This workshop is an interactive, arcade controller design workshop where participants will build novel controllers for classic arcade games such as Street Fighter, Ms.PacMan, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario Bros, and more. Participants are split into 4 groups and can choose a classic video game and design a novel controller (the crazier the better!) to control all aspects of the game such as 1, 2, 3 player controls, action buttons including jump, kick, punch, shoot, magic and controller directions such as up, down right, left. The goal is to make each game as interactive as possible with full-body control systems built from scrap materials and junk. The workshop uses USB encoder boards and RaspberryPi computers running RetroPie for game emulation.
- Author: Scrapyard Challenge Workshops
- Date Posted: Jun 16, 2023
- Category: Scrapyard Challenge Workshops
- Address: 370 Jay street, brooklyn, ny
We’re running an arcade controller redesign workshop @nycresistor on Sunday, May 19th… Tix here:
Photos from our Arcade Controller redesign workshop at @nycresistor last weekend:
Scrapyard Challenge 20th anniversary today! It was this day 20 years ago we started the workshops!
Video documentation of the first ever Scrapyard Challenge Classic Arcade Game Controller design workshop that I co-ran -