lol username Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 This seems to have gone mostly under the radar... I don't see any proper press releases, just brief mentions in a couple of recent articles. http://events.newegg.com/ces2015/intels-realsense-technology-will-make-you-a-star/ Quote When the Real Sense camera is on an Intel-powered laptop, the applications reach a new level. Built into the inside bevel of the display, the RealSense camera functions as a close-range Kinect, tracking the motion of a user's face and hands and allowing for some truly fascinating applications. At the demo table Intel showed off Lego Portal Racers, a racing game you steer by leaning your head left and right. The game bore a strong resemblance to Audiosurf, and the potential for a music-based racing game you control by leaning, nodding, and moving your hands in front of the screen is something that is just waiting for the right developer (and wider adoption of Real Sense cameras) to become a reality. http://www.mediamarkt.nl/mcs/shop/intel-realsense.html Quote LEGO® PORTAL RACERS Dit is een nieuwe pc app game die op bewegingen reageert. Race over spannende circuits met een hoverboard die u bestuurt door met het hoofd en de handen te bewegen. Vlieg door portals om nieuwe werelden te ontdekken, en upgrade een voertuig in de module pit! Verkrijgbaar als download in februari 2015 op pc-systemen met de Intel® RealSense™ 3D camera. LEGO en het LEGO logo zijn handelsmerken van de LEGO Group. ©2014 De LEGO Group. Ran through Google Translate it reads: Quote LEGO RACERS PORTAL This is a new PC game app that responds to movements. Race spanning circuits with a hoverboard that you control by moving the head and the hands. Fly through portals to discover new worlds, and upgrade a vehicle in the kernel module! Available for download in February 2015 on PC systems with Intel® Real Sense™ 3D camera. LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2014 The LEGO Group. http://www.fastcompany.com/3040223/when-it-clicks-it-clicks Quote In February, the Future Lab will be bringing out a second product: Portal Racers, a free, entirely digital game with a hovercraft theme, designed to work with a new 3-D laptop camera from Intel called RealSense (which the processor giant has just started to roll out on new computers). The camera, which can track users’ body movements, allows for new Kinect-like ways of interacting with a computer, which the game harnesses. The original idea was to have kids build their own hovercrafts out of bricks and scan them into the game, Fusion-style, but unless Portal Racers somehow becomes a huge success, Gram says it will remain a digital-only experience. And while it certainly looks fun in the video they have of kids testing it, it will be a much more modest launch than Fusion. It seems to be as much about Future Lab getting to understand a new technology as about creating an awesome game for kids. aidenpons, emily, STUDZ and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Looks like it might be a fun game, but don't know how well it will go over - the technology it requires is so new and specific that the audience that can play it is going to be limited. I'm interested in playing, but I'm not about to go out and buy a new laptop camera for it. aidenpons and eagleeyedan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Nice tech, but as Pereki said the specificity of the release platform is going to severely limit this game's audience. Although by the sounds of things the developers weren't going for a big hit anyway, more an experiment with technology. Even if I did have that device though I doubt I'd play the game, nodding my head to move a racer is just so much more clunky than using a simple joystick. Besides I don't like the thought of my brain swinging around my head when I haven't drunk enough water. aidenpons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aokpisz Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Sorry if this has come up before, but this article is a great look into what Future Lab's position within the LEGO company is. Also its interesting to see some actual commentary on the Fusion sets. Also, this interesting bit: Portal Racers, a free, entirely digital game with a hovercraft theme, designed to work with a new 3-D laptop camera from Intel called RealSense (which the processor giant has just started to roll out on new computers). The camera, which can track users’ body movements, allows for new Kinect-like ways of interacting with a computer, which the game harnesses. The original idea was to have kids build their own hovercrafts out of bricks and scan them into the game, Fusion-style, but unless Portal Racers somehow becomes a huge success, Gram says it will remain a digital-only experience The scanning would have been pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben24x7 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I take it