Here's a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgtPKT1Q70

I've shown it at a few exhibitions and museums now, most recently at the Tokyo Game Show, where it won 4 awards, amongst them Best Game Design :D

The setup in the photo is from a museum in Perth, Scotland. It's by far the most beautiful setup I've seen of it - normally I just tape the LED strip to a wall. Here's some more photos: http://imgur.com/4Hna2iR http://imgur.com/lV0aSzI http://imgur.com/d3btd0G http://imgur.com/NtGpD4N

[–]IdBetterNotAsk 113ポイント114ポイント  (8子コメント)

Where you from, mate?

Ze cat plays ze wobbler

Sounds like an introduction to a sophisticated musical society

[–]SabreSeb 29ポイント30ポイント  (4子コメント)

"Robin Baumgarten" sounds very German to me.

[–]Robin_B[S] 40ポイント41ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yep! In the excitement of the interview some of my dialect must have come through...

[–]SabreSeb 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

Tbh I didn't even notice it at first, only after I read that comment. Your English is really, really good.

[–]Robin_B[S] 22ポイント23ポイント  (1子コメント)

Thanks! I've lived in the UK for 10 years, so that helped.

[–]Ser_Rodrick_Cassel 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

australian german

[–]just_redditing 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Like a German beatnik.

[–]Living-by-Choice 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Talked to a man from India, that had spent years in UK then Australia , over a shitty connection on ps3 .

Could not understand a word the first half hour

[–]ARasool 51ポイント52ポイント  (5子コメント)

Neat

[–]Honesty_Addict 44ポイント45ポイント  (9子コメント)

I'm sitting here in Stirling, Scotland thinking "Man, I never get to play these things", then suddenly:

The setup in the photo is from a museum in Perth, Scotland.

I'm going tomorrow. What museum is it?

[–]Robin_B[S] 35ポイント36ポイント  (8子コメント)

Sadly it ended already :(

It was the Perth Museum and Art Gallery

[–]Honesty_Addict 57ポイント58ポイント  (6子コメント)

Nooooooooooooooo

[–]trippy_grape 38ポイント39ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've never felt so bad for another stranger on the internet.... poor guy. :(

[–]WretchedLocket 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

ah damn!

[–]NeonRampage 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

That was awful to read. You were so filled with a hurried joy to play, I genuinely got excited for you. Then to see it snatched away.

[–]OllieGarkey 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm so sorry, Honesty_Addict.

[–]hairyotter 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Man, you never get to play these things

[–]sudstah 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

[–]TheUmpteenth 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I played it there. It was the best thing there, second was the high noon duel thing.

[–]the-d0c-is-in 7ポイント8ポイント  (5子コメント)

Is the code open? More details on the joystick?

[–]Robin_B[S] 18ポイント19ポイント  (4子コメント)

The code isn't open at the moment, as I have a few commercial plans with the game (none of them very fleshed out yet though). I might make a kit version at some point.

The joystick is a spring with a simple accelerometer (mpu6050) on top of it. A smoothing algorithm combines the accelerometer and gyro data to return the angle and direction of the spring. The spring is custom manufactured now, but I used door stopper springs for a while.

[–]moeburn 6ポイント7ポイント  (3子コメント)

The joystick is a spring with a simple accelerometer (mpu6050) on top of it.

Well now that's a novel way of making a joystick, instead of potentiometers or optical sensors measuring the joystick's exact physical position, you just slap an accelerometer on there, that's really cool.

[–]Itsapocalypse 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Is this patented?

[–]gramathy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

only works if it's fixed to a stationary object, which is great in this case but bad for general use.

[–]Stabfist_Frankenkill 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Which museum, and do you know how long it's going to be on display there? I'm going through Perth in a few months and would love to check this out while I'm there.

[–]Robin_B[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Ah, unfortunately the exhibition in Perth ended already... If you're in London you might be able to play it in the Loading Bar soon, though!

