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FAQ: Yes, We Support Kinect (lemmy.today)

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StrangeScaffold [developer] DEC 2 @5:22am

FAQ: Yes, We Support Kinect

Q: ..This game supports Kinect?

Yes!.On PC only, if you plug iri a Kinect 2.0 to-your computer while the game is:apen, you-tan play through the entirety of the game using Kinect controls. Grab meat with your meat harids! Your body is the controller! We live in the future. Good luck.

Q:Is Kinect the optirnal way to play Space Warlord Organ Tradirig Simulator? Absolutely not.

Q: Why would | play a fast-paced reflex-based economic tycoon using Kinect?

| have no earthly idea, but | am personally sending the first person to direct message me documented proof of using a Kinect to play through the entirety of the campaign, (reaching the "The Top 0.1%" reputation level) a $50 Steam gift card. Primarily so I can. meet the kind of person who would do that to themselves, and plead with them for mercy lest they destroy us all.

Q: How did you put Kinect support into a game in 20217

| work with a brilliant, slightly unhinged creative programmer named Sam Chiet,. and one day, at 3 AM, | blearily opened my phone to find a video.of the game working with full functionality on a Kinect. And a tablet. And a Wiimote. You know, for the Nintendo Wii (2007).

He apparently did ail of those experiments in one night just because he cold, and Has since dedicated a large portion of his time to single-handedly becoming the final Kinect developer. | decided the safest option was to stay out of his way.

Q: Why did you put Kinect support into a game in 2021? | embrace the Sun with arms outstretched so that my oblivion will be. one og my own choosing.

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 195 points 2 months ago

i decided the safest option was to stay out of his way.

You chose...wisely.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 175 points 2 months ago

This is why you should always give your developer "free dev time" where they work on what they feel like, or what they think is important outside of the approved scope.

They have fun and will likely fix something your players will be asking for.

Someone is going to stream that 0.1% run on twitch and market the hell out of your game. Just look at Luality that completed dark souls with a DDR dancepad.

[-] tabris@lemmy.world 115 points 2 months ago

Until recently I worked for a big telecoms company as a software engineer. We had time set aside for self development and non-work projects. Originally it was half a day a week, but we found it better to be a day every fortnight.

You could learn a new programming language or tool, build something just for fun or something you thought was useful for the team (we built a custom dashboard with notices etc., a quiz engine for weekly quizzes), or add functionality to a project that wasn't specced or requested, but you thought could add value.

After a while, a department wide code wars league was set up to challenge and learn, we had a yearly Easter egg hunt that involved solving puzzles to find prizes, people did lightning talks to teach things that they'd learnt, workshops, etc.

So much knowledge, skill and confidence was added to the team that was worth way more than what we'd do on any normal day. I'd recommend it to any technical team to try something similar.

[-] Adori@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Would love to see this in an architecture team

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[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 months ago

will likely fix something your players will be asking for

Or they will add Kinect support to your game. You never know.

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Truly a double edged sword.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

I've seen a chick playing 2 darksouls games one with ddr pad and one with controller at the same time fighting bosses lol

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[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 2 months ago

Finally a PM who understands programmers

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I truly don't get PMs who themselves haven't done the thing they're now PMing. I like to think I make a decent PM because I was a user, got frustrated, made my own version of the thing that was way faster and easier, that saw some success, I learned a bunch, and now I PM that space after I figured out I had much stronger opinions on what a thing should do/be and why that mattered than then actual implementation.

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

| embrace the Sun with arms outstretched so that my oblivion will be one of my own choosing.

Hot damn! I'll be holding on to that!

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[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 50 points 2 months ago

The world needs more unhinged developers like Sam. I wonder what he'll do if we send him a kilo of cocaine.

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I assume cocaine also has some kind of ballmer peak

[-] 58008@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel only slightly less ridiculous asking for Steam Controller support in games 😆 But I will keep asking because I fucking love that controller.

[-] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

For real. I'm dreading the day mine stops working. It's taken some drops over the years but it's still going strong. Legit one of the best controllers ever made. I will absolutely die on this hill.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If they didn't cost around 120+$ I'd have bought another 3. Instead I just have to buy more Steam Decks :(.

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[-] tmyakal@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

I bought one when they first came out, and one when they did the $5 liquidation sale when they were discontinued. I wish I'd bought more, just to be safe.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 2 months ago

I actually got kinect sensor recently, because you can use it for bootleg full body tracking in VR. Cost me a total of £6 including the power adapter.

It's not great, but better than whatever it is that VRChat does with your limbs by default.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 22 points 2 months ago

Strop removing the barriers. I don't want to accidently become a vtuber.

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Resistance is futile. Becoming a vtuber is as inevitable as evolving into a crab.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

Reprogramming old remotes is solar punk.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 months ago

This is the best FAQ I've ever read.

[-] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

Turns out some madlad finished the game using kinect:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhixiuBqzus5tuxuNc0-6QbRjoGy4DD1A

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

I've done stuff for $50 too, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

[-] Dpof@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

| embrace the Sun with arms outstretched so that my oblivion will be. one og my own choosing.

Real

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

That's honestly hilarious and really impressive. I'm pretty sure Kinect still sees use in some R&D and medical scenarios, too. Honestly it was an awesome piece of tech that was wasted on shitty games.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

It's been so long since I heard about the Kinect that I had to look up what it was. That's pretty damn cool. It's like hearing someone decided to add Leap Motion gesture controls to their game because why not?

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

OMG the leap motion. Ten years ago it was set to revolutionize computer input. Where's now?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

In lots of people's drawers when they realized holding their arms up to their monitors all the time was really tiring.

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[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Nintendo Wii (2007)

wat

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 21 points 2 months ago

Wiimotes work on PC similar to any modern remote. They're refering to that.

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[-] don@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

After that last answer, I gotta say, I like the jib of his cut.

[-] someacnt_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This man can achieve device compatibility in free time, yet I cannot even do any kind of work properly..

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wish I had a Kinect because it's like the best, self-contained singular device that you can setup FBT with in VR that isn't completely wonky. At least, for the cost that they were when they were still being sold at retail, where it was cheaper than even the cheapest FBT options now. Fuckers were cheap AF considering all the tech in them.

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[-] Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Definitely check out the soundtrack of this game. It is really good - weird but good.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

skyrim with kinect was genuinely the best way to play skyrim

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

My first thought was , lol that'd be funny. And my second thought was, oh shit Skyrim came out at that time.

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