Sep 01 2011
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Kinect Support for Extreme Tux Racer
Recently, I took a short break from my long-term projects to play around with the official Kinect for Windows SDK. As a mini side-project, I added Kinect support to a classic open source game, Extreme Tux Racer. As Tux accelerates down the racetrack, the user can tilt his or her head left or right to steer the penguin, lean forward to paddle, and lean backward to brake. Tux Racer’s lenient collision detection logic also tends to work in the user’s favor during gameplay. If you’re interested in the project, take a look at the source on github, or check out this quick and rough video of it in action! Kinect support is only available on Windows at the moment.
