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Last weekend, during HACKED.io, we developed a BZFlag plugin that posts various game events to a node.js web server, which controls a set of Philips Hue lights. (It would probably have been possible to do everything from within the plugin, but the node server allowed for quicker and more flexible team development).

A recording of us playing the thing can be seen here.
edit: better sync of the different players here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIUnhrGQ4PM
The idea is that every player has a lamp and the light colour is coupled to the flag the player holds (we limited ourselves to 15 good flags).
Firing sends a brightness burst to the shooter's lamp, we also implemented lighting animations for kills and deaths.

Source code for plugin and node server (in case anyone has a Hue set) can be found here. (It's been hacked together in a very short time with limited knowledge of the BZFlag code and my C++ knowledge has long been gone, so don't expect quality code).

We won ourselves a Philips Hue kit with this!

That is quite cool!!

Watch the faces of the players in the video to see how much fun it is to play BZFlag!

That is amazing! Well done!

Thanks! BZFlag is indeed great fun, although we exaggerated a bit for the camera
It works quite well with the lights; the delay is quite small. In the video I posted only the left player is in sync due to a lack of time during the hackathon :-p A better edit can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIUnhrGQ4PM

Sorry this is a bit of an older post but I had to comment on it. Quite cool! If only we could have a big BZFlag convention sometime where we all come together and do something like that

Lets meet after xMas 2014 @ 31c3
ccc congress in Hamburg, Germany ,Europe,