Installations
PIX 6 – Light Arcade Game
A walk-up light arcade in the forest: two players, two joysticks and a wall of almost 2,000 LED pixels that reacts to every move.
Info
- Year
- 2026
- Type
- Interactive LED wall · arcade installation
- Place
- Schwing und Stampf Festival · Oberrickenbach, CH
- Role
- Concept, design, programming, build
Specs
- Free-standing LED pebble wall, 46 × 38 pixels, 5 cm pitch
- Double arcade cabinet with corrugated roof, built from wood
- 2 joysticks + 6 arcade buttons
- Programmed in TouchDesigner (NumPy)
- Pixel mapping via Resolume, Art-Net to Advatek PixLite
Credits
- Concept, programming and design: Carlo Seemann
- Build support: Natascha Wiebe, Mika
PIX 6 is a light arcade game built for the Schwing und Stampf Festival in Oberrickenbach, Switzerland. A free-standing wall of LED pebbles stands in the forest, and in front of it a self-built double arcade cabinet invites two people to play. No instructions, just joysticks and glowing buttons.
Six buttons switch between five light programmes: LINES, BLINK, DRAW, STARS and NATURE. Each has its own way of turning movement into light: moiré stripes, sparkling fields, drawn lines, exploding star patterns and weather with rain, sun, lightning and snow. A hidden button unlocks the easter egg: a full-size game of PONG on the wall.
Everything runs in a custom TouchDesigner system with an input abstraction for both players, cross-fading between programmes and a brightness limiter that keeps the wall within its power budget. The finished image is pixel-mapped in Resolume and sent via Art-Net to the LED controller.
