Child of Eden Wowed the Crowd at PAX

[belardo]

Its a playable DEMO / Visulaztion... cool.

Programmed by stoned coders... best played with stoned.

Reminds me of the early days of 3DFx games which really PUMPED up the color.

 

[djab]

Am I the only one who thinks that this could have been done with a mouse on PC?
Kinect motion controller does not seem to add any new gameplay innovation in this case.

@sidran32: As you tried it, could you let us know if anything more than 2D movement(left/right-up/down) is used in this game?
If it is not more than that, it could have been done better with a mouse or even a wiimote ...

I'd like to see some really innovative good games/programs using Kinect possibilities.

 

[torque79]

"well, at least we know that the lag time issues are not improving any. The screen was way behind the guy running the device. And it looks like some old PS2 game. Games are more fun when they do what you tell them to when you tell them to, and it actually looks good"

"I guess you did not notice the huge lag from the guy's motion to the movement on the screen. Plus that game will get boring very fast. Leave it to the console crowd to not only dumb down graphics and game play, but now we have dumbed down expectations for games."

Hey dumbasses, that video is from almost A YEAR AGO and the lag issues have been fixed now. Plus all you morons talking about lag don't have a clue anyway, even joypad based games have lag and Kinect games lag is about the same as an average 30pfs game played on a joypad, FACT! (The average 30fps game played with a joypad has around 133ms lag and the absolute minimum a 30fps game played with a joypad can have is 100ms. Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports have about 150ms lag which is imperceptibly different to 133ms and they are just launch games. To put 150ms in perspective, it's half a blink of an eye.) Also those people claiming this looks crap obviously don't know that this is basically a sequel to the critically acclaimed Rez, or they're just pathetic Kinect hating trolls scared of one of the biggest revolutions in videogaming. Actually, they're probably BOTH!

You've obviously never played Counter Strike. 150ms lag is HORRIBLE and will get you killed constantly in a decent game. That much lag makes people have to use "prefire", shooting before their target is actually in place to compensate for the lag.

 

[sidran32]

[citation][nom]djab[/nom]Am I the only one who thinks that this could have been done with a mouse on PC?Kinect motion controller does not seem to add any new gameplay innovation in this case.@sidran32: As you tried it, could you let us know if anything more than 2D movement(left/right-up/down) is used in this game?If it is not more than that, it could have been done better with a mouse or even a wiimote ...I'd like to see some really innovative good games/programs using Kinect possibilities.[/citation]
They said that while it is a Kinect game, you can use it with a standard controller as well.

As it's an on-rails shooter, you get about as much motion control as in Time Crisis. You can do a little "lean", that is, nudge the screen a little bit (I believe), but you don't control the movement. You basically shoot things on the screen with your arms.

The thing about some of these Kinect games is that they are more the casual play type. This game definitely is, not like Counter Strike. It's more of an arcadey type of casual game. That isn't to say that it can't be used for non-casual games, but I think there's a place for games like this as well. For a shooter, especially as the first real shooter on the Kinect, I think this looks good and it plays well.

I posted this from PAX East of the gameplay as it stands now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmS7qybj3Ys

I pre-ordered it, for the record.

 

[ka_tet19]

Good pairing of tech and art. This could be a cool way of interacting with the Kinect.

Check out how Child of Eden is doing on hypinion. It looks like Twitter peeps are excited for it!

http://hypinion.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=7&table=Video%20Game&product=93&TED=1302095095