[–]Stabfist_Frankenkill 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Nope, California, but thanks for the response. Any plans to send it out here, or maybe make a digital version?

[–]annenoise 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm also in California and was hoping it might be able to stop by the Exploratorium or the California Museum of Science.

[–]Exit42 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I too would go to one of these places to play this game.

[–]alumentum 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

oh that looks niiiiceeee! would play

[–]Tommmmygun 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That is such a cool idea! In wich museum is it displayed?

[–]naranjaspencer 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

How did you learn to do all this? Why did you make it?

[–]pongfonge 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I got to play the line wobbler when it was in Lexington KY for Run Jump Dev, Rules and Play exhibit, it was really awesome. The haptic feedback to the joystick and sounds are perfect, when I heard about it I was skeptical that a 1-d game could be anything but a curious abstraction, but playing it felt great and completely intuitive.

[–]kezza596 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Played this at EGX in UK last year, I think I recall completing it! I was sad it wasn't back this year, I loved it. Hope you show it again next time.

[–]lightknight7777 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That is shockingly creative. Wow.

[–]Ser_Rodrick_Cassel 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

get a video of a cat playing it

[–]Alililele 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Geile Idee. So simpel aber dennoch genial!

[–]quatroquesodosfritos 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This needs to come to the EMP Museum in Seattle! They have an entire exhibit on indie games.

[–]skinnyjeantwat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I saw this with my girlfiend in Perth a few weeks back!

[–]boanerges57 2ポイント3ポイント  (14子コメント)

I feel like o should get all mathy about this but I'll let it go since this seems more artsy (especially for Perth) than scientific or mathematical. It looks nice (especially for perth) just don't let them move it down the road to scumdee or someone will steal it to buy some kind of illicit substance

[–]OnixHF 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oi, we have a new fancy artsy engineering museum opening soon actually. Maybe it could be moved to the V&A in Scumdee when it's finished in the early 2050's.

[–]gimpyjosh 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

I don't get it. What is 1D? Does the line and enemies only move on one axis?

[–]kshucker 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yes. If the concept of this game expanded and the creator included more LED strips laid down next to one another and you could move your "character" from one strip to another while also moving up and down each individual LED strip, then it would be 2D.

[–]ZippyDan 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

How do you fight and make meaningful decisions in 1D?

[–]goodguys9 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This makes waaaaaaaay more sense. I was trying to figure out how he reasoned that the game only exists in one dimension of space. XD

[–]DeeDoubs 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The easier way to think of it is that you only control one aspect of the player's position, that being distance from the beginning of the line.

[–]Weremoo 30ポイント31ポイント  (3子コメント)

Oh man, were you showing that at Rezzed 1 or 2 years ago? I seem to remember something very much like it in the Leftfield Collection, and it was utterly fantastic! Me and my friend spent ages playing with it!

[–]Robin_B[S] 33ポイント34ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yes I was, it was one of the first times I've shown the game back then! Here's a photo from Rezzed: http://imgur.com/hJ4sMUK

Significantly less spectacular setup there :D

[–]Weremoo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup, that was the one! It was great fun - fantastic game dude! :D

[–]Esqulax 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was there too! I did terribly.
Really fun though :)

[–]Froz1984 26ポイント27ポイント  (2子コメント)

How do you avoid the lava? What I get from the video is that it is always coming to you... You can't avoid death! (suppose you need something so no-one stays all day playing haha)

[–]Fluidity_Ninja 14ポイント15ポイント  (1子コメント)

It seems to disappear for a sec and you have you to zip past before it reappears

[–]Robin_B[S] 17ポイント18ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's right, it's a timing challenge! It's got three states: off, warning sizzle, and deadly

[–]Edmund_McMillen 68ポイント69ポイント  (10子コメント)

I don't know, the game seems kinda one-dimensional to me...

[–]ram-ok 53ポイント54ポイント  (8子コメント)

Very linear gameplay...

[–]speederaser 28ポイント29ポイント  (6子コメント)

There's not even any side quests.

