Le 21 Novembre dernier se tenait le Videogame Live 2009. Un ovni dans le paysage du jeu vidéo. Acceuillant 3 800 visiteurs (dont moi), je peux vous dire que ce fut du pur délire ! Sachez pour autant que chez nos amis ricains, plus du double de spectateurs se réunissent régulièrement pour cette grande messe musicale (11 000 à Los Angeles pour la première en 2005). Ceci étant, on peut être fiers du résultat français. L’édition 2008 avait réuni 1 500 personnes. Le Videogame Live 2009 prouve une fois de plus que le concept est porteur (+150% de fréquentation). A ce rythme, il nous faudra trouver un nouvel endroit pour nous accueillir l’année prochaine, le palais des congrès étant limité à 4 200 places.

Sinon, les places se sont bien vendues. A une semaine de l’événement, il leur en restait 200. Du coup, elles furent bradées à 50% pour les écouler et selon le communiqué de presse, ça a plutôt bien marché. Du côté des votes, la France en avait comptabilisé 9 627 votes en 2008. Quel sera-t-il cette année ?

Sachez pour finir que le coût de représentation de ces événements est de 70 000€. Cette somme peut évidemment changer en fonction du lieu du concert et du pays (Interview Jack Wall, Magazine Officiel Nintendo).

D’ailleurs, si on connaît maintenant le coût de la représentation, on ne connaît toujours pas ce qu’il en coûte pour être partenaire officiel. Quelqu’un a la réponse ?

http://www.mangavore.fr/component/content/article/3-evenementiel/3214-video-game-live-in-paris-.pdf

http://www.survol-paris.com/le-palais-des-congres-paris.html

http://www.itrpress.com/cp/2009/2009-06-24_17707.pdf

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Hori releases a specially branded Mushihimesama Futari Ver. 1.5 Real Arcade Pro EX Joystick which is based on the default Hori Real Arcade Pro SE EX but the case is colored green and the top of the stick features an image of Princess Reko and Palm against a leafy-green nature backdrop. The joystick and buttons are from Seimetsu which is a manufacturer of arcade parts and devices. Thanks to the heavy bulk of the joystick, it’s stable and sturdy even when players are wagging the stick and slapping the buttons with wild abandon.
Please note the joystick does not support Dual Shock vibration and connects to the Xbox 360 by cable/cord. All preorders are shipping today.

As you can see above, there is no wiimote in that accessory steering wheel. There is, instead, a home-made accelerometer controller that connects to the pc via USB. Based around a PIC 18F2550 and a 2 axis accelerometer, this device is detected by windows as a standard controller. The schematic and source code are available on his website. He says it can also be used as a “motion mouse”. You can see a video of that after the break.

When we first saw the video, we thought it might be the same person as the accelerometer controlled maze project, due to the wiimote steering wheel casing.

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Happy Stu. This is what I want. So I can play some fighting games properly, and also so that when I get a Gamecube, I can have lots of fun playing this….

Die neumodische 18-Button-Maus, die gestern hier debütierte, ist eigentlich eine lahme Sache: Boing Boing hat eine 40-Tasten-Maus aus dem Jahr 1990 ausgegraben. Seltsamerweise war das Gerät seinerzeit kein Verkaufsschlager.

Und dabei war die ProHance PowerMouse 100 doch so weit vorne: Für schlappe 195 Dollar (damals noch ein kleines Vermögen) konnte man sage und schreibe 38 Tasten programmieren.

Nun aber ist es zu spät – oder hat noch irgendwer DOS 2.0 als benötigtes Betriebssystem rumliegen? [dieter]

[via Boing Boing]

Makro-Fans und Hardcore-Gamer mögen sich ja mehr Tasten auf der Maus gewünscht haben, aber 18 (!) Buttons und ein integrierter Joystick ausgerechnet für Office-People klingt ein wenig nach Wahnwitz.

Zugegeben, die Maus sieht optisch nicht so schlimm aus wie das Konzept klingt. Ob die Zielgruppe der Office-Nutzer aber wirklich darauf anspricht, sich fröhlich Makros auf die vielen Knöpfe zu legen und die ganzen Abkürzungen zu merken, darf gepflegt bezweifelt werden. Zumal der Anbieter (mit dem bezeichnenden Namen WarMouse)
für die “OpenOffice Mouse” immerhin 75 Dollar ausruft.
Für die vielen Makros hat es extra 512 KByte Speicher intus. [Ralf]

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Ultradünne Huckepack-Maus für Notebooks

Microsoft: Office 2010 gibt’s gratis – abgespeckt und mit Werbung

Die dunkle Seite der Maus

Nie wieder mobile Mausprobleme. Danke, Logitech

Maus nach Maß

It wouldn’t be right to celebrate this incredible, humbling achievement without expressing our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the entire Jagex community for helping make this landmark achievement a reality.

