here's a peek at how the bouncing octupus from the water level cart looks on the Voxiebox display

http://youtu.be/yz-ZjwFGrPw

Video of Voxatron on Voxiebox in color - twisty castles demo level

Hey everyone,

Here's new video of Voxatron on the Voxiebox --- we used a better camera to record and as well moved to a higher quality display system, this is a monochrome test, take a look:

http://bit.ly/VoxatronOnVoxiebox2

What do you think?

If people were interested we could try and pull out some specific levels to test out - just link to the level with the url if you can.

Sean

Hey everyone,

here's a new clip of the 3D volumetric projection display version of Voxatron running on the Voxiebox - now in color!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0sSskbbKko

enjoy!
sean

PS does anyone live near an arcade or a place that has arcade games like in a movie theatre lobby?

Hi,

I am trying to make a scaled up version of a standard voxatron arcade level where the players and monsters are 2x or 4x their normal size. Is there a way to do this with the editor by somehow making the built in characters editable? I can't figure it out :(

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated - thanks!

sean

PS It's for something special!!!

any Voxatron users in NYC that want to meet up? I'd love a tutorial in using the editor to make levels and characters if anyone is available.

hi,

i'd love to experiment with rendering voxatron user generated levels on the physical 3d volumetric display i'm working on - is there any documentation about parsing the output of the voxde 's .png files?

sean

Hey everyone,

I'm working on making an affordable true physical voxel 3D display - no glasses, can view 360 degrees around objects - and am hoping to get game designers and game enthusiasts -- such as those who love Voxatron -- interested in the project. These things actualy actually exist, but most people have never seen them outside of hollywood special effects, learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display --- Wouldnt' you love to play voxatron in physical 3D with chunky bits you can look around by moving your head instead of just staring at a 2D screen?

My partner has been building these since 1988 for museums and special displays and we are working to get them into hands of regular people to watch volumetric 3D video (voxies) and play voxel based games like Voxatron and Minecraft. Volumetric displays have traditionally been only affordable to medical research, oil drilling companies, and the military at prices from US$30,000 - US$150,000. Imagine a whole arcade setup with games built using the Voxatron engine --- but displayed so you could stand around them like campfire? The Voxelcades are coming! But you can get your own personal VoxieBox in the not too distant future ---

With the VoxieBox we are trying to debut a consumer grade display around the same price point as the MakerBot --- between $1500-$2500. Eventually we'd like to get that down to about $300-600 if we can get a high enough volume of them into production. We've got a number of working prototypes and will be launching a kickstarter.com project soon to show them off and raise money to get them manufactured. We want to get them into the hands of developers such as Lexaloffle and people creating 3D video and games with the Kinect so there will be lots of great things to hack around with and enjoy on these types of displays when they go mainstream.

If you're interested please leave your email at http://voxiebox.com so we can notify you when the kickstarter project is up.

Sean

PS crap, i hope this doesnt feel spammy --- apologies if it does!