[–]PM_ME_SHIMPAN 18ポイント19ポイント  (5子コメント)

The characters seemed rather flat.

[–]ponytoaster 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

Graphics were pixilated too

Edit: Pixelated even.... /Derp

[–]BillNyeTheRussianGuy 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

The Overall idea of the game is fairly straightforward.

[–]PhiliDips 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

No other angles of approach.

[–]Artvandelay1 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Pixel boob still does the trick though.

[–]just_redditing 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's an overstatement!

[–]evanfury 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

The mechanics are a bit shaky....

[–]WretchedLocket 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Just wait for the DLC

[–]Tjonteh 14ポイント15ポイント  (2子コメント)

Have had this game mentioned on several game design lectures at Uppsala university. Great stuff man!

[–]Robin_B[S] 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

Haha, really? That's cool. Who was the lecturer?

[–]Tjonteh 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Marcus Ingvarsson. We have a course called "Theme park" where we create games using a more unique input. Before the course he talked about several different examples of games with unique inputs and yours was one of them. =)

[–]mcclivo 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Congratulations and the installation looks awesome to boot!

[–]gamepopper 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ah so you were the guy who made the LED line game that was at the Leftfield Collection last year?

[–]Robin_B[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes! It's been at most major game shows. I love travelling, so that worked out well!

[–]AthiestCowboy 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Where can I buy one? Would love to have this at my house for parties. Would be cool to see some integration with music/spotify as well.

[–]TheNewElite250 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

That is an absolutely gorgeous display for it. It's been a long time since I've seen something genuinely interesting on r/gaming.

[–]daisydade 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think I played an installation of this at the NOW Gallery in Greenwich Peninsula, South London.

I stumbled in and played it for a while, becoming equal parts frustrated and addicted. Once I was done, I stood around and explained the mechanics as best I could for other interested players.

Definitely worth a cross-post to r/Art for both the installation design and mechanics of the game.

[–]Redjack 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Took the kids to the digiPlaySpace at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto and there were 3 hardness levels setup if I remember correctly. Really cool idea but man does it get hard! This installation is much more impressive for sure :)

[–]TheRhodan 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I played this at AMAZE Berlin 2015!

Awesome to see it again :)

[–]AllesHeuchlerHier 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's the coolest/strangest thing I have seen here all month.

[–]HubblePie 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen...

By the way, if you wobble the door stop to fight enemies, how do you get past the lava?

[–]Isogash 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think I had a go but I definitely remember seeing this in London around July 4th. It looked pretty cool!

[–]6ex_God 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was at the museum of moving image in New York and i got to try this out. it was a lot of fun, great job!

[–]Fieldofcows 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Played this with the kids at the exhibit at Perth Museum. Intuitive and fun. And I couldn't prise them away for 10 minutes, even with a wall of N64s and Megadrives on the opposite wall. Great work!

[–]domin8r 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Played this in Perth this summer. Had a blast with it! Kids were looking at me funny for playing it so long. Great idea and build!

[–]sivyr 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I love your work! This game is a blast!

I played it at Indiecade East a while back and I'm fairly sure I spotted it at the Hand Eye Society ball on Saturday here in Toronto and was happy to see a group of people gaping at it. It's really something unique.

From one dev to another, my hat's off. Cool stuff!

[–]Soylent_Hero 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I DONT WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM YOUR INVENTION:

But it needs to be said you built this beautiful badass installation, and nobody seems to have supplied you with a gosh darned cable conduit to hide the cord on the floor! >_<

They even sell them to match! http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/andy905/ASH%20Products/conduit_kit_red-1.jpg

[–]CAKE_EATER251 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

If it's one dimensional why can I can see it represented in space?

[–]Robin_B[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Same reason you can see 2D games represented in space!

[–]sweeny5000 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

"one-dimensional experimental hardware dungeon crawler game"
I don't understand what that means.

[–]qdizztq 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I dunno, man. The gameplay and story look kinda linear.

