Playing TotemBall with the Xbox Live Vision camera

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 3rd, 2006 @ 4:04 PM
With the camera hitting stores last week, we thought you might want to see type of game you can play after you bring it home.
TotemBall (a gesture based platform and puzzle game from Freeverse and Strange Flavour) was released today and can be downloaded for free from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Note that you need a camera to play!
Elle from Xbox.com covers the camera itself in detail in a recent article and so does Mike from Xbox365.com, so check those links out if you want more info. Several other games have been updated to work with the camera, such as Bankshot Billiards and three of the "Hardwood" games. Personally, I'm grabbing this game as quickly as I can to get my kids jumping around the room and waving their arms in the air... what about you?
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#Oct 4th, 2006 @ 5:00 AM
erode
erode

I would get physically tired. No I'm not fat.

 

#Oct 4th, 2006 @ 1:43 PM
Arztek
Arztek
Ooooooo...that looks like fun.  Tina's intro was fantastic too!

I'm definately going to pony up the cash for the Vision cam...and maybe a Zune next year. (hehe pony!)  I'm saving up for the Christmas season now, so my expenditures are currently at a minimum.  Rest assured, I will get one though.  Interactive video features are a great addition to Xbox live.

TotemBall looks like fun.  Not as fun as "Katamari Dimacy," but still fun and loaded with features.  Imagine a Katamari game with vision cam...er eyeToy support.  Pitty Namco never tried that out.  Anyway, back to Microsoft territory, I love Duncan's suggestion for using weights when you play.  The game looked a bit clumsy, but still fun.  I'm not a huge pinball fan, but the adventure or story mode would be worth investigating.  Thanks, Duncan.
#Oct 4th, 2006 @ 4:02 PM
Duncan
Duncan

For everyone who has noted that it seemed a bit hard to control, it is worth noting that I'm not from the team... which is to say, I had never played it before we turned the camera on Smiley

Playing it last night, for the second time, I found it a fair bit easier... I'm sure it won't take anyone else more than five or ten minutes to get used to it either.

Glad you liked it Arztek, even if Tina was only it for the intro Smiley

#Oct 4th, 2006 @ 6:11 PM
TeddyB
TeddyB
The vision cam is cool. I like the idea of being able to personalize your gamerpic and see who you're playing, but I have a fear of my own image being on a webcam. If I had one I'd feel like I needed to comb my hair and put on a nice shirt just to play video games. >Smiley