Peep this: Viva Pinata card

by Christopher Grant { May 14th 2008 at 7:45PM }

Don't expect to find these Viva Piñata cards in stores; this guy above is just a mockup, made specially for the folks at Microsoft's Spring Showcase yesterday. Hold it up to the camera and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise will process that barcode on the right side, plopping the character into your game.

The feature, while impressive (and early), was temperamental in our demo; however, when working correctly, it will let users share their piñatas by creating a card through the game's website. The camera is surface agnostic so you can print the card out, or stick the image on a forum, save it on your iPod, or just email it to your entire address book (that always goes over well). Check out a shot of the process in action after the break.

Tags: MGS, Rare, Viva-Pinata-2, Viva-Pinata-Trouble-in-Paradise

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pro-Truth League @ May 14th 2008 7:53PM

Can't see this working to well on the basis that the Vision Camera quality is pretty much summed up as a big hunk of shit.

Mrblonde @ May 14th 2008 10:51PM

I think its good quality. Use it most the time as my PC webcam.

Kellydude025 @ May 14th 2008 7:58PM

Kinda cool i guess.

Kellydude025 @ May 14th 2008 8:07PM

Reminds me of the e-reader

jynxycat @ May 14th 2008 8:25PM

reminds me of ... the sony camera -_-

gimmick.

Psaakyrn @ May 14th 2008 8:01PM

As opposed to putting it on a blog..... wait.

Chase @ May 14th 2008 9:53PM

And so it begins.

CubeGuy @ May 14th 2008 8:29PM

Hmm...

*saves for later*

browntown @ May 14th 2008 8:55PM

Im pretty sure they could have thought of an easier way to do it, but i guess they didn't want sony the only one to use the eye toy to read cards. Expect a eye of judgement type game on the 360 next year or in the future.

BigD145 @ May 14th 2008 10:11PM

I can't see this as being terribly ... um, good. Why not just release a poker deck. It might actually be useful for something other than the game; like a CD/DVD can be useful as a coaster. No, I don't want to put the CD in the drive to play the game. I want to play the game and have something for my drink so I can play the game for several hours. I don't want to scan cards in, I want to have a unique deck of cards so I can have a bit of extra fun playing a game.