Via our own wonderful Cockney lass, Alice...

xBlocks is a convergence between video games & sculpture — liberating play from the screen. It is a mixed reality installation inspired by traditional platform games of the late 1980s such as Super Mario Brothers or Pitfall. Using standard game controllers, two opposing players must help their characters navigate in and around a three dimensional maze. The real challenge comes, not from traditional game mechanics but rather from moving with your character as he sprints around corners and jumps between the installation's two play surfaces.

It looks a lot like Fourth-Dimensional Vulcan Chess meets Super Mario Bros. Although, like loopScape before it, we wonder about these mixed media games that delight in having flabby, weak-lunged gamers run around in circles and collide with one another at high velocity over and over again until they either win or start sneezing out their scant parcel of brains all over the pretty, pretty blinking LEDs. Florian Eckhardt

xBlocks [milog]

Contact information for this author is not available.