{"id":200,"date":"2004-11-18T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constant.irisnet.be\/%7Econstant\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2004-11-18T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T13:03:53","slug":"pacman-in-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/pacman-in-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"PacMan in the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, I saw (I think it was in Edge magazine) pictures of people dressed as Pacman and ghosts running around in the street, playing the game (kind of). It looked more like a very funny cosplay than like an experiment in gaming. Now people in Singapore did this, Human Pacman:<br \/>\n&#8220;a novel game that mixes elements of physical game play, mobile computing, tangible interaction and multiplayer interaction. The game is based on the original Namco arcade game of Pacman where a small yellow creature moves around a maze eating pellets while avoiding ghosts. In this version of the game players interactively role-play the characters of pacmen and ghosts. Through the use of wearable computers, and wireless networks the players wander around a game area that is defined in virtual and augmented reality. Each player has a helper viewing the events on a laptop to aid in navigation and strategy. Objects are represented in both virtual and reality form to provide novel experiences of seamless transition between different world views.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"hu_pac.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constantvzw.com\/blog\/images\/hu_pac.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"527\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/~trevor\/HumanPacman_summary.htm\">their website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996689\">another article about the project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, I saw (I think it was in Edge magazine) pictures of people dressed as Pacman and ghosts running around in the street, playing the game (kind of). It looked more like a very funny cosplay than like an experiment in gaming. Now people in Singapore did this, Human Pacman: &#8220;a novel game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}