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Space Dust Racers, a PC and console party game, will use smartphones as additional controllers

No need to pass the controller now

Space Dust Racers, a PC and console party game, will use smartphones as additional controllers

Space Dust Studios has found a way to overcome the problem of running out of controllers when playing party games with lots of people. The solution lies in smartphones.

The studio is currently developing a vehicular combat game called Space Dust Racers for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It supports up to 16 players but barely anyone has enough controllers to make use of that. I bet you don't.

So, what Space Dust Studios came up with is a way to easily add smartphones, tablets, and laptops as additional controllers.

You don't even have to download an app for it to work. The studio developed a browser-based technology that connects the devices through a web server, or by Bluetooth, or USB.

The only concession the studio had to make was that the game's controls had to be simple enough to be played on touchscreens.

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Apart from that, it's a fully-fledged PC and console game that makes use of mobile devices to allow everyone in the room to play at once. Pretty cool.

In fact, this idea was so cool that Space Dust Studios won the Best Technology award at Freeplay 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.

Currently, Space Dust Racers is on Kickstarter where the team is hoping to raise $128,000. It should be out in 2016.

Chris Priestman
Chris Priestman
Anything eccentric, macabre, or just plain weird, is what Chris is all about. He turns the spotlight on the games that fly under the radar.