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Finally, the hangover from winning the UK Games Developer of the Year award at the Golden Joysticks on Friday is lifting, albeit slowly.

It wouldn’t be right to celebrate this incredible, humbling achievement without expressing our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the entire Jagex community for helping make this landmark achievement a reality. We have never seen so many people simultaneously spit their champagne at each other as when Jagex was announced as the winner! It was truly a vision that will make me smile forever. =D

This award was indeed special as not only was there some really tough competition, but this is one of the only awards voted for by the players themselves rather than an industry “old boys’ club”. This year, over 1.2 million votes were cast, ensuring a World Record in itself for the Golden Joystick Awards as the biggest ever player-voted competition, and I would like to believe that most of those votes came from you, our epically sized community, not to mention the small fact that you managed to crash their website four times with all your votes!

The Jagex development team have worked tirelessly over the last eight years, their only concern creating great content for our players and games that we wanted to play ourselves – all totally under the radar of the traditional games industry and press. So while it is nice to be recognised so publicly by the industry (no doubt they will all be thinking about developing online games of their own), I would like to give everyone the assurance that our focus will remain on building great games for our community, and that we’ll continue to work hard and do all we can to try to live up to this prestigious award.

So, once again, many thanks to you all! The credit goes to our much-loved players and we hope that our entire Jagex community will share in the success along with the team at Jagex. A big cheers to all the players!

RuneScape News…

consumers should know that the joystick is such a device which is consists of a stick lying on the base and reporting the angle and the direction of the device which it is controlling. It is known that joystick is alsoused for controlling video games carrying several push-buttons readable by computers. There are many kinds of joystick in the market and the most famous joystick is analog stick which is mostly have the usage on modern video game consoles. In many aircraft’s joystick act as the main flight controller in the cockpit in case of military fast jet in which centre stick and side stick location are applied. Users of joystick should know that it is used basically in controlling the machines such as cranes, trucks, underwater unmanned vehicles along with zero turning radius lawn mowers. Also in mobile industry joystick plays an important role such as used as miniature finger-operated joysticks in many smaller electronic devices. One can see the that the joystick is applied in controlling the aircraft’s ailerons and elevators.

The word joystick was takenout by french pilot Robert Esnault-Pelterie in the late 20^th century. The first name of joystick is george stick after which this name became famous in the market. Earlier days were also using joystick in many planes. The two electrical axis joystick was discovered in germany in the year 1944 . This device was used to follow the glide bomb for targetting the ships. But that time joystick was used by the operator for steering the missile to follow its target. The joystick was used to carry on-off switches besides carrying analogue sensors which is a digital joystick. The signal was forwarded through the joystick targetting the missile via radio. Few of the joysticks now available in two dimensional carrying two axes for the movement. One will also find three dimensional joystick as different and varied types of joystick with built-in technology are coming in the market.

The latest joystick available in the market has the quality of force feedback capability in comparison to the earlier one. This one can say are active devices rather than input devices only. These joystick can give signal back to the computer helping it in resisting the movement with a strong backing force and making the joystick vibrational. Currently the application of joystick in varied industry is a common thing such as cranes, assembly lines, forestry tools, mining trucks and excavators and lots more. The consumption of joystick is booming in the market as it had replaced the usage of traditional mechanical control lever in current hydraulic control systems.

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Penny+Giles will be at the AGRITECHNICA 2009 exhibition, which is being held at the HannoverMesse in Germany, from 8 to 14 November 2009.

On display at the custom built exhibition booth will be the latest in technology developments for joystick controllers, rotary, linear and tilt sensors designed for use on specialist off-highway vehicles for agricultural applications, including tractors, harvesters, crop sprayers, balers and irrigation machines.

More details on this show.

NCS Product Synopsis
«©NCSX» Tekken 6 was a big deal when it was released last week and we’re still playing the game. Our mileage for a new title is usually about 2 hours before we go on to the next game. Tekken 6 is special and Hori grabs a piece of that action by releasing a pair of Tekken 6 themed Real Arcade Pro joysticks which arrived on Monday. All preorders have shipped already and new orders are welcome for dispatch today.

» Real Arcade Pro 3 Tekken 6 Version for Playstation 3
Standard HRAP3 that’s been Tekken-ized with a faceplate that depicts three principal characters from the game. The artwork is intentionally dark to give the fighters an ominous presence.

» Real Arcade Pro EX Tekken 6 Version for Xbox 360
Standard HRAP.EX which features the same artwork that’s on the Playstation 3 version of the HRAP.

Penny+Giles will be co-located with Control Devices China Ltd at the Beijing International Construction Equipment exhibition (BICES 2009), which is held at the Jiuhua International Convention Center in Beijing, from 3 to 6 November 2009.