that "Future Lab" is Lego's 21st Century "Lego Futura", which (in-case you don't know) was also a Lego R&D mainly for developing the essence and feeling of a new Lego Theme. Then again, it could be completely different, as Future Lab researches what kid fans of Lego are into, not the development of a new (or pre-planned) Lego Theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Merged with existing topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 So did this get pushed back? They said it was for February, but looking around it doesn't seem to have shown up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Wow! This is pretty cool! (Also hi, I'm new here.) It's unfortunate that the technology is only on a small few number of computers right now. So did this get pushed back? They said it was for February, but looking around it doesn't seem to have shown up. Maybe when they said February they meant February 2016. Or maybe it got cancelled, (I hope not!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 It's out! If you just bought a computer with Intel Real Sense, you can get it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 The installer doesn't run unless you have the camera, so I ripped the files from it. The game checks for the camera after the splash screens so I can't play it (not that I expected to be able to, and even if it didn't check I presume there's no alternate control methods). It runs on Unity. I'm gonna have a go at ripping music and perhaps textures from it later. Edit - I'll be dumping stuff here as I go. Here's some texture rips. Audio seems to be licensed/recycled. earthBackgroundMusic is Glory Days, which was in LU's assets but unused (as far as we know, that is - it could have been used in some earlier world). pirateBackgroundMusic is LU's pirate camp music. robotBackgroundMusic is audio network music also used for racing in LU. I don't recognize alienBackgroundMusic. There's also various files just called backgroundMusic: One is Reminders, LU's beta Crocodile Corner/GF Race Place music. Another is LU's beta "shooting gallery"/world stats screen music (yay!). Another is LU's character select/Nimbus Station music. Another is LU's original login music (which was a real pain in the neck to extract properly from LU's FSBs, btw - it was this weird six channel MP3 in a special FMod-related format or something along those lines...). The last one is LU's monument approach music. Got the main asset file extracted, the first program I tried was crashing on it so I had to find another one. Here's some goodies! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555262 The folder probably won't be public for a while so here's some samples: The four teams are hipster DJs, pirate skaters, aliens, and robots. Here's deeplinks to the mugshots: '> '> '> '> '> '> '> '> And body textures: '> '> '> '> '> '> '> '> Quisoves Potoo, Brigs, Shadowblaze and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 So. Much. THINGS. These could come in handy down the road. Thanks jamesster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowblaze Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Wow, nice job jamesster. The hipster and pirate teams are a quite original concept, love them. The male robot looks awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 Gameplay... I don't think we're missing much. Lind Whisperer, emily and Fluffy Cupcake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 The gameplay looks alright I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
origamihero Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Super fast reflexes??? NOPE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ash Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I don't think I'm interested in this, but the level design looked nice. Reminded me of Freeway Frenzy in IXS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben24x7 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I'm waiting for the KINECT's flaws to appear all over this app, but if the LEGO group is lucky it won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lind Whisperer Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 16 hours ago, Terrev said: Gameplay... I don't think we're missing much. It's basically that "Drive the Firetruck" LEGO.com Flash game from the '05 era*, plus KoTOR-style Speed Ramps. I would like to see what the models look like in LDD, and I think I saw the textures for the racecar drivers somewhere, but those are the only two things about this that I find terribly interesting. EDIT: *coughs awkwardly* Ooh...yeah, I did see them. In this thread. *It might have been more '06, I'm too lazy to check when that set came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ash Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 23 hours ago, chromecrusher said: Super fast reflexes??? NOPE. Not a problem if you're a ninja 8 hours ago, Lind Whisperer said: It's basically