Posts tagged Nick-Burton

Rare discusses new challenges of Kinect development

by Kyle Orland (Jul 14th 2010 8:00PM)

Twenty-five years ago, Rare founders Chris and Tim Stamper had to reverse engineer a Japanese Famicom development kit in order to make the early NES game Slalom. Today, at the Develop Conference in Brighton, Rare Talent Director Nick Burton outlined some of the very different challenges the company ...

Press the Pele button to see Kinect Sports soccer footage

by Kyle Orland (Jul 14th 2010 5:00PM)

As part of a Develop Conference talk on the lessons learned from developing Kinect Sports, Rare Talent Director Nick Burton showed a short video of the near-final version of Kinect Sports' soccer mini-game. The clip shows how control jumps between different teammates as the player passes the ball, ...

Can Kinect handle a player lying down? Yes and no

by Kyle Orland (Jul 14th 2010 2:30PM)

Amidst all the hubbub around the question of whether Kinect can or can't handle a player sitting on a couch, one related question seems to have been lost: Can Kinect handle players lying on the floor? This important issue was finally addressed at a session of the Develop Conference in Brighton ...