On display at the joint exhibition booth will be the latest in technology developments for joystick controllers, rotary, linear and tilt sensors designed for use on off-highway vehicles.

More details on this show.

The 3DDH Logo

Sony posted a message on their Twitter account today: “No need to import – 3D Dot Game Heroes for PS3 is DEFINITELY coming to NA! Spread the word, more to come.” 3D Dot Game Heroes has been scheduled to release in Japan this coming November, although the North American publisher is unknown at this point.

Sony’s Jeff Rubenstein said that the North American publisher was the source of the announcement. More info should become available on the Playstation Blog The last From Software title published in North America was Demon’s Souls by Atlus.

It just looks great!!!!!!

Recently I’ve started a Project, called Endlines. It’s a techdemo for a space-simulation shooter like those old Tie Fighter/X-Wing games. I’ll be doing the concepts, models and game design, my partner will program the client and engine, and we’ll both work on scripting.

It’s on its earliest stages, I’m still finishing the design document which is fairly long so far (about 6000 words) for a techdemo. Here’s an earlier WIP for a ship I made:

I’ll post some more information as we develop it. For now we’ve started a blog for it here.

iMo é um aplicativo para iPhone recentemente lançado no TechCrunch50 que transforma o iPhone ou iTouch em um joystick para vídeo games de PC, conferindo-lhes recursos iguais ao do Wii. Ao invés de usarmos teclado e mouse, usamos o iPhone. As informações são enviadas ao computador através de Wi-Fi. Não é necessário instalar nenhum software para o PC aceitar os sinais. IMo aproveita o acelerômetro interno e touch screen do iPhone/iPod não só para imitar os controles normais do jogo, como joustick, como também adicionar maior controle nas ações. A empresa pretende também desenvolver aplicativos para outras plataforma móveis como o Android e incluir suporte para consoles  de jogos como Wii, Xbox 360 e PS3.

Artigos Relacionados

• iMo Launches iPhone App – Turns iPhone Into Joystick For PC Video Games (indian web startups)
• iMo won the best presentation award at TC50 (techcrunch)
• iMo Launches New Software that Controls PC Games via iPhone or iPod Touch (trends update)
• iMo turns the iPhone into a joystick for your PC games (gamesbeat)
• iMo Is Great For Games (techgeise)

İşimin insansız araçlar üzerine ar-ge faaliyetleri olduğunu hakkımda bölümüne son zamanlarda göz atmış olanlar bilirler.  İşimdeki ilk işlerden bir tanesi, bir joystick yardımı ile insansız su üstü deniz aracına ait dümenin manuel olarak yönlendirilebilmesi ve üzerindeki kameranın da aynı şekilde; X ve Y eksenlerinde dönebilmesi, kayıt yapabilmesi vs. gibi tüm fonksiyonlarının joystick üzerinden sağlanması gerekliydi.

Bu konuda internetten araştırma yaptığımda herhangi bir Türkçe makale ile karşılaşmadığım için bende bu yazıyı yazmaya karar verdim. C# Joystick gibi harici araçların kullanımının kolay olduğunu bu yazıyı souna kadar okuduğunuzda sizde göreceksiniz.

Classımıza öncelikle birkaç değşken tanımlayarak başlayalım. Bunlardan joystick değişkeni, bizim Device türünden, diğeri ise Joystick’in durum(state) bilgilerini saklayabileceğimizJoystickState değişkeni. Diğerleri ise joystick’ieksen olark durum bilgilerini saklayan değişkenler ve joystick üzerindeki tüm butonların durumlarını saklaya boolean tipinde buttons array’i.  Son olarakta bilgisayara birden fazla bağlı olan joystick bilgisinin instance name’lerini tutabilecek bir String Array’i oluşturuyoruz.

private Device joystick;
private JoystickState state;
public int Xekseni;
public int Yekseni
public int Zekseni;
public bool[] buttonsState;
private string[] joystickStr;

Aşağıdaki kodu yazarak,  şuan bilgisayarımıza bağlı bir oyun kontrol cihazlarını cihaz listemize eklemesini söyledik.