that "Drive the Firetruck" LEGO.com Flash game from the '05 era*, plus KoTOR-style Speed Ramps. Used to love that game when I was 7. It even played the music from a Jack Stone VHS tape IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 On 2015-04-07 at 0:58 PM, Terrev said: -Body Textures- Was there face textures that went along with those body textures? You don't seem to have posted them if so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Just now, Xiron said: Was there face textures that went along with those body textures? You don't seem to have posted them if so. On 4/7/2015 at 2:58 PM, Terrev said: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=555262 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Derp, after revisiting that post after forever I completely missed the link this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 More stuff. UI things for the boards and modules: Some more UI stuff, looks like some of it might be to explain how each part has three versions/can be upgraded: High res logo: Panels for an intro comic of sorts, not sure what order they go in but the text is below so it should be easy to figure out (they were all crammed into one big atlas texture, they're split up here due to imgur turning the full thing into a jpg even with the option enabled to upload high quality images): And here's all the text for the game... Sorta. I used a couple different Unity ripping programs, the one that got text ripped properly didn't get this particular file, while the one that did get it didn't really spit it out in a very readable form. It's all there though: http://pastebin.com/DChF6cMy Here's the interesting-ish bits: Quote COMIC P1 B1: Once they became the best racers on the planet... COMIC P1 B2: ...Team Earth wanted to face new challenges... COMIC P2 B1: So they invited the best racers in the Universe to compete in the very first... COMIC P2 B2: ...Portal Race! COMIC P2 B3: Race as far as you can. Cross the most Portals! COMIC P3 B1: Build up your hoverboard with awesome modules! COMIC P3 SHIELD: Shield Modules make your shield recharge faster COMIC P3 WING: Wing Modules allow your hoverboard to jump farther COMIC P3 OBSTACLES: Avoid obstacles! Crashing will break modules and end the race! COMIC P3 TRAVEL: Portals let you travel between the four homeworlds. COMIC P4 B1: Use your head and body movements to steer your board! COMIC P4 B2: Use your hands and body to collect Studs on the ramps! COMIC P5 B1: Now... COMIC P5 B2: ...GO RACE! Portal Record: Number of Portals crossed in one race. Higher records will unlock new racers! Raise your right or left hand to pick up Studs while jumping. Studs are collected during races to unlock new modules and hoverboards. Shield Modules recharge your shield faster so you can endure more collisions. Wing Modules allow your hoverboard to jump farther when you hit a ramp. Boost Modules amplify the Boost Effect: race faster while invincible! Boost into obstacles to get bonus Studs! A Selfie is taken at the end of each race. Try to change their face with your own! Welcome to the Pit Stop! Here you can replace lost modules. Keep an eye on the timer. You might miss your chance to repair your hoverboard! EARTH DESCRIPTION: Comes with some solid beats and an all-around balanced design. PIRATE DESCRIPTION: Sails from the Seven Seas and specializes in Wing power. ROBOT DESCRIPTION: Overcharged and specializes in Shielding power. ALIEN DESCRIPTION: Built with unknown elements and specializes in Boost power. TEAM EARTH DESCRIPTION: They are the best racers from Earth. They have great taste in music, and are very skilled DJs. TEAM PIRATE DESCRIPTION: Team Pirate is hooked on fast races. Every pirate knows how to skillfully navigate the sea, and race tracks are no exception. They are in it for the gold! TEAM ROBOT DESCRIPTION: Packed with the latest Intel® technologies, Team Robot has been optimized to be the best robot racers this universe has ever seen. TEAM ALIEN DESCRIPTION: Team Alien is a mysterious set of racers of unknown origin with amazing race skills. They are technologically advanced and searching for challenging races. Yeah, the backstory is pretty much the same as LEGO Racers, lol. Quisoves Potoo, Lind Whisperer and aidenpons 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
origamihero Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 LEGO Racers/ LEGO Racers 2 is better then this nonsense. Why can't they just make LR3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 On 2015-04-07 at 0:58 PM, Terrev said: The installer doesn't run unless you have the camera, so I ripped the files from it. Wait a smack, how do you rip files from an installer....? Edit: Found out installer used Inno Setup. Discovered an inno setup unpacker. Just made this post useless, weeee. These lines are all the same length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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