[–]mr_d0gMa 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know what this is but it's beautiful

[–]dr_smanggalang 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

How can i set this up all around my house?

[–]DSonla 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Coming to Paris one day?

[–]Robin_B[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Possibly! It might make an undercover appearance near IndieCade Europe, mid November.

[–]hatredalper 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is this the same game in Amaze Berlin 2015 ? I played that game and its amazingly fun. Wish you can distribute so everybody can play. Nice red cover by the way.

[–]Nomaki 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Congratulations, looks a great setup!

I played it both at EGX and Norwich Gaming Festival, both times I found it great and managed to get a load of friends to enjoy it as well!

[–]flarn2006 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyone else see the thumbnail and think it was one of those portals from Zelda: A Link Between Worlds?

[–]videovillain 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I saw this at TGS! It was pretty awesome!!

[–]pickle-in-a-cup 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Very clever. Great game design can be simple!

[–]winstondabee 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Really beautiful piece, man. The dying effect is really awesome.

[–]BadassBanana123 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Did you take this game to Norwich once? I'm pretty sure i've seen this before.

[–]Robin_B[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes! It was in the Forum there, running up a glass wall.

[–]Superdan645 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's really freaking cool.

[–]Zeac24 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I played this in Edinburgh at the Tech Hub during fringe. It was more fun than the VR stuff ! Really surprising !

[–]clinsciguy[🍰] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

OH EM GEE! I played this game at EGX. Super fun!

[–]Johnny_Sasaki 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Was this up at this years Gamescom in Cologne? Because if so, I played it while waiting for my turn of Giant Cop and boy was I surprised how fun it was for being, you know, 1 dimensional and all.

[–]NickAtAccuPS 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Playing this was one of the stand out memories of GDC this year, kudos on the clever design.

[–]Jackwolf1286 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I recognise this! I played something like it at an event in Sheffield, near the Showroom Cinema. Is it the same one?

Very inventive and fun game by the way!

[–]davvok 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, i saw this (or something like this) at Respawn this year!

[–]pineapplesRus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, I remember playing this at Indiecade last time it was here at the Museum of Moving Image! It was hard, or maybe I just suck. There were a ton of other interesting games there too, like the telephone booth game where you're an operator, and the tank game where you control the tank using wheels on both sides of the "controller." Fascinating, but difficult stuff.

[–]j_strange88 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You guys ever wonder why your lives aren't cool? I do. Most times when I get on Reddit.

[–]Triptolemu5 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

one dimensional dungeon crawler

So how did you institute the 'you must bring me 10 rat pelts' and 'I have some mail for you to drop off' quests?

[–]banaslee 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cool. I played it in Berlin but the setup was not as cool!!

Awesome stuff :D

[–]everypostepic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You can't experience true 1D until you make the real world 1D.

[–]UpsetMuffins 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So a toned done physical version of flappy bird?

[–]supafly208 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

What are the side quests like? Endgame content?

[–]NoobyRuby 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Saw something quite similar in a museum in Nuremburg about a year ago

[–]BongerB 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I played this at a Children's museum I took my daughter to in Lexington KY of all places.

[–]Elubious 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cool concept. I wonder how far it could be taken.

[–]thelegendarymudkip 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I went there during the exhibition, it was pretty cool.

[–]Back1nYesterdays 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It makes much more sense after you watch the video!

[–]-seaniccus- 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think I saw this at GDC's alternative controller exhibit a few years back! Super creative and cool! Glad you got an awesome display for it

[–]LordFrowngrin 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I played this in Somerset House in London. Was very addictive and I became quite good at it.

Very well designed and lots of fun.

[–]DeeDoubs 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

While the physical side of it is probably what makes it most interesting, it seems like you'd be able to get the gameplay itself handled with nothing more than a typical computer and a USB wobble controller. Is that where you are planning on going with this or are you wanting to mostly stick with arcade type venues and selling full kits?

[–]esotericsean -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is there sound effects? Tell me it has sound effects.