The Rise Of Bad Game Ideas
First there were controllers that rumbled and buzzed in with video game action. Then there were sensors that scanned your body and let you interact with the game by moving. Now someone out there has proposed the next level of gaming interactivity: actually losing blood when you’re hit. A Kickstarter went up, but was then quickly taken down, for a proposed video game peripheral called “Blood Sport.” You know how sometimes you see an actor in a commercial enjoying a product, only you can tell he’s not really enjoying it that much? The video released for Blood Sport has to be the best example I’ve ever seen. The poor guy winces in pain, then smiles at the camera as best he can: “UMF…..BOY, FUN!” Another flaw with Blood Sport is that when you’re finished playing your game, you now have this big bag of blood lying around. What can you do with it?…..oh, right, some people need it. Its inventors considered it a charitable invention that had the potential to