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Thursday, October 20, 2005 » gaming

For a while I've had this idea that sort of reminds me of that Eyetrack thing. The Eyetrack study monitored people's eye movements as they read through news sites, and then the data gathered were used to produce a bunch of diagrams that showed where people looked on a page, how long they focused on specific sections, etc.

As I was saying, my idea is similar. Except instead of reading news sites, I played a bunch of Nintendo DS games. I then sketched out my stylus movements for each game, with images for five games (Super Mario 64 DS, Kirby: Canvas Curse, Meteos, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow) below. See if you can guess which is which.

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I'd like to keep doing these as new DS games come out. Let me know if you know of any games you think would make interesting patterns.