Schlagwort: Haunted House

  • Next Week on Xbox: New Games for October 9 to 13

    Next Week on Xbox: New Games for October 9 to 13

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    Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!


    Xbox Live

    Builder Simulator

    Frozen Way

    Builder Simulator – October 10

    Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help, having to rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    Forza Motorsport

    Xbox Game Studios

    1

    Forza Motorsport – October 10
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Game Pass

    Build your racer from a choice of over 500 real-world cars including modern race cars and more than 100 cars new to Forza Motorsport. Make every lap count across 20 living environments with fan-favorite locations and multiple track layouts to master, each featuring live on-track scoring, fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions that ensure no two laps ever look or play the same.


    Xbox Live

    Lil Gator Game

    Playtonic Friends

    Lil Gator Game – October 10
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    Embark on an adorable adventure, discover new friends, and uncover everything the island has to offer. Climb, swim, glide, and slide your way into the hearts of the many different characters you meet on your travels.


    Xbox Live

    Long Gone Days

    Serenity Forge

    Long Gone Days – October 10
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    After being deployed to his first mission, Rourke leaves The Core’s base for the very first time, only to discover the dark truth about the operation he’s part of and the consequences of deserting an inescapable war.


    Xbox Live

    Wild Card Football – Standard Edition

    Saber Interactive

    $39.99

    Wild Card Football – October 10

    Wild Card Football is a fun pick-up-and-play arcade-style football game featuring 7v7 team-focused gameplay with the unique Wild Card system that lets you change the course of the action in an instant with special power-ups and rule-breaking abilities.


    Xbox Live

    Axis Football 2024

    Axis Games

    Axis Football 2024 – October 11

    Axis Football 2024 features fluid simulation gameplay, endless customization, and the industry’s best franchise mode. New gameplay features In Axis Football 2024 include a completely overhauled blocking system, new zone coverage types, and player attributes to better reflect the complexities of American football.


    Xbox Live

    Between Time: Escape Room

    mc2games

    $9.99 $7.99

    Between Time: Escape Room – October 11
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    Between Time is an escape room that will test your skills. Travel through time, explore mysterious places around the planet, solve puzzles, decode secret codes, and find hidden objects and treasures.


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    The Crown of Wu

    Meridiem Games S.L.

    The Crown of Wu – October 11
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere

    Get ready to explore a new world inspired by Journey to the West, a traditional Chinese tale about the Monkey King, Sun Wukong. You’ll explore the future-past fantasy world as Sun Wukong, fighting alone against enemies and overcoming complex obstacles to retrieve the great Crown stolen by the antagonist Zhu. With Zhu waiting to fight and kill you, will you be able to get back the Crown and save your world from destruction?


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    RedRaptor

    Eastasiasoft Limited

    RedRaptor – October 11
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s. Assume the role of an ace pilot on a mission to intercept an unknown threat that’s already eliminated nearly all allied forces. If you hope to survive and bring down the enemy, you’ll need to upgrade your ship along the way and push your skills to the limit!


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    ASTROSMASH

    BBG Entertainment GmbH

    Astrosmash – October 12

    Originally designed by John Sohl for the Intellivision console in 1981, it quickly became one of the most popular games of its time. In Astrosmash you control a laser cannon that scrolls left or right along a flat plane to target falling objects, such as large or small meteors, spinning bombs, and guided missiles.


    Xbox Live

    Haunted House

    Atari

    Haunted House – October 12
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    Chills and stealthy thrills abound In Haunted House, a reimagining of the classic Atari adventure! Players take control of Lyn Graves, the precocious niece of legendary treasure hunter Zachary Graves. In order to free her uncle and her friends, and capture all the supernatural foes, Lyn must find the shattered pieces of a magical urn and put them back together.


    Xbox Live

    Re.Surs

    Samustai LTD

    Re.Surs – October 12

    A futuristic story-driven 2D side-scrolling shooter featuring unique heroes with various abilities. Shoot, dash, kick, and hack monsters as you try to uncover the secrets of the Re.Surs dark energy and demons’ interdimensional invasion.


    Xbox Live

    Chemically Bonded

    Ratalaika Games S.L.

    Chemically Bonded – October 13
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

    Enter the melancholic life of an ordinary Japanese high school student as you become entwined in a dispute between two neighboring students. Learn more about their past together as you piece together their relationship and mend their bond while forming new bonds of friendship of your own.


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    The Grinch: Christmas Adventures

    Outright Games Ltd.

    $39.99

    The Grinch: Christmas Adventures – October 13
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere

    With colorful visuals inspired by Dr. Seuss’s original illustrations, local multiplayer fun with up to two players controlling the Grinch and Max, and controls and puzzles designed for younger players, The Grinch: Christmas Adventures is a fun new way to enjoy the classic Christmas tale.


    Xbox Live

    Lords of the Fallen

    CI Games

    6

    $69.99

    Lords of the Fallen – October 13
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S

    An all-new, epic RPG adventure in a vast, interconnected world more than five times larger than the original game. As one of the fabled Dark Crusaders, journey through both the realms of the living and the dead in this expansive RPG experience, featuring colossal boss battles, fast challenging combat, thrilling character encounters, and deep, immersive storytelling.


