New World Gaming: Kinect Turns Child of Eden into Immersive Synesthesic Experience

Here's a look at Child of Eden, a music game for Xbox 360 with Kinect integration released this month, a brain-melting experience that puts your body into a virtual landscape of 3D graphics and sound:

The gameplay aims to produce synesthesia, where the senses of sight, sound, and touch overlap. My dear friend and game writer/developer Jane Pinckard has an essay in praise of Child of Eden on Kotaku, and describes how it felt to play for the very first time: "I was suddenly falling upward through a liquid field of stars. I don't really know how else to describe it. It was exhilarating, because for the first time in a very long time I felt again that excitement of experiencing something utterly new and strange and beautiful."

Comments

[Jjccc]

Watched the video and by the end it gets really annoying dont want it

[Arcadia Codesmith]

There are apps for the PS3 Move system in the same vein. I bought a few last year.

They're very pretty.

I never use them.