PENNSIC XXXIX Woods Battle From Shield Camera - Research for Ethereal: Medieval Combat Game

Students from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University take research footage during a Woods Battle at PENNSIC 39 (XXXIX) using a stunt camera embedded in a shield. The research is for a student project titled Ethereal.

http://www.etherealthegame.com
By Ethereal - Medieval Combat Game
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Ethereal/116595465086404
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Project Ethereal proposes to create a medieval combat video game based in realistic sword & shield combat and balanced with fun and accessibility. After training with the Society for Creative Anachronism, and the Kingdom of Aethelmearc's Barony-Marche of Debatable Lands & revered household Northern Cross, students participated at PENNSIC XXXIX to document the experience of medieval combat.

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[LethalRave]

Real developers need to do a researches like this, good job! :D

[ProjectEthereal]

@LethalRave Thank you for your comment. The benefit f throwing ourselves into the middle of battle was one of the best things we did in our development process. We met some wonderful people and got some great feedback and ideas we hadn't thought of ourselves. Thanks again and stay tuned for our official release.

[roundman2291]

thats me on the ground at 0:42

[Aserox]

@Dimitri0809 Call them geeks all you want, but you wouldn't last a minute against any of them.

[Dimitri0809]

@Aserox

hahaha Omg... Are you serisous. wearing amor and shit.. serisouly.. of everyone is wearing armor no one can do shit at all it's a fucking solid blunt stick bashing agains't metal and you call this a sport. bahahaha fucking geeks..

[Fishfliphatsock]

After going through all that trouble to assemble historically accurate suits of armor, I get the impression that everyone involved is too afraid to catch any dents.

[khamfl]

i downloaded game and no one is playing it? lol

[Aserox]

@dameroth What the are you talking about? If you had even bothered to look, you'd notice it's SCA, like the rest of the videos which are related, and quite different to LARP. Call them nerds all you want, but you wouldn't last a minute against any of them.

[dameroth]

lol LARP.... more like a bunch of nerds with there girlie poles (the pole they were handed by women and told to stay and the oposite end of it).

[middleagestoday]

It's very impressive

And we interesting in it very much

middleagestoday. com

[fuzzwahmrp]

2:55 homeboy gets knocked on his ass!

[SouthernStand2]

It's only a shame your group uses only wooden weapons. This technique would be better used by historians with a steel weapon group like ours.