5th Ave Frogger: Archive

Play Frogger Saturday through Monday

Frogger will be at NYCFUNHAUS Saturday and Sunday. On MONDAY Frogger will be out on 5th Ave between 16th & 17th. Come out and play!

Apr 27th

*Frogger Update 4/24*

The Smithsonian staff has made an announcement that they will NOT let our game into Art of Video Game Exhibit! We will not be deterred! The Discover Channel did let us in. Check out this clip!

Apr 24th

*American Art Museum Update* 4/22/12

Frogger has not yet heard from the Smithsonian! We need more people to visit the Smithsonian’s American Art Museums Facebook page to increase the pressure! Frogger’s Voice Must be Heard! We want 5th Ave Frogger! We want 5th Ave Frogger! Click here to go to the Smithsonian’s American Art Museums Facebook page. Tell them a Frog would like to stop by! We think 5th Ave Frogger...

Apr 22nd

Help Frogger get into the Smithsonian!!

Frogger needs your help getting into the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Art of the Video Game exhibit. Visit their Facebook page and let them know a Frog would like to stop by! *UPDATE* We have about 145 comments but need more.. 5th Ave Frogger isnt in yet!! Here is a link to the exhibits page. Its very cool and perfect for 5th Ave Frogger.

Apr 21st

Apr 20th

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Mar 11th

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Starting to implement the attract mode screens (in between games)

Feb 3rd

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Made the tracking software looser, so it misses fewer cars at the cost of looking a little sloppier

Feb 3rd

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The deadly rat

Feb 3rd

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Day and Night modes!

Feb 3rd

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Demo of gameplay 90% implemented

Feb 3rd

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The frog hopping for the first time!

Feb 3rd

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Early version of the game running on the frogger cabinet

Feb 3rd

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Pixel cars with tracking on the play field. You can see the tracking is still kinda flaky

Feb 3rd

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First time connecting the tracking to pixel cars.

Jan 30th

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Improved tracking results..

Jan 30th

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Trying out blob tracking on day and night video. It’s shaky but getting better.

Jan 29th

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Tracking experiment on the cabinet monitor.

Jan 29th

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More sophisticated foreground segmentation, and blob tracking, which tries to identify each moving blob as an individual car

Jan 29th

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Here’s the desk and computer with all its wires going into the back of the Frogger cabinet. Shows webcam video running on the original Frogger screen, after weeks of experimentation to get the video connection working.

Jan 29th

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Vacuuming out the hidden chamber in the base of the cabinet. We need a clean space to put our motion tracking, number crunching PC

Jan 29th

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Show experimenting with Foreground Segmentation where the computer learns to tell the difference between things that don’t change much (the street, buildings, etc) and things that move around (cars)

Jan 29th

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Refining the Optical Flow technique: cars pick up the tracking points as they drive through the crosswalk. It seemed promising, but didn’t pan out.

Jan 29th

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An early experiment in tracking, using Optical Flow techniques to follow the movement of feature points in the image. It works very well for the overall sense of motion but it’s hard to separate individual cars.

Jan 29th

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The huge crowds of people on the left of the road are partyers from the Village Halloween Parade

Jan 29th