Tank and Supertank and Mutant and Berserk

desc | sample | remarks | credits | road

Description

This work is a hack of the game Quake II by Id Software >>. The setup is similar to a previous work of mine, Children of the Bureaucrats of the Revolution >>: two computers are joined together in a local game network, and two video monitors display the separate viewpoints of two performers. In contrast to the previous work, the performers in this one are the monsters of the game.


Tank	Mutant

Berserk	Supertank

Any two of the above may be selected to perform, for example,

Tank with Mutant, or

Supertank with Berserk, or

even Tank with Tank.

The two monsters perform without a predetermined choreography; their moves are improvised and guided by a custom AI tuned for entertainment. Each type of monster has its own characteristic moves.

Sample Playback

The following excerpt shows sample playback of the hacked engine. (Actual playback runs indefinitely.)

TM_640x240.mov >> (6m48s, 32MB)

QuickTime 5+ >>* required. Movie will begin playing as soon as enough has been downloaded.

Remarks

It's great for a change to see things from the point of view of the monsters. They're not in it for sport.

Credits

Id Software for original source code and monster models.
bigOnes for the map vigO's Courtyard.

Road

Shown in the Exhibition Hall of the Hong Kong Film Archive as part of the Microwave Festival, Oct - Nov 2005.