Game Art: Joshua Noble and undef's "receipt racer" (2011)

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"a microproject by Joshua Noble and undef. The receipt racer combines different in and output devices into a complete game. It was made during the "Let's feed the future workshop", part of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June 8th 2011. The game is played on a receipt printer, a common device you can see at every convenient store. It prints those papers you usually find crumbled up in your pockets, just to throw them away. It is a thermal printer using heat to darken the paper. This eliminates any slowdowns in printing lots of black. A roll can be ordered online and costs around 80 cents. 50 meters is the maximum distance you are theoretically able to race in one run, before running out of paper. So ecologically it's pretty much a disaster, just like any real car. [...]" (Joshua Noble)

link: Joshua Noble

link: Receipt Racer

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (via Chris O'Shea)

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