Centenntable – Amanda Hudgins

Centenntable is an unique 100 button fight stick where each player has 50 buttons. Every button does one of a few different options – an attack or attack sequence, a visual effect on the player, a visual effect on the space, a change to the soundtrack, or a physical object that is added to the space.

The table is made by Amanda Hudgins (me), with Super Soul (where I worked) made the arcade game that is attached. Audio made by Matthew “2 Mello” Hopkins.

Development

Originally made for 2016’s Rules and Play, Centenntable has had three separate incarnations – a large table-sized board, a traveling version that folds up and fits in a suitcase, and an arcade cabinet that is currently on display at Wonderville arcade in Brooklyn.

Centenntable has been exhibited internationally, at the Feral Vector event in Hebden Bridge, UK, Hand Eye Society Ball in Toronto, CA and in Seoul, South Korea as a part of the Out of Index Event, as well as being shown at the Smithsonian Museum for American Art and the Kentucky State Fair, where it won a blue ribbon.

A top down view of a strange controller with 100 buttons. The board itself is covered in stickers and a collage made out of paper and a unicorn balloon.

Over the shot shoulder of two men playing a fighting game. The fighting game screen is wavy.

Over the shoulder shot of two men in blue hoodies playing a fighting game.

An over the shoulder shot of a man and a woman playing with something out of sight. There is a screen in front of them showing a fighting game. They are surrounded by a wooden frame.

A man and a woman play with a small brightly colored fight stick. They are surrounded by wood.

A distance shot of a set up of a game with a projected image that says Centenntable.

Two sharply dressed men playing a 100 button fight stick. There is Canadian money on the table between them.

A distance shot of a set up of a elaborate and brightly colored board with 100 buttons and the TV it is attached to that says Centenntable.

On a green shag rug, a brightly colored tabletop covered in stickers and a metallic balloon. Two people are playing on 100 buttons.