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Chris O'Shea, an artist and designer based in London.
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q3apd (Quake - Pure Data)
Posted June 7th 2006 under Games
I wrote about q3apd back in July 2005 (link). This version, shown at Lovebytes 2006. As Julian puts it:
The work 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 PureData which in turn 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.
Created by Julian Oliver & Steven Pickles. See their latest work Fijuu2.
This is leading down a path of level design for sound composition, something I am very interested in exploring. I am also a big fan of Unrealart, using bots to create an external picture in Processing. I actually have an Unrealart print hanging on my wall (thanks Alison).
Comments
(June 9th 2006)
[...] q3apd (Quake-Pure Data) [...]
(June 13th 2006)
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(July 5th 2006)
Amazing find, what a creative use of the media.