Mooretal Kombat</a> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body> <center> <div align="center"><img src="mooretalkombat_itp_upload.jpg" width="320" height="240" align="middle"> </div> <p class ="menu"> <a href="http://www.mooretalkombat.com/">about</a> <a href="http://www.mooretalkombat.com/photos/">photos</a> <a href="http://www.mooretalkombat.com/code/">code</a> <a href="http://www.mooretalkombat.com/files/">files</a></p> <TABLE width=%50> <TR> <TD> <p class ="text"> An interactive 3D game where two players represented by two obsolete Motorola cellular telephones battle to the death by throwing other obsolete hardware at each other. A Player's movement and interaction with the game will be mediated by hand-held controllers that are modified versions of the hardware they represent, thus adding a level of physical interaction and intimacy not commonly present in 3D fighting games. The title, Mooretal Kombat alludes to Moore's law, a simple heuristic discovered by Goordon Moore that predicts the advancement of new technology and inevitable obsolescence of old technology. Moore's law posits that the amount of space that it takes to hold a transistor will halve every 16 months, and has held true since its inception in the early 60s. Many have interpreted Moore's law to be a kind of evolutionary theory of technology, where instead of the fittest surviving, it is the smallest and most functional that survive. In Mooretal Kombat players will witness first hand the historic struggle of obsolete, slow and featureless hardware, and most importantly, learn that the newest hardware simply kills. </p> <p class="text"> Created by <a href="http://www.fredbenenson.com">Fred Benenson</a> for <a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/">ITP</a>'s <a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/show/">2006 Winter Show</a> <br> <br> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width: 0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/2.5/88x31.png"/></a><br/>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License</a>. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </p> <br>Fire <a href="http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=62595733&size=o">Photo</a> Credit: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/goynang/">Goynang</a> licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> </body> </html>