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 Susi-Z
Genre: Middleware
Meta: game engine, Jump'N'Run, game art toolbox, augmented reality
Platform: Linux / Windows

Susi-Z is a platform-independent C++ game and media-art engine. We developed this engine for use within several game-art projects and installations.

Beside the ready-to-use Jump'N'Run capabilities, Susi-Z enables the rapid and easy development of media-art installations due to the extended camera calibration methods. The engine provides methods for synchronizing a projection with video input for augmented reality and mixed-media projects. The graphical output is based on openGL and thus it is possible to mix 2D Jump'N'Run elements with 3D effects and openGL shaders.

Our projects Edgebomber and SpaceInvaders360 have been developed using this engine. Ports for mobile phones are used for the projects 5GH and ZZZ.


Features
  • C++ 2D Engine, based on openGL for rendering, scaling and rotating
  • OpenGL effects with shaders
  • Camera support (Interface to openCV and/or IVT cam methods: USB, firewire, AVI, bitmaps)
  • Full undistortion functionality to avoid fisheye effects
  • Advanced calibration functions which can be used to register a projection with video input
  • Automatic image handling by ImagePool
    • Never load an image twice, the ImagePool knows which images are already in memory
    • automatic openGL texture generation
    • PNG load & save
  • Streaming Textures: Play movies on textures or fullscreen
  • Easy-to-use classes for Characters, Enemies, Items, Background-Objects
  • Jump'N'Run basics
    • background masks
    • automatic slope computations for adjusting objects to the ground
    • acceleration & speed & gravity can be specified for all objects
    • iteraction boxes for triggering events
    • message handling
    • Episode handling (e.g. Startscreen, Level1..X and Highscore)
  • Sound support: FMOD interface for playing music or/and sounds
  • Fullscreen support
  • Automatic animation generation (just specify a directory)
  • Full Animation control (Loops, reset, fps control)
  • FTP and HTTP support
  • Config file support and extended IO methods
  • Joystick and gamepad access
  • Layers (for Background, Score or Text)
  • Bitmap fonts
  • Extendable
  • Ready-to-use examples
  • Convenient methods for segmenting camera images


Check out the source code on sourceforge.net
 SusiQuake
      aka QUAKE III Arena 360° Panoramic
Genre: Panoramic game installation
Meta: panoramic, game, 360, quake, arcade, immersive, video, art, wireless, screen, ego, shooter, arena
Platform: Panaroma Screen

Quake3 360° was developed for & in collaboration with ZKM | Center for art and media, Institute for visual Media, B. Lintermann.
SusiQuake is a immersive 360° panoramic game, based on the John Carmacks fabolous Quake3 GameEngine (GPL).
Watch the video!

ZKM
ID Software
John Carmack


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 SusiCarts
Genre: Game installation
Meta: hemisphere, game, hemispherical, 360, carts, arcade, sausage, video, art, wireless, racing
Platform: 360 Sphere

Susicarts is a racing game played on the 360 degree hemispherical display that challanges your reactions as well as your fitness.


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Choose your car: The slow but powerful iceman bus or the sausage cart that is fast, but hard to handle. The never ending circuit will bring all carts to their limits (and some drivers too). Play 5 rounds of our new racing game, but be careful: don't be faster with your cart than with your feets to see upcoming barriers and oil slicks.



 SusiVaders 360
Genre: Game installation (retro)
Meta: hemisphere, game, hemispherical, 360, space, invaders, drei60, arcade, aliens, video, art, wireless, retrogaming
Platform: 360 Sphere

Space Invaders drei60 is a tribute to the 70's and 80's where a good video game didn't need a 3D-shadered-256bit render-pipeline to spend hours of joy and fun.

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They are back! The evil Space Invaders teleported from the late 70's directly to our SusiSphere. Take your best friend to defeat the invaders and rescue the world (another time)... You can use our three buttoned SusiController to beat up the invader mutants, but beware, now they are able to hide from you on the other side of the 360 degree hemispherical SusiSphere.

Original version: Toshihiro Nishikado
Concept 360: SUSIGAMES
In Collaboration with Thorsten Blum (Code)



 StickiesWorld 2
Genre: Game installation
Meta: hemisphere, game, hemispherical, circle, augmented, 360, stickie, jump, run, arcade, paper, violent, game, art, wireless


stickiesWorld is a 360 degree immersive & hybrid (real/virtual) generative game installation

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StickiesWorld 2.0 out now! Play stickiesworld on the 360 degree SusiSphere with the wireless SusiController. Rescue the world and beat the evil, in a nerve-wracking, eye-popping and thumb rubbing match.


 SusiClimate
      aka Populator
Genre: Application
Meta: CO2, emmission, nature, ecological, mac, os x, home computer, botanics, calculator, realtime, software, carbon, dioxide
Platform: Mac OS X (Intel)
>>> Visit SusiClimate official website
>>> DOWNLOAD NOW (using our CO2-optimized connection)

SusiClimate calculates your computers current CO2-emission.
You can watch the average output of the climate killer CO2 for your computer, in order to perform your requestest tasks.
This polution depends among other factors on the workload and type of your processors.
See how programs and your behavior affect the CO2 pollution of the athmosphere. Try It!

