Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design

Christoph Bregler; Clothilde Castiglia; Jessica DeVincezo; Roger Luke DuBois; Kevin Feeley; Tom Igoe; Jonathan Meyer; Michael Naimark; Alexandru Postelnicu; Michael Rabinovich; Sally Rosenthal; Katie Salen; Jeremi Sudol; Bo Wright

doi:10.1007/11590323_3

Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design

Christoph Bregler, Clothilde Castiglia, Jessica DeVincezo, Roger Luke DuBois, Kevin Feeley, Tom Igoe, Jonathan Meyer, Michael Naimark, Alexandru Postelnicu, Michael Rabinovich, Sally Rosenthal, Katie Salen, Jeremi Sudol, Bo Wright

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Abstract

This paper describes Squidball, a new large-scale motion capture based game. It was tested on up to 4000 player audiences last summer at SIGGRAPH 2004. It required the construction of the world's largest motion capture space at the time, and many other challenges in technology, production, game play, and study of group behavior. Our aim was to entertain the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater audience with a cooperative and energetic game that is played by the entire audience together, controlling real-time graphics and audio by bouncing and batting multiple large helium-filled balloons across the entire theater space. We detail in this paper the lessons learned.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings
Pages	23-33
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11590323_3
State	Published - 2005
Event	1st International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2005 - Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Duration: Nov 30 2005 → Dec 2 2005

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	3814 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	1st International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2005
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Madonna di Campiglio
Period	11/30/05 → 12/2/05

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Bregler, C., Castiglia, C., DeVincezo, J., DuBois, R. L., Feeley, K., Igoe, T., Meyer, J., Naimark, M., Postelnicu, A., Rabinovich, M., Rosenthal, S., Salen, K., Sudol, J., & Wright, B. (2005). Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design. In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings (pp. 23-33). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3814 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/11590323_3

Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design. / Bregler, Christoph; Castiglia, Clothilde; DeVincezo, Jessica et al.
Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings. 2005. p. 23-33 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3814 LNAI).

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Bregler, C, Castiglia, C, DeVincezo, J, DuBois, RL, Feeley, K, Igoe, T, Meyer, J, Naimark, M, Postelnicu, A, Rabinovich, M, Rosenthal, S, Salen, K, Sudol, J & Wright, B 2005, Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design. in Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3814 LNAI, pp. 23-33, 1st International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2005, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 11/30/05. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590323_3

Bregler C, Castiglia C, DeVincezo J, DuBois RL, Feeley K, Igoe T et al. Squidball: An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design. In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings. 2005. p. 23-33. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/11590323_3

Bregler, Christoph ; Castiglia, Clothilde ; DeVincezo, Jessica et al. / Squidball : An experiment in large-scale motion capture and game design. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment - First International Conference, INTETAIN 2005, Proceedings. 2005. pp. 23-33 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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