Maker Faire WNY Regional 2023
CyberSurfer
Home: New York, United States
Experience the ever evolving fusion of virtual and physical movement on a futuristic hoverboard. Fly at light-speeds through a cybernetic, mixed-reality world to gain glory, fame, and power. Will you be the fastest?
https://www.cybersurfergame.com/
Maker
Caleb Vaccaro
Caleb is a game developer from Buffalo, NY and graduated in Game Design and Development from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has created a track record creating application infrastructures for various HealthTech and Fintech companies. With a passion for movement and gaming, Caleb tries to merge both physical and virtual realities to motivate the youth to keep moving.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-vaccaro-3a7707120/What Inspired You to Make This?
Working for the past 8 years in Game Development/VR I felt like I wanted more out of games, more movement, more style, more intricate game mechanics. I can't remember how many times my parents yelled at me for sitting down playing video games. Overtime, I realized making games more physical demanding like Wii Fit, or Wii Sports bridges the gap between parents and children. So, as time went I started working on projects that started enabling more movement and interaction to games and applications. On day at college, a professor in Discrete Mathematics class showed us multiple types of controllers that can be used in games. One stood out to me, the professor put a boogie board on top of a medicine ball-thing. The way you could move on the board intrigued my sense of extreme sports and feeling of moving. So, I started to work on a vr version of CyberSurfer with an amazing team and friends.