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 FlashBomber
      aka EdgeBomber Online
Genre: Jump'n'Fight
Meta: edgebomber, online, duct, tape, realtime, flying, sausage, kids, game, pervasive, augmented, competition, piece, flashbomber, user, generated, content
Platform: Online / FLASH
>>> PLAY FLASHBOMBER NOW! (via SusiArcade)

With FlashBomber, you can play all user generated EdgeBomber levels directly online.
Have you created your own level at an EdgeBomber event? Then remember your magic key and enter it to refind your own level and play it as often as you want.

You can also play some SUSIGAMES original content or discover the duct tape-using habits of other cities/regions/countries by browsing our level archive.

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 SusiCresses
Genre: Realtime installation / Botanics
Meta: realtime, ds, high, value, photo, realistic, real, botanic, mod

SusiCresses, is a real-time & real-world (RT&RW) plant growing simulation for mobile and home consoles!
CHECK OUT THE UPCOMING SEEDS!




 EdgeBomber
Genre: Game installation / 2006
Meta: edgebomber, duct, tape, realtime, flying, sausage, kids, game, pervasive, augmented, competition, piece, flashbomber, user, generated, content
>>> EdgeBomber official website
>>> PLAY IT ONLINE!

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Rescue the kidnapped Suezee ICEQUEEN! Hero Ozkar and the black magic tapes becomes your best friends in virtual and real world.

Edgebomber breaks up the classic “ready-made”-gameconcepts. With support of special duct tapes, the player create their own levels and sketches to solve this game.

Edgebomber deals about user-generated content in games and his social expansion. Contrary to Duchamp, Edgebomber designs not readymades, sketches fixed into an unchanging form, but levels that are constantly ready-to-be-made.
Spontaneity and brevity are key to Edgebombers artistic vision, as is the idea of endless permutation and proliferation at the expense of a final, fixed form.

EdgeBomber is a “Pervasive Game”, where the player uses tape, stickers and scissors to create their own playgrounds on a wall. The procedural system grabs the scenery and creates a virtual level for the jump’n’run video game, based on our game-engine “Z100”. The grabbed playground is extended with items and enemies and is projected back to the original scenery. The augmented reality level is created, where our hero “Ozkar” has to resist the attacks of hubert, the flying sausages and the evil Tapeboy and more...
After playing Edgebomber, the gamer receives a special code to play and share the levels via Internet (aka Flashbomber).

EdgeBomber was developed in an artist's residency at theZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe





 Susipong
Genre: Arcade
Available: Q1 2006
Platform: J2ME
Meta: multiplayer, pong, realtime, traffic, game, mobile, user, generated, content
>>> susipong official website

Susipong extends the classical PONG match to a worldwide multiplayer game with up to four players. If the ball pongs out of your own field, it will be packed into an SMS an delivered to the according opponent. Network traffic and routing provide for unpredictable events in the course of the game. Even usual, non-game emails can produce extra-balls to intensify the game speed. Available for cell phones with up-to-date J2ME abilities.

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 5 Glory Holes
Genre: Arcade / 2004
Available:
Platform: Symbian OS, J2ME, Nintendo DS (tba)
Meta: arcade, ego, shooter, non, violence, endless, infinite, game, of, the, month, sticks, chicken
>>> 5GloryHoles official website
>>> download 5GloryHoles Symbian (351 kB)
>>> PLAY IT ONLINE!

In the age of ego-shooters, susigames reduces the principle of the "frag" to a field with five holes. Referencing a fair game from the 18th century, you have to smack down as many opponents as possible for every single level. Your reactions will be really put to the test with consecutive levels. Longtime fun is guaranteed by multiple foes, new items, minigames and new animations, that can all be seen in the later levels. The characteristic animation style of G5H emphasizes the actual gameplay.




 StickiesWorld
Genre: Game installation / 2003
Meta: hemisphere, game, hemispherical, circle, augmented, 360, stickie, jump, run, arcade, paper, violent, game, art


stickiesWorld is a 360 degree immersive & hybrid (real/virtual) generative game installation

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The spectator enters an obscured whitecube, which is illuminated with a projected hemisphere. The nonlinear gameplay results in different moods of illumination which are projected from the hemisphere at the same time. It is on the visitor to just watch the installation and enjoy the worlds emerging from sequences of previous games or to actively participate in the gameplay. In the stickiesWorld game mode, the total antihero "stickie" can be accompanied and controlled through four different worlds with the funkjoypad. Every single world contains numerous enemys, secret passages and extreme mean bosses. The gameplay is nonlinear and is influenced indirectly by the players physis. The camera follows fluently, supported by cartoon-style cutscenes, while stickie explores the world surrounding. The game is played on a 360 degree hemispherical display.



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 ZZZZZ - Awake
Genre: Jump'n'Fight / 2004
Available: tba
Platform: Symbian OS, Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable (PSP)

Awake is an action-oriented sidescrolling Jump'n'Run with many fights, huge bossfights, finisher-moves and an interactive world that constantly adapts to your changing perception. You, the player, have to try saving the world from an evil corporate called PHARMOPHOB. The essence of the game is actually trying to stay awake, because otherwise, you will as everybody else become a victim of their irritating and cursing 80ies commercials that seek out your sleeping mind.

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