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[indy007]

Want to play some paintball? We've got some ideas for you.

A quick introduction. I'm "Indy" Allen Martin. I've played scenario paintball games for over a decade. I specifically play Viper Scenario Paintball games, and have known the event producer for a very long time. He gave me a forum to discuss some upcoming technology and how it can and will apply to his events. As one of those projects, I built a servo-driven pan & tilt turret that runs under Windows. One of the members remarked about the possibility of mounting it to a wheelchair, and I thought it was brilliant. I traded emails with Kerry "Viper" Rosenberry, the owner and producer of Viper Scenarios, about the idea, and we began to flesh it out.

A paintball scenario game isn't your regular adventure to a field. It's much more. There's often hundreds of people across 60+ acres, radios, night play, constant missions to do, live action role-playing, tanks, nerf rocket launchers, and much more, punctuated by huge battles of hundreds fighting for a single section of the field. There's everything from flat speedball fields and bridges, to heavily walked trails, to light, heavy, and even completely impenetrable woods. I've played for over a decade, and still can't find an experience like it. It's a full, 26 hour long adventure.

If this sounds like something for you, please check out the thread linked below for more technical details and information, and get in contact with us!

Viper Paintball idea discussion thread
Viper Paintball main forums

[Unbreakable]

Paintball was cool before I got injured, now it sounds like it'd be a pain in the ass getting all that paint off my chair, and bruises below my injury level don't sound like such a good idea. Anyone else got thoughts on this? Now maybe some tactical-type airsoft matches would be pretty cool.

[indy007]

Unbreakable, on Oct 5 2008, 06:26 PM, said:

Paintball was cool before I got injured, now it sounds like it'd be a pain in the ass getting all that paint off my chair, and bruises below my injury level don't sound like such a good idea. Anyone else got thoughts on this? Now maybe some tactical-type airsoft matches would be pretty cool.

You should read the idea thread. There's a solution to getting bruised up that fits within these games perfectly.

You'll still probably have a mess on your hands after though.

[ryan08/06/88]

I've only ever done paintball once and it was about a month before my accident, It was awesome fun, physical, tactical, loved it!

It's quite funny as when I was in bed healing one of the thoughts in my head (among 100000s of others) was I'm ot going to be able to do paintball again!

I've wondered a few times about a way I could do it again, the thing I found fun was the running around, hiding in trees etc. Plus shooting people of course! The only way of getting involved I could envisage was as a sniper who would get shot pretty sharpish due to not being able to change position too easily lol!

I even conjured strange ideas of getting involved in football again too one upon a time lol but atleast the paintball looks realistic now!

Edited by ryan08/06/88, 01 December 2008 - 06:02 PM.