Feature: Games You Can Play On Buildings

Why play Tetris on your television when you can dominate on a building?

Tetris

This giant Tetris game was created using “eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights”. It took over five months of planning and can be seen off Interstate 95 in Rhode Island.[Source]

Space Invaders

Space Invaders 2006 puts a new twist on the classic game by taking buildings and transforming them into a virtual playing field. To control the ship, players move their body in a predefined space.

The invaders come out of the wall cracks and move down to the ground. The player has to move left or right to control the motion of the aircraft. Whenever the player jumps, the aircraft shoots out a bullet

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Pong

De Pong Game is an interactive gaming installation — designed by Arjan Westerdiep — that explores augmented reality “by using and interacting with urban architectures [buildings] as background for the game.”

Thus the game is projected on a building and the limits of that building are becoming the limits of the game area. The ball projected on the building bounces along the limits of the walls. The software is also using the windows as an obstacles for the game