Introduction: How to Vote for Team Instructables for the Red Bull Creation Challenge.
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I recently had the honor of participating in the Red Bull Creation project with Team Instructables. Voting opens July 25th, and we need you to help us win! We developed a game called Psycho Scooter Scramble, and it went a little something like this.
Psycho Scooter Scramble: the blind-driving electric wheelchair game
Psycho Scooter Scramble is a game for four: two riders and two pilots. The trusting rider is strapped into an electric wheelchair, placing their life in the hands of a blindfolded pilot. The pilot controls the rider's careening wheelchair from the sidelines based on shouted headset commands from the rider.
The basic mechanic is simple: players must drive across the court to get a ball from a stand, then drive back across to put the ball in a hoop. This action is repeated until all four balls have been scored or the timer runs out. However, since there is an inevitable disconnect between the pilots’ steering and their teammates’ intentions, wheelchairs zigzag across the court at high speeds, colliding with each other, ball stands, the scoreboard, and everything else, making full use of the custom steel bumpers and creating hilarious mayhem for the benefit of onlookers and players alike.
Psycho Scooter Scramble! from Audrey Love on Vimeo.
Psycho Scooter Scramble: the blind-driving electric wheelchair game
Psycho Scooter Scramble is a game for four: two riders and two pilots. The trusting rider is strapped into an electric wheelchair, placing their life in the hands of a blindfolded pilot. The pilot controls the rider's careening wheelchair from the sidelines based on shouted headset commands from the rider.
The basic mechanic is simple: players must drive across the court to get a ball from a stand, then drive back across to put the ball in a hoop. This action is repeated until all four balls have been scored or the timer runs out. However, since there is an inevitable disconnect between the pilots’ steering and their teammates’ intentions, wheelchairs zigzag across the court at high speeds, colliding with each other, ball stands, the scoreboard, and everything else, making full use of the custom steel bumpers and creating hilarious mayhem for the benefit of onlookers and players alike.
Step 1: Go to the Red Bull Site
Go to the Team Instructables page on the Red Bull Creation Site.
Take a look at some silly videos, and excellent photos of our build of Psycho Scooter Scramble.
Step 2: VOTE!!!!1!1!!!
Go here!
Push the Vote! button. You will be asked to log in with facebook. Accept access to the Red Bull Creation facebook platform, and then push the vote button again!!!!!!!!!
Then look at some of the other excellent projects that were made for this challenge. Congratulations to all of the other teams that participated, your games are all very impressive.
Big, BIG thanks to Red Bull Creation to letting Team Instructables participate in this crazy-awesome 72-hour-build-a-thon!!!
