December 2009
3 posts
New game screen layout
As you can see in the screen-shots posted earlier, our game display is created by overlaying the Flash game content directly onto the video player. It appears, however, that covering any portion of the video playback is against YouTube’s Terms of Service. As a result, we’ve reworked the display. The challenge was to keep the game content large enough that it was playable without...
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How to connect a Rock Band® or Guitar Hero® guitar...
One of the cool things about the majority of Guitar Hero® and Rock Band® guitars is that they use the same USB connection as your home computer. Over the years people have found a number of creative ways to use their guitars on the PC, usually with applications that map joystick inputs to keyboard inputs. Needless to say, this was a non-trivial exercise for the techie-novice.
For iRok2, we were...
Gameplay screenshots
We’ve made some great development strides in the last few weeks and thought we should share where we’re at. The screen shots below show the new note graphics overlaying a Linkin Park and Coldplay video. We’ve struggled in the past with how to best balance the immersion of the video playback with the visibility of the note track. I think we’re pretty close now. If you’ve got an opinion on this or...