DeviceList gameControllerList = Manager.GetDevices(DeviceClass.GameControl, EnumDevicesFlags.AttachedOnly);

Eklediğimiz listenin sayısı sıfırdan büyükse ya da başka bir deyişle, yazdığımız kod ile programımız bilgisayara bağlı herhangi bir GameControl cihazı bulabildiyse, aşağıdaki kodumuz çalışacak.

if (gameControllerList.Count > 0)
 {
 systemJoysticks = new string[gameControllerList.Count];
 int i = 0; 

 foreach (DeviceInstance deviceInstance in gameControllerList)
 {
  //TODO
 }

Bilgisayarımıza bağlı her bir joystick bilgisinden joystickDevice ismi ile yeni bir Device nesnesi oluşturuyoruz.  Aşağıdaki kodlarda systemJoysticks[i] olarak yazılan String Array’i içerisinde eğer istersek, bilgisayarımız tarafından bulunan her bir device bilgisinin instanceName’lerini tutabiliriz. Bunu fazladan bilgi olarak sundum.

foreach (DeviceInstance deviceInstance in gameControllerList)
 {
 joystickDevice = new Device(deviceInstance.InstanceGuid);
 joystickDevice.SetCooperativeLevel(this,
 CooperativeLevelFlags.Background |
 CooperativeLevelFlags.NonExclusive);

 systemJoysticks[i] = joystickDevice.DeviceInformation.InstanceName;
 i++;
 }

Şimdi, DirectX’e bulduğumuz cihazın bir joystick olduğunu söyleyelim.

 joystickDevice.SetDataFormat(DeviceDataFormat.Joystick);

Ve aşağıdaki kod ile artık joystick bulma işlemimizi sonlandıralım.

joystickDevice.Acquire();

Bilgisayara joystick tanıtma işlemini kolay bir şekilde buraya kadar bitirdik. Sıra geldi işin önemli kısımlarına. Yaniü joystickden durum bilgisi okumaya ve zaman içerisinde değişen durum bilgilerini yönetmeye (mesela 1. butona 10 saniye aralıkla basılmasını öğrenmeye). Ben bunun için projeme bir timer ekledim. Her 20 ms’de joystick’in tüm buton durumlarını kontrol edecek ve ilgili değişkenler aracılığı ile bana bildirecek. Bende duruma göre gerekli işlemlerimi makinam üzerinde koşturacağım.

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}

Aşağıda yazacağım her şeyi yukarıdaki timer fonksiyonu içerisinde yazdığımı göz önünde bulundurunuz.

Düm joysticklerin state (durum) bilgisini al.

DeviceCaps cps = joystickDevice.Caps;

Joystick’in varlığını kontrol et

joystickDevice.Poll();

Joystick üzerindeki kolun durum bilgilsini al ve eksen bilgilerini değişkenlere ata

state = joystickDevice.CurrentJoystickState;
Xekseni = state.X;
Yekseni = state.Y;
Zekseni = state.Z;

Herhangi bir butonun byte cinsinden değeri, 128 veya daha büyük ise, o butona o an basılıyor demektir. Bizde ağaşıdaki kodumuzda Joystick üzerinde 12 tane tuş olduğunu var saydık ve tüm bilgilerini almasını ve eğer 128 veya ondan büyükse array içerisine true olarak yazmasını söyledik.

byte[] jsButtons = state.GetButtons();
buttonsState = new bool[12];
for (int i = 0; i < 12;i++ )
{
   buttonsState[i] = jsButtons[i] >= 128;
}

Şuan itibari ile Xekseni, Yekseni, Zekseni isimli değişkenlerimizde joystik’in koluna ait durum bilgisi ve buttonsState isimli arrayde de 12 butonumuzun durumları true/false olarak kayıt edildi.

Unutmadan söylemekte fayda var, tüm bunları yapmadan önce DirectX bilgisayarınızda kurulu olmalıdır.  Projenize Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput objesini referans olarak eklemeniz ve VS 2005 kullanıyorsanız (2008′de de gerekli olabilri emin değilim)  Debug menüsü altındaki “Exceptions..” içerisinden “Managed Debugging Asssitants” “Thrown” bölümü uncheck yapılmalıdır.

işinize yaraması dileği ile,

Yazan: Mustafa Ferhan Akman

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Живеем в свят, в който живота се движи с бясна скорост и често не ни остава време да погледнем в настоящето, а камо ли в миналото. Технологиите се развиват толкова бързо, че имам чувството, че само 13-годишните могат да се справят с темпото.

Темата, до която искам да стигна, и до която реших да подходя от километри разстояние е за едно ново изобретение. Това “ново” изобретение е свещта. По-важен е обаче начина, по който е решил да я използва един Linux ентусиаст – като джойстик. Той е взел в ръце своя мини лаптоп – EEE PC 1000h и е написал игра, наречена “Светулка”. Нейната цел е да “осветявате” пътя на светулка, която е изгубила своята светлина, през пещери и пътища със запалена свещ пред дисплея на нетбука (посредством уеб камера). Човекът, написал играта (sosker) описва мотивацията си по следния начин – “Идеята на играта е да покаже, че можем да използваме средновековни средства, за да контролираме една видеоигра, които струват около 35636575 пъти по-евтино от “Weemote”.

so, wollen die das?

Joystick

Felicidades! para Ares, Boligán, Zardoyas, y Freddy (Villamil), que siguen cosechando premios.