After creating the world's largest human snake earlier this year, the fun continues at N-Gage's marketing department as they put the game Snake (and some other titles) on three thousand computers at the Assembly 2008 happening in Helsinki. You can see the full video below...
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I still can't work out how they did this. According to the official instructions the people at Assembly just had to go to a certain URL and then tilt their monitor upwards, but how did the Megascreen website know where each monitor was physically?
The computers were all on a single network, so maybe each computer's address gave the Megascreen program a clue where the computer actually was?
You put your seating number on the site
You put your seating number on the site
Ahaa... well that explains it. Thanks!
There were something like 2000+ computers involved, the main area had 975*2 computer places (the video was shown on both ways), and computers in the upper levels were also involved, but they didn't get to the video.
Thanks for the info on this, it looks like an amazing event. I still can't believe how huge that arena is.
Maybe there should have been a making-of video as there was for the human snake animation?
a lot of pictures from party place
http://alive.assembly.org/
There are also quite a lot of videos of the "Megascreen" from different angles on YouTube, just search for "megascreen" and "assembly".
BTW the announcer at the end says that they might do this again next year...
wow, thats a cool way to advertise. lol, old skool style ad of next generation mobile games in finlands biggest computer gaming event. now every nerd around here SHOULD know of N-Gage, or atleast has heard of it.
I can still remember when you mentioned N-Gage people were like "what engage? that a movie/tv show?" or then "lol that side talkin piece of fail?"
i wonder how the former group now reacts, as the latter would still think its the side talkin device, cos they deny that Nokia phones are selling better than PSP's and gizmondos.
I remember someone commenting on the sales chart that "sad truth is that only like 8 people bought FIFA08 this week" or some crap. how does he explain Tetris being on the chart for so many weeks?