Twitch Plays Donkey Kong! (Arcade Impossible)

[lifereboot]

So this dude connected his DK arcade up to an arduino controller so that people over the internet can play on his cabinet through their internet browser.  Found via Robbie Lakeman's facebook, and had a blast trying to play while anticipating the lag.

Stream:
http://www.twitch.tv/arcadeimpossible

Play it yourself:
http://www.arcadeimpossible.com/game/

Warning, if you're playing, you will time out after 25seconds of inactivity. Good luck!

[danman123456]

Tried but the video on the flowplayer keeps reloading so i cant even see the screen.Interesting.

[danman123456]

Made it to 2-1 

Almost got past 2-1. Got to the top but just couldnt climb the small ladder to the right. Lagged right into a barrel 

Strangly addicting. Someone with sub 15ms latency should be able to put up a big score.

[lakeman421]

I got 18,200 on 2-1.  I died once cause the lag kept registering right when i let go and fell off a platform and the same thing happened with the hammer and ran into a barrel on my last man.  The lag not being consistent is the hardest part about it.

[ChrisP]

Third elevators ought to be fun...

[danman123456]

Oh snap SLB with 34k score. Must be close!

My latency was 500ms earlier just cannot play like that

[lifereboot]

Yeah I'm SLB and I was talking with Gregg (the creator) about how proximity must make all the difference in the world.

He's in Chicago, I'm in Detroit, and I get a ping of around 40-60ms.  Occasionally when my connection speed drops to even like 125ms the game is unplayable.  (Screen freezes for a sec, then you watch the barrels kill you in "double time" as the stream plays catch-up.)

Sorry it's not as enjoyable for those without a low ping, maybe Gregg will think of a way to help reduce that.

[danman123456]

Its still fun but gets a little frustrating. I had a 1500ms ping earlier and just said forget it. IT gets in the 50ms range and you have a shot. When it was under 40ms i was able to get to 2-1 and almost got past that board. Timing the final climb is tricky when its total guessing if the barrel decides to steer or not. Gotta just yolo it

[Barra]

Cant even get past the first board. Ping would not go under 200

[arcadeimpossible]

I replaced the webcam last night with one that outputs RAW by default, and it seems to have dropped the delay considerably.
I think the new high scores are a testament of that

84,600 JOW
70,500 LAG
53,300 USA
34,700 SLB Lifereboot
33,700 ...

[danman123456]

Oh snap thats awesome I'll give it a try