{"id":1054,"date":"2014-05-13T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/hands\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:49:24","slug":"hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Ken Amarit<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>A music composition based video game where you can only die by winning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohmy.me\/hands\">http:\/\/www.ohmy.me\/hands<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1054 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot-300x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot-672x372.jpg 672w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399296627_hands-screenshot.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Hands is a music composition and video game. Layers of music are procedurally generated and played on top of each other as the game progresses, and it&#039;s your job to avoid the incoming hands. The song builds over the course of the game, but each time you&#039;re hit by a hand a layer of the song stops playing. Stay alive long enough to play the entire song and you&#039;ll be rewarded with death.<\/p>\n<p>Hands is also an arcade machine installation\/interface that I am building to play the game made from felt, wood, and arcade joysticks. It&#039;s a small standing pedestal with 2 joysticks that lets you play the game either with 1 player or 2 players. It will stand to be around 3&#039;-4&#039; tall and about 2&#039; wide. It is a very non-traditional arcade machine.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Coding for Emotional Impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Amarit A music composition based video game where you can only die by winning. http:\/\/www.ohmy.me\/hands Description Hands is a music composition and video game. Layers of music are procedurally generated and played on top of each other as the game progresses, and it&#039;s your job to avoid the incoming hands. The song builds over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/hands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11212,10239,12541,462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding-for-emotional-impact","category-ken-amarit","category-mimi-yue-yin","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}