Here is your chance for all you geeks to play and design open-source electronic games. Tangible LED game tiles, TileToy is an innovative game consisting of blocks with LEDs embedded inside them. TileToy brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a physical tile that people can touch and interact with. By arranging the electronic tiles, players can engage themselves in various kinds of game play, ranging from fast-paced arcade style games to puzzles.

The tiles are plastic cases approximately 2" square. In TileToy, technology is sealed within the design. The interaction is based on tactile experience where no user manual is needed. Compared with traditional tile games TileToy can take advantage of such things as changing state, animations and games where the tiles can effect the state of adjoining tiles. Simple word games can be created where each tile displays a random letter and the players organize the letters into the longest word possible.

Applications can be developed also to utilize the tiles purely for display purposes to show patterns, animations or even live information. Each tile is controlled individually and can be used to transmit information on its own or in groups of several tiles. The assembled tiles transmit wirelessly their individual position in relation to each other and based on that changing information, a central computer, or a dedicated tile runs the different applications.

TileToy is an open project. Both the source code and the hardware will be made available via open licenses. Their blog has lots of the details, ideas, workshops and updates their project is going through.