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Hamsters in a game!

April 20th 2006 08:12
Forget frisbees, laser pointers and exercise wheels – pets will soon be able to battle it out against their owners in a computer game. “Mice Arena”, by the Emerging Art and Architecture Research Group (RASTER), Singapore, and the Mixed Reality Lab of Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, will use infra-red sensors to track the movements of a hamster as it chases a piece of bait.

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Mouse running across sensors




The bait will be controlled by the in-game actions of a human evading a hungry monster rodent. A working prototype of the game is scheduled to be released in November this year.

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Inside the "Mouse Arena



“Mice Arena” will be one of three games to be created for the ambitious Metazoa Ludens Project. “Chicken Petman”, another game in the series, will involve a chicken chasing a bait in a maze, while “Jellyfishtrone” will translate the motion of a jellyfish into a game very similar to the classic Snake game.



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Comment by Andres

April 20th 2006 11:03
That's scary....so what happens in the game when the mice cathes you? it rips your head away......ughhhh

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