Playing Pac-Man against Real Crickets

The computer game we used for our experiment is "Pac-Man" (Namco, 1980). Instead of computer code, we want to have animals controlling the ghosts. To enable this, we built a real maze for the animals to walk around in, with its proportions and layout matching the maze of the computer game. The position of the animals in the maze is detected using colour-tracking via a camera, and linked to the ghosts in the game. This way, the real animals are directly controlling the virtual ghosts.

http://pong.hku.nl/~wim/bugman.htm

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• pac-man
• geek

[sassy8girl]

one of the ghosts cheated it went over the wall 0:40

[savigy1301]

once the level was completed - the crickets exploded

[IamUnforgiven221]

sweet... check out the maze we had some crickets run, me and my friends, profile is Petethewhale.

[AtlasRedux]

LOL! Now, that's cool ;) Someone forgot to teach them that they're not supposed to climb up and in the walls though ;)

[TreeHandThing]

wow

[Aniforce]

Haha nice ;D

[magebomba]

pretty neat good job

[neomrdo]

Hey, thats just like PS3's version of Pac Man. With Sony's new cell technology, you'll be able to play pac-man against crickets. I've heard that you can also play Q*Bert with fleas on the new PS3. I cant wait!

[torkle]

why would you want to do that?

[magnus87]

WoW, haaha...