Carcade! Brings Video Games To The Whip
Now that interactive, overproduced video games have become the norm, is there a future for the old fashioned simplicity of lo-fi games like Space Invaders and Asteroid? A group of students at Berlin University of Arts developed what they call Carcade!, an in-car video game that uses the scene outside the passenger window as the backdrop for a retro space combat game
Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk rigged a web cam to their car’s window, which digitally records the landscape of the street. That landscape runs into a laptop, where it instantly becomes the game’s environment, challanging you to navigate through the streets in a tiny spaceship that moves the same speed as your car. Watch the video demo below…
