Snowball Blaster - The Game

[bbtdgfan890]

This is just awesome.

[ITZAYI]

I just realized this is by my old elementary school.

[demonfanatic47]

lol i luv it! u always do the best holiday decor!! keep it up! :)

[kumbaric]

The music is now available on iTunes! Search for "Crazy La Paint" by Paul Wilkie!

[DragonJedi0]

Who does the voice of Froffy?

[Mrsplashdamage]

Thumbs up so people can see!

Song is "crazy la paint" by Paul Wilkie it's on iTunes

[robertotodd]

That's Coool :)

[Stife9000]

o.o  0o0-OMFG

[sisisisi1111]

Tron just got owned!

[alexeiw123]

might I suggest an XBOX 360 kinect game? impossible? something tells me you can find a way.

[Fenrakk101]

You should post the soundtrack for this, the music is incredible

[SeanFlaharty]

Ric! You have done it again!

[Cronox88]

sei un genio!

[SierraSierraFoxtrot]

I can imagine the traffic jam this caused in your street!

[00GreyEyedGirl00]

coolest dad ever

[culwin]

my jaw is literally agape.

[madmiask]

I wonder what will be your next year's idea.

Grandlighturismo 6 ? lol

I give you the World 1st Price of "Christmas light gamer" :-))))))

[robinquinn2006]

Epical lol. Too much time, but lol.

[ShariganShinobi]

THAT IS AWESOME!!

[ChickenRamen]

Frothy. Kay.

This is about 20 kinds of win though :D

[DoritosBR]

Looks like one giant handheld game (those from 80s)

Pretty awesome.

Maybe you could do some Tetris?

[boscow]

Must annoy the how outta the neighbours with all that flashing...

[boscow]

@boscow hell outta...

[jnmunsey]

The music in not Christmasy at all and very annoying. Makes me want to go beat up a Mediterranean person...

[ihavederphands]

whats the song on this video?

[xboy105]

Thats so cool!

[Adrianfolf]

That has got to be the single best thing I have ever seen. It must have taken at least a week or so to do all that

[Christt872]

Can I have, "oh great, more driving crap my wife can't do" for $1000 Alex??

[geerlingguy]

Making-of video, please!

[ummwut]

I wonder how many fuses they went through trying to do this

[kusanagisama]

@ummwut None. LEDs use about 20% of the electricity that incandescent lights do. You can connect up to 36 60 LED miniature (that's 2,160 LED bulbs) , or C4 sets to one plug (up to 87 25 LED C7, C9 sets (or 2,175 LED bulbs), and it will equal the same amount of wattage that only three 100 incandescent light strands use.

[Johpick]

this strikes the "Christmas Lights Gone Wild"-house. Goddarn interactive decoration, you are a genius! That is the future. Your house will notice when you lose in a video game or die in some RPG and gives you sounds and lights to improve your mood. And when you lvlup it will reward you!

Okay okay thats kind'o different, but in some facts its equal... OKAY ITS NOT WHATEVER :D :D you are a genius!

[AnotherSociety2010]

Good Job dude :-)

[Eemmzzi]

Do space invaders next year please. :D

Well, make it Christmas related somehow lol. :)

[pokemaster496]

Is your neighboring house empty? I wanna move in it.

[djrive]

that is awesome, how long did it take to design put it together?

[UppityQueer]

Is there any cutscene or at least story  with compelling characters ,witty,edgy writing and character development?

[TheAffemitWaffe]

AWESOME !

[DannyVainOfficial]

What is the song?

[gregkauf1987]

That's amazing. Do your neighbors hate you or do they think it's awesome too?

[LTF85199]

yawn.. you should really do that on a computer.. and light up the house to dance to a song or something more interesting..

[dietrious]

props, this is really freakin' sweet.

[MarkJimenez1977]

Love it!

[GuyEndore]

AWESOME!!!

[ownsuallownsuall]

hmm this looks alot like audiosurf...

[thundergod79]

awesome...nice work!

[addiesclone]

This reaches new heights of awesome.

[terracrush1234]

WHY AREN'T MY NEIGHBORS THIS AWESOME?!

D:

[pivotspain]

amazing man, great job! and have a nice xmas!!

[mmfhl]

nice!

[syxxgage]

Wow. This is amazing. Do you record all players so we eventually see it beat?

[kumbaric]

That's a good idea! I hadn't thought of that. I should add a log to the software to record how far people get. So far the high score has been logged manually. Hmmm... maybe you could enter your initials on the house!

[dewelch]

@kumbaric Oh you ARE a gamer geek aren't you? We have to have the high score scroll on the house during the attract sequence, too. (LAUGH)

[andyllamanipl]

... Damn. That is awesome.

[crystalrunez]

I love this accordion music. Where is it from?

[kumbaric]

I bought it on a Royalty Free music site, don't remember which one. Listened to about 1000 tracks before I found one that worked.

[leoakapapi]

@kumbaric come on, you can't just leave us hanging without telling us which song you used

[kumbaric]

Song is called "Crazy La Paint" by Paul Wilkie

[fr3nzy66]

@crystalrunez : it's from paulwilkie (.com)

[RUBYxx12]

wow talk about a large electricity bill xD

[dewelch]

@RUBYxx12 Actually, in talking with Ric, due to the fact that most of the light are off most of the time, his displays use far less electricity than a static display which is on solidly.

Hey Ric, How about a FAQ to answer the usual questions and comments like this?

[kumbaric]

FAQ -

Uses less than 1/2 cent of electricity per game... depending on how far you get.

Most of the strings are LED which use 1/100 the power of an old C-9 string.

Last year the Guitar Hero electric bill was about 1/4 of the last static display we did

Audio plays at a low level for the players, and is broadcast on 99.1 for car people

128 channels of Light-o-rama, plus 5 game controlled strings.

Current High Score is 1080 by KT.

[HiiroRocker101]

beast.

This is so much more beast than the peeps in my neighborhood who synced their lights with the radio. I wish my [non-existant] Christmas decorations were a video game. All I have to decorate my yard with is some mexican chili pepper lights, which I make a volleyball net from between the two trees in my yard. I also have a little red and white reigndeer, and a two-foot tall plastic christas tree/spiral thingie.

[MaStAdJcHaD]

That was done with LOR? Or was that pre-sequenced?

[kumbaric]

I just added more technical detail to the description... Most of the lights are pre-programmed LOR sequences which are triggered by a game computer. The Red arrows are driven directly by the game logic.

[MaStAdJcHaD]

@kumbaric Wow... We got button systems with LOR but not that advanced! Great job

[CatDMacLeod]

What can't you do with holiday lights Ric?

[dewelch]

Very cool, as always!

[UberBeavis]

Another awesome display!

[CoplandB]

Amazing



[cobergas]

You always have innovative and wonderful displays! That is an awesome interface you have.

[ohheyjill]

really awesome