Learn to French Kiss Better, Get a Strike

[Tom Goldman]

Learn to French Kiss Better, Get a Strike

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An experimental bowling game requires the players to kiss successfully to win.

Hye Yeon Nam's version of bowling is definitely not like any game you've ever played before. Her "Kiss Controller" experiment determines the players' skill by how well they french kiss.

She says the experiment "seeks to generate the emotional experience of a kinetic act while users play the game." It uses a custom headset which reads the signal from a magnet affixed to the other player's tongue.

When the magnetic tongue moves around the headset-wearing player's mouth, it controls the direction and speed of the game's bowling ball. Moving your tongue faster increases the speed of the ball. The goal is apparently to get the highest speed possible with a perfectly straight direction.

It doesn't have the best graphical capabilities, but that's not really the point. Yeon Nam concludes through the Kiss Controller that it's possible to turn intimate behaviors into a videogame. The best part is how she did it in a way that isn't as creepy as what we've seen before [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106259-Microsoft-Ready-to-Crush-Kinect-Porn-Game] with "intimacy" games.

Source: Kotaku [http://www.hynam.org/HY/kis.html]

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[dex-dex]

not one of the oddest things ever but neat.

but is it not a disappointment that he keeps on seeing where the arrow is pointing?

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I can see all the "I'd be totally AWESOME AT THAT GAME" comments now

Interesting idea. But everyone kisses different. Will the game adapt?

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

This is wrooong, man...

 

[BabySinclair]

Okay, it gets points in the unique department...

 

[Distorted Stu]

Move the tounge faster for a better shot

Now, from experience ive kissed a girl who kissed like an excited dog face to face with a wall of honey. It was not an enjoyable kiss.

Slower the better for me. High five for old fashioned

 

[therandombear]

I'd hate to see what you'd have to do to get a Turkey...

[small]That's actual bowling terminology, mods...[/small]

Turkey is 3 strikes in a row, I think?

Where they got the idea for that kind of "controller" is maybe best not to ponder on.

 

[Fappy]

This is the future of gaming. Your girlfriend can no longer get on your case for playing video games and neglecting her when your tongue is down her throat!

 

[Palademon]

Move the tounge faster for a better shot

Now, from experience ive kissed a girl who kissed like an excited dog face to face with a wall of honey. It was not an enjoyable kiss.

Slower the better for me. High five for old fashioned

I thought of this just before I read the comments. "What if people don't like fast kissing?"
I certainly cannot speak for myself, but you have proved my point.
But at least we know that the woman that invented this controller likes it fast

 

[Zaik]

Very odd.

Putting a personal bias on a kiss and calling it "correct" seems a bit meh.

Also, I thought them standing there kissing while he stares at the screen trying to get the arrow right was just...awkward.

 

[googleback]

fuck yeah!

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

That's NOT what kisses are for! >(

i couldn't agree more!

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Move the tounge faster for a better shot

Now, from experience ive kissed a girl who kissed like an excited dog face to face with a wall of honey. It was not an enjoyable kiss.

Slower the better for me. High five for old fashioned

Fast chicks scare me... '

 

[BENZOOKA]

I wonder if there'll be another game, golf or snooker perhaps, controlled by back and forth movement with someone in a bit similar fashion.

 

[KEM10]

Move the tounge faster for a better shot

Now, from experience ive kissed a girl who kissed like an excited dog face to face with a wall of honey. It was not an enjoyable kiss.

Same here. I was more hoping for a small beanie that the other player wears that measures things like spikes in blood pressure, temperature, and oxygenation. That way the goal is arousal, not faster tongue movements.

 

[Sephiroth_deus]

I think it kind of defeats the purpose of kissing when your mind is somewhere else. It's even self defeating as a means of getting someone to kiss you because the kiss is secondary to the game. It's a novel control mechanism though.

 

[New Troll]

I can see all the "I'd be totally AWESOME AT THAT GAME" comments now

Interesting idea. But everyone kisses different. Will the game adapt?

I'd completely suck cause not only would the metal tongue be distracting, but when I kiss there's no way I'd be able to watch the arrow and speed meter. I get way to into my kissing.

Well, maybe if I was kissing someone I didn't care for.