Room Racers by student Lieven van Velthoven wins Dutch Game Award 2011
Within one month after winning a prestigious Cinekid Award, Media Technology student Lieven van Velthoven won the Dutch Game Award 2011 for Best Student Game with his augmented reality game Room Racers. His game was also jury-nominated in the category Best Original Game Design.
Mixed Reality Gaming
Room Racers lets you create your own race game tracks by simply placing real stuff on the floor! Race with up to 4 virtual cars around anything you can find in your home. Object detection is completely real-time (so you can change the track during play), checkpoints can be placed to define the route, players can drop in or out of the game at any time, there is even a combat game mode… The system was built around a PC, modified camera and a video projector.
Room Racers was shown on several media festivals. Until January 2012, Room Racers is available to play at the ZKM | Medienmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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(the photograph was thankfully borrowed from a Mediamatic article)
