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# Help these students create a real-life mecha (sort of)
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/help-these-students-create-real-life-mecha-sort/
- Published: 2014-05-01T20:52:56.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:35:30.000Z
- Description: Like any normal person, I think about piloting a giant robot a lot. I’ve seen Pacific Rim… more than a few times. Titanfall helped me to do that too and for the privilege, I am grateful. However, the University of Minnesota’s Video Game Development Club has something a little more ambitious. Their 6
- Author: David Shimomura
- Tags: News, Experimental game, indiegogo, robots, simulation, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Like any normal person, I think about piloting a giant robot a lot. I’ve seen *Pacific Rim*… more than a few times. *Titanfall* helped me to do that too and for the privilege, I am grateful. However, the University of Minnesota’s Video Game Development Club has something a little more ambitious.

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Their 62-person membership is looking for funding for their “[Mecha Simulator Arcade Machine](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mecha-simulator-arcade-machine?ref=killscreen.com)”, a project grander than even the 2002 mecha simulator *Steel Battalion*. Whereas *Steel Battalion* just sold you the massive and intricate controller, the Mecha Simulator aims to be a self contained robot piloting pod. Based on a PC flight simulator interface, the Mecha Simulator Arcade Machine would be used for a “two player sit-down…simulator for giant robot combat.” The money will help them buy the (rather serious) tech required to get this thing up and running. A more noble endeavour has yet to grace Indiegogo.