Brerlappin wrote:I said nothing to offer ME. Nintendo are a company i stopped caring about a long time ago. Their output just isnt geared towards my wants as a gamer.
And even if its succesful, it is a stupid idea. Print your own toys out of cardboard? Its essentially making an airfix model out of cardboard, and we all know how well those worked for us as kids.
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It's impressively different at the very least, and as professional maker also working with microcontrollers like Pi and Arduino etc (part of my business actually runs off one) I'm really glad to see this expand gaming elements into educational and craft/making/art areas. It's like Mario Paint but with an inextricably tactile and functional activity rolled into it, with interactive Lego-like instructions, that finish with actual, probably quite fun, games.
It's certainly not the stupidest idea in gaming ever, it's adding value in many ways to the field. If it's not for you, cool, I don't care, and while expensive, I don't think it's as overpriced as some people think. Lego, for example, is ultimately "just plastic", but very well engineered plastic. This is well engineered cardboard. And they won't be responsible for literal landfills worth of plastic, single-use-case peripherals/shell thingies produced by the industry so, as sustainable design, it's marvellous.
Anyway that's presenting an argument to a cardboard box so I won't run it into the ground. I just read this
You can even draw and cut out your own sine graph, slot it into the piano and when you hold down a key, the sensor will ‘read’ the shape and the pitch will undulate accordingly.
How can that not be ingenious? As a sonic artist in past and present, that blows my mind in terms of creativity.
You could probably flatten the entire thing and put it away. I really hate adding up peripheral junk. It's extremely daring to tackle this issue.
Cardboard is underrated, that's all I'm saying. Hey look it's just a painting made of a piece of paper and some oil. I think this attitude speaks more of the discarded nature of 100% of packaging as well as hard, quickly redundant plastic goods if anything. Let's not kid ourselves, you buy these peripheral things and scurry them away for decades. If that is the timeline, they damn well should be made out of cardboard!
If Nintendo release designs for this stuff I will make my own out of wood anyway.
(and by the way, wood splinters and cracks, cardboard does not)