Hey guys I made a fucked up little instrument!

My game needs a way to direct the player to resources while still remaining a tiny bit inscrutable.

I wanted this display to feel like it could exist in a 1980s submarine, as if it was made of LEDs and dread.
The display itself is 100% vectors 😎

The cool thing about constraints is that they force creativity.

My game is only vectors (lines) and I really struggled to come up with a concept for what roads would look like.

Eventually, I remembered how much fun I had making pseudo 3d grids in Flash and my roads were born.
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I guess I should mention that the game outputs two signals one to the scope and one to my monitor/tv.

So though I could tweak the monitor signal to look more like the scope it would be cheating and not true analog.

Raster version for reference

When I had the idea of making a vector based game engine, it occurred to me that it would be rad if the game could talk to a REAL vector display.

I can confirm it is rad.

I've got so much work to do but I'm hoping to get the actual game play working on the oscilloscope soon, stay tuned.
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I didn't know it was #screenshotsaturday all I've got is this clip!

This is from a couple weeks ago when I dropped in the slo-mo button. Chromatic aberration makes everything tasty.

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This week I got roads working. I want players to always be doing something, even when they're just going from place to place. While on a road players will boost their speed to the point of anxiety.

Created with a pseudo 3D mesh which reacts to the player.

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We can now control the Tektronix 465 oscilloscope with a standard game controller

Looks like I can't post big videos here. But here's a photo I snapped last night of the Tektronics 465

First light on the 465 oscilloscope.
What you’re seeing is live output from a work-in-progress game, rendered in real time on a 50-year-old piece of lab equipment.