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I'm thinking about using Peregrine Glove for Arcade Mame
Le Chuck:
I took another look at this thing. I'm not impressed. Your ideas are fun and I like where your head is at but the glove itself doesn't impress me. The key to a lot of good gaming is the players ability to do several things at once. This glove only reacts with itself and not with it's environment. It's just a keyboard, not a motion sensor or anything like that, in a lot of ways this thing is worse that the power glove. There's a reason they use dungeon crawlers as the demos. They are stand and fight games which is what the inventor does. One thing at a time.
So to play you're going to have to have a legend on the machine telling the players what odd hand position to form to do what action and also that they're going to have to do different movements with multiple fingers simultaneously go move freely about the board. It might look really cool and the cab might look neat but I think it won't be fun as more than a curiosity IMO.
That's not to say you shouldn't build curiosities. I built a 12" Star Wars, however I don't have to explain to someone how to play it. They can just start yanking away on the wee yoke while I bite my nails and wish I wasn't letting them touch it. If your heart is set the build it but I say but and test it first. It is a simple key mapper, it'll work in MAME, no worries there I'm sure, just know that there are other products out there that do similar things (Makey Makey) without the need to put a glove on.
As to some of your questions, without looking at the drivers and just off what I saw on the videos I'd say you can hook several up and have them all doing different things. You map what keys it registers so you can likely have several or until you run out of keys to map. No reason you couldn't have a joystick and this thing running at once.
Oh, and I don't think that glove is military grade unless it is flame retardant. As for being a milspec item I've never seen any military application make use of it, not even the landwarrior system and that is about as powerglove/video gamey as you can get... and that little pile of smoldering caca is seeing active use in combat currently [/offtopic]
KeithPuetz:
Yeah I hear ya.
I would be making a mame and I was trying to come up with something cool looking. Tron cabinet with a tron looking glove just sounded, new, and exciting.
I know the idea doesnt offer a lot new to game play, just a new way to press buttons. Most arcade games have 2 or 1 buttons so the commands will be the same for all games and the learning curve would be small. But the point here is it would LOOK futuristic.
But yeah, I guess it would be pretty gimmicky.
I want to try something new as far as controls, anyone else have any ideas? Things you would like to see done?
KeithPuetz:
I'm thinking about Hand Painting a control panel. Can this be done? I mean, as in, like will the art stay? I was thinking of painting it in UV ink and having a couple black lights on the arcade.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: KeithPuetz on October 08, 2012, 06:23:29 pm ---I'm thinking about Hand Painting a control panel. Can this be done? I mean, as in, like will the art stay? I was thinking of painting it in UV ink and having a couple black lights on the arcade.
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If you either put something (i.e. plexi) to protect it or just give it a couple coats of protective finish it should be okay. Although I don't know what effect that would have on UV ink specifically...
KeithPuetz:
Painting with UV ink should cause it to glow under black light, but I am afraid it wont show up if I cover it up with plexi glass.
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