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    TRANSFORMERS: EARTHSPARK – Expedition

    Outright Games Ltd.

    $39.99

    Transformers: EarthSpark – Expedition – October 13
    Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere

    Bumblebee is facing his greatest mission – reclaim the ancient Cybertronian technology scattered across the globe before Mandroid and his henchbots can use them to destroy Earth’s cities. With Optimus Prime’s guidance and you at the controls, Bumblebee will grow strong enough to take on an army of robotic enemies in bare-metal combat, find the lost technology, and unlock powerful new attack combos and abilities along the way.


    Xbox Live
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    Virtual Families 3: Our Country Home

    Gogii Games

    Virtual Families 3: Our Country Home – October 13
    Xbox Play Anywhere

    Start a virtual family in this life simulation game, sequel to the popular Virtual Families 2. Expand and renovate your virtual house while helping nurture and guiding future generations of your own family story.


    Website: LINK

  • Turning a Barbie dreamhouse into a screamhouse with the Arduino UNO R4

    Turning a Barbie dreamhouse into a screamhouse with the Arduino UNO R4

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    With its bright color scheme and generally upbeat tone, the recently released Barbie movie evokes many of the same feelings as the toy brand. In keeping with this idea, Jaimie and Jay of the Wicked Makers YouTube channel decided to take it in the opposite direction by transforming a Barbie dollhouse into a haunted mansion for Halloween — complete with all of the requisite eerie effects and lighting.

    The duo started by disassembling the interior and repainting the structural components, outside walls, and several other movable objects such as the door and various props. Once this had been completed, the next step involved finding LED filament, many small, discrete LEDs, and a miniature fog machine for creating an additional spookiness factor. The individual LEDs were placed into SLA printed skull lighting fixtures, custom-made clay candles, and inside of the previously pink chandelier where they could then be controlled by an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi

    Beyond these effects, a strand of LED filament was laid into the upper floor to produce a glowing ring for summoning spirits. While a pair of iPads and a phone were placed behind acrylic windows on the second floor and on the ceiling in order to play high quality videos of ghosts and a portal opening up above the summoning ring. 

    To see more about how Jaimie and Jay’s Barbie dreamhouse conversion using an UNO R4, watch their video below!

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RullE9aL68?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

    The post Turning a Barbie dreamhouse into a screamhouse with the Arduino UNO R4 appeared first on Arduino Blog.

    Website: LINK

  • Haunted House hacks

    Haunted House hacks

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    Spookify your home in time for Halloween with Rob Zwetsloot and these terror-ific projects!

    We picked four of our favourites from a much longer feature in the latest issue of The MagPi magazine, so make sure you check it out if you need more Haunted House hacks in your life.

    Raspberry Pi Haunted House

    This project is a bit of a mixture of indoors and outdoors, with a doorbell on the house activating a series of spooky effects like a creaking door, ‘malfunctioning’ porch lights, and finally a big old monster mash in the garage.

    A Halloween themed doorbell

    MagPi magazine talked to its creator Stewart Watkiss about it a few years ago and he revealed how he used a PiFace HAT to interface with home automation techniques to create the scary show, although it can be made much easier these days thanks to Energenie. Our favourite part, though, is still the Home Alone-esque monster party that caps it off.

    Check it our for yourself here.

    Eye of Sauron

    It’s a very nice-looking build as well

    The dreaded dark lord Sauron from Lord of the Rings watched over Middle-earth in the form of a giant flaming eye atop his black tower, Barad-dûr. Mike Christian’s version sits on top of a shed in Saratoga, CA.

    The eye of sauron on top of a barn lit in red lights
    Atop the shed with some extra light effects, it looks very scary

    It makes use of the Snake Eyes Bonnet from Adafruit, with some code modifications and projecting onto a bigger eye. Throw in some cool lights and copper wires and you get a nice little effect, much like that from the films.

    There are loads more cool photos on Mike’s original project page.

    Raspberry Pi-powered Jack-o-Lantern

    We love the eyes and scary sounds in this version that seem to follow you around

    A classic indoor Halloween decoration (and outdoor, according to American movies) is the humble Jack-o’-lantern. While you could carve your own for this kind of project (and we’ve seen many people do so), this version uses a pre-cut, 3D-printed pumpkin.

    3D printed pumpkin glowing orange
    The original 3D print lit with a single source is still fairly scary

    If you want to put one outside as well, we highly recommend you add some waterproofing or put it under a porch of some kind, especially if you live in the UK.

    Here’s a video about the project by the maker.

    Scary door

    You’re unlikely to trick someone already in your house with a random door that has appeared out of nowhere, but while they’re investigating they’ll get the scare of their life. This door was created as a ‘sequel’ to a Scary Porch, and has a big monitor where a window might be in the door. There’s also an array of air-pistons just behind the door to make it sound like someone is trying to get out.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL48k6GSOrM?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

    There are various videos that can play on the door screen, and they’re randomised so any viewers won’t know what to expect. This one also uses relays, so be careful.

    This project is the brainchild of the element14 community and you can read more about how it was made here.

    The MagPi magazine is out now, available in print from the Raspberry Pi Press onlinestore, your local newsagents, and the Raspberry Pi Store, Cambridge.

    You can also download the PDF directly from the MagPi magazine website.

    Website: LINK