Sim Racing With Real Feeling

Home gaming is becoming more and more visceral, with enveloping high-refresh displays, virtual reality and amazing sound. The Guitammer Company is bringing Haptics into the fray with plug-and-play peripherals. ​

Their ButtKicker® line of haptic products produce powerful, accurate, haptic feedback for games, movies, and music while easily attaching to chairs and racing simulators of all types

Solution

Working closely with Guitammer’s Gaming team and engineers, Ardent Blue developed a Windows Driver and Control panel to drive ButtKicker brand products with in-game vehicle behavior. The goal was a simple interface that generates rich, immersive effects that range from extremely subtle to intense by reading real-time telemetry from the physics state of the game.

High Performance

Not getting in the way of your game's frame rate is critical. ​

HaptiConnect was written in C++ with Qt, telemetry is read and effects are generated in real-time, without any significant impact on CPU.

High Fidelity

We researched road vibration, vehicle vibration sources, and combined that with our game development experience to design the output. Guitammer worked directly with professional real world racers and leading sim racers for feedback, which we iterated on to ensure a realistic out-of-the-box experience.