See, this is kind of the thing that makes me happy (ish) to get up in the morning – a group of 4 students at the National University of Singapore have developed an interesting experimental game using Ogre and other tools, called ‘Rainbow Road’. What makes it interesting is that it’s a Wiimote-controlled shoot-em up which generates enemies based on a music track that you’re listening to. Their development video is pretty interesting, it shows the various stages they went through to get there. I’m not sure what happened to the Wii head-tracking features since the final version seems to use regular stick control for movement, but even so it’s very interesting.
YouTube quality sucks as always, but this isn’t really about the graphics anyway, I just like to see people playing with concepts like this, especially when they’re using my software 
Give the students some feedback in the forum if you have time, I’m sure they’d appreciate it.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Nearly Every Day, I stumble on ogre 3d application/use.
ie, today : http://www.equalizergraphics.com/applications/thirdParty.html (those Two application are impressive)
I think first ogre page could also have a : ”If you are working on an application based on Ogre, please drop us an email and we will add your program to the list. ”
Many Software, Research Papers, Students thesis, students courses doesn’t report, just because they don’t use forums and therefore miss the ’showcase’.
Perhaps we could also use/set/integrate a tagged report channel on some ’social bookmarking’ site (stumble, delicious) as an ogre 3d homepage ‘clip’.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
the choice of music basically nullifies this!:)
and also I love it how Ogre projects – no matter how complicated – still use the sample overlay debug thingy!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
@tuan: hey, nice find. You’re right, it would be good to have a non-forum way to allow people to contact us, I’ll see about sorting that out.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Add &fmt=6 to the end of the youtube URLs. It makes them look a lot better (you might need a newer flash player though)
April 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Yeah, given the title of the project, I half expected them to have used the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. Still a neat concept though.