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Are you tired of a pre-programmed behavior of computer games today? Well, need not to worry; here is an Animal Controlled Computer Game to whet your appetite.



After getting, the catch of the game you really get bugged up because you know the possible moves. Animal Controlled Computer Games, a graduation project by Wim van Eck, is a Pac-Man-style game in which humans can play against real insects. That sounds exciting isn’t it? Is it possible to replace code with creatures? Yes, you can. In this game, you have to fight the unpredictable maneuvering moves of the real insect.



Here is how the animals control the Pac-Man computer game in van Eck’s project:

‘Instead of computer code, I wanted to have animals controlling the ghosts. To enable this, I built a real maze for the animals to walk around in, with its proportions and layout matching the maze of the computer game. The position of the animals in the maze is detected using color tracking via a camera, and linked to the ghosts in the game. This way, the real animals are directly controlling the virtual ghosts’.