For this project i used an xport to set up a networked pong game. The controllers were based around a whisky bottle. To move your pong paddle you tip the bottle forward and back pouring whisky. I was trying to design a controller that impacted your behavioral process in a very explicit manner. With most technology we are made to be unaware of the changes in our mental and physical habit, letting them inform and mold us. In this instance the effects of playing are vary apparent and the structural changes to your life caused by playing are opaque.

game flow: once you hit the reset button the micro-controller opens a port to the server using the xport and a paddle appears on the screen. Next a ball is put into play, you then send the x,y location of the paddle (to try and deflect the ball) by tipping the bottle forward and back. if you miss the ball you die but get three seconds to hit the defibrillation button to come back into the game. the person that lives the longest lives the longest.

Tech run down : the xport talks with a server program that is running the pong game, it takes as input the x,y positioning, a start command and a defibrillation (save button) input. These inputs are provided by a micro-controller hooked up with a accelerometer for the x,y positioning and two switches for the start and defibrillation.