Ben-DutkaI hope everyone understands just how unassailably cool this is.
What you see in the video below is the iconic video game Tetris , being played on the side of the 29-story-tall Cira Centre building in Philadelphia. This multiplayer footage, projected onto the building, is supposed to be a "social beacon."
That's what Professor Frank Lee called it: In speaking to Polygon , Lee said he hopes this will encourage people to take up coding:
"Coding is going to be so important in our future. Certainly you have a lot of people saying that as well, but this will be a fun way to engage students who might have never thought about going into programming.
[I want] to use this as a platform to try to reach those groups and those students to think about programming as a very creative endeavor."
Who would've imagined this back in the '80s? Certainly not me. Although, the phenomenon where people started seeing Tetris blocks everywhere they went was very real; it happened to me a few times. You start playing that game a little too obsessively, and things get kinda out of whack.
This really is a great idea, though.
That same building has also done the original Pong game too……
Here's the video of it
I was hoping it was just people turning on and off their lights.. But it's still cool
i have to say this is pritty epic atleast the video was but tetris is a classic and thats that as far as i'm conserned
happy gaming =)
Boom boom baby. Compsci && engineering will always == the future.
Of course along with teaching/education.
Happy to be on board.
They do this in Toronto every year at the night time Arts festival. They also do pong.
Last edited by Underdog15 on 4/8/2014 7:31:38 AM