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tennis for plotarcadez - an "analog" demake of tennis for two for a plotter

“tennis for plotarcadez” is a ‘demake’ of Tennis4Two, one of the first and most radical “video games.” It has no avatar!

The game runs on a plotter, one of the displays often used for graphic output during the typewriter era of mainframes.

It analogizes the display and the game. At the same time, it is a radical action game, unlike the more familiar turn-based hangman and potshot.

ploatarcadez and the technology used:
- axidraw plotter
- joyosc (IO to DualSense sensors)



It is a a unique installation. You have to download the project (processing and joyosc) and buy an axidraw plotter. Of course you can play it also offline (without a plotter) with your computer (test were done with macosx) and two dual-sense-controllers but it is not the same. You can play it in the simulation mode of course. but that is of course different.


pictures



Some concept art of the plotarcadez


Some first tests


A simulation in ploterarcadez

The original with its osci-display.





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