documentation of q3apd @ lovebytes06

q3apd is an experimental work that takes the events and spatial dynamics of combat and uses this information to make live computer music. It was last shown at the http://lovebytes.org.uk exhibition in 2006.

q3apd was presented for two weeks during which the 'game' autoplayed continuously - ie there was no human input. Four bots fight each other, dying and respawning, over and over again. One of the four bots sends all of it's control data to the program PureData where this data is used to drive a score.

It's through the ears of this bot that we hear the composition, driven by elements such as global-position in the map, weapon-state, damage-state and jump-pad events. For this reason game-objects and architectural elements were carefully positioned so that the flow of combat would produce common points of return (phrases) and the orchestration sounded right overall.

The scene was heavily graphically reduced so as to prioritise sound within the sensorial mix.

http://www.selectparks.net/archive/q3apd.htm

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• game
• audiovisual
• 3D
• realtime
• bot

[Donthommo]

Nice work guys :) Maybe could have been a bit more variation and depth to the audio used but very cool idea :) A friend did a vaguely similar (but much less technical) thing with some other FPS but it just sent the keyboard controls to a Maxpatch that generated audio.

[rukano]

this is great. I always wanted to do something like that with OpenSource FPS games (like Cube) and send OSC messages so anybody could do theirown music in its own favourite language (SC, PD, Max...) But the results of this are great (musically and visually !

[jamesvla]

simply beautiful

[jamesvla]

the last level of quake 3 arena (vs xaero), pure data, and processing, right?.. i think I have seen something about it on the generative blog.. interesting project

[unitstudio]

it's the form of human expression otherwise known as 'art'. Why should art be a painting in a gallery - new mediums permit new forms of expression.

[g1antp15to1]

quite beautiful

[g1antp15to1]

Uh... whats the point... i don't get it... it doesnt have any hot chicks in it and no one fell off of a motorcycle.

[Justdabomb2]

I'm so confused.

[konscious]

whats the point in this exactly?