Put a monkey in a ball (not an actual one, monkey clearly, the ball must be fantastic) and make a online game the place stated monkey, referred to as AiAI rolls round gathering bananas round fiendishly tough programs and you’ve got the premise for one of many best-loved puzzle video games in gaming historical past.
Tremendous Monkey Ball is ace, all the time has been, and doubtless all the time can be, and now with the most recent model, Sega’s Tremendous Monkey Ball Banana Rumble on the Nintendo Switch, AiAi is rolling out (pun, very a lot meant) to a model new viewers.
However what might make it even higher? What one factor might probably create the best Tremendous Monkey Ball expertise in our lifetime? Properly enjoying the sport with an precise monkey ball after all.
Pals, solid away your Joycons. Joystick drift is a factor of the previous. Properly, it’s so far as Dr Tom Tilley is worried.
You see Dr. Tom is a pc scientist and he has put all that intelligence and schooling into making a controller for Tremendous Monkey Ball that incorporates a mannequin of AiAI in a ball and made an enormous trackball out of it so he can steer AiAi across the programs by rotating the it together with his palms.
Everyone’s including AI to issues as of late so I believed I might add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.😁🍌#SuperMonkeyBall #sega https://t.co/nk2pcta3OG pic.twitter.com/XBohHHNIOC
— Dr Tom Tilley (@DrTomTilley) June 26, 2024
Utilizing some cardboard (scientific cardboard clearly) and a 3D printer to print the monkey he exhibits in his put up on X how he’s put all of it collectively and the way it all works. The person is a genius. A bona-fide genius and he has my vote.
His post said, “Everyone’s including AI to issues as of late so I believed I’d add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.”
That is additionally humorous. He’s a genius and a humorous one at that. Please make us a Monkey Ball controller Dr Tom. We’re just about begging you.
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